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Here is a Reuters story about his women...Tiger Woods image takes a bogey: but will it cost him?
By Steven Edwards, Canwest News ServiceDecember 2, 2009Comments (15)
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Tiger Woods has refused to speak to police about Friday's car crash, fueling wild media speculation.
Tiger Woods has refused to speak to police about Friday's car crash, fueling wild media speculation.
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NEW YORK â€" Tiger Woods risks losing millions of dollars worth of endorsement contracts after his comments on Wednesday appeared to fuel speculation that he may have been untrue to his wife.
For now, deals with the likes of Nike, AT&T, and Gillette appeared to be holding fast as companies that have bought into his formerly squeaky clean image opted to postpone any assessment of fallout from the current headlines.
Paid endorsements by the world's No. 1 golfer have gone a long way to making him the world's richest sportsman, with an estimated fortune of $1 billion, and current annual endorsement income of approximately $100 million.
But marketing experts warn that the cash inflows are pegged to the brand, which loses value if tainted.
Woods, 33, issued a "profound apology" for what he called "transgressions" Ã¢â‚¬" but also insisted he be left alone to try to work things out with his family.
His mea culpa came as allegations emerged that his Swedish wife, Elin Nordegren, appeared to have personally confronted one of the three paramours celebrity-focused magazines have cited as his mistresses.
A woman believed to be Nordegren, 29, called the number belonging to Jaimee Grubbs, a Los Angeles wienertail waitress, who has claimed she had a 31-month-long affair with Woods. The woman allegedly accused Grubbs of having sex with her husband, sources told TMZ.com.
Grubbs, 24, who told her story to Us Weekly this week, had formerly been best known for her appearance in VH1's reality dating show Tool Academy.
The phone call to Grubbs constituted another piece of the puzzle that burst into the open last week after the National Enquirer published its story about another alleged mistress, and questions mounted about what caused Woods to crash his Cadillac Escalade outside his Orlando, Fla., home in the wee hours Friday.
On multiple occasions, Woods refused to meet with Florida police to give a full accounting of the accident, as was his right under the law in that circumstance.
But while he had grounds to repel law enforcement authorities, he could not shake media interest in ferreting out every detail that might run counter to the public's perception of him as a loyal father of two.
Woods' statement Wednesday appeared on his website, and contrasted sharply with one Monday in which he had done little more than accept "responsibility"Â for the accident.
"I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all my heart,"Â Woods said in his apology.
"I have not been true to my values and the behaviour my family deserves."Â
The admission made no specific mention of any of the alleged affairs, but mimicked in tone the claim to being the victim of human weakness that talk show host David Letterman also made following his recent forced admission of infidelity.
"I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect,"Â Woods wrote.
But unlike Letterman, who for days continued to talk about his predicament by using it as material for his monologue, Woods accompanied his mea culpa with a plea for privacy.
"No matter how intense curiosity about public figures can be, there is an important and deep principle at stake, which is the right to some simple, human measure of privacy,"Â he wrote. "I realize there are some who don't share my view on that."Â
Woods also took a direct shot at what he called the "tabloid scrutiny"Â of his life, saying he had been unprepared for it, and charging that some of the printed allegations have veered from reality.
"The stories, in particular, that physical violence played any role in the car accident, were utterly false and malicious,"Â he wrote. "Elin has always done more to support our family and shown more grace than anyone could possibly expect."Â
An accident report released Wednesday by the Florida Highway Patrol said Woods ran off the road three times as he drove over curbs and onto medians, hitting a hedge in addition to the hydrant and tree. Damages were estimated at $3,300 â€" $3,000 for the hydrant, $100 for the hedge and $200 for the tree and sod.
Woods lawyer said Wednesday that the golfer has paid a $165 fine imposed for careless driving. Further property repair payments are pending.
Nike's statement that its relationship with Woods "remains unchanged"Â was typical of statements by many of the other sponsors, which also include Electronic Arts Inc., TLC Vision Corp., Berkshire Hathaway's NetJets Inc., and PepsiCo Inc.'s Gatorade.
The National Enquirer story cited sources claiming that Woods had conducted an affair with club promoter Rachel Uchitel, who denied any such relationship, and publicly described one of the female sources as a "train wreck."Â
But media reports raised the question that Woods and his wife may have been arguing about the allegations when he left in his vehicle, then crashed.
Woods' admission comes a day after Grubbs went public with a bombshell voice mail recording from Nov. 23 that she says is the golfer's voice.
In the message, the male voice says that he expected his wife to be checking up on him by calling numbers marked in his phone â€" and asked Grubbs to wipe off her name from her personal greeting so that Elin would not know it was the phone of a woman.
A third alleged mistress named this week was Kalika Moquin, a Las Vegas club manager. Though she has neither confirmed nor denied any affair, Woods told her he "wasn't happy in his marriage or his home life,"Â a woman claiming to be her friend told Life & Style magazine.
In her interview, Grubbs claimed to have received hundreds of text messages from Woods, and that they were intimate 20 times. She said they were even due to meet in the week one of his children was born, but that he called off the tryst because of a "family issue."Â
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