There’s all sorts of news about the state of Tiger Woods’ relationship with his wife, Elin. Radar Online has been running insider stories about the couple nonstop with new details, and it reminds me of this article in the Sunday NY Times magazine this week about how Radar serializes stories into the breaking news gossip that we love to hear. In Tiger and Elin’s case there’s been plenty of news and most of it points to the demise of their relationship. Despite some stories months ago that Elin was open to reconciliation, things seem to have taken a turn for the worst. Last week, Radar reported that Elin and Tiger were feuding over their children. Elin apparently wanted to take them out of the country to spend more time her native Sweden while Tiger wanted them to stay in the US where he could see them. The two have been working out an arrangement where they take separate vacations with the children, and are not talking to each other, according to Radar.
Elin was photographed out without makeup in Orlando on Sunday, having just returned on Friday from a trip to Arizona. She hasn’t worn her wedding ring since the scandal.
Two days home in a rented house a mile away from her husband was enough for Elin as she left Orlando with their two children, Sam, nearly two, and Charlie, 14 months. Radar reports that she went home to Sweden but it was only for a vacation, not for an extended stay. It looks like she got her way.
Woods’ wife Elin flew home to Sweden with their two children on Monday, RadarOnline.com reports exclusively.
Elin flew to Sweden with one stop after leaving Orlando on Monday, as exclusively revealed by RadarOnline.com. Elin arrived in Stockholm around 4:30am local time. As RadarOnline.com previously mentioned, Elin flew via private jet.
Though European airports had been closed thanks to the ash cloud from a recent Icelandic volcano, flights recently had been allowed back into Sweden. One news report confirmed that airspace over northern and central Sweden is now open and Stockholm’s Arlanda airport is open to flights to and from the United States.
The new separation comes as the couple continues to live apart and spends virtually no time together. Elin has taken four trips without Tiger in the past several weeks, including four nights in Arizona that overlapped with Tiger’s appearance in the Masters.
RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively that Elin is not planning a short stay but is also not in Sweden for an extending [sic] trip.
[From Radar Online]
According to reports, Elin stands to get an additional $55 million on top of her original prenup ($20 million for 10 years of marriage – they’ve been married five and a half) if she sticks around for another two years. I don’t see that happening given how often she’s jetting out of town. I would be surprised if she comes back in the next couple of weeks.
that baby is wearing $300 jeans! why?!?!
How’d she fly out to Sweden on Monday when all the airports are closed in most of Europe due to the volcano in Iceland? Do celebrity flights get special passes to be the first out after hundreds of thousands of people get stranded?
Oh, she’ll stick around. Two more years, or until Tiger negotiates an additional settlement. He’s ruined her private life. What price do you put on that?
I thought the same thing…who buys their baby True Religion jeans??
I know celebrities do, but that doesn’t make it any less stupid.
@ams1,too much money not enough sense?! but having said that I have just spent £300 on a pair of boots, so I am not one to talk…
well its good the kids will get to spend some quality time with their maternal granparents
yeah, Elin. Keep the babies in Sweden where that man can’t corrupt them—I’m sure there’s a lawyer that can accomplish that. Tiger is a psychopath.
AL: That is what I was thinking… when did they shut down the airports… and when did/have they opened some flights back up?
She doesn’t have to stick around for money. He messed up. Her lawyers could argue the marriage would have lasted longer if he didn’t screw around and thus get way more money then what was arranged.
Oh the article explained that airspace over Sweden has been opened up.
that baby is wearing $300 jeans! why?!?!
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Because they fit better!!! (And Daddy is worth $1 billion.)
I just hope Elin is able to eventually raise these kids without Tiger’s toxic influence. He doesn’t deserve the privledge of being a father figure to them after the total disregard he showed for his family.
Those jeans are NOT $300, they are $80 on Nordstrom’s website. Any not-giving-a-shit way, if I were given free clothes and shoes for my kid, yeah, they’d wear it. I’m sure all the Nike gear is free and the other stuff is what it is. I mean the man makes enough for his kids to wear whatever. But if that’s the lifestyle she has become accustomed to, then she may have to suck it up and stay with Sir Poke-A-Lot.
The baby is wearing $300 jeans because Elin can buy them. I’m sure $300 is nothing to her.
I wouldn’t spend that on a pair of jeans for myself so I don’t understand spending that on a baby to wear briefly.
Well maybe she could use some of the cash she will be getting to surgically remove those sunglasses from her face. 🙂
I heard the airspace is just opening up-I wouldn’t fly my kids over an ocean till its way more safe to fly. I’m surprised she did that but I get that she wants space from Golf Douche Woods. If she stays married to him and they are miserable its going to be so much worse for their kids.
without those glasses, its not pretty
case in point
http://jjb.yuku.com/topic/612586 woof
Al2 & Risa – did you read the post?
“Though European airports had been closed thanks to the ash cloud from a recent Icelandic volcano, flights recently had been allowed back into Sweden. One news report confirmed that airspace over northern and central Sweden is now open and Stockholm’s Arlanda airport is open to flights to and from the United States.”
