Posted by Jane Okinedo on December 15, 2009 at 5:25am
It's amazing what a difference $60 million U.S. can make, but is that sum enough to keep Tiger Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren, together for another two years?Following the last week of crazy-go-nuts reports about the golfer's infidelities, Woods and Nordegren have revisited their pre-nup agreement, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. And the changes they've allegedly made would give Nordegren the right to walk away from the marriage with nearly $60 million — so long as she sticks with Woods for two more years.When the couple married in 2004, their pre-nup stated that Nordegren would be entitled to $20 million U.S. if they split after 10 years of marriage. According to the Sun-Times, that original pre-nup has since been rewritten so that Nordegren would take an extra $55 million if their marriage weathers a full decade.Plus, the Daily Beast reports that Woods — whose fortune is estimated at close to $1 billion U.S. — transferred $5 million U.S. to his wife's personal account around the same time the pre-nup was revised.The couple has been bunkered down inside their home, undergoing sessions with a marriage counsellor "several times daily," the Sun-Times reports, and various sources speculate that the revised pre-nup is a bid to preserve what remains of the Woods family's home life. (Good luck with that. The paps have already put $250,000 on the heads of Nordegren and the couple's two young kids, the Daily Beast reports.)As for the alleged shenanigans that have led to more bad "hole-in-one" jokes than you've heard outside of senior's day at the country club, there's plenty of headlines being generated about Woods' purported mistresses. (But then, when half of Las Vegas' service industry has come forward with affair allegations, that's to be expected.)First up, Woods is rumoured to have offered Jaimee Grubbs — the one who confessed to an affair earlier this week — a job and a condo, RadarOnline reports. "From what she told me, he said she could stay there for free and sort of manage the property," one of Grubbs' former co-workers told the website. (He promised her a sweet future of groundskeeping and harassing tenants? What woman could say no?) The snitch also says Grubbs also used to wear a red shirt to work when Woods was playing a tournament because it was "something special that they shared" — much like their bodily fluids, allegedly.Another alleged mistress, Las Vegas nightclub manager Kalika Moquin, is denying affair rumours to Us Weekly. "It's completely untrue that there's anything more than a professional 'How are you doing? Are you enjoying your time in Vegas conversation (with Tiger)," she explained to the mag. However, one of Us Weekly's sources says, "She was absolutely sleeping with him. She brags about it!" — perhaps noting that you don't need to have a conversation to have a good time in Vegas.As for Rachel Uchitel, the alleged mistress whom we've been hearing about since Woods yanked U.S. smuthounds away from their Thanksgiving dinners, she cancelled a news conference scheduled to take place earlier Thursday, TMZ reports. Uchitel — who previously denied the affair — now tells TMZ she was lying about the denial (confusing!). And, according to various outlet, it was her texts to Woods — not Grubbs' — that led to the argument between Woods and Nordegren, which preceded him smashing up his SUV.
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