This Tiger Woods divorce looks like it’s going to be fought with conventional weapons, and cost thousands of lives. Bill Zwecker of the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that negotiations are bogging down over Tiger’s demand that Elin Nordegren sign a confidentiality agreement, prohibiting her from writing a book or doing any interviews related to the marriage. Oh, and there’s this:
In addition, I’m hearing Nordegren is ramping up her financial demands — to an estimated $750 million package — and wants full custody of their children.
Whoa; 750 million bucks, and no kids. I guess the moral is do not ever get involved in divorce proceedings with a viking.
So as one might expect, Tiger and Elin are no longer speaking to each other, according to Radar Online.
“Elin has the nannies take the children back and forth,” one source told RadarOnline.com about how the children are moved to and from Tiger and Elin’s home. Elin moved out of the home they shared and into a rented house about a mile away.
Recently, one of Tiger’s employees spent 20 minutes with Elin at her house, going over upcoming logistics and schedules. “They’ve had no conflict over the children but they’ve also had no contact,” the source said. “Elin has made it very clear this is the way she wants it.”
Meanwhile, Elin is doing what most about-to-be-divorced women do; she’s going back to college. Because what if that 750 mil runs out, and she’s caught without a marketable skill? Then where would she be?
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Tiger Tidbits [Chicago Sun-Times]
Tiger And Wife No Longer Talking To Each Other [Radar Online]
Elin Nordegren Returns To College As Divorce Rumors Swirl [Huffington Post]
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- theroseman - May 19, 2010 at 2:15 PM
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“Obviously you have no idea where his income is coming from. He’s made way more from endorsing products than playing golf and Elin deserves at least half of his current net worth AND future earnings to take care of herself and the kids.”
I can see her getting a decent part of what he’s made since they married. But he was a gazillionaire before he met her. She didn’t “make him”. She didn’t support him all his life while he struggled to become a successful golfer. Child support is a different matter, and a one time trust fund could be set up for them and their future NOT tied to her.
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- theroseman - May 19, 2010 at 2:18 PM
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“uh-oh watch out for the grammar police! funny how that is basically all you got from my post”
Nope. I also was able to determine that you are a hypocrite.
Funny how you didn’t even attempt to defend your position.
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- TEXAS13 - May 19, 2010 at 3:38 PM
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Thought they had a pre-nup? If she gets & runs out of $750 million there is something definately wrong with her. She definately needs to get a skill of her own…glad to here she is going to college. But we all know the kids will NEVER want for anything…
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- phill071 - May 19, 2010 at 3:51 PM
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That woman can’t get enough of Tiger’s income. What did she do to earn it? She suffered the greatest public humiliation ever done to any spouse. He can still be the greatest golfer ever, but he’s a scumbag as a person, and that will never go away. He has absolutely no clue. What a degenerate. People really will not miss him. Jack’s record is safe.
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- Allen - Omaha - May 19, 2010 at 4:40 PM
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Joe replied to comment from bigmike
You obviously don’t have a family of your own. She isn’t asking for enough… she should include taking away his visitation rights as well.
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Sorry, but short of imprisonment, if the ‘family’ was the focus, she wouldn’t be asking to take away his visitation rights…so on that point I would disagree with you.
When ever any parent is seeking to take away custody rights of the other parent they are simply using the children to impose their will on the other parent. Call him a tramp if you want, but nothing he has done has warrented taking his children away from him as though he would somehow now hurt them that he hasn’t done to date.
You also may have a family ‘Joe’, but I wouldn’t be so quick to assume that every decision you make in the name of your family is the correct one.
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- Nubia - May 19, 2010 at 5:57 PM
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I can’t believe most the comments on this forum, especially those defending Tiger and crucifying Elin! Michael, how can you call all women whores and blood suckers? Does that include your mother? And why is everybody so obsessed with $750 possible alimony? Have you considered that Tiger’s “whoring” could actually be a death trap of HHIV, STDs and hepatitis in the name of Elin being married to an immoral wreck? Where is the manhood in any of you men who defend Tiger and applaud him for defiling his marriage bed? This state of mind is responsible for depravity like that of Tiger! His freaking mind and lustful loins should be kept in check by having him pay all his wealth to the wife and kids. He can go stay with his whores in the trashy ghettos where it all began. He is not a god as you all sympathetic men would like us to believe. He is just a demon oin human form, he knows nothing about God, righteousness, or morality. No amount of money can buy integrity. He is lucky he will pay just money, another woman might have made him pay his head! Elin, stay firm and raise your kids with morals.
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- theroseman - May 19, 2010 at 7:34 PM
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Elin is not raising her kids – nannies are. People who rush to the “poor cheated on woman” in this case fail to realize that she has had a life she could only dream of. All because of HIS income. He was wrong to do what he did – no excuses. But I don’t feel that entitles her to hundreds of millions of dollars just for getting pregnant. She didn’t earn that kind of money – he did. And he earned it before he met her.
