This is a very, very long story from The Daily Mail, so if you’d like to read the full piece, I’d suggest you go the Daily Mail’s site. I’m just going to do the highlights, which are still pretty f-cking epic. So, Avatar director James Cameron is on his fifth marriage (to Suzy Amis). One of his ex-wives is Kathryn Bigelow, who, like Cameron, is up for the Best Director Oscar for her work on The Hurt Locker. That little side-drama is pretty good, but apparently one of Cameron’s other ex-wives was feeling left out. That ex-wife? Linda Hamilton.

CB wanted me to mention that Linda Hamilton has talked about her marriage to James Cameron before, and discussed in the context of her bipolar disorder. I remember vaguely some of the interviews Linda did many years ago, where she slammed Cameron over and over. So, some of this may be old news, but I think some of it is new. The basic gist of the interview is that Linda Hamilton doesn’t give a f-ck, she can’t stand Suzy Amis, and she wants the whole world to know that James Cameron is really, really screwed up about women. Shocking!

James Cameron may be in line for nine Oscars for his record-breaking movie Avatar, to add to the 11 he won for Titanic, but will they make him happy? Actress Linda Hamilton, one of his four ex-wives, says the trouble with Cameron is that he always wants what he can’t have - at least as far as women are concerned.

‘The woman he can’t get is always his dream girl,’ she says. ‘Work and women go hand in hand for Jimbo, and I should know.’

While he was making Titanic, and living with Linda, he fell for Suzy Amis, who had a small part in the movie. Later, torn between the two, he left Amis, went back to Hamilton and married her. The marriage lasted just eight months before he went back to Amis; she is still with him and they have a son and two daughters. But now, 11 years after they split, Linda believes she’s got him exactly where she wants him.

‘It’s interesting because while he was making Titanic, Suzy at that time was the gargoyle on the end of my bed, waiting to swoop in. Now I’m the gargoyle on her bed because for Jim, the one who doesn’t end up with him is always the one he wants. I’m the one who got away, and she has to live with that.’

Of course, there is, too, the ever-present shadow of his third wife, director Kathryn Bigelow, whose nine Oscar nominations this week for the Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker include a direct challenge to him for the best director award.

‘Yes,’ squeals Linda, now 53, in her sexy gravelly voice. ‘Don’t forget Kathryn!’

The first thing that Kathryn did after being asked to direct The Hurt Locker was to show her ex-husband the script. He urged her to go for it - although it’s doubtful that he envisaged they would end up competing head to head for the same Oscars.

‘Titanic was the most painful thing in the world,’ says Linda. ‘But this wasn’t because Jim was cheating on me. Jim went off with Suzy because we were taking a break from each other and he was free to go with her. It was a painful time because we’d had a relationship where I’d push him away, then he’d push me away. Frankly, most of our relationship was us taking a big break.’

‘It was a crazy time, too, because we clashed as I was prepared to stand up to him. I’d say: “I’m never going to consider going back with you, plus I’m going to tell my friends all about you.” Then when he got together with Suzy I changed my mind and he came back to me and we got married. Then he felt terrible about what he’d done to her and went back to her. Yes, there was a period when he did sort of cross over because he was confused.’

Does it still rankle because Linda was the loser? ‘One does want to win, of course, but I’ve known for many years that this was the very best way to work it. I’m the one that got away and she has to live with that and share him with me.’

It’s a fact that Cameron himself has an extraordinary capacity for remaining on good terms with his ex-wives. There are still family Christmases with Cameron at Linda’s Malibu home where all the ex-wives and extra children gather. Does Suzy cope well with this? Linda, anxious not to be indiscreet but irreverent enough to say it anyway, silently mouths a big ‘no-no’ and indicates that Suzy clearly dislikes her.

‘But she doesn’t have the option of not having me in her life, so we all have to manage,’ she says, her voice rising in passion.

Avatar, released in the UK in December, is the highest-earning film in cinema history, with global box office takings already passing $1.85 billion. Before it opened, it was rumoured that the film - nicknamed Dancing With Smurfs - was likely to be the most expensive flop in cinematic history. But now Avatar is set to sweep the Oscars. This comes as a bit of a surprise even to Linda because she couldn’t share his vision when they pored over the script together 14 years ago.

