Posted on 12/03/2009 10:28:18 AM PST by caddystacks
Tiger Woods has offered his wife, Elin Nordegren, as much as $60 million (U.S.) to stay with him for another two years, according to reports.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported on Wednesday that Woods and Nordegren agreed to immediately revisit the pre-nuptial agreement they signed upon getting married in 2004.
The original document had Nordegren reaping a relatively meagre $20 million if she remained married to Woods for a decade. Woods was already vastly wealthy when he married. His worth now hovers around $1 billion, the most ever for an athlete.
The Sun-Times report had the amount bumped "substantially."
This morning, the Daily Beast website released the numbers. According to its unnamed source, Woods agreed to immediately transfer $5 million into Nordegren's personal account.
Also, the pre-nup has been torn up and rewritten. Nordegren will now take an additional $55 million if she stays with Woods for two more years.
The presumed goal here is to preserve normalcy – both for personal and business reasons – inside the Woods household.
The couple have reportedly begun a binge of marriage-counselling sessions inside their home "several" times per day.
Woods and Nordegren remain hidden from the public eye. If Woods hoped that his online message of apology would sate the public appetite for news, that apparently is impossible.
According to the Daily Beast, paparazzi are offering $250,000 for a single picture of Nordegren with the two young Woods children, and as much as $100,000 for a tip that leads to a successful photo.
And Woods friend Jesper Parnevik has also begun what could turn in to moral pile up.
The Swedish golf pro once employed Nordegren as a nanny.
"I would be especially sad about it – I really feel sorry for Elin – since me and my wife were at fault for hooking her up with (Woods)," Parnevik told the Golf Channel on Wednesday. "We probably thought he was a better guy than he is. I would probably need to apologize to her.
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars? Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man. Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time? Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money. Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks. Lawrence: Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do. Peter Gibbons: Good point.
And people wonder why the Feminizes got a strong hold and really screwed up the minds of women. Because most males cannot distinguish between a dollar bill and session of ‘love’.
Couldn’t it be considered a “crime of passion.”
I would say I would stay for 300 million.
This is really so sad.
Apparently that is what he feared, given the string of cheap sleeps he had lined up. But he sure did not mind leaving that woman he married staying home wiping the snot off his own flesh and blood. Also he is NOT going to look so special for his sponsors given all the cheap sleeps he has circling this globe. Bottom line this is Cheetah's only way to save face for future earnings.
LLS
If she is bought and paid for... what does that make her?
LLS
Now we’re just haggling over price.
Why does he want her to stay for 2 more years? He’s been cheating on her for years, through both pregnancies. The ultimate betrayal is to be cheated on when you’re pregnant. Then she had to raise 2 babies while he was cheating. He’s despicable...
LLS
Can't Elin throw him into court, and get half a billion dollars out of his sorry @ss?
Surely she can get more than 60 million out of him since he has most likely brought STDs into their house.
Woods is a nasty, nasty man.
How very true...
He certainly deserves the powerful lesson given what he has done to her and the children.
Exactly...
Given the STDs that he probably has, I am fairly certain that Woods’ opportunities with decent, intelligent women have long since disappeared.
Yep.
LLS
If I were her, I would just walk away and tell him, “you stay away from our children.”
If she did that, the book and talk show offers alone would provide her with enough money to take care of her and the kids, no it isn’t “Tiger” money, but still. If she stays with Tiger, she won’t command any respect, and people will suspect she only was with him for the money (which IMHO I doubt, based on what Jasper Parnevik has said).
That’s just it. Sometimes people have affairs with other people, especially other married people, because they realize that they are the person they should have married, but didn’t. Not to condone that either, but that is a far cry from what Tiger has been engaging in. This was just trying to “have his cake and eat it too.”
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