Tiger Woods’ ex-wife bulldozes $12 million home

[CountAllVotes]

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.

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?

BEFORE:



AFTER THE BULLDOZER:



More here: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/tiger-woods-ex-wife-bulldozes-12-million-home-232405259.html

Now this is what you call ugly revenge. Too bad the house wasn't saved so someone without a place to live could have had a mansion to sleep in before Elin Nordegren decided to get destroy it!

[Richardo]

1. Oh, I thought they were referring to THEIR house.

That would have been pretty cool.

This is just pathetic.

[roody]

2. She could have given it to charity.

Not having paid any attention to this story, I believe she is a miserable asshole.

[Dreamer Tatum]

8. Except she's going to build on the land. Try reading. nt

[roody]

11. not sufficiently interested

Were there some recyclable materials in the a**hole's home?

[Dreamer Tatum]

15. Sorry, "not sufficiently interested" in educating the willfully ignorant. nt

[unblock]

19. lol. that's the big concern? there's nothing that says she didn't donate or recycle the stuff.

don't know that she did, either.

but the value of a mansion is much more than the sum of the value of the appliances and fixtures and recyclable/reusable materials.

[WI_DEM]

3. perhaps it wasn't big enough for her?

[Marrah_G]

4. I find this sort of excess disgusting

Ugly, selfish human beings who are parasites on our society.

[CountAllVotes]

13. Ugly, selfish human beings who are parasites on our society

Boy, you nailed it.

She is an example of the 1%.

[joeglow3]

36. You gonna admit you rush to judgement?

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/why-did-tiger-woods-ex-wife-level-12-171330450.html

[hlthe2b]

21. Ditto.... Very very ugly...

any sympathy I ever had for her is gone.

[backscatter712]

23. Yeah. She rips down a house, probably because she doesn't like the color...

Just so she can build something even more obscenely lavish in its place.

[bhikkhu]

45. ...or because it was termite-ridden and structurally unsound

which can happen in a surprisingly short time in wet and warm climates. Or that's what I have heard.

[joeglow3]

37. Interesting

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/why-did-tiger-woods-ex-wife-level-12-171330450.html

[Marrah_G]

49. I still find this sort of excess disgusting.

I always will. I do not believe anything that woman has done entitles her to billions while other scrape for slave wages.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. And some wonder why the idle filthy rich are so despised by others. This!

[enlightenment]

6. Apparently, she is planning on building on the site.

Personally, I think it is ridiculous to buy a home simply to raze it for the land, but the very-wealthy often do ridiculous things that point out how very insular and out of touch they are.

[MrScorpio]

7. People with money think differently from everyone else

I'm thinking that she likes the location, but hated the house the was on the property and plans to build something more to her liking.

Now me, I wouldn't have bought the damn thing if I were going to raze it eventually.

I'd merely find a speck of land in an area that I liked and build a house there.

But then again, I've never had $100,000,00, so what the hell do I know?

[SOS]

9. The super rich really do create jobs

In that bottom photo you can see three people working!

[Kingofalldems]

10. If she had carefully dismantled and donated the salvageable

pieces, this would be fine. Otherwise it is downright sinful.

[joeybee12]

26. She might have...

The story is from Yahoo...it's probably low on facts.

[Canuckistanian]

53. She did donate the salvageable pieces

"Also of note: Nordegren offered a local Habitat for Humanity chapter a month to take whatever it could from the mansion before demolition. (No, don't go all, "Oh, so generous, donating termite-infested wood!" on Elin. It was a nice gesture.)"
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/why-did-tiger-woods-ex-wife-level-12-171330450.html

[lpbk2713]

12. There's such a thing as having too much money.

Need any further proof?

[Johonny]

18. a fool and their money are soon parted

100 million sounds like a lot until you start spending it in 12 million dollar pops of oddness. You get the feeling she's gonna need a lot more money at this rate

[Gemini Cat]

14. Disgusting.

How republican of her.

[TwilightGardener]

16. Vulgar.

[unblock]

17. if she bought in march and only just levelled it, it is POSSIBLE that

there was a problem with the house, perhaps structural or mold, where razing the house might make some sense.

that's only a possibility, of course. the idea that she just didn't like it and has the money to make build her dream house and just bought hastily after the divorce without thinking it through is certainly plausible as well.

[xxqqqzme]

35. If there was a structural problem

she could have contacted Mike Holmes!

[Yavin4]

20. Blame the Fed

When you expand the monetary supply for 40+ years and suppress wages for labor, you create a class of people who can take advantage of the expanded monetary supply. This class consists of people who have strong connections to the financial industry, corporate America, and those whose labor cannot be replaced with cheaper workers like the athletically and artistically gifted.

Tiger Woods' "labor" is not easily duplicated by cheaper labor, so he benefits exponentially over other forms of labor. Hence, he can make billions of dollars.

When the monetary supply was constrained by the gold standard, we didn't have these obscene differences in income.

[lumberjack_jeff]

22. Disgusting. n/t

[Javaman]

24. sidewalks and all...

"Tiger walked on those sidewalks! Rip them out!!!"

[xocet]

29. "Also, strip the land down to the bedrock and bring in some fresh dirt!!!" n/t

[wilt the stilt]

25. She earned that money

Tiger was an asshole but this may give us an inkling on the inner workings of their relationship and a glimpse of her personality. This is pure unadulterated waste.

[Bucky]

30. So it's the opposite kind of waste...

if Tiger had torn it down.

