Tiger Woods did not pay purported gal pal Rachel Uchitel to cancel her expected dish-all news conference.
She backed out because she was “scared for her safety,” sources told the celebrity gossip website TMZ.
The 34-year-old New York party girl cancelled the planned conference after a spate of late night phone
calls with Woods, TMZ said Friday, citing unnamed sources.
Uchitel, one of three women identified as love interests of the married golfer, “walked away without taking a cent from Tiger Woods,” the website reported. “This was absolutely not about money.”
Sources told TMZ that Uchitel was “scared for her safety because she knows so much about Tiger, his alleged affairs and a variety of other Woods matters.”
“Rachel does not fear Tiger, as much as she fears all the other people caught in what is becoming a very large net,” the website reported.
Earlier, Uchitel’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, said the leggy blonde had pulled the plug on the press conference “due to unforseen circumstances.”
Woods and Uchitel purportedly carried on a steamy affair for several months, including a tryst in Melbourne, Australia, reportedly set up by the golfer’s childhood pal, Byron Bell.
Other women linked to Woods include Las Vegas night club exec Kalika Moquin, 27, and cocktail waitress Jaimee Grubbs.
Woods has publicly apologized for his self-confessed “transgressions” and is revising a prenuptual agreement to give his wife, Elin Nordegren, a staggering $55 million to keep her from walking a way with their two young children.
If Nordegren remains with the golfer for at least seven more years, she gets a cool $80 million, a “lawyer familiar with the couple’s negotiations” told Daily Beast reporter Gerald Posner.
