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.
Sad really...
Well he ain’t gonna be getting any home cooking and I am sure his sponsors ( if they keep him ) are telling him eating out is over so unless he wants to starve his best course of action ( for both of them ) is the divorce court
He can see his PR guy having a little talk with him like Paulie in Goodfellas.
“I’m not saying go back to her right now, but you got to go back. You got to keep up appearances....
You have to do what’s right. You have to go home to the family. You got to go home, okay? Look at me. You got to go home. Smarten up. I’ll straighten this out. I know just what to say to her. I’ll say you’ll go back to her and it’ll be like when you first got married. I’ll romance her. It’ll be beautiful.”
Not really Larry, it appears the offer is in her favor which would indicate that Tiger wants to keep her.........
The original pre-nup only gave her $20 million if their marriage lasted 10 years.........
With that being said and as much as I hate to say it, if she accepts the deal and stays on for an additional 2 years for profit alone and not love, that likely makes her the highest paid whore in the history of sports.........
I don't even want to go there considering it was Woods' indiscretions, not hers..........
The Pre-Nup says $20 Mil after 10 years...........She's being offered a bonus to stay on till the 10 year point.
Is he even capable of loving anybody but the man in his mirror?
The Pre-Nup gave her $20 mil. after 10 years so anything less is anybody's guess...........
The fact remains tho that Tiger is now giving her an option to stay, presumably to try and mend their relationship.
Any argument saying that he is trying to keep her on to protect his image is ridiculous because a year from now this fiasco will be totally forgotten by everyone....or it should be unless the MSM is wanting for front page news.
“He’s worth is now around a billion.” Now wait a minute. I know he has made a little over a billion but taxes would take around 60% of that. After taxes that would leave 400 million. This article is bullshit.
I don't know what his official state of residence is, but if it is a state with no income tax, federal taxes would take a bit less than 40% of that. The top marginal rate is currently 35%, and I don't think it's been higher than 39.6% in the past decade.
Depending on how his earnings have been distributed, how many years it has accumulated, and how the excess was invested, he could have easily have made up the 40% and be worth $1B now. And his net worth may have included the value of future income from endorsement contracts (which may or may not still be valid).
Good image for his daughter. Maybe she can ask her daddy when she turns 18 she can be a whore.
She made her choice to be cheated on? She deserves this?
Now that's true love! (sniff) I've got tears in my eyes.
Im 39. My wife is 43. When she hit 41 she turned into a nympho....AND AINT I LOVIN IT! :>))
He might be following a little more closely than it appears. The timeline on Earl's 1st marriage and 2nd marriage appear to be a bit overlapping.
Wow.
You REALLY misread that one.
I was referencing the other golfer’s feelings of guilt over introducing them. He made the intro, but SHE made the choice.
But, if she did chose for money, YES - she deserves this.
If she chose because she thought he would remain faithful, then NO - she doesn’t deserve it.
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