Lional Dalton (Click on the photo for his booking mug, and more)

Former National Football League journeyman Lional Dalton spent today in a West Palm Beach jail after surrendering to Palm Beach County authorities on charges of domestic violence.

The 350-pound defensive tackle, who made Boca Raton his home when he retired in 2006 after playing for the Baltimore Ravens, Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans, was scheduled to post his $2,000-bail today.

The wife, 5-foot Kimberly Dalton, also was arrested last week in connection with the same incident, which occurred at their home in March.

According to court records, the Daltons have been going at it for more than a year. He filed for divorce earlier this year.

Each has asked courts to grant several domestic violence injunctions against the other. Yet, they still share a $1 million-house at the fancy Fox Hill Estates, even if a judge ordered Lional to live in the pool house. He is only allowed in the main house, where Kimberly lives, to prepare food and attend to personal needs.

Still, they run into each other every so often — and that’s not good.

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Horn

There’s one job that U. S. Congress candidate Jim Horn, a self-described traditional values Democrat, forgot to add to his extensive resume as restaurateur, boat-racer and body-building products salesman.

But it’s something that many lovesick people in the Boca Raton area do remember!

Horn, 56, once worked as the vice president of Soulmates by Helena, a dating service whose owner pleaded no contest to two dozen charges of grand theft in 2004. She was ordered to pay back $300,000 in restitution to 41 former clients.

Matchmaker Helena Amram was also banned from operating her business in Palm Beach County while serving a five-year probation.

She was accused of fixing some of her rich clients — who paid up to $100,000 for a mate — with poor or sick or disabled dates. Some of the clients, meanwhile, included men with herpes and criminal records.

What about Horn, who’s seeking a seat once held by Mark Foley and Tim Mahoney?

At first Horn, who has moved to Palm City, told me he was never an employee of the company and never received a paycheck from Soulmates.

But when I reminded him of his testimony in an unrelated bankruptcy, in which he stated under oath that he was indeed a Soulmates employee and its vice president, he changed his tune.

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Kahlert

One of Palm Beach County’s largest land barons is facing dozens of liens on hundreds of acres today after his ex-wife sued him for not paying her some of the goodies promised in their divorce settlement.

Former Palm Beach County engineer Herb Kahlert — a close friend of County Commish Karen Marcus whose government job gave some the willies because of his power to build roads that could increase the value of his properties — defaulted on his first bi-yearly payment of $2 million to his ex, Patricia Kahlert, according to court records.

Good thing he’s been sending Trish the settlement’s $54,000-a-month support checks!

Kahlert, 67, who runs his development business through a maze of shell companies, could have been worth as much $150 million at the time of the divorce, in 2007.

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Mahoney

Is former U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney’s midlife crisis not over yet?

He reportedly tried to pick up Russian women in a Palm Beach hotspot recently by claiming to be a “retired, respected congressman.”

Mahoney acknowledges being at the restaurant but, he said, he was there for Haiti fundraiser — not to hit on ladies.

A source at the Boys & Girls Club of Palm Beach County’s beachside wingding the other night told me about Mahoney’s recent foray into the Palm Beach hangout Bice.

Remember Mahoney? The 53-year-old slipped into the U.S. Congress in 2006, when the then-congressman-for-life Mark Foley got caught text-messaging sweet nothings to male pages.

Mahoney, who represented parts of Palm Beach County and most of Martin County, lost reelection to current Congressman Tom Rooney after it was revealed that the then-married Mahoney paid off a former mistress to silence her, and was seeing another paramour, Martin County’s engineering boss Kim Roden.

Word is the now-divorced Mahoney is seriously hooked up with Roden — but then this little tale below makes you wonder.

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A documentary movie about Palm Beach County’s battle to shut down the homeless shelter at West Palm Beach’s Westgate Tabernacle Church will be previewed in this area twice next week. And if the trailer of filmmaker Mark Crupi’s Avis Vs. Goliath is telling, then our local government stands to be savaged yet again. On background of the Rolling Stones‘ Sympathy for the Devil, the trailer starts with: “It’s the story of a county with a long history of scandals . . . and its fight to close a shelter housing children.”

Crupi, by the way, made news this week when he asked county officials for comment about his taped interview with retired county secretary Cyndy Stephens. Stephens claimed that her ex-husband, Terry Verner, the county’s retired code enforcer, would give the church a hard time by day then drive a relative to its shelter at night. The movie’s title refers to the church’s bishop, Avis Hill. Said Crupi: “It’s a classic story of good versus evil.” Evil, here, being the government.

The film will be shown at 7 p.m. March 12, at the synagogue L’Dor Va-Dor on Lake Worth Road in Lake Worth, and March 13 at the Westgate Tabernacle Church, 1600 Suwanee Drive in West Palm Beach.

Is Super Bowl XLIV really about football?

Is it about the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts?

Nah!

It’s about hotties. And celebs, like Jim Carrey and Rihanna and Kim Kardashian. And free concerts on the beach.

So, you’re a mortal with less disposable cash than you used to, where do you go?

Well, it’s all here in the Page2Live guide to Super Bowl fun.

