Tiger Woods was caught in sex romp with mistress Mindy Lawton in his Escalade in 2007, years before his extramarital affairs became public. However, a solution to stop this getting out came from the most unlikely of sources — National Enquirer honcho David Pecker.
Tiger Woods was caught in sex romp with mistress Mindy Lawton in his Escalade in 2007, years before his extramarital affairs became public.
However, a solution to stop this getting out came from the most unlikely of sources — National Enquirer honcho David Pecker.
On the stand at Donald Trump’s hush money trial Thursday, Pecker acknowledged for the first time buying up the photos and then burying them in return for Tiger’s cooperation.
During cross-examination by Trump’s lawyers, Pecker admitted purchasing pics of the golf icon meeting a woman — now known to be Lawton — in a church parking lot and using them as leverage to convince him to appear on the cover of Men’s Fitness, another title in the American Media Inc. publishing house where he was CEO.
The golf world was mystified by the resulting 12-page cover story in Men’s Fitness. Inside the edition Woods shared his exercise and dieting regimen — and talked in glowing terms about his relationship with then-wife Elin Nordegren.
“It was a total shakedown,” a member of Woods’ inner circle told The Post. “He was totally blackmailed, but what could he do? He had to play ball. He didn’t have any other choice.
