Tiger Wood’s ex wife Elin Nordegren is supposely advising Michael Jordan’s new fiancé not to actually marry to mega rich basketball player. Elin had her heart broken by Tiger and she knows what it’s like to be publicly humiliated by a philandering sports star. The thing is, Elin walked away with an estimated $110 million dollar settment to ease her pain. A lot of women, especially those inclined to date famous athletes, would consider getting cheated on more than worth the trade off. Here’s more, from the Enquirer:

Tiger Woods’ ex-wife Elin has warned Michael Jordan’s fiancee – her close pal Yvette Prieto – not to marry the basketball legend, who has a reputation as a world-class philanderer!

But Yvette, a 33-year-old Cuban model, is so determined to wed the former Chicago Bulls great that she’s ignoring her friend’s advice, insiders say.

“Elin was horrified to hear that Yvette is planning to marry Michael,” a source close to the mother of Tiger’s two young children told The Enquirer. “After her terrible experience with Tiger, Elin is convinced Michael will never give up his cheating ways. She told Yvette, ‘Don’t marry him! Once a cheater, always a cheater!’”

Elin still feels that Jordan was instrumental in Tiger’s dramatic downfall.

“Michael and Tiger are golfing buddies, and Elin blames him for leading Tiger astray in the first place,” explained the source. “She believes Tiger’s cheating began when he started hanging out with Michael, who was always on the hunt for hot young women…”

“After Yvette and Michael got engaged, Elin told her, ‘You don’t know how terrible it feels to learn that the man you love is having sex with other women. But I do! You need to listen to me. This marriage is not a good idea.’”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, January 23, 2012]

The Enquirer has run quite a few stories with insider information on Elin, so I would bet this one is true. This chick Yvette dated Michael Jordan for three years. She put in her time and she’s going to get that ring. She probably sees her friend telling her not to get married on one hand, but building a huge $10 million waterfront mansion and going on shopping sprees on the other. Yvette knows exactly what she’s in for, and she’s game for it. Also, that’s ripe that Elin blames Michael for somehow corrupting Tiger. Tiger was a cheating ass well before he met Michael. Those type of creeps have a way of finding each other – at strip clubs and private orgies.

Photo credit: WENN and Fame

In November 2009, the National Enquirer famously broke the story that Tiger Woods had been banging Rachel Uchitel since June of that year. In the immediate aftermath, Tiger got into a huge Thanksgiving weekend fight with his then-wife, Elin Nordigren. There was a car accident, and there were golf clubs and a shattered car windshield, but nobody knows what really happened except for Tiger and Elin. Or maybe someone else knows too? Like Tiger’s long-time caddie, Steve Williams, who recently received his walking papers and is now, according to The Enquirer, threatening to write his very own tell-all book about that fight and many other Tiger-associated things. Not that Williams was actually present during the altercation, mind you; but apparently he and Tiger were pretty tight friends, so the assumption is that Tiger may have been dumb enough to tell his buddy what went down. Also, there is the bizarre alleged detail that Kevin Costner once gave Tiger some invaluable tips on how to pick up chicks:

Tiger Woods’ newly fired caddie plans to write a blockbuster tell-all that threatens to rip the lid off untold secrets in the adultery and drug scandals that rocked the fallen gold superstar, sources say.

Steve Williams, who carried Tiger’s golf bag for 12 years, has been sounding out writers to help him pen a book about their once-close relationship, according to insiders.

“Tiger is terrified about what the book will reveal,” a source told The ENQUIRER. “He said, ‘Steve was too close to me. He knows too much.’

“Tiger is trying to figure out a way to stop the book because he’s convinced it will wreck what’s left of his reputation.”

Williams, a native of New Zealand, toted Tiger’s bag for 72 wins and 13 major titles. The two were so close that they were in each other’s weddings.

But insiders say their friendship began to fray after The ENQUIRER exposed Tiger’s cheating with party girl Rachel Uchitel. That led to the infamous 2009 Thanksgiving night fight with his now ex-wife Elin that ended with Tiger wrecking his SUV outside their Florida home.

While Elin claimed she smashed the back window of Tiger’s vehicle with a golf club to free him, Williams knows the true story, said the source.

