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Elin Maria Pernilla Woods (born Elin Maria
Pernilla Nordegren, January 1, 1980, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a former
bikini model, better known as the wife of pro golfer Tiger Woods.
Elin's mother, Barbro Holmberg, is a
politician who served as 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.
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.
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 she.
Nordegren, whose modelling work did include bikini photoshoots,
vehemently denies that she has ever posed nude. The photographs claiming
to be of her in fact depict Playboy magazine model Kim Hiott, and most
are derived from the 2000 edition of Playboy's "Nudes" special
edition[1][2]. Despite this identification and repeated denials from
Nordegren and Woods, in September 2006 (immediately prior to the 2006
Ryder Cup) Irish magazine The Dubliner published an article "Ryder Cup
Filth for Ireland", which displayed the nude photographs of Hiott and
again claimed they were of Nordegren.[3] Woods decried the story as
"unacceptable" and his agent Mark Steinberg said "Everyone knew it
wasn’t her. It's plain as day."[4]. Steinberg also said the couple were
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."
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