Before the holiday weekend, most outlets were repeating the story that Elin Woods had already snared a whopping $750 million settlement in her divorce from former golfing great Tiger Woods. That story originated in British newspaper The Sun and seemed to confirm the rumors that Elin would receive a settlement in the jaw-dropping range of $700 million.

The news was either premature or just not true, according to TMZ. They have Elin winning the divorce lottery to the tune of a relatively reasonable $100 million. It’s still a huge amount of money and much more than her prenup stipulated, but not quite the 3/4 of a billion that we thought. As part of her settlement, Elin reportedly agreed to a confidentiality clause that would bar her from talking to the media or writing a book. I was really hoping to get to know Elin through some kind of semi-tell all interview, but it looks like that’s never going to happen.

Tiger Woods’ soon-to-be ex-wife is about to become an independently wealthy woman, but we’ve learned she’s legally prohibited from blabbing about it.

Sources tell TMZ Elin Nordegren and Tiger have agreed to a confidentiality clause as part of their divorce settlement. So Elin can’t go on “Oprah,” she can’t do interviews, and she can’t write a book.

But what she gets in return is nothing to sneeze at. TMZ broke the story, Elin will snag about $100 million in the settlement … way more than she was entitled to under the prenup.

Why, you ask, would Tiger give her more than she’d get under the prenup? Other than guilt, Tiger wanted to avoid a trial at all costs … the testimony would have been beyond messy.

[From TMZ]

Tiger is worth around $500 – $600 million, according to TMZ. Elin will also receive a no-doubt hefty monthly child support payment along with that sweet settlement.

Fox News has a slideshow of the most expensive celebrity divorces, completed when it was thought that Tiger’s divorce was record-setting. Now we know that Michael Jordan’s $168 million settlement in his 2002 divorce is still the largest celebrity divorce settlement on record. Neil Diamond’s $150 million 1995 settlement is a close second.

Meanwhile Tiger is trying to claw his way back to the top of his sport despite his neck injury. He finished a respectable fifth in the U.S. Open two weeks ago, having won the tournament in 2008, 2002, and 2000. He didn’t fare as well at the AT&T National this weekend, though, and placed 14th.

We’ve been hearing for weeks that Tiger Woods and his estranged wife Elin are in the process of reaching an unbelievable $750 million dollar divorce settlement. That number sounded vastly inflated, because Tiger is thought to be worth about a billion dollars, and Elin would be receiving 3/4 of his assets for just six years of marriage. However People Magazine reported in early June that Tiger was willing to sign off on a settlement in the $700 million range as long as he was granted joint custody of his two children. People usually runs solid stories with decent sources, and that ballpark settlement number could be accurate.

Now The Sun is reporting that a record-breaking $750 million dollar settlement has already been reached, and that Tiger and Elin have agreed on shared custody. In exchange for a payday that nearly doubles the highest Powerball payout ever, Elin will have to keep quiet about what went on in her marriage. That doesn’t sound like too much of a hardship considering that Tiger’s many mistresses have pretty much dumped out that can of worms already. For his part, Tiger must agree not to bring single women around his kids unless he remarries:

Tiger Woods is banned from letting girlfriends near his kids in a divorce deal netting his ex a record $750 million settlement, The Sun reported Wednesday.

The golfer agreed to keep single women away from daughter Sam, three, and son Charlie, one.

He can bring a new flame into their lives only if he marries her. In return, former wife Elin Nordegren ,30, gets the biggest payout ever seen in a celebrity divorce.

But she can never publicly speak out over his alleged flings with socialite Rachel Uchitel, reality star Jaimee Grubbs, porn queen Joslyn James and up to 17 others.

A pal said: “Elin is desperate to protect the children from the womanizing side of their father.

“Tiger’s main fear is her telling her story after he’s rebuilt his reputation, sending him back to the gutter.”

Swedish ex model Nordegren ended up with double the sum she originally sought, after her lawyers proved Woods, 34, was worth much more than the $1billion she thought.