“Steve says Elin was in a jealous rage and she nearly killed Tiger with that golf club,” the source revealed.

Williams blames Tiger’s obsessive skirt-chasing on actor Kevin Costner, who once bragged about being able to pick up a woman in two minutes, said the source.

“According to Steve, Costner demonstrated his technique to Tiger,” the source divulged. “Steve said, ‘That’s where it all started.’”

In the past, Williams has publicly insisted he knew nothing about Tiger’s serial cheating.

“But I think he was lying to protect Tiger,” said another source. “Now he could reveal that he knew about Tiger’s compulsive cheating for years.”

The first source added that Williams will also spill the beans on Tiger’s association with Dr. Tony Galea, a Canadian physician who has pleaded guilty in federal court to smuggling human growth hormone and other unapproved drugs int the U.S. to treat athletes.

[From Enquirer, print edition, August 15, 2011]

Honestly, I don’t know what to think about the Kevin Costner tidbit, for Tiger seems to do well enough on his own as a womanizer who conducted his affairs pretty openly. If it’s true that Costner encouraged Tiger to cheat on his wife, well, that’s pretty low because Costner has been married since 2004 to Christine Baumgartner, with whom he has three young children. Regardless of Costner’s involvement with Tiger, however, I think it’s pretty clear that Tiger needed no cheering on in order to drop his drawers with women who were not his wife. Still, it’s interesting, and I wonder if Costner (or his wife) will have anything to say about this story in the near future.

As far as the prospective tell-all book by Williams goes, however, I doubt that anything else could possibly tarnish Tiger’s reputation more than what we already know. I mean, short of hearing Tiger did something incredibly illegal besides the basic prostitute stuff that we’ve already heard. The man still has sponsors and was just welcomed back to the latest PGA tour with much applause (disgusting, right?) even though the audience was openly wondering why he fired his caddie. So perhaps people really will pay attention to what Williams has to say in his book.

Also, when did Tiger start dressing like a lounge lizard?

Photos courtesy of Fame

Yesterday we ran a story about how Rachel Uchitel was giving back the bulk of her $10 million hush settlement from Tiger after her lawyer, Gloria Allred, convinced her she has violated the confidentiality clause in the agreement. Rachel is considering suing Allred for potentially double crossing her and negotiating with Tiger’s lawyer to still receive her fee while convincing Rachel to give the settlement money back.

A lot of you thought that I buried the lead in that I mentioned toward the end of the story that Tiger Woods’ ex wife, Elin, is currently dating a guy who also used to date Rachel. Some ex-friend of Rachel’s went on the record to TMZ with a tale about how she’d overheard Elin’s new man, an investment banker named Jamie Dingman, telling Rachel back when he was dating her that he’d like to date Elin. According to this story, Rachel and Jamie were together when the Tiger Woods scandal broke, Jamie knew that Rachel had been with Tiger (maybe at the same time he was with her) and was joking around that he could date Tiger’s wife. It made the guy seem like scum, and like he targeted Elin somehow.

According to several reports, all of this was news to Elin and she’s been with Jamie for six months. Jamie is supposedly denying that he ever slept with Rachel, but TMZ has a potential timeline and witnesses. What’s more is that Jamie had a girlfriend when he hooked up with Rachel, which is apparently her only criteria for sleeping with a guy – that they be taken. It doesn’t hurt if they’re rich either.

Here’s the story from TMZ:

Elin Nordegren is PISSED … after learning Rachel Uchitel told friends she had slept with BF Jamie Dingman. Now Jamie is denying it happened, but others are providing VERY specific details.

Sources tell TMZ … Elin was blindsided when the TMZ story ran over the weekend … that Tiger Woods’ #1 mistress had slept with Jamie and Elin didn’t know about it.

We reported Jamie hooked up with Rachel twice in Miami in October, 2009, when they were staying together– less than 2 months before the scandal broke. Jamie’s friends now tell TMZ … Rachel is lying and that they never had sex and never stayed together.

But other people familiar with the situation tell TMZ … Rachel and Jamie went down to Miami in October, 2009, to work on a plan for a new investment business.