‘I read Avatar while we were married and I said nothing. I didn’t think it was rubbish, and I’d say to him: “Oh, that’s good, honey.” But it’s not like I thought it was amazing, because clearly Jimbo had a vision and I couldn’t translate the depth and scale to foresee it. This movie is above and beyond.’

[From The Daily Mail]

There’s a lot (SO MUCH) more at the Mail, so if you liked this, you should check it out. Quite honestly, after I read the whole piece, I came away feeling like Linda Hamilton is still very, very much in love with Cameron. I also think she’s a bit of a hypocrite to push Suzy Amis’s face in everything, considering James Cameron left Kathryn Bigelow for Linda, then left Linda for Suzy. Try as she might, Linda still doesn’t sound “over it” even 12 years later.

Linda Hamilton in London on February 4, 2010. Credit: WENN

Less than two weeks ago, Dennis Hopper filed for divorce from his wife of 14 years, Victoria. Then all hell broke loose, mainly because it’s generally established that Dennis Hopper is on his deathbed, and will not be alive for very much longer, and is likely heavily medicated. So how, perchance, did he decide to file for divorce? One theory is that his oldest daughter basically forced her father into the lawyer’s office and made him file the papers.

Anyway, Victoria filed a petition in response to the divorce filing. The peition was obtained by The Daily Beast, amongst other media outlets, and Victoria is alleging some pretty serious stuff about Hopper. Allegedly, Hopper used to keep loaded guns around the house (he and Victoria have a six-year-old daughter), and Hopper used to threaten to kill Victoria. Oh, yes. This sh-t it going to get even nastier:

“In 2009,” the declaration reads, “I discovered a pistol with multiple rounds of ammunition in Petitioner’s bedroom drawer. The gun and ammunition was unsecure and easily accessible, including to Galen [Victoria and Dennis' six year old daughter]. I also located a loaded shotgun, unsecure, in our bedroom closet. I told Petitioner to remove the guns from our home. Petitioner agreed. I immediately moved the guns to a secure temporary location and later had them removed by a police officer.”

This followed another incident in which she claims Hopper told her that if she divorced him, “Something bad is going to happen to you and you won’t see it coming.”

In addition to the threats, Victoria claims that the whole marriage dissolution is not Hopper’s desire at all, but rather “a result of estate planning by other family members” who presumably want her cut off financially. Hopper, she says, told her “he does not want to divorce” and “that other people are insisting he take care of them upon his death.”

Victoria calls out one of these family members specifically several times in the document: Hopper’s 47-year-old daughter, Marin, who has been living in a wing of her father’s Venice compound for more than two years.

Financially, Victoria claims she needs Hopper’s support. “While I have attempted to work at various careers throughout our marriage, Petitioner has discouraged and prevented me from doing so.” She says she signed their jointly filed 2008 tax return and that their total income was stated as over $1.2 million, and that Hopper has a $1 million life insurance policy. She wants the court to order that she and Galen be named as equal beneficiaries of that policy. “Based on Petitioner’s statements to me that he will leave me destitute and because I do not have a steady or significant source of income, I fear I will be unable to financially provide for our six year old daughter and myself.”

She also charges that Hopper is a habitual pot smoker and got high in front of their child.

“Petitioner has in recent months used marijuana in Galen’s presence. I request the Court order Petitioner to refrain from use of marijuana and any nonprescription drugs 12 hours before and during any time he spends with Galen.”

[The filing also says] that as his illness worsened, the marriage began to fray, in part because he became so cruel to his wife. “Dennis has misdirected all his rage and fear onto Victoria,” is how one close friend of the couple puts it. Says another: “He’s angry about his health and he’s taking it out on her.”

