Tiger Woods Pretended He Was a "Virgin to Strip Clubs"
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In the presence of topless dancers, Tiger Woods played the shy little kitty cat -- but it was all just an act for the strip club regular, insiders tell the New York Post.
Prior to his explosive infidelity scandal (revelations began emerging in late November), Woods made a point of visiting NYC strip club Scores whenever he was in the Big Apple. Former Scores manager Tony Lombardi tells the Post that the married 33 year-old golfer always pretended he was a "virgin to strip clubs."
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To cover up his extramarital pursuits, the convincingly "innocent" athlete relied upon an entourage who would broker introductions to attractive women at clubs. "He'd just point and say 'Who's that?' and they'd go over and sayd 'Tiger Woods wants to meet you.' And they would never leave together," club magnate Rocco Ancarola says in the paper.
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Ancarola adds that it's common practice for club owners to cover up for the indiscretions of wealthy, famous patrons. "We in the business do that without thinking about it...You tend to protect the celebrities."
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The article also claims that Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, made a deal with the National Enquirer -- killing a story about one Woods affair by promising the athlete on the cover of Men's Fitness, owned by the same publisher as the tabloid.
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The New York Daily News adds that friends in Woods' inner sanctum were aware of his cheating but failed to speak up.
"A lot of us who love him saw this coming," one longtime friend is quoted as saying. "We said, 'You've got to be careful. It's really getting too raggedy.' In his own mind, he may not have thought he was doing anything wrong."
The pal adds that the athlete "was under a lot of pressure. He thought he was just letting off steam. He thought of it as a perk."
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82i like tiger. he is a man. i would play with tiger and his paws. whats wrong with a man playing with other cubbies.
Enough of tiger allready. This is a good diversion to keep you from thinking of the new taxes your gping to get, and the expansion of the terrioist war into Yemen. Wake up people.
wow, some people actually have freedom to express an opinion,
The problem with Tiger is called: MUH DIK. This is what happens when you are a n/gger or have n/gger dna. You can take the n/gger outof the jungle ,but you can't take the n/gger out of the n/gger.
SICKO....ELDRICK.
STAY STRONG, YOU ARE THE BEST!!
If you want to know someone's character, check out the people they hang out. Wasn't Tiger hanging out with Michael Jordan the famous basketball player? Also Thailand has an infamous economy, primarily based on sex. Where do you think Tiger's father met his mother. Add it all up
Proof that no matter how "hot" a wife is or isnt, a dude is gonna cheat if he has it in him. And no protection? Elin better make a trip to the doctor and fast!
Great golfer, horrible family man. If you want to play......DON'T GET MARRIED AND DRAG INNOCENT CHILDREN AND A WIFE INTO your kinky habnits. The buck stops right at Tigers door. He and only he, regardless of anything that "MIGHT" have happened at home, is responsible for his own actions. I wish Elin and the children the best of luck. Tiger needs to let them go and move on with his kinky life alone.
I thought Tiger Woods was a disciplined decent young family man with a beautiful wife and 2 adorable children. Looks like I was wrong about everything except Elin & the kids. I'm very disappointed in Mr. Woods and disgusted with the good ole boy circuit that conspires to hide the disgusting behavior of celebrities and athletes.They can go on all day about "perks" and "variety" but, at the end of the day it's all just an excuse to act like a roaming dog in the street.
His old man must have molded him in his own image. The nut fell right at the trunk!
I really think Tiger Woods has alot of praying to do. He really needs to reconnect with his family and the Lord. Since the media is going to continue to dig into his life he has double the work. How many men are out there right now cheeting on they're wives? So because this guy has more money then us that makes him worse then those out there? He is a man just like any of the others out there doing it.
Note to Joan -- could you be more naive? His image was carefully crafted to be "perfect" because thats the whole thing to golf..its pursuit of perfection and the seemingly unattainable hole in one..Tiger was professional, only occasionally reacting..it was that seeming perfection that got all the endorsements. Yeah, he got all that attention because he was a good golfer. Well Joan here's some news for you, Jack Nicklaus was a better golfer and the most he got was the opportunity to design a couple hundred golf courses and a sweater line. Tiger is a fraud. He deserves every single tiny bit of heat he is getting and I hope his wife gets his kids as far away from him as possible until he proves his stability and gets an AIDs test so she knows she isn't a walking incubator for some disease one of those horrible women were walking around with. She's breast-feeding the youngest, Mr. Woods put the health of his children at stake because of what he considered a perk?? This article by the way is disgusting. His friends, especially super Pimp - the big blob Brian the one that just got married to the Nike exec all deserve to be kicked repeatedly --- what MORONS. But Joan, do me a favor, realize that advertising and endorsements don't come from ability alone and for the public to come up with this singular image of Tiger -- that's MILLIONS of people, they all came up with the same imagery? Joan you are naive.,
I think it is disgusting that his friends kept this secret. Someone shpuld have told his wife and she would have been spared alot of the humiliation she went through and also some of what the children went through.I hope they never heve a sound sleep again for the part they plated.
Totally disagree that Team Tiger didn't market himself on his clean image. Athletes like Lebron James are endorsed purely on basketball talent and not as a "family man". Tiger Woods did indeed portray himself as a family man. Team Tiger "carefully crafted" his image through the media and I'm sure it was all done with the CEO Tiger Woods's approval. He is an obvious fake and a selfish man and deserves the backlash he is getting. He will never be the same in the court of public opinion no matter how hard he tries to resurrect his fake image. The public will never buy his fake "innocence" ever again.
I really feel not only for his wife,but his kids. They don't deserve this.
wow ths guy sounds horrible i reaaly hope if all that mess is true his poor wife leaves him, trully disgusted...
sheena- race has nothing to do with this. tiger woods is not black. he was raised by an asian woman. his father is also a womanizer who preferred non-black woman.
The media put Tiger on a pedestal. He never marketed himself as anything other than an extremely talented golfer. He kept his family and life outside of the golf course private. His endorsement activity was because of his golfing ability and no other reason. The public built him up in their minds to be a certain personna and now that image is shattered. Was he wrong, yes. But, does that make him less of a golfer. That's the ability that brought him fame. We all have a right to an opinion regarding this mess, but ultimately it's up to Tiger & Elin to resolve it and what they do and how they do it is no one's business but theirs.
Even with all that cash, it couldn't buy him class now. This dirty boy's image is ruined forever, such a disapointment.