Tiger Woods’ former mistress Rachel Uchitel is getting married on Wednesday not far from where the golf legend and his new girlfriend Vanessa Trump live in Florida.
Woods’ scandalous affair with Uchitel in 2009 ultimately led to his messy $100million divorce from his Swedish model wife at the time, Elin Nordegren.
But Uchitel has chosen to tie the knot with millionaire CEO Dan Donovan a day after Woods celebrated his 50th birthday and extremely close to where he lives in a three-day affair over the New Year.
She has been sharing photos and videos on Instagram ahead of the lavish wedding which, according to Page Six, is going to take place in the backyard of the couple’s home in Palm Beach.
That is located not far from where Woods and Trump live with their children in the upmarket area of Jupiter. Meanwhile, Nordegren also lives nearby in Palm Beach County.
Woods and Nordegren’s son, Charlie, and Vanessa’s daughter and Donald Trump’s granddaughter, Kai, both attend the distinguished Benjamin School which is also located in North Palm Beach.
Tiger Woods’ former mistress Rachel Uchitel is getting married in Palm Beach on Wednesday
It’s not far from where the golf legend and his new girlfriend Vanessa Trump live in Florida
Uchitel was thrust into the spotlight in 2009 when her affair with Woods – who she met through their mutual friend Derek Jeter while working in Las Vegas in 2008 – was exposed.
She was photographed checking into the same hotel as Woods during the Australian Masters – pictures that then ran in the National Enquirer on November 25, 2009.
Initially, Uchitel denied having an affair to his wife. But Nordegren was unconvinced and went digging through Woods phone.
There, she found the name Jaimee Grubbs in his call log and left a message on her voicemail. ‘Who this is’, she said, ‘because you are f***ing my husband’.
Nordegren scrolled through the phone a second time where she found a message Woods had sent to Uchitel. It read: ‘You are the only one I’ve ever loved.’
When Uchitel replied, a furious Nordegren called her and said: ‘I knew it was you. I know everything.’
Woken by Nordegren, Woods fled the home – pursued by Nordegren clutching one of his golf clubs – and jumped into his Cadillac Escalade SUV.
Pulling out of the driveway at 30mph, Woods crashed into a fire hydrant before smashing into a tree and winding up unconscious and bloody in the street.
Uchitel has been sharing photos and videos on Instagram ahead of the lavish wedding
Guests attending the festivities have also posted behind the scenes photos from the event
After a voicemail left by Woods for a mistress was published by US Weekly, more than a dozen other women then came forward to say they had also slept with the golfer.
The pro-golfer finally admitted to cheating on his wife with more than 120 women total.
In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail in 2024, Uchitel laid bare her fears that her affair with Woods will follow her to the ‘grave’ – while detailing the brutal toll the scandal has taken on her love life over the years.
‘When you are in a conversation piece that big that everyone wants to talk about, it’s going to go to your grave,’ she explained, before opening up about how the fallout surrounding her affair has forever damaged her ability to ‘trust’ people.
‘Well, it’s, it’s affected my relationships, I have a very small world, I keep it that way. I don’t really trust a lot of people because what I’ve been through is something that a lot of people cannot understand.’
She moved to Palm Beach in December 2022 for a ‘second chance at starting over’ and purchased a house for $2.59m before eventually moving in in the summer of 2023.
The podcaster told the Daily Mail in October how happy she was to have finally found her ‘happily ever after’ with Palm Beach business mogul Donovan after they met on dating app Bumble.
‘I feel so lucky. He’s a wonderful man,’ Uchitel gushed. ‘He’s not only wonderful and kind, but he’s also successful.’
‘He’s an alpha male without being a narcissist, without being an a**hole. He just has so many wonderful qualities,’ she continued.
‘He’s a CEO and founder of four different companies. Even though I’m an alpha female, nothing feels better than having an alpha male take care of you.’
Woods admitted to cheating on Elin Nordegren (pictured in 2009) with dozens of women
Woods was married to Nordegren for six years before divorcing in 2010 when she caught him cheating with Uchitel
Uchitel was previously engaged to James Andrew O’Grady, who tragically died during the September 11 terrorist attacks. Before that engagement, she was married to Wall Street trader Steven Ehrenkranz for four months in 2004.
Her second marriage was with former football player Matt Hahn and it lasted three years. The couple divorced in 2014 and they are now co-parenting their daughter, Wyatt Lily, amicably.
Before this, she also had an affair with actor David Boreanaz in 2010.
It seems like Woods has found love, too, after going public with his relationship with Vanessa earlier this year.
Trump was famously married to Donald Trump’s son, Don Jr., from 2005 to 2018. They shared two children together – daughter Kai and son Donald Trump III.
