When they got married it became their money because Tiger woods is an idiot who didn’t insist on a pre-nup.
He had a shit-load of leverage when he got married and used none of it.
Elin had a shit-load of leverage when she proceeded with divorce from him and is using all of it.
Chris Rock does an insightful bit about how the non-rich need prenups more than the rich. Tiger still likely has at least 3/4 of a billion dollars. I think he’ll be OK.
Now, if a guy making 25 thousand a year loses half of that… That’s gonna hurt quite a bit more.
Yep. It could be that he is truly sorry, deeply regrets what he did, and realizes that he has really screwed up his life,
He did have a pre-nup.
Difference of course is that your average $25,000/year guy is not going to be paying alimony. Child support, yes, but unless your family is the size of that Duggar family on “19 Kids and Counting” it probably won’t be as big of a percentage bite.
If Tiger did have a pre-nup…who wrote that thing?
TMZ is reporting that he is not paying that much(and isn’t worth that much even).
I am sure he had a pre-nup, and probably a good one.
he is buying her silence, more than anything else.
That she’s in it for her kids. That might be a factor, but the idea that they would get nothing in his will, even if he remarried a dozen times is ridiculous. No, what others have said is most likely true: he is buying silence.
When you said no woman is worth it, I said he is not paying for a woman, but for the kids. He is paying for her co-operation and access to his kids. Maybe her silence is more important to him than the kids; I am just going on what I personally would value.
Regarding whether she is in it for the kids – that wasn’t my point either. I have no idea of her motivations. But speaking pragmatically, it is her responsibility to negotiate the best deal for the kids. This is true regardless of whether she is a gold-digger or not. And there is no guarantee the kids will get some of Tiger’s will – consider Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith. It is pretty clear that Tiger’s decision-making process leaves something to be desired.
Because nothing is more romantic than essentially stating “Yes, my true love, my half-soul, I will love you and cherish you forever. I will stay with you in sickness and in health, when the going gets tough and all that nonsense. Now, when I fuck some random skank behind your back, or you suck off the pool boy, here’s how it’s gonna be…sign there please.”
As others have said, he had a pre-nup. He is choosing not to enforce it for whatever reason.
I was wondering - would there be any practical differences if you were worth only $750 million instead of $1.5 billion? I mean, maybe if you were interested in corporate takeovers or something, but certainly not in terms of living as lavish a lifestyle as you wished while investing it so as to ensure lifetime comfort for you and at least a couple of future generations.
Dinsdale has a very valid point.
As much as many folks wish to believe otherwise, our cultural heroes are all too human.
We find out that an elite athlete who was instrumental in a genuine increase in the interest in the PGA and became iconic for that sport, is fallible and has “feet of clay”.
We should remember this and remind others, but somehow we don’t do so very often.
Screw romance. If your net worth is, or has the realistic potential of being more than $100,000, getting married without a pre-nup is idiotic.