Dan Marino’s love child apparently wasn’t a complete secret.
The relationship between the married former Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino and CBS production assistant Donna Savattere was reportedly previously disclosed in a memoir published in 2010.
Marino and Savattere apparently began their affair in 2004, and she gave birth to a daughter, Chloe, in June 2005.
The New York Post identified the alleged book and its author:
“In a 2010 memoir, Honeymoon Junkie: Everything but the Girl , author Shaun C. Hawkins meets a woman he calls ‘Darien,’ a former CBS staffer living in the lap of luxury with a small child fathered by a mysterious Mr. Big that the author ultimately theorizes is actually Marino. Sources say the woman in the book is Savattere.
” ‘Darien lived on the Upper West Side . . . and she worked at CBS,’ recalls the author after meeting ‘Darien’ in the memoir about a high–flying bachelor looking for love in New York.”
Honeymoon Junkie currently ranks #35,889 in books on Amazon, and the paperback edition is temporarily out of stock.
The book provided further details, according to Radar Online , on what is presumed to be the arrangement between Dan Marino and mistress Donna Savattere after she became pregnant with their love child:
” ‘Darien … confessed to me that there was a substantial monetary settlement involved in keeping the identity of Zoë’s father a secret … I told her that I didn’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to have already figured out there was money involved. The East Hampton rental, the charming two-bedroom Upper West Side apartment one block off [Central Park], the Range Rover, the full-time nanny.’ “
Dan Marino is still scheduled to be part of the CBS Super Bowl pregame coverage tomorrow.
Have you ever heard of the book Honeymoon Junkie before?