Even the most modest of settlements will be more than any woman in this forum would get from her husband in a lifetime. Should every woman in her situation claim alimony of $750M?? If not, why not? Why isn’t their “humiliation” worth less than hers?
If it’s because he can afford it, then we know what that makes her. And people arguing for it sound like pimps.
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- BLUFART - May 19, 2010 at 10:13 PM
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hey, just like the judge told me “it’s the screwing you get for the screwing you got”
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- BLUFART - May 19, 2010 at 10:22 PM
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jUST A LITTLE UPSET YOU DIDN’T SOME? BONE HEAD, IT’S THE LAW……..
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- notafan - May 19, 2010 at 11:16 PM
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Love and marriage couldn’t be further apart and getting worse for humankind. Just read these posts…pitiful.
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- JustAJoe - May 20, 2010 at 3:17 AM
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How smart and how moral do you have to be to hit a rubber ball with a metal stick down a grassy field real well? Yes, he’s a great golfer.
Adultery is and always has been a very common ground for divorce. There is nothing special about this story. Rich,famous,talented athletes get caught doing all kinds of no no’s every day.
Oh, we haven’t had a golfing scandal lately, that must be it.
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- lauthing at you - May 20, 2010 at 9:21 AM
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i never once said ALL men. i said the men who are posting such negative, derogatory things about a woman that you don’t even know. seems to me if you are looking for a gold-digging tramp, you should look to the other women that tiger associated himself with. oh, does it bother you that i dont capitalize or use proper punctuation?
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- laughing at you - May 20, 2010 at 9:23 AM
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well said.
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- PrenupNoGood? - May 20, 2010 at 3:12 PM
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Can someone tell me what happened to the original or modified prenup?
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- Wanda - May 21, 2010 at 2:29 AM
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First, let me say that in writing this I am not condoning Woods’ behavior at all. However, it is not my place or any of you reading/responding to this article and other posts, to condone or not condone his behavior. This situation is really none of our business, regardless to how many articles these so-called sports writers and journalists continue to write about it. These articles/columns about celebrity lifestyles are written for entertainment/readership purposes only, not for educating. For those of you who held TW (or any other celebrity/famous person) in high esteem for any other reason than their marketable ability (in this case golf), you are just as delusional as the women he had affairs with. And for those of you who claim that he “lied” to the world and therefore you feel betrayed, I worry about your emotional stability. He never said to you or me, please emulate and deify me for I am above fault. Every time he stepped on the golf course he did so because he wanted to win and break the records of the golf professionals he admired before him (and yes in the pursuit of this goal he made a great deal of money). We cannot even say that he “lied” to his sponsors because we do not have public knowledge of who sought out the business relationship, nor do we know what agreements were formed in the written contracts. I am willing to bet that there were a large number of sponsors willing to enter into a business relationship with him (that he turned down) because they saw an opportunity to capitalize on his fame and golfing abilities. I do not believe for one moment that the sole reason they chose him was because they thought he was “squeaky” clean and any one who does believe that is again, delusional. The sponsors saw the ability to make $$ and were willing to impart with $$ to make more; that is how it works people. If it was not the case, we would all have sponsors knocking at our doors.
Second, I disagree in part with your comment blueunicorn, that “he clearly wanted that association” (referring to her well-to-do family). I would beg to differ that if anyone benefitted from the association it would be Elin. I would wager that 95% of the people who have heard of Elin Nordegren today, knows about her only because she is the wife of Woods, not because she was a great model and humanitarian. She was not considered a ‘supermodel’, nor was she known the world over, unlike Woods at the time of their marriage. Does anyone reading/writing these posts truly believe that the paparazzi, media and golfing world would have tried to get all of the info about who/when/how Tiger’s marriage to Elin was going to unfold, if he had not been ‘Tiger Woods, internationally known golfer’? Somehow, I doubt it. Yes, her family was well-to-do prior to their marriage, and probably well known in her hometown in Sweden; however, it was a tiny drop in a bucket compared to what TW was worth and the depth of his fame. And don’t kid yourself that her family did not benefit from her marriage to TW, even if it was only to say that their daughter was his wife.
Third, quite a few people responding to this and other threads act as if they were personally harmed by TW’s affairs. It seems to me that quite a few of you are living your lives vicariously through Elin (for those who want her to take him to the cleaners) and Tiger (for those who believe he married a gold-digger and should have known better). And this my friends goes to show the level of depravity and superficiality of the world we live in.
