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Lenny and Terri Dykstra split in April 2009.LOS ANGELES - Lenny Dykstra's ex-wife is crying foul over claims she's reconciling with the former Mets outfielder accused of embezzlement.
"That's not true. We are not reconciling," the petite blonde told the Daily News Thursday.
"I am cordial with Lenny. I do talk to him occasionally, but it's only for my kids."
Her ex-husband appeared in federal court Wednesday with a different story.
"I want to remind the court that this man has a wife of 24 years. The divorce is not final, I'm told. And I'm also told they're in the process of possibly reconciling," Dykstra's lawyer said as he argued for the former All-Star's release on bail.
Dykstra, 48, was arrested by Los Angeles police last week on suspicion of felony grand theft auto and transferred to FBI custody Tuesday night to face an unrelated bankruptcy fraud case.
He was released on $150,000 bond and ordered to return for arraignment May 16.
County prosecutors declined to press charges on the auto case pending more investigation.
Terri Dykstra, 51, did not attend the hearing.
"We are legal divorced," she told the News, "but I wish him well for the sake of my children."
The Dykstras married in 1985, shortly before the centerfielder nicknamed "Nails" became the homerun hero of the Mets' 1986 World Series win.
They raised three sons together during his run with the Philadelphia Phillies and later careers as a car wash kingpin, online stock-picker and magazine mogul.
But the family's finances began unraveling when the ex-Met overruled his wife and bought Wayne Gretzky's Ventura County, Calif., mansion for $17 million in 2007.
As loan payments mounted, he lost his advice column with Jim Cramer's TheStreet.com and burned through cash trying to launch a high-end jet charter company and magazine marketed to professional athletes.
Terri filed for divorce in April 2009, three months before Lenny declared bankruptcy.
"I couldn't take the insanity anymore," she told the Ventura County Star. "I had to separate myself from it."
ndillon@nydailynews.com
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