Tiger Woods headed for divorce?
The Tiger's Tale just got a little longer. After reports of alleged linkups with Jaimee Grubbs, Rachel Uchitel and Kalika Moquin, there is fresh trouble for champion golfer Tiger Woods with a fourth woman also claiming to have had a relationship with him. Jamie Jungers, a 26 year old model from Las Vegas, will reportedly tell her story to a British newspaper.
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There's a new twist in the Tiger's Tale. According to latest reports, Elin Nordegren, the Swedish model who married Tiger Woods in 2004, will divorce the billionaire golf star following the sex scandal that has halted his career. ABC News, NBC News and People magazine, all citing unnamed sources close to Nordegren, reported that she will split with Woods following his admission of infidelity and reports that at least 14 women had affairs with the golf icon.
"Divorce is 100 percent on," ABC News' website reported a source saying. "She's not rushing to divorce, however. She's going to take her sweet time. She wants all the dirty laundry to be out on the table before she signs anything." The mother of Tiger's children -- two-year-old daughter Sam and 10-month-old son Charlie -- has met with lawyers to renegotiate her prenuptial agreement with Woods, People magazine reported. "She plans to leave Tiger," one source was quoted as saying. "She has made up her mind. There's nothing to think about: he's never going to change," another source reportedly said.
NBC News reported that Nordegren's recent trips to a gas station and Thai restaurant without her wedding ring were meant to signal her plans.
"She and Tiger are living separately now but she'll be making this split very open and official right after Christmas," NBC reported one source as saying. -
Woods' personal life lies in tatters after he crashed his SUV into a fire hydrant and tree in a bizarre November 27 accident, allegedly after a bust-up with his wife about his extra-marital activities. Subsequently, news poured in of his string of illicit affairs with numerous women and the golfer also admitted his "transgression".
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Jamie Jungers, a 26 year old model from Las Vegas, is one of the several women claiming to have had sex with the disgraced golfer. Jungers is believed to have worked before as a model in a six-year old modelling agency that provide models in television shows, hotels and restaurants. She has reportedly updated her status on Myspace.com to say her mood was "anxious." According to TMZ.com, Jungers started her affair with Woods in the golfer's suburban Orlando home in 2004 when she was just 20-years-old. She has allegedly retained Orlando lawyer Michael O'Quinn. However Jungers might not be the last woman to come out of the Woodworks.
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The personal life of Tiger Woods has become fodder for tabloids after the champion golfer crashed his car outside his home last week under mysterious circumstances. It has been widely speculated that the accident happened after an argument between Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren about his alleged affairs with other women. In a statement posted on his website, Woods has since offered a "profound apology" for "transgressions" in his life. Woods has had a phenomenal career, earning more than 1 billion dollars in his rapid 13-year rise, commanding huge fees for sports endorsements and revolutionizing sports marketing. He married former Swedish model Elin Nordegren in 2004. The photo shows Nordegren posing for the Swedish magazine CAFE in 2000 during her days as a model.
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Tiger's wife has one older brother, Axel, and a twin sister, Josefin. Nordegren and her sister worked odd summer jobs and as cashiers in supermarkets to finance their studies. She started modeling in 2000, and appeared on the cover of Cafe Sport magazine in the summer of 2000.(Text: Wikipedia). The photo shows Nordegren posing for the Swedish magazine CAFE in 2000 during her days as a model.
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Nordegren and her twin sister Josefin had been working as au pairs for Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik when he introduced her to Woods during the 2001 British Open. (Text: Wikipedia). The photo shows Nordegren posing for the Swedish magazine CAFE in 2000 during her days as a model.
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In November 2003, Woods and Nordegren attended the Presidents Cup tournament in South Africa and became officially engaged when Woods proposed at the luxury Shamwari Game Reserve. On October 5, 2004, they were married by the 19th hole at the exclusive Sandy Lane resort in Barbados. "I was super nervous the moment I was going to put the question to (her). I had made up my mind many months before, but I wanted to wait for a perfect and romantic setting. It was a thriller. To putt for victory in a major (golf tournament) is nothing in comparison. Even if you say 'Will you marry me?' with the right feeling, the answer could be 'No'," Woods was quoted as saying. (Text: Wikipedia/Agencies). The photo shows Nordegren posing for the Swedish magazine CAFE in 2000 during her days as a model.