[From The Daily Beast]

The Daily Beast piece goes on to insinuate that Victoria may have had an affair while she was working on Obama’s campaign in 2008, describing “a man whom Victoria grew close to during the election…who listened to her and was encouraging of her having a career.” Hmm… well, I’m prepared to believe that Hopper is a son of a bitch, and that he likes guns, and that he’s violent, and that he uses money to control people. But that still doesn’t answer all of the questions I have about Dennis and Victoria’s marriage, or about this family in general.

Oh, and who is really surprised that Hopper smokes pot? It would shock me more if he had spent the last decade not inhaling substances.

The latest report coming from People actually made me kind of sick to my stomach. Apparently, Elin Nordegren is seriously thinking about staying married to her now-infamous womanizer husband, Tiger Woods, because she doesn’t want their children to be raised in a broken home. Yep, that’s right - she’s trying to save her marriage for the sake of the kids.

Elin Nordegren is hoping to save her marriage to Tiger Woods because she doesn’t want to raise their two children without a father.

“Elin wants a solid family life,” a Florida source tells PEOPLE. “She was a child of divorce and felt her dad slighted her. She absolutely does not want that to happen to Sam and Charlie. So she wants to keep her family together even if she and Tiger live together as friends instead of lovers.”

During the past week, Nordegren, 30, reportedly visited her husband at the Gentle Path sexual addiction clinic in Hattiesburg, Miss., where he has been getting treatment.

During the middle of the six-week counseling session, a patient’s spouse is invited to visit for about a week, according to a former patient of the alcohol addiction section of the Hattiesburg clinic.

“This is the rough part where the patient has to admit to his wife that he [cheated],” the former patient tells PEOPLE.

Tiger Wants to Stay Married
Woods, according to a Florida insider, also wants to hold onto his family and will do whatever it takes to make that happen.

Tiger wants to go back to being a golf star with major endorsements,” the insider tells PEOPLE. “He wants his clients, who have kids of their own, to think he is a good family man. He had hoped all along that his wife’s initial furor would die down so they could discuss the situation and behave rationally.”

Adds the insider, “Keeping the family together is very important to Tiger so he is doing whatever it takes to keep Elin from leaving him and taking the kids.” (Sam is 2, and Charlie is 11 months.)

If Nordegren does decides to continue the marriage, she would likely put on a happy face, take care of children and continue taking courses at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., while Woods would go back to playing golf and fulfilling his endorsement contracts, according to the insider

“Elin is as smart as a whip and a wonderful, caring mother,” the insider says. “She is a special kid, well educated and capable. But she could be lonely forever.”

[From People]

Because Tiger’s such a great dad, right? Not only did he cheat on their mother while she was carrying both of them, he was so distracted by chasing skanks throughout their young lives that he hardly had any time for them. And you know, if the marriage, children, endorsements, and opinions of other golfers mean so much to Tiger, maybe he should have thought of all that before he started whoring around behind his wife’s back. But forget all that - Elin doesn’t want them to be stigmatized by a divorce and is even willing to live together with Tiger as friends in order to keep the home together.

It makes me sad that Elin is willing to put her own personal happiness and dignity aside in this situation. It may seem like she is doing her children a favor in the short term, but I can’t imagine her being happy in a loveless marital arrangement for long. It doesn’t seem fair to me that Elin should be the one making concessions here after being wronged so publicly. Maybe Tiger is telling her all the right things, fresh from his sex rehab, but does anyone really think he can change?

Jennifer Garner is the cover girl for this week’s Parade Magazine, and she sat down for a pretty interesting interview. I realize that “Jennifer Garner” and “interesting” rarely go together in the same sentence - and I’m not picking on her, she claims that she’s trying to be this boring. She talks about Ben and their girls, of course, but what I found most interesting in this interview is that she’s really, really talking about some stuff from her divorce to Scott Foley, her first husband. I’m seriously waiting for Garner’s People Magazine cover with the headline “Jennifer Garner Is Fabulous Seven Years After Scott!!!” Anyway, Garner rarely talks about what happened between them, and I have always been curious. My theory was always that she got really famous really fast, Scott’s ego couldn’t handle it, she was really career-focused, she withdrew emotionally from the marriage, and then a dude named Michael Vartan made his move. While Garner doesn’t say that’s what happened (damn her!), she does say that she “had a lot of growing up to do” and that “I realized I needed to be more like my character in Alias.” By having sex with Vartan?

