San Francisco 49ers majority owner and CEO Jed York was arrested Sunday in East Palestine, Ohio. He was initially detained on suspicion of engaging in prostitution during a human trafficking task force operation, ESPN reports.
York, 46, is a Los Altos Hills resident. He has a home there with his wife Danielle Belluomini York, a former public school teacher. They have two sons.
The arrest occurred at the Wheat Hill Mobile Home Community in East Palestine, where local police were assisting the regional human trafficking task force.
The original prostitution charge was amended by prosecutors to misdemeanor disorderly conduct. He was also charged with misdemeanor possessing criminal tools.
This morning in court, York pleaded no contest to both misdemeanor counts. He was sentenced to two days in jail, one day for each count which could be served concurrently. He received credit for the day and night he spent in jail, which means he won’t be returning to jail.
He paid $1,150 in total fines ($150 for disorderly conduct and $1,000 for possessing criminal tools). Records also show that York had a cellphone returned to him and that $160 that was seized from him during his arrest was to be given to the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force as part of the plea agreement. York also completed on online course..
York, 46, grew up in nearby Youngstown, Ohio. York’s grandfather, Edward J. DeBartolo, bought the 49ers in 1977 from the Morabito family, which founded the franchise in 1946. Edward DeBartolo turned the team over to his son, Eddie, who got caught up in a Louisiana casino scandal and pleaded guilty to a felony. The NFL forced Eddie to cede control of the team to his sister, Denise DeBartolo York, and her husband, Dr. John York in 2000. They put their son, Jed, in charge in 2008. He was named as the team’s principal majority owner in 2024.
The city where York was arrested, East Palestine, made headlines in February 2023 when a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed, causing a massive fire and spilling toxic chemicals.
York isn’t the first NFL owner arrested in a prostitution case. In February 2019, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was charged with two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution after he was caught on hidden police surveillance cameras in a Jupiter, Fla., spa. Kraft’s lawyers successfully argued that the secret police video recordings violated his constitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizure, and the charges were dropped.
This is going to light up the social scene in Los Altos Hills.
Good story but you’ve left out one fact … was the prostitute male or female?
Criminal tools? What the heck was he up to?
Any tool used in the commission of a crime. In this case, it’s probably his phone. He used his phone to arrange for this “date.”
I can’t get my head around a guy worth hundreds of millions of dollars trying to buy time with a cheap trailer park hooker. Why not call in a high class escort to his hotel like the wealthy are known to do? Just the ick factor makes my stomach turn.
What’s baffling about this is that Jed has options when it comes to girls. There are websites for rich guys to hook up with girls in their 20s. He didn’t have to go to a trailer park. What’s wrong with this guy?
Jed is in the midst of a divorce, there is no anonymity in high class hookers these days a risk for the celebrity class. When did Los Altos get so preachy about transactional consensual sex?
Prostitution isn’t consensual unless the prostitute would do it for free and in that case she wouldn’t be a prostitute. Monica Lewinsky’s sex with Clinton wasn’t consensual unless she wasn’t expecting anything in return. There’s a strong case to be made that she was.
That was the dumbest statement I’ve seen in a long time. Maybe “HeHim etc” has never had a job, but here’s how life works. Most of us have jobs that pay money. We consent to being employed. We can quit anytime we want. It’s not slavery. Employment is voluntary. Prostitutes are employees. They can quit anytime they want and kick you out of the car. Employment for money is consensual.
Agree, his life is falling apart, needs help, and people around here are so effing sanctimonious, enjoying seeing this man fall. What does that say about the people piling on? It’s not a good feeling. And I couldn’t care less about York, professional sports, or billionaire owners.
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