Her friend explained: “Elin’s legal team have done a great job digging up all sorts of assets.

“The price of the huge sum is her silence: no interviews, tell-all books, or TV appearances about this for the rest of her life — even if Tiger dies first — or she’ll lose the lot.”

The friend said: “Everything’s signed. Elin is ready to file for divorce at Orlando County Court. She expects to in the next seven days.”

Nordegren gets sole physical custody of their kids but they will split legal custody.

That means Woods will share decisions about their future — so Nordegren will not be able to permanently relocate them to her native Sweden.

Woods — believed to be building a golf resort in Dubai and investing in the Bahamas — will be able to see the kids for up to half of each week.

He can renegotiate the custody agreement in five years.

The pal said: “Elin admits that despite everything, Tiger loves his kids and has been a decent dad.

“She is confident he will not pursue seeing the children that much, due to his work and lifestyle.”

Under the no-girlfriends deal, only married women not romantically linked to Woods will be allowed around the children — plus female members of staff known to Nordegren.

[From Fox News]

Adding credence to this story, Radar reports that Elin has been in “marathon final meetings with her divorce lawyer” this week in her rented home in Isleworth, Florida. A source says that agreements have been made, but that the details of the financial arrangements will not be made public. “And when they file the papers there will not be a lot of detail in the public documents. They’ve worked everything out so that the financial details can remain private.”

Elin went through a lot, but is it worth $750 million dollars? Was Tiger ever worth a billion plus? Maybe his image was, but he managed to drive that into the ground with more philandering than we’ve ever known from a public figure.

So I haven’t written about Tiger or Elin Woods in a while, so it came as a surprise to me that they’re so far along in their divorce settlement negotiations, at least according to Radar (who could totally be wrong). Allegedly, Tiger and Elin are finalizing their junk as we speak, and the whole sordid mess will be done shortly. Here’s what struck me however – according to Radar’s sources, Elin is supposed to be getting a $750 million settlement?!? Um, wasn’t Tiger worth $1 billion? So Elin is walking away with three-quarters of his assets?

Tiger Woods divorce is about to become official, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively. The final divorce is imminent, a source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com.

“They’ve agreed on all the major points,” one source told us. “It’s all been worked out privately.

“Both Tiger and Elin are very close to finishing the negotiations and filing and signing the paperwork.”

Elin is expected to receive approximately $750 million in the settlement. RadarOnline.com has obtained new details about the divorce negotiations.

“When they first started negotiating the divorce, it was very acrimonious,” the source told RadarOnline.com. “Elin had a lawyer in California who was very, very aggressive.”

But we learned that Elin switched attorneys months ago and that took much of the anger out of the negotiations.

“Things are now very civil between Tiger and Elin – at least in terms of getting the divorce taken care of,” the source told RadarOnline.com.

Elin lives in a rented house approximately a mile away from Tiger in the Orlando area. At one point their marriage seemed back on track as Elin participated in Tiger’s sex addiction rehab therapy when the golfing great went for in-patient treatment. But when Tiger announced his return to golf things grew very chilly between the couple. One source said Elin believed that Tiger was not sincere about changing his life.

“They don’t interact much at all anyone,” that source told RadarOnline.com. “The nannies take the kids back and forth between their houses. There’s virtually no conversation between Tiger and Elin but that’s an improvement from when all the conversation was angry.”

The divorce terms are being worked out privately and when everything is finished it will be filed in court, the first source said.

“And that day is almost here,” the source added.

[From Radar]

I think Elin must have just come to the point where she simply cut her losses. She let go and just went for the cash because why not? Still, I really have doubts that she’s walking away with $750 million, I really do. I don’t care how many Ho Jo’s waitresses he banged, and I don’t care how lavish their lifestyle was for all of those years, there is no way her lawyers could pull that off, and there is no way his lawyers would agree to it. Half of the assets? Sure. But not $750 million.