Admitting it’s an emotional struggle.
“I adore going to movie sets and being part of a team trying to create something. And yet, I hate to miss even one bedtime with my girls.”

Understanding that the push-pull she faces is hardly unique.
“My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn’t some heroic thing. That doesn’t mean it isn’t confusing or difficult–especially that question of how you find a balance.”

She knows how lucky she is.
“I’m privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.”

On co-starring opposite Patrick Dempsey and Ashton Kutcher in the romantic comedy “Valentine’s Day.”
“I go home and say to Ben, ‘Do you know what I’ve been doing at work all day?’”

Her own romance with Ben Affleck.
“Ben is sexy and kind, but he’s also a riot. We can be very goofy together.”

Finding the time to be romantic.
“You steal the time. You steal a date, you steal a kiss, you steal a whisper. You sit next to each other on the couch with computers on your laps. After the kids are asleep you…well, you know. Whatever it is. You slip away for a night, which we’ve only just now done for the first time. Of course, I call home while we’re away. Ben would be surprised if I didn’t.”

Why her divorce from actor Scott Foley in 2004 was a turning point.
“I had a lot of growing up to do. I’m still conflict-averse. I don’t like to argue. But back then I couldn’t have a fight. I couldn’t work things out because I wasn’t able to say what I needed to say. I didn’t have a voice. I didn’t dare to express myself. It was a huge heartbreak for me to have something fail like that. I knew that this was either an opportunity for growth or I would sink. It’s easy when you’re hurt and angry to just say, ‘Oh, it’s them.’ But I had to come into my own. I thought, ‘Why did this relationship not work? What part of the failure is my responsibility?’ So I went to work on it. I started therapy.”

Gaining a powerful self-awareness.
“It’s not like I didn’t realize I had any issues until I got a divorce. But I had this professional confidence that wasn’t equaled by my own personal confidence in any relationship, not just with men. There was a disconnect. I realized I needed to be more like my character in ‘Alias,’ who was so powerful and confident and an inspiration to me. I understood very well how to be nice and how to take care of people. I didn’t know how to ask for anything that I needed. It was important to balance it out.”

Finding a new relationship with friend Ben Affleck.
“Well, it helped that we were both single at the time. He’s a very good writer.”

So did he woo her with letters?
“Don’t make assumptions. I didn’t say that! Okay…e-mail. He’s a very persuasive writer.”

Counting on friends and family for support.
“I will tell you what I can’t abide–and I think the Internet has really created a space for it–women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers. It just makes me crazy, whether it’s between staying at home, going to work, how long you breast-feed, if you use formula. I feel like we should just assume everyone is doing the best they can. Women should take care of each other, not tear each other down. I would just like to see a mother who really believes that she has done it all so right, you know what I mean?”

Did Affleck have to work hard to win over Garner’s mom and sisters?
“He doesn’t have trouble wiggling his way in anywhere. Ben is charm personified when he wants to be. He’s not easily threatened or made uncomfortable–he’s very secure in that way. Maybe he just knows I’m nuts about him, and he doesn’t have anything to worry about. Don’t forget we were friends first for a long time.”

There’s nothing wrong with being “nice.”
“I can’t complain. This mix is perfect for me. I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It’s not a boring way to describe me.”

[From Parade]

That’s another thing I’ve always wondered about - how and when exactly did she and Ben start? Because once again, I have a theory that there was some overlap between Vartan and Affleck. Even though Jennifer says “we were both single at the time” - that still doesn’t answer my questions, damn it! Sigh… I’ll never know, will I?

Oh, regarding Garner’s appearance at the Golden Globes this past Sunday (photo below)… I didn’t put her on the fashion post because that’s how forgettable this look was. I hated her big mall hair, I was ambivalent about her dress, and she looked much too thin for my taste. But, you know, my mom swooned and yelled “There’s my girl!” Sigh. My mom wishes Garner was her daughter.

