Posted on 12/03/2009 10:28:18 AM PST by caddystacks
Tiger Woods has offered his wife, Elin Nordegren, as much as $60 million (U.S.) to stay with him for another two years, according to reports.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported on Wednesday that Woods and Nordegren agreed to immediately revisit the pre-nuptial agreement they signed upon getting married in 2004.
The original document had Nordegren reaping a relatively meagre $20 million if she remained married to Woods for a decade. Woods was already vastly wealthy when he married. His worth now hovers around $1 billion, the most ever for an athlete.
The Sun-Times report had the amount bumped "substantially."
This morning, the Daily Beast website released the numbers. According to its unnamed source, Woods agreed to immediately transfer $5 million into Nordegren's personal account.
Also, the pre-nup has been torn up and rewritten. Nordegren will now take an additional $55 million if she stays with Woods for two more years.
The presumed goal here is to preserve normalcy – both for personal and business reasons – inside the Woods household.
The couple have reportedly begun a binge of marriage-counselling sessions inside their home "several" times per day.
Woods and Nordegren remain hidden from the public eye. If Woods hoped that his online message of apology would sate the public appetite for news, that apparently is impossible.
According to the Daily Beast, paparazzi are offering $250,000 for a single picture of Nordegren with the two young Woods children, and as much as $100,000 for a tip that leads to a successful photo.
And Woods friend Jesper Parnevik has also begun what could turn in to moral pile up.
The Swedish golf pro once employed Nordegren as a nanny.
"I would be especially sad about it – I really feel sorry for Elin – since me and my wife were at fault for hooking her up with (Woods)," Parnevik told the Golf Channel on Wednesday. "We probably thought he was a better guy than he is. I would probably need to apologize to her.
$60 million? Couldn’t he rent a few top models for that much instead?
It must really suck to have to buy your wife.
Sounds like a freaking baseball contract. Is there a "no-trade" clause? What happens when she turns 35, he offers her arbitration?
What’s the point? Everybody would know their marriage is a sham.
Wow... sounds like love to me. /s
Everything costs something.
What about the "player to be named later"?
Elin gets possibly 80 million if she ‘plays out the whole deal’ (not likely at this point) http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-03/new-details-on-tigers-prenup/?cid=hp:mainpromo1
“I would probably need to apologize to her.”
Oh yeah, she could still be wiping snot off kids’ noses right now. Instead, why don’t you ask her for a 10 percent finders fee?
and is there a designated hitter?
Show of hands for who can ‘serve’ as the designated hitter? Or, who would be willing to suffer a two-year contract to look after the kids & house for, oh, $30 million (starting bid), in the event Elen has other clubs to polish?
A play-ah to be named later.
Apparently, it’s cheaper to keep her.
I don’t know what’s true and whats not here, according to reports she’ll get 300 Million if she divorces him now since he strayed.... So what’s 60 Mil plus another 55 Mil...
Indentured Proposal?
I’m a hetrosexual man.
Hell, I’d marry him for $60m.
Don’t we all...just not all of us can afford that high-class stuff... :P
lol
Not the first time that our minds have journeyed down the same path.
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