A couple of weeks ago, The Chicago Sun Times reported that Elin Woods was going for an amazing $750 million dollar settlement in her divorce with golfing great Tiger Woods. That number sounded incredibly inflated to me, as Tiger is estimated to be worth about a billion dollars, and that would be 3/4 of his assets, as Kaiser pointed out. Tiger may be worth more than a billion, because People Magazine is reporting that he was willing to sign off on a $700 million settlement! Now that Elin is gunning for full custody of the couple’s two children, though, he allegedly isn’t on board with the terms. Elin recently took her children with her on a trip to China to visit her brother, who works in Shanghai:

“Elin took Sam and Charlie to China but needs to be back in time for Tiger to also be involved with the celebration of Sam’s birthday,” a friend tells PEOPLE.

A source close to the ongoing legal discussions in divorce proceedings between Nordegren and Woods says that a $700-million settlement is not the issue. Causing problems in the negotiations is child custody. They are fighting over the kids.

“Elin now wants full custody of the children because she would prefer they have limited time with Tiger,” a source tells PEOPLE. “Tiger will be generous about a settlement, and in the end will not balk about paying in the neighborhood of $700 million. But he wants joint custody.”

Nordegren is eager to spend a great deal more time in Sweden and may decide to educate her children there. But regardless of how many months a year she will spend in the U.S., the doting mother wants to be the full decision maker when it comes to her children and their welfare.

“Money will not turn out to be the biggest factor in this divorce,” a source tells PEOPLE. “How Sam and Charlie’s time is divided between parents will be.”

[From People]

I’m thinking this report is straight from Tiger’s camp as I’m not buying the story that he’s somehow ok with giving Elin $700 million for just six years of marriage. What’s more is that some sources reported that these two had a prenup in which Elin stood to get just $20 million, plus whatever extra Tiger wanted to throw at her for staying with him during what should have been his golf comeback.

Speaking of Tiger’s comeback, he didn’t even place in the top ten at the PGA Memorial Tournament in Ohio over the weekend. The winner was a 29 year-old British player named Justin Rose, and there was a lot of buzz over young up-and-coming golfers like American Rickie Fowler, 21, who placed second. California-born Ricky Barnes, 29, was fourth, and Irish Rory McIlroy, 21, was tenth. McIlroy made headlines in early May for placing first in the Quail Hollow Championship while setting a new course record.

There’s a new crop of hotshot golfers and Tiger just can’t compete lately. Tiger’s performance was so shaky over the weekend that he accidentally hit three spectators at the match with golf balls. No one was hurt, though, and he signed golf gloves for all of the people he dinged.

Tiger, 34, might not be ready for a comeback either mentally or physically, but he’s showing signs that he’s not worried about his finances. He’s building a new mansion on a 10 acre waterfront estate in Jupiter Island, Florida, for which he paid $40 million.

Several weeks ago, CB reported that Elin and Tiger Woods had already begun negotiating their divorce agreement, and that both of them were concerned with confidentiality. Well, so much has changed in just a few weeks. Allegedly. This report comes from Chicago Sun-Times via the New York Daily News – apparently, Elin has not only refused to sign a confidentiality clause (that would ensure she was never able to publicly speak about Tiger Woods publicly), but she’s also started the monetary divorce bid at a whooping $750 million. Tiger Woods is – by most accounts – worth somewhere in the vicinity of a billion dollars. Is years of cheating with dozens of women worth three-quarters of his assets?

It’s a high price for silence. Wronged wife Elin Nordegren is trying to club an eye-popping $750 million out of Tiger Woods in their divorce negotiations, according to reports Friday.

Woods hasn’t agreed yet, but if he does he wants total silence from his soon-to-be ex about the collapse of their marriage – forever, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Nordegren has so far said no to signing a lifetime “confidentiality clause” that would prevent her from writing a book or doing any interviews about the split.

She reportedly also wants full custody of their two kids even though it was first thought the couple were going to agree to joint custody. Sources said the divorce negotiations “have turned extremely testy” and the couple no longer talk to each other.

