By Boyce Watkins, PhD on May 22nd 2010 11:45PM
Filed under: Dr. Boyce Money, News
Elin Nordegren, the wife of golf superstar
Tiger Woods, is either one hell of a negotiator or has lost her ever-loving mind. Reports are now stating that Elin is asking for $750 million from Woods as part of their divorce settlement. Additionally, she wants full custody of the kids and will not agree to a confidentiality clause.
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The confidentiality clause would prevent her from ever writing a book or doing interviews about the breakup. Sources say that the divorce negotiations "have turned extremely testy" and that the couple is no longer speaking. Elin has spent most of her time away from Tiger lately. She took the kids to Sweden while he was playing golf in a tournament, and Tiger is allegedly hanging out with a blonde in Florida. It seems that since the car crash that occurred last November, Woods' perfect life is slowly starting to unravel.
What's most shocking about the amount that Nordegren is allegedly requesting from Tiger is that Tiger's entire fortune is only worth $600 million, according to the 2009 estimates of Forbes magazine. It is highly unlikely that Elin will get the entire $750 million she requests (which would require Tiger to keep playing golf for another few years to make his required payments), but when you ask for $750 million, that makes $200 million look quite reasonable. That's quite a nice take for a few years of marriage, wouldn't you say?
Everyone seems to have something to say about Tiger's wife -- even
rapper Madam Prezident referred to her as "Elin Nordegreed." Well, I ain't sayin she's a gold digger, but......
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By: yoll Kno on 5/31/2010 4:01PM
I'm not sorry for him,he married down.and that's what he gets. She was never a model,just someone's nanny. As soon as he started sleeping with him,she became a model.HMMM...she is however, nothing but a wretched gold digger.
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By: meme on 6/02/2010 6:54PM
Hes just doing what men do every day trust if half the men out here had what he does they would be doing the same if not worse i say u let him do his thing you do yours n met in the middle for the kids
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By: Richard on 6/17/2010 9:01PM
Sweetheart, get real! I think that there is plenty of black women out there that will do "exactly" what Elin is doing to Tiger. I can understand "you" getting upset because "he" didn't choose you but, a woman is a woman. Just like a man is a man, no one is above making stupid mistakes and Tiger has made a hurrendous turd! I agree with one thing you stated and that is his denying his 'black heritage'. It does appear that he is "stuck" on white women and he will probably have to lose some more money to understand that a woman "gold-digger" is just that, a "gold-digger" not matter "what" her ethnicity. So please don't give us that 'wishful thinking' that a black woman is above the kind of behavior that Elin is demonstrating now.
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By: Bill Michtom on 6/18/2010 9:01PM
So much bigotry here. Assumptions about this particular woman that have no apparent basis in reality.
Ugliness about women: complete lack of respect, defining them by their sex, assuming they are stupid and gold diggers without any given evidence.
Assumptions about Woods because he married a white woman, also without any supporting evidence.
"She took Tiger for granted, she never thought he is capable of having affair. It was her fault that tiger did what he did." You know this how? Mind reading?
"you have lost your crazy mind thinking she deserves that amount of money." I didn't say she deserved anything, just said that asking for a lot to get less is standard negotiating practice. "Tiger should have known the bitch was just after his money in the first place. She hasn't swung one golf club" She has to play golf to prove her honesty? Talk about crazy.
she thinks just because she has a "V" she should get all of that money." You have no idea what this woman thinks, but I'll bet you have no respect for women who don't play tennis, ace.
"She should have given that man what he wanted then he wouldn't have to seek other women." Cause men never screw around if they're getting it at home, right? get a clue.
"His wife married him for the money." And you have the evidence for this where?
'she has to be "reasonable" and "realistic" and get her $250 million' As I noted above, reasonable and realistic in negotiation is ask for the moon and take what you can get.
butchcrews
"Suck my di@k. America IS about race!"
Guess I been told. What you're talking about isn't about race, it's about hate and ignorance: hate of women and of whites. Making a case about race is about *all* whites, it's about a white power structure that has oppressed non-whites for 400 years. Woods' wife has nothing to do with that.
Here's what Wikipedia says about her:
Nordegren was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her mother, Barbro Holmberg, is a politician and former Swedish migration and asylum policy minister. Her father, Thomas Nordegren, is a radio journalist who served as a bureau chief in Washington, D.C.. ... She started modeling in 2000, and appeared on the cover of Cafe Sport magazine in the summer of 2000.
Marriage to Tiger Woods
Nordegren took a job in a Stockholm clothing store called Champagne, where she met Mia Parnevik, wife of Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik, who hired Nordegren as the nanny to their children, a job that required her to move to the U.S. He introduced her to Woods during the 2001 British Open. Previously, Woods had asked for a year to be introduced to Nordegren, who was seeing someone else at the time. "There was a big line of single golfers wanting to meet her. They were gaga over her." She had hopes of becoming a child psychiatrist at the time and was concerned about appearing to be a "gold-digger". In November 2003, Woods and Nordegren attended the Presidents Cup tournament in South Africa and became officially engaged when Woods proposed at the luxury Shamwari Game Reserve.
They knew each other for two years when they got engaged. She had her own career and further career plans.
You have no idea of her intelligence, her ethics or her feelings about Woods--any of you jerks--on which to base your ugly statements.
Grow up.
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