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If You Sleep With Derek Jeter, You'll Get An Autographed Baseball
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Jen Chung
Published Dec 13, 2011
Modified Dec 13, 2011
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Yankees captain Derek Jeter broke up with longtime girlfriend Minka Kelly in August, but a source tells the Post that he's been having many one-night stands—and gives those ladies very special gift baskets. The source claims, "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."
The source goes on, "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. He basically gave her the same gift twice because he’d forgotten hooking up with her the first time!" FYI: a signed DJ-baseball is about $400-500.
There's some more insight into Jeter's personality and dating habits:
“He normally doesn’t go out with girls. He will have them come to his house. He’ll have cocktail parties. His friends invite girls they think he’ll be interested in. He’s very shy,” another friend explained.
“He’ll occasionally take girls to a restaurant. He has a couple of restaurants that he goes to that aren’t trendy,” the friend said.
“He goes to Nino’s in New York. He used to go to Mustang Grill on the Upper East Side. I know he’s been dating multiple girls. He likes a hole in the wall, or he likes a place that his friends own. He’s very cautious. He’ll only go out on off-nights,” the friend said.
Sigh, Jeter: So boring compared to A-Rod.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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