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Elin Nordegren
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Elin Nordegren Woods
Born January 1, 1980 (1980-01-01) (age 27)
Stockholm, Sweden
Residence Orlando, Florida
Occupation Model
Spouse Tiger Woods (2004 - present)
Children Sam Alexis Woods (b.2007)
Parents Thomas Nordegren, Barbro Holmberg
Relatives Axel and Josephin (twin sister) Nordegren
Elin Nordegren Woods (born January 1, 1980, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a former model, better known as the wife of the professional golfer Tiger Woods. Elin's mother, Barbro Holmberg, is a politician and former migration and asylum policy minister of Sweden, while her father, Thomas, is a radio journalist who has served as bureau chief in Washington, D.C. for the Swedish Broadcasting media.


[edit] Relationship with Tiger Woods
Elin and her twin sister Josefin had been working as nannies for Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik when he introduced her to Woods during the 2001 British Open. In November 2003, Tiger and Elin attended the Presidents Cup tournament in South Africa and became officially engaged when Tiger proposed at the luxury Shamwari Game Reserve. On October 5, 2004, Tiger and Elin were married by the 19th hole of an exclusive golf resort in Barbados. The ceremony reportedly cost over $1.5 million. Privacy was achieved by buying out the island's sole helicopter charter company and by booking the entire hotel - 200 rooms ranging in price from $700 to $8,000 per night.

On June 18, 2007, The Woods announced the birth of their daughter, Sam Alexis Woods, early that morning, just a day after Woods finished second in the 2007 U.S. Open.[1]


[edit] Nude photographs hoax
Shortly after Nordegren's relationship with Woods became public, nude photographs of a woman resembling Nordegren began circulating on the internet, with text claiming it was, in fact, her. Nordegren, whose modelling work did include bikini photo shoots, vehemently denied that she has ever posed nude. The nude photographs claimed to be of Nordegren actually depict Playboy magazine model Kim Hiott, and most are derived from the 2000 edition of Playboy's "Nudes" special edition.[2][3] Despite this identification and repeated denials from Nordegren and Woods, in September 2006 (immediately prior to the 2006 Ryder Cup) Irish magazine The Dubliner (magazine) published an article "Ryder Cup Filth for Ireland," which displayed the nude photographs of Hiott and again claimed they were of Nordegren.[4] Woods decried the story as "unacceptable," and his agent Mark Steinberg said, "Everyone knew it wasn't her. It's plain as day."[5] Steinberg also said the couple was considering legal recourse against the magazine. The Dubliner issued an apology for the story, saying that they had printed the photos as a "satire of tabloid publishing."

Elin won the lawsuit and as part of the settlement accepted by a Dublin court, The Dubliner must publish its lengthy apology in a variety of venues, including in its next issue. If the magazine fails to meet the conditions the award will be increased to $366,500 and the publishers will have to pay Nordegren Woods' legal costs.


[edit] References
It took almost a year, but an Irish magazine finally apologized on Friday to Elin Nordegren Woods for publishing fake nude photos during the 2006 Ryder Cup it claimed were of the wife of golfer Tiger Woods.

"The false and deeply offensive article in The Dubliner magazine, with the accompanying photograph of another woman wrongly claimed to be me, caused great personal distress to me and my family," Nordegren Woods said in a statement of the incident, which took place while the golfing event was being hosted at the K Club in Ireland.

The magazine also agreed to pay the former model "substantial" damages, according to Reuters, as part of a settlement stemming from the libel action she launched.

According to Reuters, "a source said the magazine had agreed to pay US$182,000 over two years. Nordegren Woods said the money would be donated to cancer support charities in memory of Heather Clarke, the late wife of British golfer Darren Clarke."

Trevor White, publisher of The Dubliner, said: "The story was cheap, tasteless and deliberately offensive."