Former professional baseball player Lenny Dykstra is denying the accusations
Former professional baseball player Lenny Dykstra is denying accusations that he trashed a Hamptons hotel room over the weekend despite a list of complaints from the establishment’s owners.
‘I’m hotel guest of the year,’ Dykstra told The Daily News on Wednesday when they reached the all-star slugger for comment.
The owners of Hotel ZE, however, claim that Dykstra, 54, wrecked havoc in his rented suite and stole bath towels.
They say they captured the former slugger on surveillance footage stealing a pair of sunglasses.
‘If you watch the camera you see it,’ hotel owner Zach Erdem told the News.
Former MLB slugger stayed the weekend at posh Hampton hotel for a charity event in New York
Owners of the hotel said that the former MLB slugger stole amenities from his hotel suite and smoked marijuana
They also accused Lenny Dykstra of trashing his hotel room and stealing a pair of sunglasses
‘He definitely took the sunglasses. It was crazy, very crazy. It’s on the video,’ Erdem added.
He later posted the footage on Instagram with the hashtags #lennydykstra #hamptons #gift and #enjoy.
The exasperated Erdem told the newspaper that Dykstra checked in on Friday for a two-night stay and began causing trouble soon shortly thereafter.
‘I walked in the hotel downstairs, and I could smell marijuana smoke,’ Erdem said
‘It was all over the hotel. I checked all the doors because no one is supposed to smoke, and it was on the third floor, coming from his room.’
Erdem said despite numerous warnings, ‘He kept doing it all weekend,’ and complained he was ‘always drunk somehow.’
‘You couldn’t have a nice conversation with him,’ added the owner.
Ephram also recounted an incident where his brother delivered ice to the Dykstra’s room at 3am in the morning.
The owners of Hotel ZE (pictured) released CCTV footage of the event onto social media after Dykstra refuted the claims
Dykstra of the New York Mets celebrates after hitting a home run in August 1986 in Shea Stadium in Flushing, New York
‘A woman was like, “Come in,” and she’s fully naked. Oh my God, he wanted to leave, but she said, “It’s okay, don’t worry about it,”‘ Erdem said.
Ephram said that upon his exit from the establishment, Dykstra, whose nickname in the MLB was Nails, had left a suitcase and hand written note asking the staff to ship the bag to his residence.
Ephram claimed he had a Dykstra associate open the bag after discovering the hotel stripped ‘naked’ of amenities, including bedding and bath towels.
‘The suitcase was full of my towels and sheets. The laundry bag had two unopened bed sheets in it. The white one was mine but the brown one wasn’t mine. I’m not even sure where he got it,’ he said.
Speaking with the Daily News, Dykstra refuted the owner’s accusations, claiming that no one had serviced his room and had wrapped the towels up as a ‘favor.’
‘There’s no maid at that place, man. And no one speaks English. Towels pile up so what did I do for them? I gift wrap them and bring them to the front desk,’ said Dykstra.
Dykstra had been in the Hamptons for a charity event.
‘I was doing charity work, bro, that’s what I do. I’m a man of the people, bro,’ he told the daily publication by phone.
He then called the upscale hotel a ‘s***hole,’ and concluded the call by saying ‘wouldn’t pay two cents to stay there.’
The owners said they do not have any plan to press charges.
Dystra began his Major League Baseball career in 1985 with the New York Mets, and played his last game in 1996, retiring after being plagued with a litany of injuries.
Dykstra was sentenced to prison in March 2012 for three years after pleading no-contest to grand theft auto charges, being released in July 2013 after serving six and one-half months in jail.
June 6, 2011 Lenny Dykstra and 2 co-conspirators were arraigned on 23 felony charges including grand theft auto, filing false financial statements, identity theft and possession of a controlled substance