We’re told the 2 stayed together for 2 1/2 weeks — at the home of Chris Barish, the third partner in the prospective business. Jamie had a girlfriend at the time — a model named Inez — but she wasn’t around much.

People who were at Barish’s house tell us … Jamie came into Rachel’s room late at night twice and the two hooked up … and they heard Rachel discussing it with Barish the morning after each liaison.

Ironically, at the time this was allegedly going on, we’re told Chris Barish hooked up with Jen Madden, the woman who sold the Tiger story to the National Enquirer. And get this — people staying at Barish’s house tell us … Jen got a lot of her info from discussions between Rachel, Jamie and Chris about Tiger’s illicit relationship with Rachel.

As for Jamie and Elin, we’re told they’ve been quietly dating for 6 months.

[From TMZ]

That should pretty much be a dealbreaker for Elin. Her boyfriend of six months slept with her famous ex husband’s famous mistress before he met her and never bothered to broach the subject in all that time. It’s slimy, it’s underhanded, and it makes the guy seem like he has an agenda by being with Elin. Maybe he really likes her and is just caught up in an incestuous group of friends. Still, anyone who would sleep with that big-lipped hooker has issues. Plus we know he was cheating on his girlfriend with Rachel. Poor Elin seems like one of those women who always ends up with creeps. Rachel is one of those women who tries to use them for money and fame and sometimes gets beaten at her own game. Also, why does she keep trying to stick it to Elin?

Photos of Elin are from 2/9/10 and 1/29/10. Photo of Rachel from 01/10/2011. Credit: Fame

This is the type of story that the term schadenfreude is made for, since it involves Rachel Uchitel being beaten at her own game. According to TMZ, Rachel was persuaded by her lawyer, Gloria Allred, to return the bulk of the $10 million package she extorted settlement Tiger Woods gave her in exchange for not holding a press conference revealing details of their affair. Since Rachel is a famewhore (or just leave out the fame part) at heart, she possibly violated the confidentiality clause in her settlement by going on Celebrity Rehab, doing multiple interviews and generally keeping the story alive, even though she claims innocence since she never went on the record about her experiences with Tiger. So Allred advised Uchitel to make a deal with Tiger’s lawyer and give most of the money back, only Allred worked out a nice package for herself where she got to keep her lawyer’s fee. She really is the head madam of the stripper mistresses and she’ll sell them out in a heartbeat. Excuse me while I point and laugh.

TMZ has learned … Rachel Uchitel has given Tiger Woods back most of the settlement money he paid her … and now Rachel is preparing to sue Gloria Allred, the lawyer who struck the deal, allegedly because Gloria sold her out for money.

As TMZ reported, Gloria negotiated a $10 million settlement for Rachel … just hours before Rachel was going to hold a tell-all news conference about Tiger Woods. The settlement included a confidentiality agreement, which prohibited Rachel from talking about Tiger.

We’ve learned the agreement stated … if Rachel violated the confidentiality clause … she would not only have to return the money she received but Tiger could sue her for damages as well.

Sources tell TMZ … several months ago Tiger’s lawyer, Jay Lavely, contacted Gloria and said they were going after Rachel because they believed she violated the confidentiality agreement by allegedly speaking with TMZ and going on “Celebrity Rehab” to treat her “addiction to love” — though she never talked specifically about Tiger on the show.

We’re told Rachel felt strongly she had not violated the agreement, but Gloria allegedly convinced her she would lose if push came to shove, so Gloria struck a deal with Lavely — that Rachel would return the lion’s share of the settlement money.

But our sources say … what has Rachel fuming is that Gloria allegedly made a deal with Jay Lavely — that Gloria would still get all of her attorney’s fees. Rachel believes Gloria sold her out … allegedly making a deal with Tiger’s lawyer to strong-arm Rachel into giving the money back and in return Gloria would get her fee — a fee Gloria would not have received if Rachel went to arbitration and lost.

We’re told Rachel went along with the deal, but as time went on she felt she had gotten screwed, and then hired a malpractice lawyer who has made a demand on Gloria to either pay Rachel what she gave back or get sued.

