Tiger Woods’ alpha mistress, Rachel Uchitel, said the 9/11 death of her former fiance, investment banker James Andrew O’Grady, was meant to be. “I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good,” she tells Page Six Magazine, in The Post on Thursday. “I’m almost happy it ended the way it did because I’ve learned so many lessons from him. It would have been tragic if we got into fights and then divorced.” Had O’Grady lived, Uchitel — who went on to reportedly make $500,000 a year working as a VIP hostess at Tao Las Vegas and at New York’s The Griffin, where she met Woods — believes her life would have been much different. “I would be a fat housewife with three kids in Sands Point, LI,” she tells the magazine. [NYP via Daily Intel]
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As Tiger’s revenues have declined, his expenses have only climbed. To begin with, there’s the reported $100 million divorce settlement. And last August, Woods took out a $54.5 million mortgage on his home in Jupiter Island, Florida. According to the public document, Woods is required to pay off the mortgage in full by January of 2016, giving him a mere five and a half years to shed the debt. He’s therefore paying more than $10 million each year, including his $431,042 in annual property taxes. Between the divorce settlement and his recent mortgage, Tiger has faced recent debts to the tune of at least $160 million, though it’s unknown how much of this he has now paid down. His endorsement earnings will not come close to this in 2011, and he’s no longer adding much to his pot with golf winnings. Nike’s decisive slash to his contract has not helped matters. [Fortune, earlier]
As you know, it’s never too early to start thinking about bonus season. Those of you who took our bonus negotiation tips to heart and have been practicing them faithfully in the men’s room bathroom with your wing-man have nothing to worry about. Others should be soiling yourselves in fear. But take heart. Even if it didn’t penetrate when I said to open with a line such as “Listen up you motherfuckers, let me just cut right to the chase. This not my first rodeo. I have signed a hundred other bonus agreements that have been way bigger than this shit, okay? So nobody is going to be fucking bamboozling anyone with this lingo-jingo-fucking mingo” and even if you do work for a shop taking it up the tailpipe this year, you can still do pretty okay with yourself, thanks to a certain philandering sports star with a taste for skanks and an aversion to turkey. Continue reading »
Goldman Sachs Loses Opportunity To Take Over Site Of Tiger Woods’ Apology For Turkey Club Tryst
By Bess Levin
Goldman Sachs Mortgage Co., the lender to the owners of Florida’s Sawgrass Marriott Resort, failed to win bankruptcy court permission to take over and sell the company’s assets. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Paul M. Glenn in Jacksonville, Florida, today denied Goldman’s request to lift the automatic stay, a part of the bankruptcy code that shields a company from creditors’ efforts to collect on its assets. Tiger Woods made his Feb. 19 apology for his marital infidelity at the TPC Sawgrass golf club.
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There’s nothing going on today but even if that weren’t the case, I’d still be asking you to gather ’round so we can have some Real Talk about Tiger’s supposedly scandalous texts to one of his 845 pieces on the side. Joslyn James (pictured) has released a bunch of messages Woods sent to her last year. A lot of people have their panties in a serious bunch over the supposed shock value found within. Here’s a sampling:
* “Where do you want to be bitten”
* “How about a quickie before i go:)”
* “Do you ever hook up with other guys or girls”
* “Let me know when your about 20 out i will order dinner. And what would you like to eat” Continue reading »
CNBC has the six-boxer and BREAKING NEWS banner out so fine, let’s get into this. What do we think the li’l fella’s gonna talk about today?
11:01 Many people in the room know him. (Some biblically?)
11:02 His real apology to Elin will not come in the form of words (’cause money talks bull shit walks, bitches).
11:03 Is he going to cry?
11:05 “ELIN NEVER HIT ME THAT NIGHT [on Thanksgiving] OR ANY OTHER NIGHT”
11:06 “Elin deserves praise, not blame” (who’s blaming her?)
11:07 “I thought I worked hard all my life and deserved to take part in the temptations that surrounded me.” [Eliot Spitzer nods gravely at home]
11:08 Why is this happening?
11:08 Character and decency, yada yada yada
11:09 Parents used to point to me as role models for their kids, now they just look at me as a big whore.
11:10 They sent me to rehab; I have a long way to go; just this morning, on the way here, I stopped at an IHOP and you have no idea how hard it was for me lay that ass across the griddle and give it the Tiger.
11:10 BTW- I never used steroids
11:12 Little known fact– I was raised a Buddhist. But I’ve strayed from those teaching in recent years.
11:13 I’m going to get even more therapy.
11:14 He’s going to go back to golf some day, one day, but probably not today.
11:15 Okay it’s time for this:
11:16 Extended hug for everyone in the audience.
First Reactions
FYI: Larry Kudlow thought it was a phenomenal apology, and he, as someone “familiar with the 12-Step Program,” loved the emphasis on step 9, the making of amends.
Chaz “I’m gonna skull fuck my former friends at CNBC” Gasparino isn’t set to take to the Fox Business airwaves until next week but even as he preps his veins to pop just right for the leering delight of his new staff, CG is working the phones, uncovering the stories, investigating the fluidity of situations. Though he doesn’t typically cover sports Charlie is a versatile enough reporter to handle whatever falls into his lap, including the Tiger Woods Beat Off beat. Here’s his latest, which he called in to new colleague Liz Claman, from the can:
I have been speaking with sponsors who say they have been alerted by his reps that a public apology from Tiger Woods is imminent. It could occur as early as tomorrow sometime around 11am, and that there’s going to be an announcement of the public apology that will be done at a press conference some time tonight. Now like I said, we don’t have this yet from Tiger’s representatives.
Tiger Woods To Make Public Apology And Return To Golf (Update) [Mediaite via DI]
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