Nordegren has spent a lot of time away from Woods in recent months. She went to Arizona alone for nearly a week recently and took the kids to Sweden while Woods played golf.

Woods, meanwhile, is hanging out in Florida with a blond woman, who looks a lot like Elin, RadarOnline reported.

[From Gatecrasher]

I think Elin should get a huge settlement, of course. But let’s keep it reasonable. Half of his assets? Sure, I cosign that. But three-quarters? Eh. Maybe it’s just a jumping off point for negotiations, and she’s willing to be talked down to $500 million. But I totally think that Elin should avoid signing any kind of confidentiality clause – those things suck. And she’s yet to tell her story, which many really want to hear.

Header: Elin and the kids on February 9, 2010. Credit: Bancroft/Fame.

We may not know for sure whether Elin Woods will soon be filing for divorce, but she is moving on with her life. Radar Online reports that she’s taking a college night course this summer at a small liberal arts school near her home in Orlando, Florida. They also have more background on Elin, 30. While I’d heard that she was a nanny to a Swedish golfer when Tiger met her I didn’t know that she was working at a clothing shop in Stockholm when she met the golfer’s wife. She also supposedly wanted to become a child psychologist, so maybe she’s on her way. Elin has been married to Cheetah for six years and is mom to daughter Sam, three, and Charlie, 15 months.

The beautiful blonde started school on Monday night at [a school in] Florida and RadarOnline.com captured exclusive video of her on campus.

The school is just outside of Orlando and is a small private liberal arts school…

Before meeting Tiger she attended Lund University in Sweden.

As her relationship with Tiger has unraveled, Elin has demonstrated more and more independence. She has taken four trips away from him in the past five weeks and is living in a house she rented approximately a mile away from the home they once shared.

Her decision to go back to school came after a conversation with one of her nannies, who revealed that she was enrolled at [the school].

That prompted Elin to explore taking a class in the summer session, which started Monday.

Leaving the children with Tiger, Elin took off from her home Monday and arrived at [the school] in plenty of time for the start of her 6 pm class.

After attending Lund University, Elin worked in a Stockholm clothing store. That’s where she met the wife of Swedish golf star Jesper Parnevik. Mia Parnevik hired her as a nanny to their children.

While working for the Parneviks, Elin met Tiger, who pursued her relentlessly and even enlisted Jesper’s help to get Elin to date him.

Since Tiger’s secret cheating life has been revealed Jesper has said that Tiger is no longer welcome in his home.

Before marrying Tiger, Elin wanted to become a child psychologist. Her father was a successful journalist as served as Washington bureau chief for a Swedish broadcasting company. Her mother Barbro Holmberg is a government minister.

[From Radar Online]

I guess this means that Elin is staying put in Florida for the summer while she takes this course. Sadly Radar published the name of the college and the exact day and time that Elin will be there. There will be a ton of paparazzi there next week and this could discourage her from completing her studies. Elin is a tough one, though, and I bet she’ll stick it out. Good for her for expanding her horizons.

Meanwhile Tiger is next scheduled to play the U.S. open on June 17, the AT&T National on July 1 and the British Open on July 15. He dropped out of the Players Championship two weeks ago, citing an injured neck that he denies is at all connected to his car accident in late November. Doctors note that Tiger’s injury is consistent with whiplash. He has a tough journey ahead of him and it’s doubtful that he’ll return to his former glory after all this, but we’ll see.

Various outlets are reporting that Tiger Woods and his estranged wife Elin are moving forward with their divorce, and that they’re working to keep the details confidential and out of the press. They may ultimately be successful, but we’re bound to get some information given the interest in this whole sordid affair. Both TMZ and Radar have the news, with some additional information from The Chicago Sun Times. I’ll just quote them all at once, and it’s worth noting that they’re consistent with both each other and previous reports. Tiger and Elin reportedly want to share joint custody and it’s Elin’s idea to make it a permanent split, having tried to reconcile through counseling and finding Tiger’s response lacking. They’re supposedly still not sure whether they’ll file in the US or in Sweden, but are no longer fighting and are both committed to their children.

