Elin Nordegren, Tiger's ex, bulldozes $12M house

Topics: Scandals ,; Golf

Elin Nordegren watches the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open at Crandon Park Tennis Center on April 2, 2010 in Key Biscayne, Florida.

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Elin Nordegren, the former Swedish model who divorced golf pro Tiger Woods after a five year marriage when his infidelity was revealed, has reportedly demolished her $12 million home in exclusive North Palm Beach, Florida and will build a new one on the plot.

A report by The Palm Beach Post shows a photo of the vast home taken in the spring, and then a photo of the empty plot taken on January 5.

According to the Post, Nordegren bought the home only about a year ago, after her highly public divorce from Woods in 2010.

Photos: Elin Nordegren

A local realtor who told the paper he visited the house for a party in the autumn, said he heard the plan was initially to renovate the 1930s home, but that Nordegren decided to start completely from scratch after work got underway.

The old house in the exclusive Seminole Landing development had eight bathrooms, an in-ground swimming pool, an elevator and a total floor space of 17,000 square feet, according to the Post.

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by BigBlivefromny January 12, 2012 12:42 AM EST: It is all relative peeps! I will never forget the day i happened to eavesdrop on the conversation of some VERY wealthy wives at a benefit event in Chicago and heard one woman complaining about how she and her husband had to by ANOTHER HUGE HOUSE in another state because their tax accountant advised it, and it was their 6th house, and she hardly ever went to a few of them...and the others were like, oh yes ,we have 5 houses dear etc....SICK!!!; Reply to this comment


by Samlv January 10, 2012 4:58 PM EST: I hope he had a pre-nupt.

Don't forget that nothing about her life has been made public. She's an ex-model, her parents were rich, so, hey, who knows.; Reply to this comment


by mullenplyr January 10, 2012 12:06 AM EST: I just love stories like this....makes me appreciate who I am...; Reply to this comment


by Scimajor January 7, 2012 1:35 AM EST: This couldn't possibly be a case of "In your face Tiger. See this $12 million? Watch it burn baby!. Watch it burn!. Oh and don't be late with your settlement payments.".

It disgustes me to see people throw money away like this. Sure Tiger was a complete scumbag for cheating on her but I don't remember reading a single article about him throwing away millions of dollars. On the contrary, I read plenty of stories about him raising many millions of dollars for charity.

Her actions (throwing away $12 million) are at least as revolting as were his actions (cheating on his wife).; Reply to this comment


by gruven13777 January 7, 2012 12:17 AM EST: I always knew that she was the real home-wrecker.; Reply to this comment


by relawson January 6, 2012 11:49 PM EST: How rich is too rich? That.

1-percenter throwing away a perfectly good mansion to build another. Sickening.

We place way too much value on looks and athletic ability. Tiger's good at golf and she's pretty. But we've clearly over-valued their worth. So much that they (ok, she) have money to literally throw away. His job is to hit a ball with a stick and her job is to look pretty. They add no value to our society as individual contributors.

It all just seems silly. This is why America is on the brink of collapse. We have our values misplaced.

Three generations ago we valued adventurers - people who discovered distant planets and walked across continents never explored by man, set foot on the moon, and flew solo across oceans. Now we value flash, not substance.; Reply to this comment

by AnnieDanny January 6, 2012 7:34 PM EST

This is FLORIDA... TERMITES... CARPENTER ANTS... BUGS... It's not hard to imagine WHY she decided it was better to start over than to renovate. I bet there were numerous problems with the house once the workers started going through it, and she finally decided Aw Heck. Let's start over.

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by 7monte77 January 7, 2012 5:10 PM EST: Yeah, termites and ants...if she was going to pay 12 million dollars for a house, where was the inspection to tell her that this was not the house to buy due to poor foundation or eaten up wood? And a house with numerous problems wouldn't be selling for 12 million would it? So for many of us POOR, it is quite hard to see why she did what she did.


by imnho January 6, 2012 4:43 PM EST: If she wishes to demolish her house and build a better one that is her perogative. Her motavation for her renovations is not open to public inspection. People who don't know can only take a wild guess as to why she did it.; Reply to this comment


by madp4400 January 6, 2012 3:45 PM EST: Now we finally get to see the other side of the Tiger story. She obviously has a lot of her own insane behavior going on within herself. If she is that much of a control freak about a inanimate object can you imagine what she is like with people close to her that she can't control completely. The worst is I feel sorry for the poor children that have to live with her.; Reply to this comment