It’s bad enough that Woods couldn’t control his putter—now his "road women" have Tiger by the tail (and the wallet).
The sudden revelation that golf’s shining star is not nearly as cleancut as we were led to believe has left his female fans bitterly disappointed. But perhaps the saddest aspect of this whole shabby escapade is that Tiger Woods has fallen so easily into that classic male sand trap--uh, sex trap--of marrying high, cheating low.Once labeled the madonna-whore complex, this is behavior we’ve witnessed countless times before. Among the more notable recent examples:
Bill Clinton, raised in near-squalor and violence, marries “up,” winning a well-mannered, well-educated, middle- class lawyer as his bride. Next thing you know, he’s cavorting with “actress/model” Gennifer Flowers and accepting the sexual favors of an intern who, despite her cushy background, clearly left her brain cells in that pizza box.
Eliot Spitzer, hard-charging New York crime buster, marries the elegant, Baptist-reared corporate lawyer Silda—and ends up as Client 9 in a hotel room with Ashley Dupree, a hooker only four years older than the Spitzers' eldest daughter.
Former U.S. senator and onetime presidential hopeful John Edwards flaunts his longtime union with the beautiful and accomplished lawyer Elizabeth (hmm…are we seeing a pattern here?), then reveals he has fathered a child with a onetime party girl turned campaign videographer Rielle Hunter. That his wife was battling breast cancer only makes the story grimmer.
Can Tiger top those guys? Well, he’s trying.
After years with Joanna Jagoda, a UCLA law student, he marries Elin Nordegren, a beautiful model and nanny who at one point planned to become a child psychologist. The child of wealthy Swedish parents with professional pedigrees—Mom is a politician, Dad a journalist—she has shunned the spotlight and, by all accounts, was reluctant to get involved with a celebrity to begin with. (Whichever friend talked her into that first date has presumably been erased from Nordegren's cell phone.)
Now, five years and two kids into their marriage, and following a bizarre collision with a fire hydrant at the end of his driveway, Woods is first linked to Rachel Uchitel, a woman whose job responsibilities seems to include luring boldface names into shady spaces. Denying involvement with Woods, Uchitel offered this excuse for her proximity to the golf-swinging star: “I am around celebrities and very rich people all the time…It’s my job. I work in the nightclub industry.” In an admirable attempt at perfect clarity, she also