TMZ – they want a quick and confidential divorce
Sources very familiar with the situation tell TMZ … the most important thing for both Tiger and Elin is keeping the terms of the divorce confidential. We’re told Tiger has a team — partly based in NYC — that is working on the division of assets. But … as TMZ first told you … the key player is West Palm Beach lawyer Thomas Sasser, an expert in child custody agreements that involve more than one jurisdiction. – From TMZ

Radar – divorce is Elin’s idea
“There is no arguing any more,” one source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com. “They don’t fight. There is a coldness between them and it’s Elin who is pulling the plug on the marriage.”

Both Tiger and Elin have seen divorce lawyers multiple times, as RadarOnline.com reported exclusively. But it is Elin who is leading the way in ending the marriage because the damage from Tiger’s serial cheating has been too extensive to overcome.

“She tried to put things back together,” said the source. “She went to therapy with Tiger. She gave it a shot moving forward.”

But there were so many women and so many betrayals – including the daughter of a neighbor – that every time Elin and Tiger took a step forward, they would then take two steps back, the source told RadarOnline.com. – From Radar

Radar – they’re committed to joint custody
In the past month, they have spent only a few days together and both have seen divorce lawyers.

And one source familiar with the situation tells RadarOnline.com that the couple will share joint custody of the children if the divorce goes through.

“They have not been getting along as a married couple but there has been no conflict over the children,” the source told RadarOnline.com. “They both want what’s best for the kids.

“This isn’t going to get ugly. They’ve both made sure of that.” – From Radar

Chicago Sun Times – divorce is almost finalized, Elin is house-hunting
Elin Nordegren — the maiden name Tiger Woods’ soon-to-be-ex-wife now prefers — has been house-hunting in South Florida. One requirement: a guest house where Tiger can stay when he visits the couple’s children.

The huge financial issues have been resolved. Along with very specific custody issues, Elin reportedly is insisting their divorce settlement include a pledge by Tiger to keep their two children his ”principal heirs,” even if he eventually remarries and has more kids. – From Chicago Sun Times

[From various sources linked in text]

While Tiger and Elin are working to make their split legal and final, Tiger is dealing with a neck injury that may derail his golf career for months. He withdrew from the Players Championship in Florida over the weekend due to an injury, which one reporter mistakenly called a “bulging dicks”. Tiger held a press conference on Monday explaining his injury. He said that he’s “getting old” and his game is “not where I would like it to be. There are a lot of things going on in my life.”

You have to admire the way Elin has handled this whole thing. She’s quietly gone about her business and hasn’t said a word to the press as far as we can tell. She’s also allegedly working to ensure that her children will receive an inheritance in the event that Tiger remarries. I’m still hoping that she’ll grant at least one interview, but it might be in her best interests just to lay low, take the money and keep her divorce as press free as possible.

Tiger Woods’ estranged wife Elin was photographed out jogging in her native Sweden over the weekend. (We don’t have rights to those photos but you can see them here.) Elin retreated to Sweden two weeks ago with the couples’ two children, daughter Sam, nearly three, and son Charlie, 15 months. Recently we’ve heard that their “divorce showdown” is “imminent” and that Tiger may have confessed to as many as 120 affairs as part of his sex addiction therapy. Adding credence to the story that these two are about to announce a divorce any day now is a new report that Tiger has consulted with a well known celebrity divorce lawyer in his area. This follows reports that Elin is moving forward with the divorce and that she’s met with lawyers as well.

Tiger Woods may have hired himself one of the most high-profile attorneys in the business when it comes to multi-million dollar sport star divorces, RadarOnline.com has learned.

According to the New York Daily News, Tiger has met with Jeff Fisher, who represented golfer Greg Norman in his split from wife Laura, and Brooke Gordon in her divorce battle against NASCAR superstar Jeff Gordon.