[From TMZ]

How stupid do you have to be to jeopardize $10 million for a $500k gig on a reality show with D listers? The fame was so important to this idiot that she ended up losing the lottery money she earned for being the first Tiger mistress to go public. Given the sh*tstorm that followed, her silence wasn’t worth four figures not to mention eight. She was just one of over a dozen that we know of.

Tiger was one of countless hookups for Rachel too. A source recently revealed to TMZ that while Rachel was seeing Tiger she was also dating a guy named Jamie Dingman. Dingman, an investment banker and the son of a billionaire, is currently dating Tiger’s ex, Elin Woods. A “friend” of Rachel’s told TMZ that back when Jamie was with Rachel he knew that she was also seeing Tiger and told her “That’s ok. I’ll date his wife, Elin.” Elin sure knows how to pick ‘em.

Rachel Uchitel is shown in 2007 with her Celebrity Rehab costar, Jason Davis. Gloria Allred is shown with Tiger Mistress Joslyn James on 4/5/10. Credit: WENN.com

Tiger Woods has a new 22 year-old girlfriend that’s the daughter of one of his agents or something. I was going to report about this when I saw that it was one of the top stories on Huffpo, but I questioned whether anyone would really care. The guy is a serial cheater who is trying to make some sort of long-overdue weak media tour after that huge scandal last year, and maybe part of that is rolling out a new girlfriend. She’s really young and probably impressionable, and Tiger needs to seem like he didn’t go back to immediately banging hookers and strippers. It turns out that this girl’s dad lives right next to Tiger in Windemere, Florida, and that when she was a little girl she used to draw him good luck pictures. Ew. Tiger is currently 35, so 35 and 22 isn’t that big of an age difference, but if he knew her as a little girl it seems creepy.

From childhood fan to girlfriend! Tiger Woods’ new squeeze, 22 year-old grad student Alyse Lahti Johnston, used to make crayon drawings for Woods, 35, when she was a child, a friend tells Hot Stuff [US Weekly]. Johnston – whose stepdad lives next door to Woods in Windemere, Florida (and serves as an executive at the pro golfer’s sports management company, IMG) “would draw good luck pictures for Tiger before his tournaments,” her pal Stephen Burack tells Hot Stuff… “They had photos in their house of their family with Tiger and other athletes. But Alyse never said she was interested in him!” Things turned romantic recently, adds another pal: “They started dating around New Year’s Eve after seeing each other at one of her dad’s functions.”

[From US Weekly, print edition, April 4, 2011]

After I read that the girl was Tiger’s neighbor I remembered a story in the National Enquirer that had a full interview with a neighbor girl who was a college student when Tiger seduced her. (And cheated on his then wife Elin, natch.) The news came out well after the dozen plus mistresses crawled out of the woodwork so it didn’t get a lot of press. The thing is, this was a different neighbor’s daughter coed, named Raychel Coudriet. The Enquirer reported that she was a neighbor in Orlando, FL not Windemere. At least he waited until they were of age, right?

Tiger Woods was in New York yesterday, and these are the photos of him wandering around, probably trolling for HoJo’s waitresses. Wait, is Rachel Uchitel in New York now? Or is she in Vegas? Unknown. Anyway, Tiger is doing press for some reason. Last night he was on Jimmy Fallon, and this morning her went on Good Morning America. I guess these are the first steps for Tiger’s rehabilitation tour?

Tiger Woods says he’s getting his life back on course – and that includes being present for his two children, daughter Sam, 3, and son Charlie, 2.

“It’s work, there’s no doubt,” the golfer, 35, speaking on ABC’s Good Morning America Thursday, said about single fatherhood. “It’s tough. But it’s enjoyable. That’s the work I love.”

Expanding upon that point, Woods said of his kids, “I just love being with them and seeing what they’re doing, what they’re capable of doing – the joys, just the shifts of interest. … It’s just fun. We have a great time together.”

That time, he said, is spent watching Sam dance, create things, color and re-arrange furniture. As for Charlie, whom Woods called “my little brute,” the boy only wants to play sports. “Give him a stick and a ball,” says his father, “and he’s happy.”

