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    Devil Ball Golf

    Tiger Woods’ ex-wife bulldozes $12 million home

    By Shane Bacon | Devil Ball Golf – Thu, Jan 5, 2012 6:24 PM EST

    Courtesy of Pacific Coast News

    There are times when divorce forces people to do strange things. Burn sheets. Throw out clothes. Toss rings into the ocean. But when you get $100 million in your divorce, you can trump just about anything and that's what happened with Tiger Woods' ex-wife when she bought a $12 million home and bulldozed the whole thing.

    [Check the before picture above and the after picture after the jump]

    Yes, according to TMZ, Elin Nordegren bought a $12 million home in North Palm Beach, Fla., but didn't like it, and has plowed the whole thing.

    The house, which had six bedrooms and eight bathrooms, is now just rubble, with no word yet on what is going to replace the beautiful building you see above, but I guess when you have nine figures in the bank, it doesn't really matter what you want.

    I guess we can all applaud Elin on not rolling over after all this happened and continuing on with her life. But I think we can all agree on one thing: Why in the world is she still in Florida? Wouldn't you want to move back home for good?

    Courtesy of With Leather

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    Second picture courtesy of With Leather

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    • sharon b
      sharon b  •  23 days ago
      What a dumb bimbo..Read it had termite..Da! she should had the house check before spending 12 million..Keep spending like this she be broke..lol
    • Garwin
      Garwin  •  Kingston, Jamaica  •  1 month 20 days ago
      If she isn't dumb I am. 100 mil and you waste 12 like that. In 5 years tops she will be broke and spending the kids child support money. Is she a blonde? She is just plain stupid.
    • Kabelo
      Kabelo  •  1 month 21 days ago
      she's crazy!!!!!!!
    • Gbomoi
      Gbomoi  •  Monrovia, Liberia  •  2 months ago
      Hi Elin, could you please just sent me cramps of that 12million home you destroyed because I know you will build a better home than that. call me on +231-7770-26431
    • sam
      sam  •  Buffalo, New York  •  3 months ago
      #$%$
    • Daniel Nyasende
      Daniel Nyasende  •  Nairobi, Kenya  •  3 months ago
      wahoo.......... that is strage.
    • Caroline
      Caroline  •  3 months ago
      Okay, you all need to hush about wasting the money while other americans cant pay their rent or mortgage. Yes, it was obviously a huge waste of money, but instead of complaining about how people are struggling with their current homes, you should be thinking about the people without these homes, even the animals. There is more to this world than just having a nice house to live in with clean forks and knives and cloth napkins for the holidays. What about the homeless or people in impoverished countries? They're not worrying about how many months behind they are on their rent or taking out a second mortgage. As i said before, this was a huge waste of money, but it seems that Elin's fellow Americans--many of you "posters" on this site--also seem to have misguided ideas about how a plethora of cash such as this should be spent. If you can't afford your rent, then you should have bought a smaller house. If you miscalculated the risks for your mortgage, then that blows. However, these were mistakes, and people should learn from their mistakes. But not everyone is even lucky enough to make these kinds of mistakes and have an apartment or house in the first place. So the next time you complain about how someone blew a ton of cash on some completely irrelevant and unnecessary house, dress, surround sound system, whatever, ask yourself: did you really need those last pair of shoes? that tv/computer upgrade? that new jacket? Of course, this does not apply to everyone. That does not however mean that not everyone can do their part. This world is facing some serious issues at present, and these issues are affecting the lives of countless fellow humans. Charity is never overlooked, not matter how small the act.
      • Terry Newks
        Terry Newks 3 months ago
        Yeah, but think of the employment whicn will result for some of the ppeople who will get jobs re-building...
      • Steve
        Steve 1 month 11 days ago
        caroline are you doing something about, if no i suggest you shut your piehole!!!
    • Michael
      Michael  •  Richardson, Texas  •  4 months ago
      She'll never work another day in her life. If by chance she does run low on funds, I'm sure there's another dumb, rich guy out there waiting for her.
      • Count Demoney
        Count Demoney 4 months ago
        exactly, isn't that the truth?! or drag Tiger back to court for more money "for kids" to maintain the life style ..
    • Steven
      Steven  •  Nashville, Tennessee  •  4 months ago
      I hope that befor the bulldozers hit that they donated as much as they could to habitate for humanity charites.
      • Jen-IL
        Jen-IL 4 months ago
        People have been hating Elin for almost 60K posts. Yahoo article titles purposely want to rile people. She didn't bulldoze a $12M home.

