Even if she had worked full-time her earnings would not have been close to what she got. Woods also was already big before he met her so he was basically doing her a favor (giving her an expensive lifestyle). I would have understand if she had asked for child support so the kids could live the same lifestyle but by asking for money it makes people think she was a golddigger.
Also what makes her different from other women who marry poor men who cheat?
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Money! Money! Money!
Tiger Woods had to pay his wife to stay IN the marriage. But she is looking at the fortune she would make to stay OUT of it.
Money – thats all Mrs. Woods is worried about at the moment! Its tearing the Woods family apart, like it has torn many others. As long as there is money in divorce, the judiciary will be a vested and interested party in divorce.
Even though he got hit on his front teeth, he cannot file for domestic violence, because of skewed laws!
Since usually it is the males who marry down, it appears logical (and is a fact ), that women want divorce first.
Is nt it time males woke up to their rights, and spoke up against money in divorce?
WAKE UP, MALES! SPEAK UP!
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It is always all about the money and don’t ever forget it.
I tend to look at it very differently. He was immoral and cheated on his wife; he committed adultery multiple times. He deserves to be taken to the cleaners as punishment for his horrific behavior.
They only announce the amount to make these wives look bad. The amounts are staggering for an ordinary person such as myself (and probably you) to wrap my brain around, but the truth is, the amount is based on a formula, and he has loads more to spare. This divorce was HIS fault, and while I think he made a poor husband, he wasn’t mine, and therefore, not my business.
What makes you think she asked for the money? They had a pre-nup before marriage. The divorce settlement amount and terms would have been established in the pre-nup.
What makes him different? You’re kidding, right? He’s Tiger Freaking Woods.
The big difference between this relationship and say, yours or mine, is that he’s Tiger Woods, and everything the guy does is in the spotlight and magnified a billion times. What he did was humiliating to her. Money is not supposed to buy happiness, but it’s also not supposed to buy you the right to be a serial panderer behind the back of your wife and children.
You might have an argument if he got caught with some friend or some unknown woman he met on the tour somewhere. But he led a spectacularly wild lifestyle with women who weren’t all…well, you get what I mean. Considering the number of flings he was having, did it ever occur to him that he might be bringing some skank disease into his home?
He humiliated her. She’s going to make him pay. That’s what happens. Sorry, but I have no sympathy for the guy.
I don’t think she looks like a golddigger. When you are married, it’s not HIS earnings or HER earnings, it’s YOUR earnings. She should be entitled to half of his assets. It would be different if she just got bored and decided to walk away – then I’d say too bad for her – she should get nothing. But since he cheated on her, I don’t think she’s doing anything wrong for asking to be compensated.
Nope. He put off an image of perfect family man and his beautiful Swedish bride was part of that. She helped him get those contracts. People loved his image and that is what sold.
Have your spouse cheat with someone and have unprotected an@l $e* and then see how much money you want.
I’m divided in my opinion. On one hand, with the amount of women that Tiger got with on the side, something awful needed to happen to him before he 1. caught some sort of disease (even if he didn’t take one home he couldn’t contracted one himself), or 2. that the media got wind of it and ruined him in front of the world. I’m not sure how he thought that him being Tiger Woods that someone wouldn’t catch wind of what he was doing. With so many different women, someone was bound to see him. With so many different women, one of them were bound to talk. So I think he’s a jackass for that and deserves the negative press and for his wife to walk out on him.
However, Elin said that money can’t buy happiness yet she didn’t all refuse to take any. If she really and truly wanted to rid of this man, legal fees and child support would’ve been all she asked for. Alimony should’ve been out the question. She should’ve left with what she came with, not including the two children she had during the marriage.
People say she got what was coming to her but a surrogate mother could’ve also given him two children and she wouldn’t have to be paid millions to do it- hence Debbi Rowe with Michael Jackson’s kids. Her services- having sex and getting pregnant- were expensive and that’s all she did. Oh and be eye candy on the arm of one of the most unattractive guys I’ve seen. She had maids, nannies, and other household help. I can’t claim fact but I’m willing to believe that an interior decorater designed her children’s rooms and whatever else around the house. She didn’t cook or clean or have a hands-on with her children like most women. So I don’t feel bad for her or Tiger. I do feel for those kids though because the media will bring this up at any chance.
Nope. He publicly and privately humiliated her. She has needs that he has supported their whole time being together. I do not believe in her getting more than what she deserves. However, I am on her side. He alienated their marriage..she has every right to ask for enough to support her life comfortably as she has lived for so long. He should have kept it in his pants.
Tiger Woods cheated, tough crap. He has to deal with the consequences. As adults, we all know what we are getting ourselves into. If you are dumb enough to do it and get caught, the blame is on you. Sorry. I believe in the sanctity in marriage and I strongly disagree with someone who believes that men normally marry "down". That is ridiculous and one reason the sanctity of marriage is gone in most relationships.