The GMA interview – along with a Wednesday night appearance on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon – marks Woods’s return to the talk arena for the first time since his fall from grace that began with a mysterious November 2009 car accident and resulted in the revelation of his mistress-rich private life and, ultimately, his divorce from wife Elin Nordegren.

“Family’s first. That’s the way it was when I was growing up. My mom and dad were always there … and that’s what I have with my kids now,” Woods told GMA’s Robin Roberts, who noted when introducing the interview with the golfer, “The arrogance is no longer there. He’s been humbled by the past year.”

Butt of Jokes
On Late Night, host Fallon said to Woods, “It’s been a year and a half since you’ve been on the show. What you been up to?”

There came a laugh from the audience, before Woods nonchalantly responded, “Nothin’, nothin’.”

Acknowledging that his very public private ordeal must have been “painful and awful” for Woods, Fallon also told the golfer, “From a comedian’s standpoint, and my monologue writers’, thank you.”

Woods didn’t say much to that, but did converse with Fallon on the glories of his new mega-house (“You have your own country. Congratulations,” said Fallon. “You have a golf nerd’s Barbie dream house”), and later proved a good sport when show guest Amy Poehler and Fallon jokingly attempted to distract him as he demonstrated his new video game, Tiger Woods’s PGA Tour 12: The Masters.

[From People]

Here are several questions: Do you buy Tiger’s “I’m repentant, I can laugh at myself, forgive me” rehabilitation tour? Do Tiger should be forgiven, considering everyone involved in his saga was a consenting adult? I’ll admit, I don’t feel rage towards Tiger, like I do with people like Mel Gibson or Lindsay Lohan. Tiger has hurt people emotionally – his ex-wife, his mistresses, his fans – but the only illegal thing he really did was hire hookers, right? And all of the Ambien sex, of course. Oh, and he crashed his car, probably while under the influence of something. But all in all, there are other celebrities who are much more deserving of scorn, in my opinion. I don’t know… I still think he’s a tool, but he’s pretty harmless too. Unless you’re sleeping with him.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

According to British rag The Sun, Elin Woods is dating again and is “getting close” to a South African student she met at the college she attends in Florida. It sounds like The Sun is basing their report on a story in The National Enquirer, which mentions as an aside that Elin was recently kissed by a hot male classmate in the parking lot at her school. The Enquirer and their sister site, Radar Online, have run photos of Elin outside her college and likely have a photographer tailing her. This could have been a friendly goodbye kiss that their paparazzo witnessed but didn’t get a shot of, or it could be based on a tip or made up. The Enquirer isn’t making as big a deal about it as The Sun is, and just mentions it as part of a larger story about how Elin allegedly wants more kids with whomever she ends up with. This is supposedly pissing off Elin’s ex, Tiger, who “is crushed that she is moving on so soon.” Of course he is.

As The ENQUIRER revealed in October, a brokenhearted Tiger infuriated his ex-wife by begging her to take him back.

And, added the insider: “He had the incredible nerve to bring it up again” on a recent trip to her Windermere, Fla., home to drop off the kids.

“He was blindsided when Elin dropped the bombshell that she expects to marry again and start a new life with more children – telling Tiger, ‘but it won’t be with YOU!’” the insider revealed.

“Even at 30, she knows her biological clock is ticking, but she’s convinced there is a bright future ahead – without cheating Tiger around. She told a friend, ‘I’ll find true love again, and I’ll definitely have more kids.’”…

The embattled pair’s divorce was finalized in August, leaving them with shared custody of their two adorable youngsters.

“Tiger’s not stupid – he knows his ex-wife is gorgeous, and she’s rich, and she would be a prime catch for any man.”

The skirt-chasing athlete’s out-of-control behavior deeply wounded Swedish blonde Elin, and she may not get back to a normal life for quite some time, said the insider.

“She is very wary of any new relationship because she has been hurt so deeply by Tiger.

“She does want to date – but only when she meets the right guy. First and foremost on her agenda is the well-being of her two kids.

“Elin said, ‘Everyone wants to feel needed. I need someone in my life that I can trust, and that day will come.’ She’d love four children altogether.”