Parade’s photos of Jennifer Garner, courtesy of Parade online. Additional photos of Jennifer at the Golden Globes, credit: WENN.

Last week, we heard about how Dennis Hopper, who is reportedly “on his deathbed”, filed from divorce from his wife of 14 years, Victoria. Victoria is his fourth wife, and they have a six-year-old daughter together, daughter Galen. Hopper also has three other adult children, including his oldest daughter Marin, who is 47 years old, and a single mother. Marin and her kid live in Hopper’s Venice home and Marin used to work for her dad, booking Hopper’s appearances. Apparently, according to “sources”, it is Marin who instigated the divorce filing against Victoria, her stepmother. Hopper - who reportedly only has “weeks” to live - was driven to the divorce lawyers and had him sign documents even though he “has no idea what is going on.” So… yeah. At this point, the whole thing is looking like a huge fight over money.

As Dennis Hopper is dying from cancer, a family confidant tells Huffington Post his eldest daughter Marin is engineering a divorce and sending lies out to the media to try and bleed extra millions out of his sizable estate. Hopper, who has weeks to live, is currently heavily medicated at his Venice compound. Despite reports, the friend says he is not at the hospital.

Last Thursday the actor filed from divorce from his wife of 14 years Victoria, the mother of his six-year-old daughter Galen. He has three older children.

“It’s so horrible, Dennis is at home, Victoria and Galen are living there as well, and Marin is pulling her father out of his bed and driving him to the divorce lawyers. The poor guy has no idea what is going on,” a friend of the couple has told Huffington Post. “Even his lawyers are telling people he is on painkillers and is essentially sleeping all the time.”

He filed the divorce papers even though his lawyers would not let him sign other paperwork at the same time, telling one family member that he was in an altered mental state due to the copious amounts of drugs he is taking.

He is reportedly delirious and having difficulty speaking.

Marin, who lives rent-free at her dad’s Venice compound with her child, makes a living booking appearances for her father.

One family friend told Huffington Post that Hopper delayed the start his chemo last fall so he could fulfill a paid gig Marin set up in Europe.

Friends believe that given his condition, Marin is the one behind recent statements that have gone out in the actor’s name. Dennis has not been seen in public for weeks and is not up to taking calls.

There are also a number of false claims regarding the estate plan that is in place.

“Victoria gets 25% of the estate unless Marin can push through this last minute divorce. Victoria has never asked for more and has no plans to contest the will. However, if the divorce is finalized, Victoria and Galen [get] nothing.”

Apparently the marriage rapidly deteriorated in recent months. Dennis changed his will last summer, right around his last cancer diagnosis, and started exhibiting “increasing signs of erratic behavior.”

The family friend continues, “Multiple police reports were filed. Dennis denied therapy to Galen and threatened to kill Victoria if she took their daughter to a therapist,” and “three unlocked guns with safeties house were found in the house and turned over to police.”

“Marin has always hated Victoria,” the family friend explained to Huffington Post. “If she can get her father to reject Victoria on his deathbed, and get more money in the process, she’ll be the happiest woman in Los Angeles.”

[From The Huffington Post]

This is so sad. I get that with a family of this fame and fortune, there are usually going to be fights over the estate, but for goodness sake! They’re literally fighting over his dying body. As some commenters pointed out in the previous thread, Hopper has a reputation as quite the Hollywood son of a bitch, but even I don’t think he deserves all of this. It’s tragic, and it’s strange that everyone is letting Marin run everything. Here’s my question - when Hopper realized how little time he had, did he sign over power of attorney to anyone? I really don’t think marin has power of attorney, or she wouldn’t have to drag her dying father to the divorce lawyers, right?

Marin is the woman on the left, Victoria is the one on the right:

I was never an ER watcher, but I always liked Noah Wyle, and admired him for the low-key way he lead his life as a television star and occasional film actor. So it’s just sad to hear that Noah and his wife Tracy have split up, and are already in “a mediation process” which I think is a fancy way of saying “divorce”. Noah and Tracy had been together 10 years, having met on the set of The Myth of Fingerprints, when Tracy did his makeup. They have a son, Owen, age 7, and daughter Auden, age 4. I love the name “Auden” by the way. That’s so pretty.

