Woods and wife set to escape to private island

Thursday, December 10, 2009

TIGER WOODS and his wife Elin Nordegren have avoided contact with the public by hiding out in their family home in a Florida gated community since news of Woods’ alleged affairs broke two weeks ago.

Now a source close to Nordegren’s family tells the celebrity website Pop Tarts that the two are considering putting even more distance between themselves and Tiger’s cheating scandal.

The insider says the couple is planning to leave the country "very soon".

"Elin and Tiger are planning to temporarily move closer to Sweden, possibly to a private island, to get away from it all," the insider said.

The news comes after Elin’s mother Barbro Holmberg, visiting from Sweden to assist her daughter during this trying time, was rushed to Florida’s Health Central hospital on Tuesday after suffering stomach pains.

She was released later in the day and reportedly returned to her daughter’s house.

Despite the number of women coming forward to claim affairs with Woods, Nordegren’s family is hoping that the high-profile couple will somehow work through the scandal, the insider told Tarts.

"Elin’s family couldn’t be more devastated," the source said. "But they want [Tiger and Elin] together for the kids’ sake."

The family’s efforts to keep it together come as more news on Tiger Woods’ alleged promiscuous behaviour comes to light.

A source told Pop Tarts that Woods was at New York’s club The Griffin numerous times during the summer of 2009, where he met up with his first outed alleged mistress, Rachel Uchitel, who worked at the club as a VIP hostess.

"He was always very flirty as he partied, and kept coming back," a club insider told Tarts. "A few people started to think it was suspicious that Elin was never there."

Meanwhile, there are also reports that a lingerie model not only got Tiger’s attention – she also got a bundle of his dough to stay in his den.

Jamie Jungers, 26, used the money she got from the 34-year-old Woods to enhance her already striking looks&.

"Tiger gave Jamie thousands of dollars," said an insider quoted by the mag. "She took that money to get liposuction on her thighs."

Jungers met Woods in Las Vegas in 2005 while working as a so-called "Trashy Girl" for the Trashy Lingerie line.

They supposedly cavorted without the knowledge of Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren, for more than a year – and at the same time the curvy Jungers was engaged, the report says.

This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Thursday, December 10, 2009