Alex Rodriguez and Cynthia Scurtis divorced after 5 years, 10 months of marriage. The settlement was reportedly about $36M. See the full timeline.
Figures are reported estimates. Last updated Oct 2026.
Scurtis cited emotional abandonment and extramarital affairs in the filing.
Alex Rodriguez, the baseball star known as A-Rod, and Cynthia Scurtis, a Miami-born woman who had worked as a nurse, met in the late 1990s and married on 2 November 2002 in Miami. The couple had two daughters, Natasha and Ella. Rodriguez was by then one of the most celebrated baseball players in the world, having signed a record-breaking 10-year, $252 million contract with the Texas Rangers in 2000. Cynthia raised the children and kept out of the public eye.
Rodriguez earned an enormous fortune from baseball, signing the $252 million deal with the Rangers and later a $275 million contract with the New York Yankees. He won three American League Most Valuable Player awards and hit more than 650 home runs. Endorsements added to his income. He later built a business empire in real estate and investments. The majority of his earnings from the big contracts came during the marriage.
The couple married in 2002, during his time with the Texas Rangers, and moved to New York in 2004 when he joined the Yankees. Scurtis filed for divorce in 2008, and the divorce was finalized in 2008, after about six years of marriage. Rodriguez dated several high-profile women, including Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez, whom he became engaged to in 2019, though the couple separated in 2021.
The terms were confidential, and the settlement was reported at about $36 million, in line with a previous prenuptial agreement. The couple agreed to share custody of their two daughters. Media accounts emphasized that the arrangement was reached quickly and without a trial. Because the details were not published, the numbers are estimates from press sources.
Rodriguez's contracts were among the biggest in sports history, and the marriage came during the period when he earned most of those sums. Florida law treats assets earned during marriage as subject to equitable distribution, but a prenuptial agreement reportedly limited the claim. The rate of payment was nonetheless high for a marriage of six years.
Rodriguez continued playing for the Yankees until 2016, despite suspensions linked to performance-enhancing drugs. He then built a business career, founding A-Rod Corp. and investing in real estate and other businesses, and became a television analyst, and in 2021 he and Marc Lore agreed to buy the Minnesota Timberwolves, a deal that was completed in 2025. The divorce settlement had little effect on his long-term wealth.
Rodriguez's divorce was relatively modest compared with the Jordan or Woods cases, partly because of the prenuptial agreement. It is an example of an athlete divorce in which the headline contract values overshadowed the actual settlement. The comparison with the Pippen case, in which a high-earning athlete's divorce was settled out of court, is straightforward.
Rodriguez was the first player to sign a contract worth more than $250 million. He later said that his divorce was one of the hardest periods of his life. He and Scurtis kept a good relationship afterwards for the sake of their daughters. The reported $36 million figure is an estimate.
Cynthia Scurtis's reported settlement was about $36 million.
They married in 2002 and divorced in 2008, a marriage of roughly 6 years.
No prenuptial agreement was reported.
Yes, the family is reported to include 2 children.
Reported assets include: Miami mansion, cash, investment portfolio.
Rodriguez's contracts were among the biggest in sports history, and the marriage came during the period when he earned most of those sums. Florida law treats assets earned during marriage as subject to equitable distribution, but a prenuptial agreement reportedly limited the claim.