The beautiful ex-model recently was shocked when a male friend from a college class she’s taking suddenly and impulsively kissed her while walking her back to her car in the school parking lot, according to the insider.

Elin, who was always faithful to Tiger, later said: “It completely took me off guard – but it was very pleasant. I enjoyed it!”

Reports the insider: “She kissed him back.”

[From The National Enquirer]

I hope this is true and that Tiger is begging Elin to take him back and she’s all “nope,” and “I’ll start a family with someone else, thank you very much.” It sounds like she’s just out and enjoying life and isn’t necessarily dating anyone seriously. If she was, it’s not like we’d hear about it. She’s handled her business with a lot of grace and class.

Radar Online reports that Elin plans to spend Christmas with her kids in Sweden with her family. Tiger got their children Sam, 3 and 1/2, and Charlie, 22 months, for Thanksgiving, and worked out a deal with Elin that she would have them for Christmas in return. It looks like Tiger will be without his kids for Christmas, but I doubt he’ll spend the holiday alone. There are surely plenty of women who would keep him company for the right price.

It was almost exactly one year ago that The National Enquirer ran an explosive story about a party girl/hustler named Rachel Uchitel and her dalliance with the very married Tiger Woods. I remember it vividly – I covered the story, transcribing the story from The Enquirer, slowly realizing that the Enquirer had done a really good job of lining up several named sources and getting their facts straight. That was the day before Thanksgiving 2009 – on the Thanksgiving Day, everything imploded in Tiger’s life. Elin found out about Rachel Uchitel, they fought, and Tiger drove off, only to get into an accident. My opinion: we’ll never really now what went down that night, just as we’ll never really know why Tiger compulsively screwed around with all of those budget women. Anyway, Tiger is remembering too… he has written an essay for Newsweek about the “One Year Later” deal. I’m struggling to understand the tone of this… is he being self-pitying? Is it all still “All About Tiger”? Or is he really trying to grow as a man and as a father? Eh.

Tiger Woods is still hurting. Nearly one year after the Thanksgiving car crash that exposed his sprawling adultery scandal — later ending his five-year marriage to Elin Nordegren and hampering his focus in the sport he once dominated — the disgraced golfer is opening up in a Newsweek essay (excerpted in the Washington Post.).

“Last November, everything I thought I knew about myself changed abruptly, and what others perceived about me shifted, too,” Woods writes.

Over Thanksgiving weekend 2009, the billionaire athlete crashed his car outside the Orlando, Fla. area home he shared with Nordegren, 30, and their daughter Sam, 3, and son Charlie, nearly 2. It was soon revealed that the couple had been arguing about his extramarital affairs with nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel; over a dozen mistresses eventually came forward in the ensuing months.

Woods’ essay continues: “I had been conducting my personal life in an artificial way–as if detached from the values my upbringing had taught, and that I should have embraced.”

“The physical pain from that car accident has long healed. But the pain in my soul is more complex and unsettling; it has been far more difficult to ease–and to understand. But this much is obvious now: my life was out of balance, and my priorities were out of order. I made terrible choices and repeated mistakes. I hurt the people whom I loved the most. And even beyond accepting the consequences and responsibility, there is the ongoing struggle to learn from my failings.”

He and Nordegren’s divorce was finalized in August of this year. Expressing a new appreciation for fatherhood, the single dad to two adds: “Slowly, I’m regaining the balance that I’d lost. My healing process is far from complete, but I am beginning to appreciate things I had overlooked before. I’m learning that some victories can mean smiles, not trophies, and that life’s most ordinary events can bring joy. Giving my son, Charlie, a bath, for example, beats chipping another bucket of balls. Making mac and cheese for him and his sister, Sam, is better than dining in any restaurant. Sharing a laugh watching cartoons or reading a book beats channel-surfing alone. Some nights now, it’s just me and the kids, an experience that’s both trying and rewarding. Probably like the experience a lot of families have every evening around the world.”

Woods is also getting into the Twitter scene. On Wednesday, he re-opened his verified Twitter account (he had written a few brief Tweets in June 2009 before abandoning the account). “What’s up everyone,” Woods wrote. “Finally decided to try out twitter!…Yep, it’s me. I think I like this twitter thing. You guys are awesome. Thanks for all the love.”