        She bought the property for $12M. The home was infested with carpenter ants and termites. The home had to be a small fraction of the $12M. She gave $30,000 of materials to Habitat for Humanity. It would have been more, but the doors and window frames were so bug infested they couldn't take them.

        Why hate her? She'll rebuild a home and her property value will immediately go up.

        She's also involved in a charity to help children of divorce with problems heal emotionally. She's not the monster I'm reading here.
      • N
        N 4 months ago
        heah! JP-IL its nice to hear another person that isnt hating on Elin.
      • Jen-IL
        Jen-IL 4 months ago
        It's hard to believe what some posters are wishing on her. I don't see what's so awful. Maybe she's getting into buying and reselling properties to make money. Easy money and she's got the money to do it. We can only guess why she bought it.........until another Yahoo Enquirer headline comes out lol
    • Jen-IL
      Jen-IL  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  4 months ago
      With these misleading article titles Yahoo News should change it's name to Rabble-Rouser News.
    • fr
      fr  •  Fort Lauderdale, Florida  •  4 months ago
      The pics are before and after, but not after the house came down, but before it was built. Also, this looks like Jupiter Island not NPB. Which means it's Tigers house he bought and then leveled. She bought in Palm Beach Gardens, not NPB. #$%$ story.
      • truthtoday777
        truthtoday777 4 months ago
        I'm glad someone else notices this too. I kept looking at the photos, and it just add up right to me. Yahoo didn't falsify the story, but the source they got it from sure did.
      • Samantha N
        Samantha N 4 months ago
        The house was built in 1932...so I'm not quite sure that could be accurate...
      • Sid
        Sid 4 months ago
        Its nice to be good
    • In the beginning ...
      In the beginning ...  •  4 months ago
      Send Elin Nordegren to Calcutta or to Darfur (Ask George Clooney)!
    • Engr. Eemon
      Engr. Eemon  •  Dhaka, Bangladesh  •  4 months ago
      Got free, so cost nothing and damaged harmlessly.
    • v0yAgER007
      v0yAgER007  •  Manila, Philippines  •  4 months ago
      dang...
      • Lucille
        Lucille 3 months ago
        NUTS OR NOT....SHE HAS THE MULTI-MILLIONS..NOBODY IS JEALOUS....
      • Lucille
        Lucille 3 months ago
        I HOPE THE WOODS KIDS ARE DOING OK...HANG THE MOM...MOVE ON TIGER..YOU WERE HERE FIRST...TAKE CARE...
    • Rick
      Rick  •  4 months ago
      HEY THERE SURE ARE A LOT OF BUGS IN YAHOO NEWS MAYBE ELIN SHOULD TEAR IT DOWN! LOL
    • pedro
      pedro  •  Miami, Florida  •  4 months ago
      Anyone taking this article seriously should stop at the part "according to TMZ". This article doesn't tell the whole story, like how the house needed to be remodeled, but it would cost more to bring it up to code than knock it down and start over. Or how she donated to Habitat for Humanity.
    • VictoryZone
      VictoryZone  •  Las Vegas, Nevada  •  4 months ago
      I have a hard time believing this. I look at the before and after pics and something does not add up. I think the after photo was taken before the construction begun not the other way around. The foundation is missing, the pathway to the beach is missing, the trees look more mature in the house picture... so the alleged "after" pic is really a "before pic" In Florida you are not allowed to disturb the vegetaion especially along the beach which is a natural habitat for wildlife and fragile echo system. you cant take out the mangroves to get a better view of the ocean...
    • wordz
      wordz  •  4 months ago
      Maybe the divorce states that the children are to reside in the US, with visits to her home in Scandanavia. We don't know all the tenets of the divorce, and why would it be our business anyway? House looks old to me; possible excessive mold/mildew due to being so close to the ocean?
    • Tunahalfmen
      Tunahalfmen  •  Surfside, California  •  4 months ago
      Shane Bacon- Report the news correctly and not your slanted opinion.. Obviously your drinking the Tiger CoolAid. Facts: house was a dump, built in the early 90s, on the Beach which the land is worth the 12MM. What reputable reporter will use TMZ as a source? Get your facts together Bacon, before you get Fried! Winning.
    • Wendy
      Wendy  •  Kingwood, Texas  •  4 months ago
      Well, what is the property worth? It may be worth much more than the structure. This may be a good move if the home needed so many repairs that it was cheaper to bulldoze and start over. If she's on a great lot, why not start from scratch. I'm probably the odd man out here considering I've been involved in many home remodels and have a different perspective.
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