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On June 18, 2007, Woods announced the birth of their daughter, Sam Alexis Woods, a day after coming second in the US Open on September 2, 2008, Woods announced they were expecting another child in late winter. Five months later it was announced that Elin had given birth to a boy, Charlie Axel on February 8, 2009. (Text: Wikipedia).
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Shortly after Nordegren's relationship with Woods became public, nude photographs of a woman resembling Nordegren began circulating on the internet, with text claiming it was, in fact, she. Nordegren, whose modeling work did include bikini photo shoots, vehemently denied that she has ever posed nude. (Text: Wikipedia).
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The nude photographs claimed to be of Nordegren actually depict Playboy magazine model Kim Hiott, and most are derived from the 2000 edition of Playboy's "Nudes" special edition. Despite this identification and repeated denials from Nordegren and Woods, in September 2006 (immediately prior to the 2006 Ryder Cup) Irish magazine The Dubliner published an article "Ryder Cup Filth for Ireland," which displayed the nude photographs of Hiott and again claimed they were of Nordegren. (Text: Wikipedia).
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Woods described the story as "unacceptable," and his agent Mark Steinberg said, "Everyone knew it wasn’t her. It's plain as day." Steinberg also said the couple was considering legal recourse against the magazine. 'The Dubliner' issued an apology for the story, saying that they had printed the photos as a "satire of tabloid publishing." (Text: Wikipedia). The photo shows Nordegren posing for the Swedish magazine CAFE in 2000 during her days as a model.
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On November 16, 2006, Nordegren filed a libel suit against 'The Dubliner'. Nordegren won the lawsuit and as part of the settlement accepted by a Dublin court, 'The Dubliner' published lengthy apology in a variety of venues, including in its next issue. (Text: Wikipedia). The photo shows Nordegren posing for the Swedish magazine CAFE in 2000 during her days as a model.
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Nordegren's role before and after Woods' car crash remains murky. Driving his black Cadillac sport-utility vehicle, Woods, who was alone, struck a fire hydrant while heading down his driveway in the exclusive, gated Isleworth community near Orlando, Florida. According to some reports his wife came rushing out of the house, possibly with a golf club, when she heard his car crash against the fire hydrant and tree. She smashed open the back window of his wrecked Escalade to pull him out of the car and lay him on the ground. The photo shows Nordegren posing for the Swedish magazine CAFE in 2000 during her days as a model.
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In his statement Woods claimed that Elin had "acted courageously" and that the incident had been "stressful and very difficult for Elin, our family and me". The photo shows Nordegren posing for the Swedish magazine CAFE in 2000 during her days as a model.
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Rachel Uchitel is the first of the four women so far who have allegedly had affairs with The Tiger. Here she is seen getting into a car in front of her home in New York on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. The National Enquirer published a story alleging that Woods had been seeing the New York night club hostess, and that they recently were together in Melbourne, where Woods competed in the Australian Masters. Uchitel denied having an affair with Woods when contacted by the Associated Press. (Photo: AP)
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Uchitel (born 1975) is a nightclub manager, who has managed the VIP section of "some of the most successful clubs in New York". In 2006, she was the VIP hostess at Tao. Uchitel spent five years after college as a news producer in New York for Bloomberg television. She held that job on September 11, 2001, when her fiance, investment banker James Andrew O'Grady, was killed in the September 11 attacks of the World Trade Center. A few days later, she appeared on the front page of the New York Post holding a picture of O'Grady. This picture was published worldwide. In 2004, she married Wall Street trader Steven Ehrenkranz. Their marriage lasted four months, and was the featured article of the Sunday New York Times Vows section. (Text: Wikipedia). (Photo: A. AP; B. New York Times; C. Ann Lawlor/BlackBook Magazine).
