Elin Nordegren, the wife of golfer Tiger Woods, won $183,250 and an apology in a lawsuit over nude photos that an Irish magazine published.
The photos were fake and the abusive article wrong.
The publisher of The Dubliner, conceded.
He said that the article — published in September 2006 was
1. cheap,
2. tasteless
3. deliberately offensive.
4. also completely untrue
Ireland was hosting the Ryder Cup at the time.
Tiger Wood's wife, Elin Nordegren Woods, welcomed the settlement in a statement Friday.
"The false and deeply offensive article in The Dubliner magazine, with the accompanying photograph of another woman wrongly claimed to be me, caused great personal distress to me and my family."
The money won in the settlement will be donated to a cancer charity in honor of Heather Clarke, the wife of Northern Ireland golfer Darren Clarke.
We know the Woods don't need the money.
No love lost - "This regrettable episode in our lives in no way detracts from the great love of Ireland that Tiger and I share," Nordegren Woods said. "We look forward to experiencing the extraordinary warmth of its people and of our many friends in Ireland again in the future."
Part of the apology - "The photograph was not of Ms. Nordegren Woods. There are no such photographs of Ms. Nordegren Woods on internet sites or elsewhere. Ms. Nordegren Woods has never posed, or been photographed, nude. The story was utterly and comprehensively false," the publisher said.
We learn things from this incident.
1. Coming clean can cost money, a bit of your reputation, but at least you can be clean.
2. It doesn't pay to be cheap, tasteless, offensive....and such. Or did the rag make more money off their shenanigans than they had to pay in fines?
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