Tiger Woods Paid Rachel Uchitel $10 Million For Her Silence (wasted money)

It was a given when Rachel Uchitel hired Gloria Allred the moment the Tiger Woods affair story came out, that the former night-club manager  was looking to get paid, big time. And when a press conference that Allred scheduled was canceled a few days later, speculation was Tiger’s people had paid Uchitel, somewhere in the neighborhood of  $2 million for her golden silence.  Not a bad payoff indeed but apparently vastly understated.  TMZ sources now say Tiger was so concerned with the depth and detail of information from Uchitel that they “folded like a cheap suit” right off the bat.
Tiger’s team made a bold offer of $10 million in return for an ironclad confidentiality agreement before she could expose any details that could ruin him.
The actual settlement could fluctuate $1 million either way, depending on future circumstances, but the baseline for Rachel to keep quiet is eight figures.  The strategy of course did buy Uchitel’s silence but failed to account for the 14 or so other women that were set to come out of the woodwork, which ultimately turned the initial story, into the full blown scandal Tiger’s team was trying to avoid.  So I would consider that $10 million as poorly spent.

Rachel Uchitel starts work for Extra in familiar role

As we reported the other day, Rachel Uchitel has scored a new job as a correspondent for Extra, reporting on nightlife “hot spots,” which she does have a great deal of expertise on. Producers apparently liked how she interviewed and of course she is alleged mistress number one, who allegedly danced the horizontal mambo in secret with Tiger Woods, until his wife found out with some help from the National Enquirer.

The unlikely couple’s conversation centered around the departure of “Bachelor” contestant Ali Fedotowsky, who left the show this week.

As she and Pavelka danced, Uchitel didn’t tiptoe around asking the question on everyone’s mind: “When Ali went home, was she going to be one of the girls you kept?”

“Yes,” Pavelka answered. “Ali was going to get a rose that night.”

Fedotowsky left the reality mating game on Monday, explaining that her job was at stake.

If she stayed to get a red rose, her employer would give her a pink slip.

Pavelka said he was “heartbroken” to see the 25-year-old accounts manager go.

Well done on Extra’s part to start Uchitel in a role she is quite comfortable with, where she flirts a little while extracting the information she needs from some guy. Supposedly she has already received at least $1 million from Tiger Woods’ camp to secure her silence. That was after she supposedly had a torrid affair with Bones star David Boreanaz, while his wife was pregnant. With a resume like that, no need for a casting couch!