Albert Pujols Sues Clark Over Steroid Accusations

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Pujols Sues Clark Over Steroid Accusations

Albert Pujols has sued Jack Clark over comments made on a local radio show accusing him of using steroids.
 
The lawsuit was filed in Circuit Court in St. Louis County. It seeks unspecified damages that would be donated to charity, and asks for a determination and declaration that Clark's statements are false.
The
petition says Pujols' "character and reputation are impeccable and beyond reproach" and cites his charitable work with the Pujols Family Foundation, while calling Clark "a struggling radio talk show host" who was chasing ratings in the first week his new show was on the air
 

 

 

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By Mike DiGiovanna
October 15, 2013, 2:58 p.m.
 
-- It didn’t take long for legal proceedings between Albert Pujols and Jack Clark to get ugly, as an attorney representing Clark accused Pujols of using a false name and challenged the Angels slugger to tale a polygraph test to determine if Pujols is telling the truth when he claims he never used performance-enhancing drugs.
 
Pujols’ attorney deemed the request for a polygraph “ridiculous” and, in an email, said it was “an absurd publicity ploy by a lawyer known for his hyperbole.”
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Pujols filed a defamation suit in Missouri on Oct. 4 over Clark’s early August accusation on a radio show that Pujols used PEDs. The suit accuses Clark, the former St. Louis Cardinals star, of disseminating “malicious, reckless and outrageous falsehoods” about Pujols.
 
Clark based his accusation on conversations he claimed he had with Chris Mihlfeld, Pujols’ former personal trainer who worked with the Dodgers when Clark was the team’s hitting coach in 2000. Both Pujols and Mihlfeld have adamantly denied the charge.
 
In a five-page letter sent from Albert S. Watkins, one of Clark’s St. Louis-based attorneys, to Martin D. Singer, Pujols’ Los Angeles-based attorney, on Monday, Watkins refers to Pujols as “Jose Alberto Pujols Alcantara,” without offering any evidence to support the claim Pujols has been using an alias.
 
Watkins proposed that both Pujols and Clark submit to polygraph tests, the results of which would be made public.
 
If Clark is found to be deceptive and Pujols truthful, Clark “will climb to the highest mountain in a loin cloth (read: issue a public statement) fully retracting all objectionable statements, apologizing to the world and promising to never cast Mr. Alcantara in any disparaging light to dispose of the case,” Watkins writes.
 
If Pujols is found to be deceptive and Clark truthful, “your underlying petition will be dismissed, with prejudice, and your client will issue a public statement apologizing to Clark,” Watkins writes.