Tiger Woods Had "Cleaners" on Retainer
Many people have wondered why, given his reckless cheating, Tiger Woods didn't have a crisis manager (or "cleaner," like Harvey Keitel's character in Pulp Fiction or the title character in Michael Clayton) ready to clean up potential messes.
It turns out he did, and his crisis managers bailed him out of sticky situations with women more than once before he knew about his sordid double life.
According to TMZ, Woods' lawyers and PR firm got him out of a messy situation over an Orlando woman he hooked up with even before he was married.
Theresa Rogers, perhaps?
Whoever it was, Tiger had met a waitress at an Orlando bar and the two drove off together, pulling over and stopping on the side of a remote road.
A police car drove by and an officer became suspicious. There was an exchange between the officer and Tiger, but no one was arrested or cited.
Tiger had "fixers" on speed dial, but they could only do so much.
Tiger's PR firm and lawyer were worried the woman might sell the story and "negotiated a carefully-crafted settlement" with her to keep her quiet.
There were other situations where Tiger's team resolved messy situations with women that "could reflect negatively on his squeaky-clean image."
His reps were especially worried because of the morals clauses in contracts Tiger had signed (Accenture dumped him as its pitchman yesterday).
While the cleaners did a good job for years, they were in over their heads with the crap Tiger pulled that ultimately blew the lid off the scandal.
After all, the National Enquirer outed his affair with Rachel Uchitel after he had her flown to Australia to be with him. Hard to explain that away.
Even harder to clean up, even for professionals? Getting attacked by a golf-club wielding wife and crashing your car after she reads the Enquirer.
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December 16th, 2009 3:41 AM
If Tiger needed "cleaners" to keep him afloat, he was just waiting to "bottom out" (get caught by everyone) so he could no longer deny that he had a problem. He was in denial and figured that as long as noone knew, he didn't have to face it.
Oh boy! I hope he has as many 12 step programs to help him out as he had cleaners.
December 15th, 2009 5:57 PM
Tiger is a white meat only kind of guy. He's black but the black girls are below him. He's trying to be like whitey and becoming more of a negro each day. Pity. He could have done so much for his race too. Now nothing he could do - can overcome this sicko.
December 15th, 2009 5:13 PM
i hope tiger learns from all this sleeping around when his kids grow up.He tells charlie and sam when they are twenty years old dont sleep with multiple partners
December 15th, 2009 1:14 PM
At least Tiger doesn't have his bimbos trying to bleed him dry. The whole thing is a little more refined than Anna Nicole Smith's approach(funny how anyone could make Tiger's circus seem more civilized by comparison)of building up some phony estate claim and marching all the way to the Supreme Court. Here, Tiger can settle with the ones who could hurt his image the most and maybe get back to golf, though that seems an eternity away.
December 15th, 2009 9:31 AM
Hmmm. It's curious that he was able to hush up past indescretions but now all this ugliness has come to light supposedly over a single and very minor car accident. If these women are so anxious to sell stories of their supposed affairs with Tiger now, then what kept them quiet in the past?
December 15th, 2009 8:32 AM
Let see you provide evidence that Cheetah's wife attacked him with a club. Exactly where in any police report does it say that?
I'll tell you where - nowhere. It just amuses you to make sh*t up.
Oh -- and to copy TMZ news and declare it your own.