Boggs and Mistress Settle Palimony Suit

BOSTON —  Boston Red Sox star third baseman Wade Boggs has reached a settlement with his former mistress, Margo Adams, ending an 18-month legal tussle over their highly publicized affair, it was reported today.

The Boston Globe reported that attorneys for Boggs and Adams, who sold her story of their relationship to Penthouse magazine, met Friday at a mandatory settlement hearing before an Orange County Superior Court judge and reached agreement on the undisclosed monetary sum.

The judge issued a gag order on the case, the newspaper said.

Adams had filed a palimony suit against Boggs in June, 1988, but several charges were dropped. The two sides reached agreement on payment for the remaining breach of oral contract charge, the newspaper said.

Adams, a Santa Ana mortgage broker, filed suit against Boggs seeking $500,000 for wages she said were lost during a 4 1/2-year affair that involved traveling on team road trips with Boggs.

Adams, who alleged the third baseman gave her expensive gifts and paid her travel expenses during the affair between 1984 and 1987, charged Boggs reneged on an agreement to also support her financially.

Boggs, 30, who subsequently admitted to being a sex addict, is married and has two children.

Adams, 32, detailed her affair with one of baseball’s premier hitters in a two-part Penthouse article in which she posed nude.