Noah Wyle and his wife, Tracy, have separated after 11 years of marriage, the actor’s rep tells PEOPLE.

“Tracy Wyle and Noah Wyle, who separated in late October 2009, have confirmed they have entered into a mediation process,” rep Eddie Michaels announced in a statement on the couple’s behalf. “Neither has legally filed for divorce. Tracy and Noah live in separate residences; however their two children (Owen, 7, and Auden, 4) see both parents daily.”

Wyle, best known as John Carter from NBC’s hit ER, married makeup artist Tracy Warbin in 1998 after the couple met on the set of Myth of Fingerprints.

Says a friend of the couple: “They’re cooperative with each other and have put the interests of their children ahead of anything else.”

Wyle recently wrapped a TNT pilot for a sci-fi show, co-produced by Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television.

[From People]

Just to see if there was anything juicy about this split (another woman, another man, some kind of farm animal), I did the necessary googling, but the Wyles seem clean as a whistle. And you know someone is squeaky-clean if the Internet is quiet about it! So, what broke them up? I have no idea, truly. Am I a bad person for feeling slightly turned on that Noah is back on the market? He’s so cute! I love how he’s rocking all of this facial hair too - he has such a baby face, anything to help him look older.

Noah Wyle, alone, walking in LA on January 8, 2010. Credit: GHOST/Fame

For several weeks, the National Enquirer has been running stories about Dennis Hopper, age 73, being on his “deathbed”. I didn’t really think anything of it, because quite honestly, the Enquirer puts people on death watch far too often and they are wrong far too often to take them seriously. However, I was wrong - it looks like Dennis is very sick, and most likely dying. The Huffington Post is reporting it now, although they’re just going with unverified rumors and “reports”. But, it looks like Dennis Hopper doesn’t want to spend his last days with one person in particular - his wife Victoria. Dennis filed for divorce from Victoria, his fifth wife, yesterday. There are mixed signals about what this divorce filing is all about - is Dennis Hopper “mentally incapacitated” or is this all about the money?

Dennis Hopper, who is reportedly facing his ‘final days surrounded by family and friends,’ filed for divorce yesterday from his wife of 14 years, Victoria Hopper, the mother of their six-year-old daughter Galen.

Victoria is wife number five, but this marriage has far outlasted the previous four, which included the 8-day marriage to Michelle Phillips. He and Victoria have been together for 18 years. So what happened?

Adding to the confusion, a family friend told Huffington Post that Hopper is mentally incapacitated from the enormous amounts of medication he is on given his state.

A long time friend of the couple said, “It’s truly a tragedy, and sadly its all about the money and who inherits what. This is about getting Victoria out of the will, nothing more, nothing less.”

Hopper has three grown children, Marin, Henry and Ruthiana, although he reportedly has not spoken with Ruthiana in recent years. Both Marin, her daughter and Henry have lived for years in the same Venice, California compound as Dennis, Victoria and Galen and continue to do so at this juncture.

[From The Huffington Post]

Um… if he wanted his wife out of the will, wouldn’t it just be easier to rewrite your will, rather than filing for divorce on your deathbed? I guess there could be inheritance laws and some complicated legal issues at play, but I think those legal issues will only get worse after Hopper’s death when Victoria’s lawyers bring up the whole “mentally incapacitated” thing.

Since we’re now going with the Enquirer’s reporting as reasonably accurate, I was wondering just why Hopper seems to have gone downhill so fast. The Enquirer reports that Hopper “was diagnosed with prostate cancer in September, and the disease has metastasized to his bones” and that he “has come to grips with the fact that the end is likely near.” They also claim that even with experimental treatments, Hopper’s condition worsened, and he was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center sometimes before Christmas. He is currently missing work on the television series Crash, but Hopper did complete the compilation of his photographic work, which he considers his “legacy.” So sad.

Dennis Hopper in New York on October 5, 2009, and with his fifth wife Victoria at the 2009 Oscars on February 22. Credit for all: WENN.

