Mrs. Woods Wins Damages Over Phony Nudie Pics

by Mulligan Stu on Dec 7, 2007 4:39 PM EST Comment 1 comment

During the 2006 Ryder Cup, an Irish magazine called The Dubliner published a photo of a nude woman it claimed was Elin Nordegren, Tiger Woods' wife and a former model.

But it wasn't Nordegren. And Elin and Tiger were not amused. Elin filed suit, and today the magazine issued an apology and agreed to pay roughly $180,000. The Woodses will donate the money to cancer research in memory of Heather Clarke, the wife of Darren Clarke who died of breast cancer prior to that Ryder Cup.

Reuters reports:

The statement from Nordegren said Trevor White, publisher of The Dubliner, had apologized unreservedly for the article.

"The story was cheap, tasteless and deliberately offensive," it quoted White as saying in the magazine's apology.

White described the article, entitled "Ryder Cup Filth For Dublin?," as utterly and comprehensively false, profoundly hurtful and shameful.

"The article was accompanied by a nude photograph of a woman falsely identified as being Elin Woods and the article falsely stated other such photographs were to be found on Internet porn sites," he said.

"There are no such photographs of Ms. Nordegren Woods on Internet sites or elsewhere. Ms. Nordegren Woods has never posed, or been photographed, nude."

She has, however, been photographed in bikinis. She's a former model, after all. So I'm going to donate $100 to cancer research (seriously) and run the following Elin bikini pic. And if you look at it, I ask that you donate $20 to the breast cancer-related charity of your choice. So close your eyes if you can't spare the money.