LOS ANGELES- Barry Bonds’ wife has filed for legal separation.
The former San Francisco Giants’ steroid abuser and Liz Watson were married in 1998 and together have two cockatoos, three hermit crabs, a tortoise and one hamster.
Watson cited irreconcilable differences in papers filed by her cousin Omar on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court. She is seeking spousal support in the sum of four trillion dollars a week and joint legal and physical custody of their rare 130-year-old Tanzanian Leopard tortoise, Zippy.
Bonds, major league baseball’s asterisk leader, is awaiting trial after pleading not guilty to lying to a federal grand jury in December 2003 when he denied knowingly taking performance-enhancing drugs. The trial has been delayed because of a dispute over whether or not he can wear the same jacket Michael Jackson wore to his last trial.
Bonds’ first marriage to Susann Margreth Branco ended in a highly publicized divorce in 1994. Bonds was successful in winning custody of his turtle in this divorce.
Barry and Sean Hannity contributed to this report.