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.
Thats probably the most ridiculous thing I have every seen posted here.
Hopefully Elin will come out of this with a decent amount of money and sole custody of the children.
IMHO, Woods should rot with nothing to show for all this except his probable STDs and a cheap apartment with one of his floozies.
Woods is a spoiled brat who never once had a real job in his life.
I have read several articles that depict Woods as one cheap bastard. The articles indicated that Woods refuses to leave any type of tips for restaurant staff, caddies and other folks who provide him with goods and services.
Can you imagine being a waiter for Woods' table knowing that he will most likely pay for 300 dollars worth of food, but not leave you a cent despite the fact that you did a great job as the waiter?
People who are as rich as Tiger must wonder if their spouses really love them or are just in it for the money and the reflected glory.
No. I think the only one’s I see him doing are for the NBA itself.
Informed sources say he's gay. Really.
Well, there you go GI.... he’s gay too. You can spread that around too.
A man intentionally destroys his family and psychologically traumatizes his children (divorce and broken home tend to do that), and you want to start stuff with me personally?
Back off.
“Sounds like a freaking baseball contract. Is there a “no-trade” clause? What happens when she turns 35, he offers her arbitration?”
What about performance bonuses? Hit for the cycle, then what? Home runs? Batting average? Fielding percentage?
And most everyone has their price.
Yes, I started something with you personally because Tiger Woods cheated on his wife.
Yep, thats what I did. (rolleyes)
You pulled that out of thin air just like you pulled the “Woods has STD” out of thin air.
If the wife’s whole family lives in Sweden, I’m sure she’d like to return there to live, and I wouldn’t blame her. Tiger’s army of attorneys probably would fight that.
His wife seemed to keep a low profile and stay home with the babies.
Her parents are probably getting older, and it's for the best that she spend time with them in their latter years.
Stateside, she will only be hounded by the papparazi.
As a FRiend stated earlier, she should divorce him on grounds of adultery, take the money and the children, and head to the high ground.
In this case, the high ground is her home in Sweden.
Looks like Tiger was willing to pay $60 million to have sex with a few women with silicon breasts and ugly injected lips ... oh, and the ability to live with his children while they grow up.
Sounds totally dumb to me. I just hope she does not stay with him.
He has a lifetime to hang around with his women of choice for the rest of his life.
From what I’d always heard, his father spent a great deal of time with Tiger when he was a little boy. He obviously didn’t follow in his dad’s footsteps.
She might end up divorcing him eventually because she's not a typical celebrity wife. She must have cared about him a lot to go berserk when she found out he cheated.
Is she really loves him then $30 million wouldn’t touch what she’s feeling right now, OTOH if she threatened to leave him and didn’t care about the money the extra might entice her to stay a little longer? IMHO he’s beeter come up quick with something more than that if she is hurt now and he really loves her, the public humilation she’s taking has to be awful! It’s bad enough to have to suffer when no one knows but this is much different. I predict she gets one of those rings that cost more than a million in the near future.
That is my best guess.. a father has his pride and Tiger's is his children... Just as his dad dolted on him, Tiger I bet wants to have his children around to dolt on them.
Hooker Mary held out and Dingy Harry gave her $ 300 mil.
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