Bears defensive end Alonzo Spellman is out of the hospital and has retained the legal services of his former agent, Steve Zucker.
“I met with him today and he seems to be doing fine,” Zucker said Friday.
Zucker said Spellman and his family called him to retain him as his attorney. Whether his present agent, Leigh Steinberg, will continue to be involved remains to be seen. Zucker lives in the Chicago area. Steinberg lives in the Los Angeles area.
Spellman’s mother and stepfather remained with Spellman on Friday and his wife, Lizzie, wrote a check to retain Zucker. The status of Spellman’s publicist, Nancy Mitchell, is unclear. It was in her Tower Lakes home that Spellman barricaded himself on March 9. After a 10-hour standoff, he was talked out by ex-Bear Mike Singletary.
Spellman walked out of Good Shepherd hospital in Barrington barefoot and barechested the following day and was transferred to Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s psychiatric ward, where he remained until Thursday, Zucker said. Spellman will remain in a doctor’s care for an undetermined time.
Zucker was Spellman’s agent when he was drafted by the Bears in 1992. In 1996, Spellman left Zucker for Steinberg, who negotiated his present four-year, $11.6 million contract.