Again, while I do not condone marital infidelity in any form by anyone for any reason, it is only my business if it happens in my marriage. In reading a lot of these posts it is clear that many people have a tendency to believe everything they read in news print. Does anyone reading/writing here have a personal relationship with either Tiger or Elin, to be able to say for sure what did or did not happen in this marriage? Just because a woman/man makes a claim does not make it 100% true/accurate. The way people are reacting, it is as if human beings have never been known to lie. The only people who know for sure how many people TW had sexual affairs with are TW and the people involved. Just because the media reports 100′s of liaisons does not make it true, it just makes it newsworthy to the people who read it. And just because a woman/man comes forth and claims that they had an affair with him, does not make it true either. Yes, it is obvious that he did have relationships with others outside his marriage. Whatever his reasoning again is not for you or I to say and/or judge. In the same vein, we cannot know what his or her intentions were when they entered into their marriage. My Mom used to tell us growing up that “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions”. So, for anyone except the judge hearing their divorce case to decide what Elin is or is not entitled to is irresponsible. The lawyers involved can only agrue the merits of what they believe their clients should/should not have, but in the end it isn’t even their decision unless all parties involved agree to a settlement.
We as humans are quick to condemn others for being thoughtless and selfish, as if we always think about the people who could be harmed by our every action before we do it. Just because someone suffers public humiliation does not mean that they are entitled to whatever they want. If that was the case, and if we are to believe what the Christian Bible reveals, Jesus suffered the greatest public humiliation of all; and yet he was still hung from a cross to die a demeaning death. Personally, I do not care what anyone gets in this particular situation except for the kids (and nor should you). Afterall, children don’t ask to be born and therefore have no say in who/what type of people their mothers and fathers are. So, their needs and health and welfare should be put above all others. Also, some people writing here seem to blur what one deserves with what one is entitled to. Again, assuming that what was written in this column and in other reports is true. If we should be praying and hoping for is that both adults in this situation will do what is physically and emotionally best for the two children. In order to best do this, they would need to put aside hurt feelings, humiliation, shame and advice from “well-meaning” people outside their marriage (this would at times include legal counsel – unless of course both lawyers are providing their services pro-bono). And unless your name is Elin Nordegren-Woods, Eldrick (Tiger) Woods, Sam Woods or Charlie Woods, your opinion does not mean a thing in regards to this situation. And this is just my humble and honest opinion.
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- Wanda - May 21, 2010 at 3:59 AM
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How does his alleged affairs have anything to do with him being a great golfer? At the present time, even with 5 months away from golf and one good, and two so-so showing at three tournaments thus far, he is still the #1 ranked golfer based on his golfing achievements. Just because you feel “ripped off” (which is really ludicrous) does not diminish in any way his golf achievements and playing abilities. What kind of world have we become that we allow the actions of complete strangers to affect our lives so personally.
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- Wanda - May 21, 2010 at 4:09 AM
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His non-endorsement income isn’t anything to shake a stick at ($93,192,539 and counting) and it is far greater than any other golfer has made since golf’s inception. Also, I am not so sure he actually endorses products as much as he allows his name and image to be associated with products/companies for a price (with the exception of a few products).
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- KENDALL FUNDESTIEN - May 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM
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ELIN’S BODY JUST COULD HOLD SO MANY STDS! SHE SHOULD GO FOR THE WHOLE BILLION WITH $100,000 MONTHLY PAYMENTS.
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- alan - May 21, 2010 at 5:39 PM
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Lose visitation rights? What kind of horrible person are you? Nobody has every said Tiger was not a good father. The kids need their father. WHo the hell do you think you are or Erin is? The kids are as much Tiger’s as they are Erin. For you to think the kids should be without a father only shows how bitter you must be. Whats the matter? Your husband dump your squatty butt for a newer younger model?
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- Randall - May 22, 2010 at 6:26 AM
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Screw that. He has absolutely no leverage to be making demands. And she could very easily make that $750mil herself w/o a confidentiality clause.
And to Alan:
“Nobody has every said Tiger was not a good father.”
Yeah, he’s setting a kick-ass example. Cheat on mommy, lie to the whole world…I’m saying it.
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- Katie - Jun 3, 2010 at 8:40 AM
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“Meanwhile, Elin is doing what most about-to-be-divorced women do; she’s going back to college. Because what if that 750 mil runs out, and she’s caught without a marketable skill? Then where would she be?”
This is unbelievably sexist. The only place you could print something this outrageous is on the sports page, which should tell you a lot about your industry. Grow up.
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- canoeal - Jun 9, 2010 at 1:59 PM
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Hey you guys, The prenup went out the window the minute Tiger cheated on her. That is a standard part of the prenup…
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- vicki - Jun 11, 2010 at 5:07 AM
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You make is sound like Elin was an angel…she had her plan, knew this man, popped out two little anchors with diapers, and now she plans to get $750million…for what? So what, husbands cheat, people get divorced all the time. Sounds like you hate the Tiger, not what he did. Seems to me your message has undertones that have nothing to do with Tiger and Elin, but the fact that Tiger got in trouble.
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- Detroit4Life - Jun 12, 2010 at 2:01 PM
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NEVER trust women and NEVER get married. Lesson learned.
