Louise Meanwell (via Deadspin) Last week, a single mother was arrested and charged with harassing and stalking Yankees general manager Brian Cashman amidst her claims that she had been Cashman's mistress since last April. Cashman is far and away not the first person Louise Neathway (who also goes by the last name Meanwell) has allegedly stalked—in all, 13 people have filed orders of protection against her since 1998.
The list includes Cashman; Cashman's soon-to-be-ex-wife Mary; Cashman's two young children; Cashman's alleged former mistress Kimberley Brennan; Brennan's two children; Meanwell's ex-boyfriend, Wall Streeter Thomas Walsh; another ex-boyfriend in New Jersey; Meanwell's psychiatrist, Charlotte Murphy; and Meanwell's ex-husband, Jason Bump, his current wife and his mother have orders of protection. Bump also filed one on behalf of the teenage daughter he has with Meanwell. He has full custody of the teen.
Neathway has been charged with grand larceny, attempted grand larceny, stalking, and aggravated harassment. Among other things, Cashman's lawyers say the 36-year-old British national was an unhinged con woman out to extort him, bombarding him with text messages and calls during the past 10 months. She allegedly tried to blackmail him into paying for an unspecified $15,000 medical treatment, threatening to contact the press and his family if he didn’t. Cashman says he eventually caved, and gave her $6,000 in different bank accounts, before contacting police.
This weekend, emails between Cashman and Neathway were leaked, including one which contained an ultrasound picture "proving" Cashman got her pregnant: “What Brian Cashman has done to me is both incomprehensible and unforgivable...I am going to the press and informaing [sic] them of the preganacy [sic] and the abortion. And everything else.” That ultrasound was ultimately proven to be a fake, and Neathway's mother told the Post she "was never pregnant, and had lied about it in the past as well." A source added, 'She said she had made claims [before] of fake pregnancies and fake abortions.'"
In a jailhouse interview with the News, Neathway was furious that Cashman had denied having a sexual relationship with her: “I think that Brian is totally trying to cover his ass, trying to deflect the real issues...But I’m a firm believer that the truth will prevail. He can say whatever he wants as much as he wishes. I think it’s going to reflect negatively on him." Whether or not that's true, it's unlikely to hurt his standing with the Yankees for now—“Basically, the Steinbrenner brothers wouldn’t know what to do without Cashman,” one former NL GM told the Daily News. “I think it even works in his favor that he just made a great trade, getting (pitcher Michael) Pineda from Seattle for (catcher Jesus) Montero. Nobody saw that coming. Pineda could be the missing link to another championship for them.”
NY Post moralist extraordinaire Andrea Peyser still thinks this is all his fault for sleeping with "an unemployed British serial stalker with crazy eyes and matching disposition." His ultimate mistake wasn't that he cheated—it was that he called the cops: "She spooked Cashman so badly, he did the second-dumbest thing a cheating man can do, after picking a whack job with nothing to lose: He called the police. Now, the insanity is not just public, it’s viral."