There have been a multitude of theories - most of them ridiculous - about where serial cheater Tiger Woods has been camping out since his numerous whores on the side have been all over the TV and tabloids. The first one to surface was that Tiger was in drug and sex addiction rehab. Another one said Tiger was hanging out on his yacht in Florida, having rendezvous with one of his mistresses, Rachel Uchitel. Another claimed he was in intensive marriage counseling with his wife Elin. There was a hoax e-mail saying Tiger was having major reconstructive surgery on his face after his wife smashed it with a golf club. Now, E! Online’s gossip queen Ted Casablanca is insisting that Tiger - face intact - is staying at the Trump Hotel in NYC, behaving very much like a single dude.

Tiger Woods, hiding out, but not exactly saving face, in New York.

T-Dubya has been shacking up at the Trump Hotel at 1 Central Park West, sources confirm to the A.T. So has his wife, Elin, joined him?

Yeah right. The paps have been staking out the hotel like it’s their job. Oh wait…

Sources inside the luxury towers tell us the missus hasn’t come a knockin’, and if we were Woods, we wouldn’t be expecting her anytime soon, either. Not without her big-gun attorneys, that’s fer sure.

T.W. has been doing his best to keep a very low profile there, which for him, means going back and forth between hitting the bar and barricading himself in his room. Supposedly, Woods has been boozing and fraternizing with some females there. Hardly the actions of a dude trying to woo his wife back.

[From E!Online]

I find it hard to believe that Tiger could be staying at such a high-profile place like Trump Hotel without being absolutely mobbed by the paparazzi. This is one of the biggest scandals in years - I’m sure the tabloids have mobilized their troops accordingly. Look at how they hounded Elin’s twin sister in Europe, thinking it was her. But if it’s true, it certainly doesn’t sound like Tiger is interested in preserving the marriage. Does anyone else think “Where’s Tiger” is the new “Where’s Waldo?”

Vanity Fair cover courtesy of INFphoto.com.

Update by Celebitchy: These pictures are most likely of Elin’s twin sister as TMZ reports that her husband was seen in some photos and that she’s wearing a different ring than Elin. Also note that the “300 million” claim was made by News of The World, and could be made up.

Well, well, well. It looks like some of the rumors are true. Elin Woods and Tiger Woods spent the holidays apart, with Elin and the kids in France and Tiger in New York with random blondes. Friends allegedly asked Elin what Tiger got her for Christmas - to which Elin replied “300 million dollars.” Oh, snap! But the weird thing is that in new photos of Elin at the French ski resort, she’s wearing her wedding rings. Of course, it might not be Elin in the photos - it could very well be her twin married sister, who was on vacation with Elin, and who looks just like Elin. TMZ wonders aloud if it’s really Elin whileE! News says it’s her for sure. Who knows?

Tiger Woods’ scorned wife is telling pals that her philandering husband left a cool $300 million in her Christmas stocking - as reporters played a cat-and-mouse game hunting for him in New York Sunday.

Elin Nordegren held her head high skiing in the French Alps over the weekend - and a stunning new report reveals why.

Asked by pals what her tomcatting hubby got her for the holidays, Nordegren coolly declared, “Three hundred million dollars, thank you very much.”

The report, in Britain’s News of the World, said it’s all part of her plan to get hers - and keep their two kids in comfort - in a coming divorce battle.

“She’s 100% determined to split with Tiger,” the source told the tabloid. “When she boasted of the ‘$300 million Christmas gift’ and then laughed, it was clear to everyone around her that she’s more focused than ever about moving on with her life.”

Woods has not seen his two children - Sam, 2, and 10-month-old Charlie - for more than a month and had to mail them their Christmas presents, the source said.

“Elin feels that Tiger isn’t mentally well enough to spend time with her or the kids,” the source said. “Tiger wanted to see them for Christmas, but Elin went away skiing at a secret location in California and then fled to France for more snow and space.”

Photographs in Sunday’s Daily News capture a carefree Nordegren hitting the slopes at France’s Chamonix ski resort, where she celebrated her 30th birthday Friday inside the $8,000-a-night hideaway.