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This is not the first time that Uchitel's love life is being discussed in public. In 2008, the buxom beauty was romantically linked to a famous baseball player, a Broadway star and a musician. More recently, there were reports of Uchitel seeing married television star David Boreanaz. In an interview Uchitel refused to discuss her past. "I will never kiss and tell!" she was quoted as saying. In this photo she is seen getting into a car in front of her home in New York, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. (Photo: AP)
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The 34-year-old Uchitel came into the limelight when James Andrew O'Grady, the man she was all set to marry, died when a hijacked plane hit the World Trade Center south tower on November 9, 2001. Uchitel was working as a television producer with Bloomberg at the time. Here she is seen getting into a car in front of her home in New York, Sunday, November 29, 2009. (Photo: AP)
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In an interview to 'The New York Times' in December 2004 she recalled the tragedy. "I was very strong after the night of 9/11," she was quoted as saying. However in 2003, Uchitel suffered a 'massive breakdown' and had to take leave from her job to seek therapy. Here she is seen arriving from New York at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California on Sunday, November 29, 2009. (Photo: AP)
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In 2003 she met Wall Street trader Steven Ehrenkranz. Although Ehrenkranz was a childhood friend, the two hadn't kept in touch throught the years. After a whirlwind romance, Ehrenkranz and Uchitel got married in 2004. The marriage was however doomed. The couple got divorced just four months later and Uchitel moved to Las Vegas. Here she is seen arriving from New York at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California on Sunday, November 29, 2009. (Photo: AP)
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Making a career shift as a VIP hostess, Uchitel also began a relationship with powerful nightclub owner Jason Strauss. Soon she was working at Tao, a popular Vegas nightspot co-owned by Strauss. Here she is seen arriving from New York at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California on Sunday, November 29, 2009. (Photo: AP)
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After her return to New York, Uchitel ran VIP operations for clubs like Marquee and Dune. She reportedly met Tiger while she was working as an event planner and the director of VIP Operations for the Big Apple hotspot Griffin. According to Rachel's friend Ashley Sampson who spoke to 'Star Magazine', Woods began flirted with Rachel by offering to show her a 'good golf grip.' Here she is seen arriving from New York at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California on Sunday, November 29, 2009. (Photo: AP)
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Uchitel was expected to shed more light on her alleged affair with Tiger Woods at a press conference, but this was cancelled at the last minute. Her attorney Gloria Allred issued a statement saying the news conference was canceled due to what she termed 'unforeseen circumstances'. This has led to speculations about behind-the-scenes negotiations with Tiger, that could possibly involve a huge pay off. Here Uchitel is seen arriving from New York at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California on Sunday, November 29, 2009. (Photo: AP)
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This is what the glamourous nightclub hostess had to say when confronted with the Tiger Woods story. "It's the most ridiculous story. It's like they are asking me to comment if there are aliens on Earth. I work in clubs and I am a businesswoman. I do not have sex with celebrities, and I have not had an affair with Tiger Woods," she told the 'New York Post'. Here Uchitel is seen arriving from New York at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California on Sunday, November 29, 2009. (Photo: AP)
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According to media reports, Woods and Uchitel were exchanging text messages just before the golfer crashed his SUV. "Sources say less than an hour before Tiger's accident, Rachel and Tiger were texting each other. Elin confronted Tiger and asked whom he was texting. She grabbed the phone and we're told she called Rachel to confront her. According to sources, Tiger and Elin began arguing and the phone broke in the process," the TMZ website claimed. Here Uchitel is seen arriving from New York at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California on Sunday, November 29, 2009. Her attorney Gloria Allred, left, met her at the airport. (Photo: AP)
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Uchitel's relationship with her employers seems to have been just as tumultous as her affairs. She parted with the Tao nightclub on a sour note and the company sued her alleging she leaked inside information to the competition. Her employment with Griffin also ended in acrimony when she quit claiming she wasn't being paid enough. (Photo Courtesy: Rossa Cole)
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Uchitel is not the only woman in the Tiger's lair. Keeping her company is Jaimee Grubbs, the 24-year-old American cocktail waitress who claims to have had an affair with the golfer. She also appeared briefly on the VH1 reality show 'Tool Academy' in January 2009. 'Us Weekly' magazine, which hit newsstands on Wednesday Dec. 2, 2009, features a cover story alleging that Grubbs had a 31-month affair with Tiger Woods and that the proof was in 300 text messages. This undated publicity photo provided by VH1 shows Jaimee Grubbs on VH1's reality series, 'Tool Academy'. (Text: Wikipedia/Agencies. Photo: AP)