I really want to see her have a ridiculously successful career as a model or whatever once she dumps him. I just really really want her to have so much of her own starpower. I completely understand and respect that she’s modest and more than happy just being a mother, but still, now awesome would that be?
That baby is so cute!!
the baby is cute!! i don’t care if the jeans were $80 thats too much to spend on a baby’s clothes!
I am so glad she’s back in Sweden with the kids.
Being in her home country must be a breath of fresh air compared to the nightmare she lives over here.
Tiger made his bunker, now lie in it.
Finally! Get the hell out of there, Elin! I can’t believe she stayed around Tiger for this long. I hope she doesn’t go back, even for the money. He is likely disease-ridden!
damn bite me, kick her while she’s down!lol
I kid, but seriously, so she doesn’t look good without makeup? I’ve seen plenty of pics where she does have make up on and puts lots of our little hollywood starlets to shame.
I hope she finds a nice Swedish guy to ease her pain! They can be quite sexy 😉
I’m glad she ran… I would if I could. And, if my bank account looked like theirs, I’d spend mucho bucks on everything too. It’s all relative people…. You and me = mac n’ cheese. Them = caviar. All relative…
if she’s smart she’ll stay there.
I think she’s gorgeous and I don’t blame her for wearing large glasses, that’s silly.
I feel badly for her, but she was a nanny who hooked her claws into the sports celebrity. It’s an old, familiar story. Maybe she should have played the Homewrecker instead, going for the married golfer who already had the family, better rounding out the cliche and leaving the heartache to someone else.
“she was a nanny who hooked her claws into the sports celebrity”
Uh, no. It’s not like she got pregnant against Tiger’s wishes to trap him into marriage or anything like that. He presumably (in the absence of any evidence to the contrary) married her willingly and made a commitment to her.
And from what the public has seen, she has kept up her end of the bargain. As far as anyone knows, she’s always behaved with decorum. She’s given him 2 cute kids. She seemed to have always supported his career and contributed to his positive public image.
I know rich men and beautiful women hook up all the time, and it’s no secret what the attraction is (looks in exchange for money). But it’s not like she “trapped” him or anything.
Can anyone picture the deliciously sexy Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgard and Elin together? Alexander to Elin: “Du ar vackar. Jag alskar dig. Skilsmassa din man.Gifta sig med mig.” I think if that scenario happen she would leave Tiger tout de suite.
Divorce him already! This story is getting beyond boring now.
I would dearly love to know why Tiger cheated on his BEAUTIFUL wife with gross, no-style, trashy lowlifes. It makes no sense.
Spend it Elin!! They don’t even feel it.
She needs to split permantly while the kids are still small. Run, Elin! Tiger’s texts saying he wants to smack hos in the face really should’ve been enough to turn her off forever.
I don’t get the big deal here?
It’s summer time/golf time, Tiger is busy practicing for another tourney and she wants to take the kids to grandparents.
families do that every day. Why go crazy making up stories that might just make you look like an idiots?
I’m sure she was in a private plane. That would explain how she got a seat on the first day available to fly.
Wow, okay, here we go:
It was a private flight, and since money has it’s privileges, I’m sure privately-owned/leased plane companies were amongst the first to know about airspace, etc. If Sweden was where my family lived, and it was far enough away from that bastard that I knew I wouldn’t kill him as long as I wasn’t around him, I’d take the first flight I could get, too.
No baby needs $80 jeans. It’s a sad comment on our label-conscious, wasteful society. When you’re learning to walk, and when your feet are no longer growing, it’s fine to spend big money on shoes – if you have it to spend. Growing feet, especially little ones just getting comfortable with walking, need special support. $300.00 boots will last an adult woman a very long time, provided they are a classic design and well-taken care of.
Elin was a nanny for another golfer’s kids, and that man introduced her to Tiger. It’s not like she schemed and plotted, like the latest sluts du jour, to trap him via a scandalous affair or “unplanned” pregnancy. She’s been through enough. Give the girl a break.
Well Tiger is still the father of her kids and she cant keep them away from him even though he cheated, that has nothing to do with him being a good father to his children.
@Bee – I was actually thinking the exact same thing when I said I hope she finds a hot Swedish guy! Way better couple than him and Bosworth. 😛
#36 Mel, I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Courts are becoming much more savvy about psychological damage that this “addictive” or personality disordered parenting can do to the children. Elin has a strong case for sole custody if she can get a really good attorney. I hope that’s what happens, but hey, it’s their life, right? Those kids are so darling…I think they deserve to grow up with normalcy, which would be Sweden, not the US.
OMG! Some weird jealous vibes i am getting here. So what if the jeans are $300 or $500 or even a $1000? Did she borrow the money from you? WTH? its her money, and she can damn well do whatever the hell she wants to do with it. Just because you can’t afford it, don’t mean you should hate on her because she can! Envy makes you evil!
@padiddle I can already picture all of their adorable Swedish babies. Get the to Alexander Elin! Alexander flee thy bony bitch Bosworth.