Frank McCourt has declared himself the sole owner of the Dodgers, pointing to a 2004 document his wife allegedly signed that grants him total control over the club. Jamie McCourt insists she didn’t know what she was signing, and has, additionally, requested $487,634 in monthly spousal support. Included in that sum is money for travel on private jets, eight full-time housekeepers, designer clothing, money for hair and makeup, and dinners at exclusive L.A. restaurants.

"Unless she’s had a lobotomy since moving to L.A., I don’t believe she didn’t know what she was signing,’’ says a prominent Boston attorney who dealt with the McCourts many times. "Of the two, Jamie was always in charge, as far as I was concerned. She was drafting the documents, dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.’’