Fisher is based in West Palm Beach, FL. He enjoys the local media attention that’s come from his many cases involving the super-rich, but that’s something that may put him at odds with the very private Woods.

[From Radar Online]

Tiger’s tumultuous personal life may be taking a serious toll on his once-stratospheric golf career. He didn’t even qualify to compete for the last two days in the Quail Hollow Championship in North Carolina over the weekend. A 20 year-old Irish player, Rory McIlroy, won his first championship with a record setting 10 under par to defeat Phil Mikkelson. McIlroy is the youngest player to win a tournament since a then-22 year-old Tiger Woods in 1996. Again, Tiger didn’t even make the cut this time.

In amusing related news, one of Tiger’s countless mistresses has filed a lawsuit against the Ritz Carlton for canceling her reservations at their Charlotte, North Carolina location without her consent. Adult entertainer Joslyn James is on a tour of the country’s strip clubs that roughly parallel’s Tiger’s golfing schedule. Her lawyer, the ubiquitous Gloria Allred, penned an e-mail to the hotel’s general manager that claims that James was barred from the hotel because Tiger planned to stay at the Ritz Carlton that same weekend. Allred claims her client was told that she could not stay there because “she was a high profile guest and they were concerned about media attention.” Allred blasted the Ritz for allegedly favoring Woods over James and wrote “we are appalled to think that you might have chosen to accommodate a rich, famous golfer who has admitted lying to his wife, his fans, his business associates and others over a woman whose heart he has broken and whose only fault is that she fell madly in love with Tiger Woods.” You know that Woods brings a bigger entourage with him and that James isn’t going to be able to afford to stay at the Ritz once she’s no longer able to trade on her connection to Tiger. It’s not like she’s a steady customer. Tiger is going to spending his money on hookers and hotels for several years until it runs out. If he doesn’t watch it he won’t even have a golf career to distract him from his womanizing.

We’ve kind of heard this news already in The National Enquirer’s sister publication, Radar Online, but I like the sensational way that The Enquirer tells this story. They have a real way of spinning the gossip into a four course meal instead giving us a bunch of separate tasty side orders like Radar. According to this week’s Enquirer (with that truly obnoxious cover story about Brad and Angelina’s perfectly normal adorable twins being targeted by gossip online – shame on them for giving the hateful ramblings of Internet trolls so much credence), Tiger confessed to Elin that he had a whopping 120 different affairs during their five year marriage. It was Tiger’s affair with their young 21 year-old neighbor, though, that convinced Elin to file for divorce. Tiger never disclosed that relationship to Elin and the fact that the girl was so young, vulnerable and close to him really convinced her that her husband was a dog with no chance of reforming. Elin called Tiger and chewed him out when she found out about his affair with the neighbor’s daughter, and she did it while he was at dinner with a bunch of colleagues during the Masters. They probably realized that he deserved it, plus a whole lot more.

In an astonishing confession, Tiger Woods has admitted that he cheated with as many as 120 women while married to his wife Elin!

However, while coming clean with his philandering during therapy, he failed to mention the one-night stand he knew would destroy his battered marriage.

The serial womanizer hid from therapists his youngest conquest – number 121… the vulnerable, school-age daughter of an Orlando neighbor, say sources…

And after horrified Elin found out that The Enquirer was breaking the story in early April of his sick fling with then-21-year-old – a young woman he has known since she was 14 – she finally made the decision to sign the divorce papers.

While at the Gentle Path rehab center in Hattiesburg, Miss, early this year, Tiger was required to list the women he had bedded as an essential part of his recover program – but he covered up the shocking truth.

“Tiger didn’t list [the neighbor's daughter]” disclosed a close source. And after Elin learned about her, she called Tiger and exploded.

“He was having dinner with friend in Augusta after the Masters golf tournament when his phone rang – and it was Elin. She was screaming so loudly that everyone at the table could hear what she was saying.

“‘This is the worst betrayal ever! I can’t believe you had sex with that girl, in our own neighborhood. That’s it – I’m divorcing you!’

