Report: Elin May Get $50M if She Stays

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - A report in the Sunday Telegraph speculates that Elin Nordegren, the wife of Tiger Woods, will forfeit more than $50 million if she pursues a divorce right now.

Celebrity lawyer Raoul Felder told the Telegraph that Nordegren would be "financially ill-advised" to leave Woods, who has allegedly had at least 14 affairs during their 5-year marriage.

Nordegren has reportedly moved out of the family mansion in Florida and taken the couple's two young children with her to an island home in her native Sweden. It was also reported last week that she was seeking a divorce from the golfing great and would be in line to receive as much as $100 million as part of the settlement.

However, Felder said that if she went ahead with the divorce now she would only be entitled under Florida law to the sum agreed in the prenuptial agreement before the couple married in 2004 -- believed to be $20 million. Woods would also have to pay child support for their 2-year-old daughter and infant son.

It is believed that Nordegren negotiated a lucrative postnuptial deal -- worth at least $5 million -- just days after the sex scandal surrounding her husband broke three weeks ago. Lawyers familiar with the talks said she could be paid up to an additional $55 million to remain with Woods for two more years.

Meanwhile, details of how Woods kept his affairs from going public two years ago have surfaced.

According to the Wall Street Journal , Woods cut an unusual deal with American Media Inc., the owner of both Men's Fitness magazine and the National Enquirer in the summer of 2007.

Woods reportedly agreed to a cover shot and photo spread in Men's Fitness in return for the National Enquirer squelching a story and photographs purportedly showing Woods in a liaison with a woman who wasn't his wife, according to people directly involved in the arrangement.

At the time, golfing publication Golf Digest was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to secure preferential access to Woods, but had never gotten an in-depth article like the one that was eventually published in Men's Fitness, whose circulation of about 700,000 is less than half of Golf Digest's nearly 1.7 million.