Alleged Tiger Mistress Is Unrecognizable To Dead Fiancee's Dad

While questions are swirling about whether Tiger Woods paid off his alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel to cancel her press conference (maybe, maybe not), the Post speaks with the father of the woman's dead fiancee.

Rachel Uchitel had been on the cover of the Post after September 11, 2001, holding a photograph of her missing fiancee Andy O'Grady, who worked in the World Trade Center; his father James says, "She was a different person then... The last time I saw [Uchitel] was at the burial of my son -- she's not the person she appears to be now. She wasn't trying to be in the papers [back then]. Maybe 9/11 had an impact on her and this is how she's dealing with that."

Which is sort of what Uchitel's mother told Newsday earlier this week. At any rate, O'Grady, who said he lost touch with Uchitel, also took a shot at the tabloid coverage, "He [Andy O’Grady] loved her... I don’t really know anything about her [now]. You’re the ones who keep writing her up. You made her what she is, a media personality." But her grandfather girlfriend (!!) says, "This is the kind of attention that she craves" while a friend of the NYC nightclub hostess adds, "She was very aggressive working in the clubs. She was always hustling, working with the celebrities. She's got a big agenda."

The tabloids say Uchitel sparked a fight between Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren (Woods and Uchitel may have been texting each other)—a fight that turned public when Woods crashed his car onto his Florida street last week. TMZ claims that Woods' childhood friend flew Uchitel to Melbourne, Australia to be with the superstar athlete. As for rumors of a pay off to keep quiet, even the daughter of Uchitel's celebrity attorney Gloria Allred thinks there was hush money involved.

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By Jen Chung in News on December 5, 2009 12:01 PM

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neutral observer

I have to agree with MrManhattan. I lost many friends and witnessed how the folks left behind were able and not able to deal w/ 9/11/01. Although acting like an idiot is not an excuse, but it is a symptom of emotional trauma.

The whole Tiger story bores me. The same crowd who said it was nobody's business when the Pres. was getting BJ in the oval office are the same folks railing against Tiger and the various women he has been linked too. Tiger is a private citizen, he's just famous- enough already.

Amanda Harletsch

""She was very aggressive working in the clubs. She was always hustling, working with the celebrities. She's got a big agenda."

That description fits 50% of new yorkers!

mellow_fellow

SNL's Tiger Woods skit was dumb.

FrankMartin

SNL's ________ skit was dumb

MrManhattan

While I usually relish my role of sarcastic asshole on this board, I have to say that some of these comments about this woman are sickening. I consider myself lucky that I only lost one acquaintance on 9/11, but I know having merely witnessed it, and it's immediate aftermath, I'll never be the same. I couldn't imagine what losing a loved one was like.

Give her a pass.

Snoopy

I lost three acquaintances on 9/11 and fortunately I never lost "my beloved", this woman is a total melodramatic gold digging piece of crap.

In 2004, she married Wall Street trader Steven Ehrenkranz. Their marriage lasted four months.

How long do you think the marriage would have lasted when she married her first "investment banker?"

MrManhattan

Melodramatic, Gold digging??? that probably describes most of the actors/musicians/writers/filmmakers I've ever met on this island

(and by the way, See my latest show "Hot Babes in Toyland running on Thursdays thru Dec. 17th at the Players Theater 115 MacDougal Street)..

oops you forgot "self-promoting".

NannyState

Now if she was from New jersey...

S.K.

Now that's a merry almost-widow, carrying on like that!

ANGRYGOD11

Amazing reporting by The NY Post: A woman who lost her fiancé in the 9/11 attacks 8 years ago looks and acts differently after the worst disaster of her life.

How do they do such a stunning level of quality reporting like this on a regular basis?

Rocknrope

Nothing says healing like silicon implants.

Amanda Harletsch

cheers to that!

felixthecat2

hey, 9-11 let her and Guiliani's inner-whores out.

dr zippy

One of her dogs is named Rudy Guiliani.

felixthecat2

that's animal cruelty.

Son of Spam

+1

Armchair_warrior

alot of guys actually don't like blondes. I have no idea where this blond loving media obsessed thing comes from.

tsol

Because the guys who control the media find real blondes to be exotic and enticing...

Spirit of 76

I like natural blondes, emphasis on natural, unlike say Jessica Alba. But Uchitel isn't one. She has brown eyes, judging from the photos. Just went back to her natural color, that's all.

Snoopy

I feel sorry that her late boyfriend died on 9/11, but it seems she is making up some serious lost time for the month and a half she grieved for him.

Nice abs. Looks like her boobs grew after 9/11. Why would a "natural" blond dye her hair brown?

NannyState

Gloria Allred has a daughter? Was she born with a red suit and a briefcase?

brooklnben

Gothamist has been going VERY tabloid in recent months. Am I alone in noticing this? We don't need another Gawker - I'm interested in local news and events....don't I have enough venues to follow Tiger?

Mr Mel

Yes, there is enough tabloid and on line coverage. What you get here are brilliant comments from people who have mastered the contemporary language nuances and in most cases are not yet old enough to vote.