“Tiger tried to deny it, but Elin yelled at him, ‘You’re lying! You’re always a liar! You’re a piece of (bleep)!’

“Tiger told her he didn’t have time for this. ‘We’ll talk about it later,’ he said, and hung up. She called back, and he hung up again.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, May 10, 2010]

What’s that they say – “cheaters always lie?” What I wonder is how Tiger was ever able to keep track and why we only found out about something like 15-16 women when there were over a hundred more. That means that of all of Tiger’s mistresses, only about 13% of them tried to cash in and/or get some publicity out of it. How is that possible when he was sleeping with paid professionals and cocktail waitresses? Were there women with integrity scattered among his many random hookups or did he just disperse enough cash to make sure that most of them stayed silent?

The US Weekly print edition is also reporting the news that Elin plans to divorce, which People has sort-of confirmed already. They quote a source who says “the split is 100 percent happening. Elin and her mom have met with the lawyer.” You know, I would love to see Elin’s triumphant story on the cover of People and I hope she tells it someday.

Elin Woods is currently in her native Sweden with her two children while her philandering husband Tiger is no doubt partying in her absence. Radar Online claims that Elin wants to stay in Sweden with the kids while Tiger of course wants her to come back and kiss his ass like nothing was ever wrong. Despite reports a few weeks ago that tension was thawing in their household and Elin might be willing to reconcile with Tiger, things have taken a turn for the worse and she’s reportedly planning to make the split official. Radar writes that a divorce “showdown” will happen when Elin returns in two weeks. The news of Tiger’s affair with their young neighbor, along with the extensive profile of his activities in Vanity Fair, is said to have hastened Elin’s decision. She’s also unhappy with his decision to return to golf so soon after the scandal.

Elin, as RadarOnline.com was first to report, is in Sweden visiting friends and family. And Elin would like to move back to her native country, sources have told us.

But as Tiger’s marriage seems inevitably headed to divorce, issues still need to be resolved.

Until now Tiger and Elin have had no conflict over their children and been civil even while living apart.

But if Elin returns to Sweden, it could create problems with Tiger, who wants to be able to see his children regularly.

Love for their children is one of the very few things that unites Tiger and Elin at this point. The blonde beauty barely speaks to her husband any more and has refused to move back into the home they once shared. She also no longer wears her wedding ring.

Elin supported Tiger when he underwent sex addiction therapy but it’s clear to people close to them that his serial cheating has pushed the marriage to the edge.

They seemed to grow closer at one point after Tiger returned from Gentle Path in Hattiesburg, Mississippi but it quickly became obvious that all was not well when Elin began taking separate vacations and refused to put back on her wedding ring. She has taken four trips without Tiger within the past month, barely seeing him for 30 days.

And, as RadarOnline.com reported exclusively, Elin has met with a divorce attorney three times recently.

While Elin attempted to grow closer to Tiger, one source says she was upset by his quick return to golf and questioned his sincerity about improving their marriage. Then it was revealed that Tiger slept with the 21-year-old daughter of a neighbor, yet another betrayal of Elin.

Elin is close to her family, especially her twin sister. She’s returning from Sweden within two weeks and that’s when events with Tiger will come to a showdown, says the source.

[From Radar Online]

I admire the way that Elin has handled all this. She’s smiled confidently to the paparazzi, but hasn’t given one official comment or even said anything to photographers. There may be a good reason for Elin’s silence other than pride. Earlier reports had her receiving $55 million on top of her $20 million prenup for staying with Tiger for two more years. There could have been a confidentiality clause built into those terms. However, Bill Zwecker at the Chicago Sun Times reports that Tiger and Elin’s settlement could reach a whopping $500 million, according to a source. Elin is said to be concerned that Tiger won’t leave a legacy for their children. She’s reportedly “obsessed” with a book called Empress Bianca, “about a very wealthy man whose children from the first marriage got screwed out of their inheritance by their father.” Depending on the terms of their prenup, she may not have much say in what the children get.