Derek Jeter has finally addressed wild rumors that he gave gift bags to hookups. According to Derek, The New York Post’s article about him giving gift bags to hookups after partying and sleeping with them at his Trump World Tower bachelor pad was false and had no iota of truth in it.
Side Action got the details;
One story always sticks out more than the rest. The New York Post ran a story with the headline, “JETER’S BOOTY HAULS.” The story alleged that Jeter had been “bedding a bevy of beauties in his Trump World Tower bachelor pad—and then coldly sending them home alone with gift baskets of autographed memorabilia” and accidentally gave the same woman identical swag.
“Derek has girls stay with him at his apartment in New York, and then he gets them a car to take them home the next day. Waiting in his car is a gift basket containing signed Jeter memorabilia, usually a signed baseball,” a friend of the woman told the Post. “This summer, he ended up hooking up with a girl who he had hooked up with once before, but Jeter seemed to have forgotten about the first time and gave her the same identical parting gift, a gift basket with a signed Derek Jeter baseball.”
In The Captain, Emily Smith, the New York writer explains that they got a call from a woman who “described two occasions when she got the memorabilia,” and that she “saw some pictures of it, but we didn’t publish them.” She would later admit that it was never confirmed whether the woman was just visiting Jeter or slept with him.
Jeter finally addresses the wild rumor that’s followed him for the past decade-plus in the film.
“Yeah, I read the article. Yeah, of course,” says Jeter. “You know, you see it, and then it’s like, how the fuck did people come up with this? You know, basically, that’s it. And who would believe this shit? And you believed it!”
He continues: “I remember being at a Starbucks one time and there’s some random guy behind me and he says, ‘Hey, I just want to let you know that I’m giving out gift baskets because you did.’ And I turned around and said, ‘You’re a fuckin’ idiot!’ and the look on his face… like, did he think I was gonna say, ‘Yeah, good job, man!’”
“It’s a story that became larger than life. People keep regurgitating this story that never happened. Never happened,” he concludes.
I am going to be honest even if the story is false, I am still going to believe it is true.
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