Tiger Woods’ wife will divorce the billionaire golf star and plans to spend Christmas apart after the sex scandal that has halted his career, US media reports said on Wednesday.
ABC News, NBC News and People magazine, all citing unnamed sources close to Elin Nordegren said she will split with Woods after he admitted infidelity amid reports that he had affairs with at least 14 women.
“Divorce is 100 percent on,” ABC News’ Web site reported a source saying. “She’s not rushing to divorce, however. She’s going to take her sweet time. She wants all the dirty laundry to be out on the table before she signs anything.”
The former model and mother of Tiger’s children — two-year-old daughter Sam and 10-month-old son Charlie — has met lawyers to renegotiate her prenuptial agreement with Woods, People reported.
“She has made up her mind. There’s nothing to think about: he’s never going to change,” another source reportedly said.
People also reported on its Web site that Nordegren, 29, was taking the children to Sweden for Christmas without Woods. But the same source said she planned to split her time between the two countries.
NBC News reported that Nordegren’s recent trips to a gas station and Thai restaurant without her wedding ring were meant to signal her future plans.
“Elin is not going to be one of these ‘stand by her man’ women,” a source told NBC. “This is beyond embarrassing, and she has a daughter and son she has to think about, who will know about this one day ... Forgiveness isn’t exactly around the corner.”
Nordegren has bought a beachfront estate on an island near Stockholm and several Web sites reported she had talked with movers at the mansion she shared with Woods near Orlando.
Entertainment gossip Web site TMZ reported on Wednesday that Nordegren is also near a marketing deal with Puma, a rival of Nike, which is the foremost sponsor to announce it will support Woods, after others cut their ties.
There was some support for Woods on Wednesday. He was named Athlete of the Decade in a vote by member editors of the Associated Press, with more than half of his 56 votes returned after his Nov. 27 car crash.
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