Tiger to pay price to keep wife, secrets: media

GOLF: LOS ANGELES, Dec 5, 2009; - Tiger Woods is willing to pay dearly to hold onto his marriage and keep his private messages secret, according to celebrity website reports still swirling around the world's top golfer.

A week after the one-car traffic accident in front of his Florida mansion, Woods has apologized for "transgressions" and "personal sins" and seen the private life he so zealously guarded ripped open for the world to see.

The Daily Beast reported that Woods has offered wife Elin an immediate bonus payment of five million dollars to stay married in a revised pre-nuptual agreement that would give Elin a further 55 million dollars to stay married to him for another two years.

"I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family," Woods said in a statement earlier this week.

The TMZ.com entertainment news website reported Friday that Rachel Uchitel, one of Woods's alleged mistresses, did not take money from Woods to call off her scheduled news conference on Thursday.

RadarOnline had reported that Uchitel was offered one million dollars by the golf star to keep his personal correspondence with her private. But TMZ.com reported that while Uchitel spoke with Woods representatives, she did not talk with reporters because of safety fears over how much she knows about Woods, his family and extra-marital relationships and the growing number of people entangled in the scandal. But it said she was so much fearful of Woods as other people caught up in the storm.

TMZ also reported Friday that it had obtained e-mails and a flight itinerary involving Uchitel and Bryon Bell, a childhood friend of Woods who once caddied for him at an event and works at Tiger Woods Design.

AFP