New York Post, Sunday, October 10, 2010

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Cromartie is Gang Greens top seed

T
By SUSAN EDELMAN

How Jets
big daddy
goes the
whole 9

sion. It made it easier to

overlook the red flags.
Cromartie
canceled
their wedding a week before and tossed her from
his San Diego home when
she was six months pregnant. He has spent just a
couple of hours with their
toddler in two years, she
said.
Speaking out for the
first time, Patterson and
two other Cromartie baby
mamas several of the
women stay in touch
describe a man with
ample charm who se-

CROS
KIDS

Oh, were
having a
baby. Lets
talk about
it later.
Antonio Cromartie
to Rosemita Pierre,
the first of eight
women with whom
he had kids.

duced and betrayed them

with equal ease.
Some of the women stay
cordial or at least civil
with Cro for their kids,
who travel to see their
dad at games and communicate via Skype, the Internet phone service.
But he has a volatile relationship with Rosemita
Pierre, the mother of his
eldest child, Alonzo. This
year, he wrested primary
custody of their 5-year-old
son after Cromarties sister, Cheaquita, testified
that Pierre was a pot-

smoking prostitute. Rosemita denied the accusations.

Alonzo was ordered to
live in New Jersey with
Cromartie, his wife, their
baby girl and his wifes
daughter from a prior relationship. He visited his
mom this summer, when
Cromartie
laced
into
Pierre because she didnt
rent a car to pick up the
boy at the Atlanta airport.
Cromartie called her a
stupid-ass girl, she said,
and threatened, Youll
lose your f--kin custody

Alonzo Pierre
Cromartie, 5
Mom:
Rosemita
Pierre
Home:
Tallahassee,
Fla; now living
with dad in
New Jersey

rights. I couldnt care less

if you dont see him.
Cromarties lawyer in
the case, Thomas Schulte
Jr., said such language is
understandable with couples in a bad breakup.
ROMARTIE grew up
poor in Tallahassee
the eldest of four
kids his unmarried mom,
Cassandra Gardner, had
by the time she was 21.
In the summer of 2001,
when Antonio was 17,
Gardner asked a court to
appoint a guardian for

C
3

Karis
Marie
Ford, 3

Antonio A.J
Cromartie
Jr., 3

Mom:
Veronica
Marie Ford

Mom:
Erin
Victoria
Wilson

Home:
San Diego

Home:
Smyrna, Ga.

him, records show. This

allowed him to live with
his godmother in a better part of town zoned for
Lincoln HS, where he
joined the football team.
While a freshman at
Florida State University,
he knocked up Pierre,
then 17 and still at Lincoln.
Oh, were having a
baby. Lets talk about it
later, she quoted Cromartie as saying.
Cromartie
acknowledged paternity only after
a DNA test confirmed it,

Deyjah
Cromartie, 3
Mom:
Latoya M.
Burley
Home:
Houston

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HIS Jet cornerback

may be better at
conceptions than interceptions.
Antonio Cromartie has
nine children with eight
women in six states.
Thats one more kid
than the eight he haltingly
listed last month when
asked to name his children on HBOs reality
show Hard Knocks.
Maybe the oversight is
because his pressures as a
pro football player pale
against the soap opera of
his life off the field. He
juggles daddy duties for a
6-month-old girl with his
wife,
model
Terricka
Cason, plus eight kids up
to age 5 from women he
knocked up.
At only 26, Cromarties
conquests range from a
then-17-year-old girl in his
hometown Tallahassee to
a lawyer and beauty
queen.
The 6-foot-2, 210-pound
former San Diego Charger
has left a nationwide trail
of paternity suits, visitation
agreements
and
child-support orders totaling tens of thousands of
dollars a month. Last
March, the Jets fronted
him $500,000 of his salary
to pay at least $25,000 in
arrears and other custodyrelated costs. Hes in the
final year of a five-year,
$12.5 million contract.
All that glitters really
isnt gold, ex-fiance
Rhonda Patterson, a corporate lawyer and former
Miss Black North Carolina, said of the charismatic Cromartie, who fathered her 2-year-old
daughter, London.
Its easy to get wrapped
up in the lifestyle that
came with being engaged
to someone in the NFL
first-class flights, shopping on Rodeo Drive, living in his Atlanta man-