Jim Irsay is not having a good year. The Indianapolis Colts owner served a suspension for DUI to start the NFL season, and now a report reveals lengthy ties between Irsay and a woman who died of an overdose in a Colts’ owned home earlier this year.
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The Indianapolis Colts have always had the privilege (or the burden) of having an owner who draws an awful lot of attention to himself. Over the last year, however, the trend with Jim Irsay has taken an unfortunate turn.
In the past, Irsay garnered attention for being loud, opinionated, and generally annoying on social media. Now the trouble he is creating for himself is much more serious and real. At issue in a new ESPN report is the relationship Irsay had with Kimberly Wundrum, the woman who died of an apparent overdose in a home owned by the Colts in April of this year.
According to the report, Irsay had lengthy ties to the woman. This included living together with her while being separated from his wife, buying three different homes for her, and providing for her and her step-children from a previous marriage. Here is more from the ESPN report:
"Yet Jim’s relationship with Kim — as seen through documents, social media feeds and interviews with more than a dozen friends and family members over the course of three months — was far from normal. Irsay, whose net worth of $1.7 billion comes in large part from his ownership of the Colts and the publicly financed, $720 million, Lucas Oil Stadium, bought Kim three separate residences over their roughly eight years together, each one a place she could call home."
The report also tells the story of a relationship that was kept secret in the most cliche of ways: the two could only attend matinee movies, could only go out to eat out of town, and so on. Things only got worse because Irsay reportedly moved onto another woman and “phased Wundrum out.”
There is a lot of drama, moving parts, and dishonesty in this report that does not paint the Colts’ owner in a good light.
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