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Tiger Woods has got a million problems, and one of them is that he's out $10 million. That's reportedly the amount he paid mistress No. 1, Rachel Uchitel, to keep quiet right as the scandal broke. Uchitel was outed by the National Enquirer as having an affair with Woods in November. A week later, Woods crashed his car into a fire hydrant in his neighborhood, allegedly after his wife, Elin, confronted him about the story and the affair after finding text messages from Uchitel on his phone. In the day after the stories of Tiger's cheating came out, Uchitel...

December 13, 2009 Meet The Hustlers Of Tiger Woods And Co Rachel Uchitel, the woman who triggered the Tiger Woods scandal, works in nightclub VIP. How do these party queens operate? Gemma Soames In all the hoo-ha surrounding the Tiger Woods debacle (could that nice man really have done the dirty? Did that nice wife actually wield a golf club?), there is one figure that emerges as the most intriguing — and it’s neither of the Woodses. Enter the glamorous Rachel Uchitel. It was her alleged (and denied) affair with Woods that triggered this year’s biggest sporting sex scandal. Portrayed...

Sources tell TMZ Rachel Uchitel did not make any financial deal with Tiger Woods -- and there are two reasons she torpedoed her scheduled news conference yesterday -- fear and secrets. SNIP She walked away without taking a cent from Tiger Woods. One very connected source said, "This was absolutely not about money." Sources say Rachel became "scared for her safety" because she knows so much about Tiger, his alleged affairs and a variety of other Woods matters. We're told Tiger confided in Rachel ... she knows specifics about "other women," as well as information about Tiger's marriage.

Tiger: I Need a 'Kobe Special' Posted Nov 29th 2009 12:15AM by TMZ Staff Tiger Woods had a "Kobe Special" on his brain hours after what looks like a domestic dispute with his wife, Elin Nordegren -- this according to someone who spoke with Tiger on Friday. During the phone conversation on Friday, Tiger told his friend, "I have to run to Zales to get a 'Kobe Special.'" The person on the other end of the phone asked Tiger what a "Kobe Special" was. The reply -- "A house on a finger." During the conversation, Tiger said his wife had...

Tiger Woods' shocking car crash has put the world's spotlight on Rachel Uchitel -- the New York City party girl who has been caught up in a cheating scandal with the multimillionaire golf superstar, in a story reported exclusively by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER in its new issue. The ENQUIRER's blockbuster cover story was verified with polygraphs, multiple sources and an on-the-record exclusive interview with one of Rachel's friends. And now The ENQUIRER has caught Rachel in a slew of contradictions during the past 24 hours as she's been questioned by other media about her relationship with Tiger. The ENQUIRER is...

AP story. Link only.

<p>WINDERMERE, Fla. -- Golfer Tiger Woods was seriously injured when he hit a fire hydrant and then a tree outside of his Isleworth home early on Friday morning, officials said.</p> <p>The Florida Highway Patrol said Woods was seriously injured and taken to Health Central Hospital. The Orange County Fire Department confirmed that a patient was taken to Health Central, but would not confirm that the patient was Woods.</p>