Tiger Woods' Alleged Mistresses Cash In
Tabloids offer six-figure sums to women who claim affairs with golfing great.
Dec. 14, 2009— -- The U.K. tabloid News of the World on its Web site promises "big bucks for tips, stories, pictures and videos. Buy a new kitchen, put the money towards a new car or treat your family to a holiday -- your story could be worth a small fortune!"
The willingness of media outlets to pay up for celebrity dirt has caught the attention of Tiger Woods' alleged paramours, some of whom are brokering six-figure deals in the U.S. and Britain, selling the steamy details of their reported romances to the highest bidder, an insider said.
"Mistresses were being offered between $100,000 and $200,000 to talk to the British tabloids and American magazines," said an insider who helped one purported paramour sell her saucy story to a U.K. tabloid.
Even friends and relatives of the women can get in on the cash.
"Family members with great info were offered about $20,000, up to $50,000, for their interviews. These are usually done in conjunction with a shy mistress who doesn't want to go public," she said.
Following the initial reports of an affair with nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel and a bizarre early morning car crash outside his Florida home on Nov. 27, a steady stream of women have come forward to claim they had affairs with the married Woods.
At least three of the more than one dozen women who have claimed to have had affairs with the golfer have reportedly sold their stories to the paying press.
In recent weeks a porn star and a pancake waitress have each reportedly sold their stories of secret sex romps with the golfer, supplying text messages and voice mail messages said to confirm the connection.
News of the World reportedly paid Mindy Lawton, 33, a waitress at a Perkin's diner in Orlando, who told the tabloid she and Woods had sex in the golfer's home and his car parked in a church parking lot.
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