"Former Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley is a player many fans would just as soon forget. But that's impossible for at least one Gold Coast man — the player's former condo owner.

Pantelis Kotsiopoulos sued Bradley in Cook County Circuit Court in January for about $44,000 in unpaid rent on his one-year lease of Kotsiopoulos' 24th-floor North Michigan Avenue condo. The suit alleged that Bradley had agreed to pay up to $15,000-a-month rent.

More recently, Kotsiopoulos alleged Bradley had caused $13,900 in damages to the condo before he split. The suit contended he left red paint on white silk draperies, water rings and wine stains on an ebony zebra wood credenza, food and juice stains on a silk velvet ottoman, and a five-foot coffee splattering on the master bedroom carpet.

"I viewed the apartment today," Kotsiopoulos said Wednesday in a phone interview. "I saw the damage he had left first-hand and it is real damage."

Bradley, who will be in Chicago Friday for the first time since the Cubs traded him to the Mariners, has denied the allegations. In court papers, Bradley said he gave Kotsiopoulos ample notice before his departure."