The first woman named in the Tiger Woods mistress scandal, Rachel Uchitel, abruptly canceled a press conference set for this afternoon after getting calls from the golfer’s reprsentatives, according to a new report.
Several sources told Radaronline.com and TMZ.com that Woods’ camp is working hard to keep Uchitel from talking. One told the site that a $1 million payoff was discussed.
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Uchitel was first named by the National Enquirer as a Woods mistress, which she denied in an interview with The Post in which she blatantly lied about her history with Tiger.
Then Uchitel scheduled a press conference for today as TMZ.com reported that she did in fact have a relationship with Woods, something she was expected to disclose to the media.
TMZ also reported that it was text messages from Uchitel that sent Woods’ wife Elin flying into an angry rage the night of his crash, which happened early Friday. And Radar noted that Uchitel has saved hundreds of messages from her five-month relationship with Woods.
Other women also have come forward claiming to have had affairs with the father of two.
Uchitel hired power lawyer Gloria Allred as soon as the news of Tiger’s accident broke.
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Before the Friday morning accident, where Woods drove his SUV into a fire hydrant and then a tree in his Florida gated community, Uchitel and Woods were texting each other. When Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren, confronted him, she grabbed the phone and called Uchitel, TMZ.com reported. Woods and Nordegren then fought, breaking the phone in the process.
Meanwhile, it has come out that Woods also footed the bill for Uchitel’s trip to Australia, according to Radaronline.com. Woods was there as well.
Additionally, Radar reported today that Woods offered Jaimee Grubbs, one of the other woman who is claiming to have had an affair with him, a job and a place to live in Las Vegas.
“She said that he had offered her a condo or apartment,” a former co-worker of Grubbs told RadarOnline.com. “From what she told me, he said she could stay there for free and sort of manage the property.”
Grubbs admitted to carrying on a two-year affair with Woods and yesterday released a voicemail from him in which he asks her to change her voicemail message so that it wouldn’t reveal her name in case his wife tried calling it.
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