Tiger’s wife is taking the cubs and moving to a new den.
Moving crews yesterday descended on the family’s Florida manse, where Tiger Woods’ furious wife, Elin Nordegren, has been living since their infamous battle, and a source close to the golfer’s camp told The Post, “She’s making plans to move out and take the kids with her.
“She’s planning to go somewhere warm and Tiger-free for Christmas,” the source said.
“The only reason she didn’t leave earlier is that their son had the flu, but he’s now recovered.”
Several workers pulled up to the palatial estate in Windermere in a truck packed with ladders, buckets and rope, and began carting out such items as carefully wrapped artwork, TMZ reported.
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Nordegren spent about 10 minutes instructing the workers before driving off in her red Buick SUV with daughter Sam, 2, and son Charlie, 10 months.
The mom had briefly stopped by the house to talk to the movers after having lunch with her children and two adult pals at a local Thai restaurant.
The kids “are doing fine,” insisted the shattered Elin — who wasn’t wearing her wedding ring — to OK! magazine.
A snoop at the Thai eatery said the kids “looked happy and healthy. It seemed like they had no idea there was any sort of problem.”
Nordegren wasn’t faring as well.
“She looks bone-thin,” a source said. “And her conversation with the other adults was very intense, especially in comparison to” Sam and Charlie, who were smiling.
There might be a reason to smile soon, however. Nordegren is in “internal discussions” with Puma to become its spokesperson for the Swedish-inspired clothing line Tretorn, TMZ reported today.
Puma just happens to be the arch-enemy of Nike — Tiger’s big sponsor.
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Adding to Nordegren’s stress might be a new claim by several of Woods’ mistresses that he had been routinely shelling out thousands of dollars to keep them quiet about his steamy sexual peccadilloes.
The billionaire golfer would typically wire his stable of buxom women $5,000 to $10,000 apiece each month — although one may have landed up to $20,000, MSNBC reported on its Web site.
“The money comes via a wire transfer,” one of the alleged ex-mistresses said. “There’s no contract about it. There’s no discussion about what it’s for. But it’s implied that it’s in exchange for keeping quiet about his affair.”
She said Woods tried to keep close tabs on her after the dust-up with his wife over Thanksgiving weekend at their home. Nordegren allegedly attacked her husband’s SUV with a golf club, causing him to crash, after learning of his affairs. The debacle wound up exposing his secret life as a serial philanderer.
“Elin took his cellphone away [after the fight], so he had to call [me] from his land line at home,” the woman said. “He hasn’t called in at least a week, though.”
Woods’ pal, former NBA star Charles Barkley, said, “I’ve been trying to reach him and can’t get him. It’s very frustrating.”
He said he just wants to tell Woods, “Hey, man, We love you,” and, “You should reach out to your celebrity friends when things go bad. They’re the only people who understand.”
Director Spike Lee said on Barkley’s upcoming, taped show “With All Due Respect” that he’s worried about Woods, too.
“He’s insulated. If Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan can’t get to him, and those are his boys, then people are making bad moves,” Lee said.
Until now, Woods had allegedly managed to protect his carefully crafted, squeaky-clean image with a top-notch legal team that wiped up any mess he left behind him.
Even before he was married, he got into sticky situations, including once when a cop found him parked in his car on a remote road — and an Orlando cocktail waitress with him, TMZ said.
One of Woods’ former handlers told the Web site that the golfer’s reps “negotiated a carefully crafted settlement” with the woman to keep her quiet.
Meanwhile, his latest alleged lover to surface, 49-year-old cougar Theresa Rogers, is bragging to friends, “I taught him everything he needed to know to be a great lover!” a source told Radar Online. “She . . . wanted to be the woman who schooled Tiger in the bedroom.”
Another alleged Woods lover, porn star Holly Sampson, said she was hired along with two other women to have girl-on-girl action at a birthday party for him years ago — and that she and Woods wound up having sex. “He was laughing and giggling [in bed], so I knew he was happy,” she said.
But while Woods’ gals gab, others are clamming up.
With Post Wire Services