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Rodman Worms Out of His Wedding Vow

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

Everyone who had 10 days or under in the pool on the Dennis Rodman-Carmen Electra marriage is looking good.

Monday, nine days after the eccentric NBA player wed the former “Baywatch” actress in a chapel in Las Vegas, Rodman filed a petition in Orange County Superior Court to annul the marriage, alleging he had not acted out of a “sound mind.”

This is not a straight line. Rodman affirmed it in a legal document.

“It was early in the morning,” said Gerry Phillips, the Orange County-based attorney who filed the petition on Rodman’s behalf, “and he had been out partying and he didn’t have all his faculties about him when the event occurred. He doesn’t think, on the basis of that, that it was a valid contract.”

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It doesn’t appear the happy couple had much of a honeymoon.

“I can tell you the petition alleges a one-day marriage,” Phillips said.

“They married at 7 a.m. on the 14th of November and separated the same day. It’s my understanding that they have not been together since.”

Rodman could not be reached for comment but he signed the petition of nullity.

“Carmen and Dennis spoke several days ago and mutually agreed [to end the marriage],” Electra’s publicist, Cindy Guagengi said.

Rodman and Electra have dated for several months. After the wedding, Rodman’s foster parents, Pat and James Rich of Bokchito, Okla., told “Inside Edition” they’d met the bride and hoped she would be a good influence on Dennis.

“I figured this could be the girl he marries,” Pat Rich said.

Other Rodman intimates apparently had reservations. Rodman’s Orange County-based agent, Dwight Manley, claimed Dennis had been “intoxicated to the point that [he] couldn’t speak or stand” at the time of the wedding and claimed his client was surrounded by “leeches.”

A letter, said to have been written by Rodman, was released the next day, repudiating Manley’s comments and avowing Rodman’s love for Electra.

However, Phillips says Rodman didn’t write it.

“I think that maybe her [Electra’s] publicity person or agent or something was very anxious to bring this thing to the press,” Phillips said.

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As to the question of how Electra could have forced the 6-foot-7, 220-pound Rodman to say “I do?”

“I think he could have been 300 pounds,” Phillips said. “She is a very attractive woman and presumably is a very persuasive one.”

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