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Grubbs told 'US Weekly' she met Woods in Las Vegas in 2007. Grubbs provided sexual text messages to the media that she said she received from Woods. Grubbs was a cocktail waitress in San Diego when she met Woods in 2007 at Light nightclub in Las Vegas. She described an off-and-on two-and-a-half year sexual affair. Approximately one hour after Us Weekly released a voicemail from Woods to Grubbs, the golfer released a statement on his website apologizing for "transgressions." (Photo Courtesy: VH1/JET Nightclub)
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The 23-year-old marketing manager for The Bank nightclub in Las Vegas, Kalika Moquin, Tiger Woods' alleged lover #3, has been trying to distance herself from the golfer. "Sometimes I'll deal with celebrities on my job on a day-to-day basis just to touch base with people. But it's completely untrue that there's anything more than a professional 'How are you doing? Are you enjoying your time in Vegas?' conversation [with Tiger]," she was quoted as saying. However 'Us Weekly' claims it has 'reliable' information that Moquin and Woods were having a fling and that the two spent the night of October 22 together at his MGM Grand suite. "She was absolutely sleeping with him. She brags about it!" an insider was quoted as saying. According to 'Us Weekly's' source, Tiger even "stayed an extra night in Vegas to spend time with (Moquin)." (Photo Courtesy: jackcolton.com)
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Woods, fiercely guarded about his private life, has been at the receiving end of jokes and gossip ever since the news of his bizarre accident broke. Here MJ Radio show personality Meredith Walusek is seen holding a sign that reads, "Tiger- They offered me $500,000- I’m keeping my mouth shut!", in front of a gate to the Isleworth community where Tiger Woods has a home on December 2, 2009 in Windermere, Florida. (Photo: AFP)
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In this magazine cover image released by US Weekly Magazine, the December 14, 2009 issue of 'Us Weekly' featuring Tiger Woods, is shown. The issue hit newsstands on Friday, December 4. (Photo: AP)
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The questions swirling around the accident put an unaccustomed spotlight on the world's highest paid sportsman and one of its most popular athletes - a normally circumspect figure who keeps personal issues close to his chest. In this May 13, 2007, file photo, Tigers Woods' wife Elin, walks the course during the final round of The Players Championship golf tournament at Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (Text: IANS, Photo: AP)
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Woods receives multimillion-dollar fees for putting his signature on new golf courses and runs a world foundation aimed at getting more young, disadvantaged people out on the greens. In this Nov. 21, 2009 file photo, Tiger Woods with his daughter Sam and wife Elin are seen before the start of a NCAA college football game between Stanford and California in Stanford, Calif. (Text: IANS, Photo: AP)
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-"He became a rare creature - one of the most famous people on Earth, without a whiff of scandal in his wake," Ron Kroichick wrote in the 'San Francisco Chronicle'. Woods has had a tendency to lose his temper on the course, but those incidents are counterbalanced by his new family life, with every public appearance with wife and two young children - aged 2 and nine months - making a photo splash. In this June 11, 2009, file photo, Tiger Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren watch the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the NBA basketball finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Orlando Magic in Orlando, Fla. (Text: IANS, Photo: AP)
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-"This sweet picture now must give way to Woods facing that avalanche of questions," Kroichick wrote in the 'San Francisco Chronicle'. The worst consequence of his coming clean would be discovering that "he's human, after all". From the 'New York Times', Woods got the advice that every hour that passes without word from the champion golfer "may prove damaging to his image by filling an online rumor mill with conjecture, opinion and rumor". The writers quoted image managers for athletes and celebrities. In this Aug. 8, 2009, file photo, Tiger Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren, looks at her cell phone as she waits at the first green during the third round of the Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. (Text: IANS, Photo: AP)
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As if on cue, the celebrity gossip site TMZ noted a recent scandal sheet report about an alleged affair of Woods, and said that Elin had moved him in violation of every standard operating procedure after an accident. Was it possible, TMZ wrote, that wife Elin was "mad enough to hit a car with a golf club?" Tiger Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren talk on the golf course at the Presidents Cup golf compeititon in this October 11, 2009 file photo at Harding Park Golf course in San Francisco, California. (Text: IANS, Photo: AFP)
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