Elin Nordegren appears to have finally picked up and left for her native
Sweden with the kids, and without husband Tiger Woods.
Witnesses say a motorcade of two police cars and eight police motorcycles
arrived at the family's gated-community home in Florida on Monday,
presumably to escort Elin out.
Two police helicopters were also part of the operation, a photographer with
website X17 reported.
Sources last week reported that Nordegren was planning a trip home to Sweden
for the holidays – and maybe longer - where the family keeps a home.
Woods has not been seen in public since he was taken to hospital on Nov. 27
after the infamous car crash that brought his infidelities to public light,
and was reported last week to being holed up alone at home and close to the
edge.
However, People.com reported this weekend that he's sailed off from North
Palm Beach with some friends on his 155-foot luxury yacht “Privacy” to cruise
the Bahamas for a few days.
Nordegren may be using the time apart to contemplate her future marital
status.
Celebrity gossipers are atwitter with conflicting reports of whether
Nordegren will go through with an immediate plan to divorce her cheating
husband.
According to popular celebrity site TMZ, Nordegren just can't get over Woods'
alleged three-year affair with 40-year-old Theresa Rogers, that started
before their marriage, as well as reports that he cheated during her
pregnancy. One source said the "divorce is 100% on."
But celebrity divorce attorney Raoul Felder told the U.K. Telegraph that she
would be "financially ill-advised" to walk out on the philandering golfer at
this point, as she could miss out on more than $50 million if she pulled the
trigger now.
Felder said that, according to Florida law, Nordegren would only be entitled
to the sum agreed in the prenuptial agreement before the couple married in
2004 – believed to be $20 million.
Days after the sex scandal started to unfold, the couple reportedly began
renegotiating their prenup. Lawyers familiar with those discussions said she
could be paid up to an additional $55 million to stay with Woods for just
two more years.
"If this is a financial calculation, then I don't think you will see her
seeking a divorce," Felder told the Telegraph. "If she left now, she would
only get the prenup deal. You normally don't get extra reparations for
adultery or humiliation."
Elsewhere, Team Tiger defenders continue to come out of the woodwork.
Former tennis champion Boris Becker, 42, who fathered a child with a Russian
model after a brief sexual encounter in a cupboard at a London restaurant
while his wife was pregnant, said he could identify with the golf star.
“I experienced exactly the same and I can sympathize with him,” the German
newspaper Bild quoted Becker, winner of six grand slam titles, as telling a
TV show to be aired Monday.
Becker, who had a messy divorce and became the butt of jokes for his flings,
said he believed it would be “damned hard” for father-of-two Woods to save
his marriage to Swede Elin Nordegren.
