Woman taken from Tiger Woods' house to hospital, reports say
Photo credit: AP | This image taken from video provided by AP Television News shows a woman being brought into Health Central hospital in Ocoee, Fla. A hospital official has confirmed the woman is Tiger Woods' mother-in-law who was hospitalized with stomach pains. (Dec. 8, 2009)
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Emergency personnel responded to a medical call from Tiger Woods' Islesworth, Fla., mansion and took a woman to the hospital, Orlando media outlets are reporting.
Orange County Fire Rescue spokesman Genevieve Latham told the Orlando Sentinel that firefighters responded to the house at 2:36 a.m.
An unidentified woman was taken to the hospital, according to the Sentinel.
WFTV.com of Orlando posted video showing a Cadillac Escalade, similar to the one Woods crashed outside his home on Thanksgiving weekend, leaving Health Central Hospital in nearby Ocoee, Fla., shortly after the call.
"The license plate on that Escalade spotted had only one character that was different from the Escalade involved in the crash," WFTV reported on its site.
Fox news says the woman has since been released, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
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The latest development in the Woods crash saga came after it was reported that his wife, Elin Nordegren, is moving out.
After a whirlwind of allegations of infidelity regarding the world's top golfer, his wife of six years has bought a mansion in Sweden, according to the Daily Express in London. The Daily News, citing a Swedish news agency, also reported the purchase.
"The official story from her family is that she bought the place with her twin sister, Josefin, not with Tiger," Poppe Linge of HPG told the Daily News.
Nordegren, 29, bought the $2 million home on an island near Stockholm, according to the Express.
Woods crashed his luxury SUV outside his Florida mansion on Thanksgiving weekend, and his wife told police she used a golf club to smash its back windows to help him out. The Florida Highway Patrol cited Woods for careless driving and fined him $164.
The accident and Woods’ refusal to answer questions about it fueled speculation about a possible dispute between the golfer and his wife.
Just days before the crash, a National Enquirer story alleged Woods had been seeing New York nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel, who also hosted parties in the Hamptons. Uchitel denied the affair.
After the crash, Us Weekly reported that a Los Angeles cocktail waitress claims she had an affair with Woods. Since, a handful of other woman have reportedly surfaced to tell their own stories of sexual trysts with the golf superstar.
Last week, Woods issued a statement saying he had let his family down with unspecified “transgressions” that he regrets with “all of my heart.”
RadarOnline, a celebrity news Web site, is reporting that Nordegren has moved out of their Windermere, Fla., home and living nearby in another house.
Since the accident and Woods' subsequent statement on his Web site, the couple has maintained their silence about the allegations and their relationship.
Meanwhile, a Florida trooper who suspected Woods was driving under the influence sought a subpoena for the golfer’s blood results from the hospital he was taken to after his crash, but prosecutors rejected the petition for insufficient information, according to a police report released Monday.
A witness, who wasn’t identified in the report, told trooper Joshua Evans that Woods had been drinking alcohol earlier. The same witness also said Woods had been prescribed two drugs, Ambien and Vicodin. The report did not say how the witness knew that.“Impairment of the driver is also suspected due to the careless driving that resulted in the traffic crash,” Evans wrote in the report dated Nov. 30 that was released by the state attorney general’s office.
Woods’ attorney, Mark NeJame, didn’t return a phone call for comment.With The Associated Press
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