While Nordegren is away, sources suggest her hubby is in New York to play.

A source told The News that Woods was staying in the Trump International Hotel in Columbus Circle, showing up Saturday accompanied by a leggy blond woman. The source said Woods was staying in a $2,200-a-night, seventh-floor suite.

The spy also said Woods ordered 16 cases of Red Bull and 20 bottles of Absolut Vodka delivered to his room.

Woods has not showed his face in public since before Thanksgiving, when he crashed his car in front of his Florida mansion, triggering the almost daily revelations about a bevy of mistresses.

Photographers and reporters swarmed the Trump hotel hoping for the first post-smashup photograph of Woods. Staff insisted that Woods was not a guest - and the NYPD wasn’t informed of any Woods-related activities, two sources said.

The only famous face seen going in and out of the hotel over the weekend was ABC’s George Stephanopoulos,the new host of “Good Morning America.” The network said he was not there to interview Woods.

Another source close to Woods trashed the reports Sunday.

“He’s not as flashy as the person who is doing all that ordering of vodka …” the source told The News.

[From The New York Daily News]

Locked away in a New York hotel with random blondes? Sounds about right to me, but Rachel Uchitel is going to be devastated. She has her heart set on being the next Mrs. Woods, and she’s not going to be happy if Tiger is shacked up with other sketchy characters. Us Weekly is also reporting that Elin “let her hair down” on New Year’s Eve. Apparently, while she was in France, Elin “surrounded herself with friends and family” and she was “happy, smiling, and seemed to have finally let her hair down. This trip must have done wonders for her.”

Elin Woods (maybe) in France on January 2, 2010. Credit: Bauer-Griffin.

Surprising no one, Dean Sheremet has filed for divorce from his estranged wife LeAnn Rimes. When asked for a comment, LeAnn stopped grinding on Eddie Cibrian for ten full seconds to say “meh.” Not really. LeAnn and Dean separated back in July, just three days after Eddie and his wife Brandi Glanville formally filed separation papers. While Brandi has been speaking about Eddie and LeAnn to anyone who will listen, Dean has been keeping a very low profile, only appearing a few times in the past few months, after he moved out of the home he shared with LeAnn and moving to New York. Oh, and Dean mentions in the divorce papers that he wants LeAnn to pay spousal support and all of his lawyer’s fees. Which I kind of think is fair.

Dean Sheremet filed papers on Thursday to divorce LeAnn Rimes, UsMagazine.com has learned. In the petition for divorce, Sheremet asks for Rimes to pay spousal support plus all attorney fees and costs. His lawyer Stacy D. Phillips also requests the court not to grant spousal support to Rimes. The papers were made public on Friday.

Sheremet, now 29, married singer Rimes, now 27, in 2002. They separated in July 2009. Reports circulated that Rimes had filed in September to end her marriage, but no court records exist to support the rumor.

The singer did release a statement announcing their split. She said, “This decision was amicable and we remain committed and caring friends with great admiration for one another.”

Us Weekly first broke the story in March that Rimes was carrying on an affair with her former Lifetime movie costar, Eddie Cibrian. Cibrian, 36, was also married, with two children, to Brandi Glanville. His divorce from Glanville is ongoing. Cibrian and Rimes have stepped out together recently, attending events in Hollywood as a couple.

Sheremet is currently taking classes in Manhattan at the French Culinary Institute. In August, when asked about the extended Rimes-Cibrian affair that ended his marriage, he fought back tears and told Usmagazine.com, “It’s bizarre. It’s surreal. But I’m doing OK.”

[From Us Weekly]

I give Dean a lot of credit for the way he’s handled the LeAnn situation. Perhaps it was just about the money for him, or maybe he and LeAnn just handled their split with more maturity than most because they really do care about each other, and just didn’t want to be married anymore.

Oh, and now that I’m looking at these older photos of LeAnn Rimes, I’m getting more convinced that she’s had something done to her nose. It used to be bigger - I don’t think it’s just a shadow.