Elin Nordegren Demolishes $12 Million Mansion for No Good Reason

[Blue_Tires]

Tiger Woods' recluse ex-wife Elin Nordegren got a $100 million dollar settlement after her husband fucked every Brandi, Krystal, and Hooter's Waitress Tammi in the entire country. She has so much money now that she's just wasting it by buying mansions and then ripping them down for fun.

Elin bought this $12 million, six-bedroom mansion on the beach in North Palm Beach, Florida, last March. Now it's just a pile of rubble. She knocked the whole damn thing down so that she could build a whole new house right on top of it. What? That one isn't good enough for you Elin? I bet that house feels like it's owner just went out and found a new house because it was too ugly and didn't like to give BJs and now it's just ruined. Ruined! It doesn't even get a settlement.

Yes, rich people do this shit all the time, and this is how Elin rolls now. God, Elin, why don't you just rub all that hush money right up in our faces, why don't you?

http://gawker.com/5873349/elin-nordegren-demolishes-12-million-mansion-for-no-good-reason

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2082667/Tiger-Woods-ex-wife-Elin-Nordegren-bulldozes-12m-Florida-mansion-create-dream-home.html

Just a daily reminder of the silly stuff only one percenters can do...

[LynneSin]

1. I read some of the comments from one of those articles and had to agree with one of them....

If she knew she was going to tear down the house she could have contacted Habitat for Humanity. They could have recycled many of the materials that were used to build that house. Instead she just destroyed everything because well she's fricking rich as hell and can do just that.

[Chan790]

3. See, that I agree with.

The people who want to be upset that she bought a house just for the lot it sat upon, not-so-much.

[Angry Dragon]

26. She did

She gave HFH 4 weeks to take whatever they wanted

[Chan790]

2. I don't get the outrage.

It's not like she bought and knocked-down the house because she was bored...there's an absolute absence of beachfront lots in N. Palm Beach. If you want to build a house there to your specifications, you've got to buy a house that's already there and knock it down to clear a building lot.

I don't know, I think people go looking for crap to get outraged over and reasons to get jealously-pissy with people who have what they wish they had. It's an addiction.

I'm never going to feel bad for growing up rich. Rich Liberal Guilt always struck me as comical.

[HappyMe]

4. I agree.

Except for the growing up rich part. I didn't.


It sounds like sour grapes. The thing is, I would bet plenty of people buy average priced homes and do this.

[TreasonousBastard]

13. Around here it's almost a sport to buy a $400,000 house, tear it down and build another, especially.

if it's on the water.

There just aren't that many empty lots, even less on the water.

[LynneSin]

5. This is my issue for the outrage...

I posted this above but in a nutshell is this.

She knew she was going to destroy the house. She could have contacted a place like Habitat for Humanity and they could have recycled much of the building material used to build that house. Think of all the houses she could have helped build if she had first donated the material and the bulldozed when Habitat.

Mind you to be fair I would have given them a timeline - you don't pull materials out by this date then I'm rezzing.

But if she just plowed the house over much of those materials are no longer usable since they are probably smashed.

[HappyMe]

6. Stuff like sinks, dishwashers etc.

would be cool.

I'm not sure about the actual walls & such. Local and state regulations might prohibit.

[jmowreader]

16. You can also recover doors, windows, some of the electrical...

Lumber is usually too much of a pain to re-use, but some people do. Especially the big stuff. 2x4s and 2x6s usually have too many nails in them to make recovering them feasible--nails will do a number on a chipper blade.

[joeglow3]

24. Just like she did.

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

"Also of note: Nordegren offered a local Habitat for Humanity chapter a month to take whatever it could from the mansion before demolition."

[joeglow3]

33. Really? You don't have the rocks to post that you rushed to judgement?

Wow!!!

[joeglow3]

35. I would.

However, I did not see that.

[Chan790]

11. I've read about a dozen such threads here and around the internet...

and most of them are explicitly anti-wealth poutrage over Nordgren buying a house to knock it down: using it as the basis to smear the wealthy doing what they want with their money; implying that whatever it is, is being done for fun or folly; and on-and-on.

The same people show up any time a person with money does something they can get pissy to pout over and bemoan the doings of the wealthy. I think calling it their addiction is fair if they seek-out reasons to act jealous.