[From Us Weekly]

While I’m glad that Tiger is slowly learning that life is more than golf, and that being a father can be awesome too, I also wonder why he’s so slow to realize this after the year he’s had? Yes, his kids were little (they still are), but he was a father of two when the scandal broke. I guess he’s spent the last year realizing that he should have spent all of that “trolling for strange” time with his kids.

Tiger Woods’ first known mistress Rachel Uchitel has an epic interview with The Daily Mail in which she gives us even more evidence that she’s a self absorbed piece of work. It’s pretty phenomenal how narcissistic and full of herself she comes across, and I’ve read prior interviews with her and had the lowest expectations. In this interview, Rachel tries to portray herself as this victim of circumstance on one hand (her fiance died in the Twin Towers on 9/11) and as a bootstrapping entrepreneur on the other. She only manages to come across as completely superficial and willing to use whatever excuses she can to justify her behavior.

On how she would be “fat and happy” if 9/11 never happened
“People have called me all sorts of names, but they don’t know me. I am not the same as the other girls and I never ever imagined in my wildest dreams that I would be caught up in a scandal like this. If things had been different and 9/11 had never happened, my life would have taken a different course. I’d be fat and happy, living in a big house in Long Island with a load of kids. I’m only telling my story now so that people can discover what sort of girl I am and learn the truth about me. If they still choose to hate me, then so be it. But I never set out to hurt anyone.”

Interviewer on how she constantly asks if she’s fat
In person, Rachel is tiny. Like so many women in Los Angeles, she has generously proportioned artificial breasts, plumped-up lips and a body kept whippet-thin with daily two-hour sessions in the gym (she’s clearly obsessed by her weight and constantly asks me if she looks fat). She has bought a pretty floral dress especially for our photoshoot but admits: ‘It is not something I would normally be caught dead in. But I want to show a different side of me. I’ve been branded as a scarlet woman but I am much, much more than that.’

Claims she’s a love addict, will never sleep with a married man again
“People don’t really understand love addiction, but I think a lot of women will relate to it. Instead of filling themselves with booze or drugs, love addicts become emotionally invested in a series of bad relationships. Since I lost Andy, I have always been looking for the perfect man. I wanted a man who would marry me, give me the house and children I long for. I plunged headfirst into relationships which I should never have been in.”

I ask her if she regrets sleeping with a married man: “Yes, of course,” she snaps. “I will never, ever do that again.”

On how she coped after her fiance died
“I sat in the closet in his clothes just to smell him. The doctors gave me pills to sleep. That’s when my addiction to Ambien started (Rachel allegedly introduced Tiger to the sleeping drug he took before he crashed his car). Andy’s credit cards were returned, burned, in the mail. Every day they would find bits of his life, a burned driver’s licence or whatever, and I would have to open the envelope.

“I went through hell. I fell to pieces. When the one-year anniversary of 9/11 happened, most of his friends had moved on. People we knew had married and were starting families. I felt robbed.”

On how she got a job as a club promoter
After that, Rachel says: “I had to leave New York and move on with my life for my own sanity. I had to reinvent myself.” She loaded her belongings into her car and headed west to Las Vegas, where her grandfather had a house.

Within months she had landed a job as head of VIP operations at Tao Nightclub in The Venetian casino. She later acted in a similar role at other clubs in Vegas, including The Bank at Bellagio.

“I am not a whore, nor am I a girl impressed by money or fame,’ she says. ‘I have a brain and I came from money. I never needed any man’s money.’

On how she knew bigwigs and got them hookers
“I still have my little black book and it has 5,000 men in there who are pretty much the men who run the world,” she says grandly.

“My life became one of private jets. My job was to get the high-rollers, or whales as we called them into the club and give them anything and everything they wanted to have the best night of their lives – guys who would order 100 bottles of Cristal champagne in a night or even blow $500,000 [£300,000] on one night of partying.

“If they wanted steak, they got steak. If they wanted a certain song, I”d get it played on a loop all night. A Saudi prince loved Uptown Girl so I sent someone out to get it and that prince had Uptown Girl all night.