Believe or not, the frenzy already starts Thursday night, 10 days before the actual game, with a fashion show at the W Hotel in Miami Beach. The threads will be mostly swimwear, and the barely dressed bodies those of NFL cheerleaders. It’s one of the Miami Dolphins‘ contributions, along surrendering the team’s practice facility and stadium locker-room to the Colts.

Also this week, downtown Delray Beach has a three-day NFL sanctioned kick-off, starting Thursday. The highlight? Friday’s beachside meet-and-greet with a dozen NFLers. Organizers are promising to produce Pierre Garcon, the Colts’ breakout receiver and a graduate from John I. Leonard High School in Greenacres.

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Fans, meanwhile, will converge on several other South Florida hot spots during Super Bowl week.

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Tim Mahoney and Terry prepare to face the press in October 2008 (Meghan McCarty/Palm Beach Post) Click on the photo for more pictures of the scandal

Former U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, a Democrat whose philandering cost him his re-election in 2008, now is legally free to take on as many girlfriends as he wants.

He was officially divorced last week in Palm Beach County — and quickly hooked with one of his mistresses, former Martin County Engineering Operations Manager Kim Roden.

According to the “Final Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage” filed in his hometown of Palm Beach Gardens last week, Mahoney will end up paying ex-wife, Terry Mahoney $6,250-a-month for the rest of her life. Once the couple’s barn and five acres in the western confines of the county are sold off, Terry, 58, could receive another $270,000. An equestrian, Terry also gets two horses, Toy and Pacman. And she’s allowed to take the marital bed, her grandpa’s chair, the sewing machine, three tables and her jewelry.

Tim is supposed to give her $14,000 to help her move.

Terry Mahoney, by the way, keeps the Mahoney family name.

In all, the former lovebirds split evenly about $2.8 million in assets.

Court papers indicated Terry’s moving out of the area. She couldn’t be reached for comment.

Tim? He won’t be poor. He keeps the former marital home in PGA National and a ski-slope condo in Canada.

And there are fringe benefits to his divorce. I’m told by a source at Martin County Hall that Tim and Roden, one of two paramours whose names surfaced, no longer need to sneak around.

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Burt at the Maltz in June (Fred Montana/Special to Page2Live)

Big screen legend Burt Reynolds is battling an addiction to painkillers and checked himself into rehab at West Palm Beach’s Hanley Center.

He first sought treatment as inpatient but has since been released and continues his recovery at home in Hobe Sound.

“After recent back surgery,” Reynolds spokesman Ken Kaye said, “Mr. Reynolds felt like he was going through hell. After awhile, he realized that he was in the prison of prescription pain pills. He checked himself into rehab in order to regain control of his life. He hopes that his story will help others in a similar situation. He hopes that others won’t try to solve the problem on their own as he tried to do.”

Kaye, the rookie executive director of the Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum in Jupiter, added that the star of Smokey and the Bandit and The Longest Yard would be back to teach acting classes at the museum Friday.

“They kept him in for a few days, but he is home as we speak,” Kaye said. “He’s doing very well. He’ll be in top form for the class.”

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Like the federal government he once was a member of, former U.S. Congressman Tim Mahoney is running in the deep red.

Mahoney, 52, can’t cover his daily bills these days, according to a fresh batch of paperwork filed in a Palm Beach County court in connection with his divorce case.

The former Democratic representative, whose district stretched from Palm Beach to St. Lucie counties and across Florida, claims he makes $4,341 a month as a business adviser while his expenses are $10,851. He runs a $6,510 deficit each month.

Almost half of his expenses, his financial statement shows, are for the couple’s Palm Beach Gardens home, a barn and 5 acres on 114^th Court in the western confines of Palm Beach Gardens, a condo in Canada and 30 acres in Oklahoma.

Don’t shed a tear for the man with the numerous mistresses, though. Even if he’s worth less than what the popular wisdom would have you believe — he once was a venture capitalist — Mahoney isn’t poor.

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And you thought the divorce of former U.S. Congressman Tim Mahoney was bad so far, with payoffs to a former mistress and the suspension of another squeeze from her government job?

Tim Mahoney and Terry, at the October press conference in which he admitted his indiscretions

Man, you ain’t seen nothing yet!

The long-suffering, soon-to-be-ex-wife of the scandal-prone Mahoney, Terry, has called on eight people to be deposed in mid-April.

Court papers show they include: Mistress No. 1, former Mahoney aide Tricia Allen, the one he agreed to pay a total of $227,000 to shut her up about their affair; Mistress No. 2, Martin County engineering department employee Kim Roden, whom he took on skiing vacations in the Canadian Rockies; a former Tim Mahoney employee, Alejandro Munoz; Leonard Sokolow, a Broward County lawyer and accountant who was one of Tim Mahoney’s business partners in vFinance, a venture capital company; West Palm Beach lawyer Jack Goldberger, who once repped billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and worked on Mahoney’s secret deal with Allen; Gary Isaacs, another local lawyer who represented Mahoney as the sex scandal broke last year; and forensic accountant Michael Kridel. Tim Mahoney, too, will be grilled. (Read more…)