The Post reviews the past infractions of former Mets outfielder Lenny Dykstra, who helped the team win the 1986 World Series:
1990:
Dykstra was placed on probation for a year by then-commissioner Fay Vincent after testifying that he lost $78,000 in Mississippi poker games.
1991:
Dykstra, then with the Phillies, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, speeding and reckless driving after his car — with teammate Darren Daulton as a passenger — hit two trees while returning from John Kruk’s bachelor party.
1999:
He was arrested for sexual harassment — misdemeanor charges of sexual battery and child annoyance — following allegations from a 17-year-old girl who worked at his car wash and claimed Dykstra touched her outside her clothing. The charges were dismissed.
2007:
Dykstra, who has since publicly admitted to using steroids and even championed himself as a “pioneer” in a book comment, was named in the Mitchell Report released that year.
2011:
Dykstra’s housekeeper accused him of sexual assault, but prosecutors declined to file charges due to a lack of evidence, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was accused of forcing the housekeeper to give him oral sex on Saturdays. The housekeeper claimed in the filing that she “needed the job and the money so she went along with the suspect’s requests rather than lose her job.”
2011:
Dykstra was charged with two misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure after allegedly exposing himself to six women who answered Craigslist employment ads — for a housekeeper or personal assistant — he posted in Los Angeles, Reuters reported.
2012:
Dykstra was sentenced to three years — he ended up serving 6 ½ months — in California state prison after pleading no contest to grand theft auto and providing a false financial statement.
2012:
Dykstra pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud, money laundering and concealment of assets — three felony counts — stemming from a bankruptcy case he initially filed in 2009. He was sentenced to 6 ½ months, CNN reported.
2012:
Dykstra was accused of stealing $50,000 worth of jewelry from porn star Brett Rossi after allegedly offering to help her sell it, TMZ reported. Rossi reportedly asked for the jewelry back, but Dykstra returned only a pair of earrings that contained fake diamonds instead of the original ones.
2020:
A defamation lawsuit Dykstra filed against former Mets teammate Ron Darling, who alleged in his book that Dykstra shouted racial slurs at the Red Sox’s Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd from the on-deck circle during the 1986 World Series, was thrown out. A judge ruled that Dykstra’s “reputation for unsportsmanlike conduct and bigotry is already so tarnished that it cannot be further injured,” ESPN reported.
