Tiger Wood’s Wife, Elin Nordegren, Wins Lawsuit and Recovers her Honor
Posted on December 11, 2007
Elin Nordegren, the wife of celebrity golfer Tiger Woods, won $183,250 and an apology Friday from an Irish magazine that published a faked nude photo of her.
Trevor White, publisher of “The Dubliner,” admitted that the article — published in September 2006 when Ireland was hosting the Ryder Cup — “was cheap, tasteless, and deliberately offensive. It was also completely untrue.” The article visibly angered Woods during the opening day of competition, which the United States lost to Europe.
“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 said in a public statement about the incident.
Nordegren says she will donate the money to a cancer charity in honor of Heather Clarke, the wife of Northern Ireland golfer Darren Clarke. She died of cancer before the Ryder Cup tournament.
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.
The controversial article’s headline described the U.S. golfers’ wives as “Ryder Cup filth.” The story claimed that Woods’ wife “can be found in a variety of sweaty poses on porn sites across the Web.” It also insulted the wives of golfers Chad Campbell, David Toms and Jim Furyk, who did not sue.
Source - bostonherald.com
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