[Darth_Kitten]

22. I for one have better things to worry about than a cold,selfish Swedish woman

whose dippy loser husband couldn't keep it in his pants. I think those two deserved each other.

[Bombero1956]

7. I wouldn't necessarily agree with that statement

Most people buy a home and put on an addition when their family get bigger. Some knock part of it down and rebuild to fix damage. This whole idea of buying a perfectly good home worth millions of dollars just to tear it down smacks of waste. She actually said there wasn't enough room in a 9,000 sq. ft. 6 bedroom house for herself and her 2 kids. How is this any different than what Mitt is doing in California?

[KamaAina]

9. The question is, did she use a golf club?

And if so, what club? I'd choose a driver...

[Myrina]

10. "And what, Mr. Woods, sir, do you have to show for all that money?"

Not a goddamn thing. A few piles of rubble scattered across Florida maybe.

I totally see where she's coming from, although the idea of contacting Habitat to let them use what they can makes more sense.

[GoCubsGo]

12. I don't understand why she didn't just sell the thing and buy another property elsewhere.

The fact that it had her and Tiger's names attached to it would have attracted loads of people who'd be willing to pay more than the place was worth. She could have made a ton of money off of it.

[Creativeplusone]

14. Home wrecking woman deserves gargantuan guilt sandwich

I liked your post and agree completely. This is my first post on this site which I found today. Seems like a cool place. So I'm not alone in thinking things are growing increasingly nuttier. This mansion destroying crazy lady deserves worldwide shaming for this stunt. I honestly don't believe you or I could think up anything more blatantly arrogant. Perhaps we could throw a 12 million ton food destroying party. Invite a few million desperately hungry people to be the guests of honor.

[joeglow3]

25. How about judging people w/o all the facts. That is pretty arrogant.

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

[Angry Dragon]

28. Check all the facts and then you can give her an apology

[rug]

15. Still, it's cheaper than a murder conviction.

[fortyfeetunder]

17. Though I picture her broke years from now.

100 million can only go so far....

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. I am guessing that she liked the location and hated the house.

Unless I miss my guess the guys who demolished it knew what they were doing and disposed of things in a proper and repsectful manner.

Those guys know what to do with things and how to see that things can be reused and how to make sure stuff is disposed of properly.

Elin might not give a damn what happened to the stuff but, I bet the contractor did.

[underpants]

19. Tiger did the same thing a few years ago. $7 million house torn down to build a $9-12 million house.

I guess if you have the money and want that lot you do that.

[Quartermass]

20. I wish she'd give it to me.

I can find a lot better uses for it.

For instance, I'd create a new computer game company to create new computer games based on old pen and paper games that I like to play. For example, I'd like to have a real Starfleet Battles game that isn't a real time game and more like the original strategy game. I'd also like to turn some of my favorite board games into computer games as well.

And I wouldn't be living in such huge homes either. The biggest home I'd live in would be worth $750,000. Not no $12 million dollar home.

And I'd give a fair amount of it to charity.

I wish I had that amount of money. I know I wouldn't waste it like that.

OY!

[begin_within]

21. Maybe she was just getting her frustration out.

[Darth_Kitten]

23. Well, she married the bum....

What frustration could she possibly experience? How many new houses to build with guilt money?

[Angry Dragon]

27. She bought the house invited HFH to take what they wanted

when they did this they found so many termites and ants
it was cheaper to tear it down and start over

I at first felt the same as many of you
and now learning of the facts I am sorry
I felt this way about her.
In many ways she has a lot more class
than many people with money
We owe her an apology

[aikoaiko]

29. Everyone who brought the hate should read your post or check out this article.

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.

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.)

Still, as you can see from the pre-demolition photo, that was a good-lookin' little shack there, regardless of what evil lurked behind its walls:

[Major Hogwash]

30. Thanks. This restores my faith in humanity.

As they used to say, "so, what's the rest of the story?"

Well, there it is.

[rrneck]

31. Well, as Jack Nicholson said in A Few Good Men...

"Well, don't I feel like a fucking asshole".

[hughee99]

32. 1%ers might call this job creation.

Yes, reading above, I can see she didn't have much of a choice, but even if this was totally on a whim...
She's not going to rip it down herself with a golf club, clear the lot herself or put up the new host herself. She's going to have to pay a lot of people to do that, and it won't be wall street CEO's doing the work.