“And if they wanted girls, I’d get them girls, though you have to understand I never got involved in that side of things. Of course, some of the girls were hookers. And others would sleep with men for gifts. But I didn’t force anyone to do anything. These were consenting adults. I was there to work and make money. It was strictly business.” She claims she earned £300,000 a year: “I was paid well and got huge tips. I deserved it. I was good at my job.”

[From The Daily Mail]

It’s as if she had no other options after losing her fiance than moving to Vegas, becoming a club promoter and glomming on rich men. She supposedly worked as a television producer at Bloomberg beforehand. It goes on, but I’ll spare you. Rachel refuses to talk about her rumored $10 million settlement from Tiger, but the interviewer notes that Rachel has purchased an over $3 million penthouse in New York and that she still owns a condo in Vegas. Oh and Rachel also puts in some digs at Tiger’s other mistresses, calling Mindy Lawton (the HoJos hostess) “poor Mindy” and saying of Jaimee Grubbs “The poor girl had a tooth missing. Honestly! She was toothless!” These other girls are “poor” to Rachel because they weren’t “smart” enough to blackmail Tiger as effectively as she was. She “never needed any man’s money” but she sure took a huge chunk of it when the opportunity presented itself.

Here’s Rachel with her date Jason “Gummi Bear” Davis at a charity event on 10/23/10. Maybe she’s with him because she knows he could never make her look fat. Credit: WENN.com

Radar Online has the supposed details on Elin Nordegren’s hush-hush divorce settlement from golfing great Tiger Woods. Elin is said to have received $110 million dollars when their six year marriage was dissolved. It’s Powerball lottery money, but still not the rumored 3/4 billion that we heard was in the works this summer. This number is close to what TMZ reported at that time, and as they pointed out it’s much more than she would have received under the prenup. Given the extenuating circumstances, it’s understandable that she got a larger chunk of Tiger’s financial pie. Still, Elin isn’t living large and Radar reports she even flew commercial recently instead of chartering a jet.

Tiger Woods divorce payout to Elin Nordegren was $110 million, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

The amount has not been revealed previously.

And although Elin walked out of the marriage with a fortune, she’s not flaunting it, and has certainly not been extravagant, one source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com exclusively.

She flew to California and back to Orlando this past week on Virgin America, instead of chartering a private jet.

In the past she has had access to a private jet from Tiger’s camp.

“She could afford the jet but didn’t even consider it,” the source said.

“She’s not cheap, but she’s just not throwing money around and wasting it the way some people would.”

Elin still employs nannies and other household help as she shares custody with Tiger of their two children.

“But she has cut back some of the hours some people work,” a friend told us.

“She’s not acting like she hit the lottery.”

Far from it. In fact, Elin is still recovering emotionally from the trauma of discovering her husband had a secret life of serial cheating.

Her payout is approximately 12 times more than Tiger’s most recent mistress, Rachel Uchitel, received from the golfing legend.

But it’s not nearly as much as she could have received, some people believe.

Tiger’s exact net worth is unknown publicly but one source says it is approximately $500 million, meaning Elin could have received at least another $100 million.

[From Radar]

Good for Elin I guess. She’s probably still concerned about her children’s future and wants to make sure she doesn’t squander the money in case they need it some day. She’s not going to fritter away her settlement in a few years like Heather Mills.

Meanwhile there’s a story that a potential Tiger Woods sex tape is coming. According to Radar, it’s a fake filmed with a lookalike. The seller, Devon James, is one of the many stripper/prostitutes to claim a relationship with Tiger. Radar has a pretty amusing interview with the guy in the tape, who claims that he was told that he was going to fulfill a fantasy for a woman who wanted to screw Tiger Woods. He knew he was being filmed but thought it was just for personal use. “I was in it to make a couple bucks and have sex with a pretty lady. I just thought I was fulfilling this woman’s fantasy of having sex with Tiger Woods.” James claims to have received $350,000 for the tape, but I imagine she’ll have to use some of that money to defend herself against lawsuits from Tiger’s camp.

Elin is shown out on 2/9 and 1/7/10. Credit: Fame Pictures