Dwight Gooden Gets Evicted From His Mansion For Not Paying Rent

Former Met ace Dwight “Doc” Gooden’s family has reportedly been evicted from its New Jersey mansion.

Gooden hasn’t been living in the luxury home since March when his wife got a restraining order after he allegedly threatened her, according to the celebrity website TMZ.

After he moved out, his wife and two kids stayed on, but nobody paid the rent, leading to the July eviction, the website reported.

The Gooden family moved into the $4,500-a-month luxury home in September, 2011.

The eviction is the latest chapter in the tragic novel that is the life of Doc Gooden.

The flame-throwing righty broke onto the up-and-coming Mets in 1984, and went 17-9 with a league-leading 276 strikeouts — good enough to earn him the National League Rookie of the Year award when he was just 19 years old.

The next season, he was untouchable, going 24-4 with a microscopic 1.53 earned run average and winning the Cy Young Award for the league’s best pitcher.

But all that talent and potential evaporated in a haze of drugs and booze — and by age 27, Gooden was virtually washed up, though he did toss his only no-hitter during a stint with the crosstown Yankees in 1996.

After retiring in 2001, Gooden was repeatedly arrested for drug and alcohol-related offenses, plus a domestic violence incident. He served seven months in prison in 2006 for violating his probation by using cocaine.

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