[joeglow3]

39. And we just got a glimpse of your personality

This is pure judgemental pre-judging without all the facts:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/why-did-tiger-woods-ex-wife-level-12-171330450.html

[Bucky]

27. A proud descendent of Vikings

let's just be grateful there weren't any Irish monks in the area when she landed.

[CountAllVotes]

31. A proud descendent of Vikings ...

Well, I can say that too. However, I would never do something like this.

To my knowledge, the Vikings were not known for their stupidity. They were warriors at heart.

As for Ms. Nordegren, she is a stupid spoiled rich brat at best. I am so not impressed by her! again ...

[joeglow3]

40. Here

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/why-did-tiger-woods-ex-wife-level-12-171330450.html

[mysuzuki2]

28. I can't imagine why anyone would need or want a house that large.

However, her building a new house will certainly provide employment for a number of construction workers, plumbers, electricians etc. She's likely to be more of a "job creator" than any of the prominant republicans!

[hunter]

32. If I had that kind of money I'd park a classic Airstram trailer there and let the land go wild.

Little else. Just an old truck, a rustic tool shed, a small vegetable garden, and a few dogs from the animal shelter.

Some days me and Willie Nelson would be sitting outside on plastic chairs, smoking...

I'd wear an old bathrobe and a big floppy hat. When I went out to get my paper or my mail I'd laugh at the neighbors driving by in their fancy cars. I'd laugh at their mansions. I'd laugh at their clothes. I'd laugh at their $30,000 handbags and plastic surgeries, and all the other accouterments of the obscenely wealthy.

Deep down in the last faint embers of their black little hearts, the residents of North Palm beach would secretly envy me.

[jorno67]

33. So she is a "job creator"?

All of those good construction jobs needed for the demo and new build.
Can we get her to buy some inner city housing projects? - and of course let the current residents move back in when finished.

[kentuck]

34. She should be taxed at 90% on everything she has..

Just for being vulgar with her wealth.

[joeglow3]

42. Or, following city code. Whatever trips your trigger

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/why-did-tiger-woods-ex-wife-level-12-171330450.html

[MattBaggins]

38. Sometimes there just aren't enough rocks.

[Cali_Democrat]

41. Why would she do that? I don't think there's any gold underneath that property.

[Earth_First]

43. Last time I brought this up, I was accused of being a sexist. n/t

[spanone]

44. she probably wants to live near the childrens' father

and i'm sure there were no homeless people living in it before she bought it.

[MrCoffee]

46. OR...it could be that the house was unliveable.

"the 1920s-era mansion fell short of current hurricane safety codes, and combined with a termite infestation, that was enough to warrant blasting it down to the sand."

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/why-did-tiger-woods-ex-wife-level-12-171330450.html

[WorseBeforeBetter]

55. With Habitat for Humanity salvaging whatever it could.

I'm not quite understanding this hatred of Elin Nordegren.

[Yo_Mama]

47. This is lying by leaving out the facts

The place was built long ago in the pre-GD bubble era. It doesn't meet hurricane codes. It was infested with termites. The wiring was probably really bad, so it's a fire hazard. And homes built that long ago do not work well with today's energy prices.

Presumably she wants to build a hurricane-resistant, probably much more energy-efficient modern home that will not cost an incredible amount to insure where her kids can live safely, with some privacy.

Has anyone reviling this woman without knowing the facts ever tried to get property insurance on a mansion with bad wiring and termites that doesn't meet hurricane codes in Hurricane Alley? I'm sure she bought this place really cheap and will now rebuild.

Professional outrage gets really old sometimes.

[Sheepshank]

48. And THIS is typical of what I see happening on DU lately

A mis represented story with minimal facts. Words being used to create a vision of something entirely void of the truth. And w-a-y too many here with knee jerk reactions, jumping on the bandwagon to rail against someone they don't even know, for puposes they don't even want to know. It's so much easier and self serving to denigrate and judge.

The manufactured outrage of the day, I suppose.

[EFerrari]

50. That house was so ugly, it's hard to be in the least upset.

It looks like a mini mall only with better landscaping.

[Major Hogwash]

51. That house was beautiful.

It was built in the 1920s.
Architectural Digest magazine has many articles on houses just like that one.

[Canuckistanian]

54. And the new one she's building will be almost the same design

"...she's filed plans with the Palm Beach County Department of Planning, Zoning and Building that seem to indicate that the new mansion will look a whole lot like the old one."
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/why-did-tiger-woods-ex-wife-level-12-171330450.html

[eShirl]

52. there were TERMITES, as well as hurricane damage

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/why-did-tiger-woods-ex-wife-level-12-171330450.html

"Last week, we brought you the story of Elin Nordegren's curious-at-the-time decision to knock down a $12 million mansion. It seemed, at first glance, a rather conspicuous display of wealth -- I've got so much money I can demolish a mansion and build a new one! A divorce from Tiger Woods, it seemed, was the gift that kept on giving.

"Well, turns out that there was a pretty good reason for razing the North Palm Beach, Fla., estate: termites. A report in People magazine indicated that the 1920s-era mansion fell short of current hurricane safety codes, and combined with a termite infestation, that was enough to warrant blasting it down to the sand."

[MrMickeysMom]

56. Still.... blast away the sidewalk and all the concrete?

That's an expensive eraser on the end of her pencil.

Money sure doesn't make a person happy or smarter.