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Tiger Woods Said to Move Out of Florida Home

Aired December 10, 2009 - 20:00   ET

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Breaking news tonight, live, Windermere, Florida. Superstar golf phenomenon Tiger Woods drives out of his multi-million- dollar compound barefoot, 2:00 AM after Thanksgiving Day celebrations, and has a head-on collision with a tree and a fire hydrant. His young wife, the mother of his two children, says she hears the crash from inside, runs out to beat out both back windows of Woods`s Cadillac.

Woods refusing repeatedly to speak with police, immediately pulling out of his own golf tournament. Gatorade drops the Tiger Woods drink. Primetime TV ads dry up as Woods`s alleged mistresses hit double digits, including a swimsuit model, two porn stars, and a waitress at a pancake house. Woods just gets a slap on the wrist, even though a witness tells cops Woods was drinking before the crash and was prescribed sleeping pills plus the super-powerful painkiller Vicodin.

Bombshell tonight. Tiger Woods`s lawyers in the last hours get a court order prohibiting -- stopping papers from publishing alleged nude photos of Tiger Woods. This as reports Tiger Woods moves out. The same day his mother-in-law collapses inside his mansion, he takes a powder. At this hour, Woods still in hiding, reportedly on his multi-million-dollar yacht, the Privacy. Do you blame him?

And tonight, lawsuits threatening to boil over, New York club hostess, alleged mistress number one, facing a potential lawsuit by the source who breaks the story of the alleged Tiger Woods affair. Even more women coming out of the woodwork, the tally rising tonight. Hundreds of, reportedly, lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions pertaining to explosive e-mails and text messages secretly sent to Woods and mistresses that have gone public, Woods promising to leave his wife and two little children, claiming the woman is his soulmate and complaining he wishes he met her before he married. In other texts, allegedly telling another woman they`ll be together, quote, "forever," reportedly setting up late-night rendezvous and revealing Woods`s bankrolling luxury trips for an alleged secret lover just before the crash.

Also on the legal front, did Woods pay millions to buy the silence of an alleged mistress? When does hush money turn into a bribe? What really happened to Tiger Woods, and how will it affect child custody and a possible divorce?

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JAIMEE GRUBBS, TIGER`S ALLEGED MISTRESS: When I did come out, I kind of did a lot on emotion. I didn`t really think anything through. I was just -- I was hurt and I told my story, I didn`t really think of what it was going to do.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One of the women who claims she had an affair with Tiger Woods is apologizing to his wife.

GRUBBS: I guess I would be deeply sorry for never considering her during the whole process.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jaimee Grubbs claims she had a 31-month affair with Tiger Woods.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jaimee Grubbs was the subject of that "US Weekly" magazine cover last week, the one that featured a voicemail allegedly from Tiger Woods to her.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, it`s -- it`s Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favor. Can you please take your name off your phone? My wife went through my phone and may be calling you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Like a bakery, take a number and next, apparently. And I`m sure there are many more.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now e-mails come public, allegedly sent by Tiger Woods to alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel, published inside "In Touch" magazine. Woods allegedly e-mails, "Never thought I would care and be as emotional as I am with you. You bring a side of me I never thought existed, both good and bad. I don`t like feeling so vulnerable. It bothers me a lot. I`m much tougher than this. I just want you to know what`s going on inside me."

GRUBBS: The hardest part for me is to know that this whole time, you know, two-and-a-half years that I thought that I could have been the only woman, and the only reason why, you know, we didn`t hang out as much would be that he was busy. And to go back and think that, you know, his reasons for being busy may have been another woman is -- it is really hard.

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GRACE: Well, she can only imagine how the wife feels.

And tonight, live, Montana. Police on high alert after a beautiful 2- year-old little girl vanishes. Reports the girl, 2-year-old Heavenly Erickson, in the hands of a convicted felon in three states. Tonight, where is 2-year-old Heavenly?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Breaking news. A beautiful 2-year-old girl is missing, and tonight police need your help in finding Heavenly Echo Erickson. Police are asking the public for help in locating Heavenly after she vanishes from her father`s house. Authorities believe Heavenly`s non- custodial mother, Viola Cathel, and her boyfriend, James Worthington, snatched her, especially alarming considering custody of Heavenly had recently been taken away from her mother. A warrant for Cathel`s arrest reportedly issued tonight, and frantic search for little Heavenly shifting into high gear.

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GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight. Tiger Woods`s lawyers get a court order prohibiting papers from publishing allegedly nude photos of Tiger Woods. And reportedly, Tiger Woods moves out as the tally of alleged mistresses rises and lawsuits threatening to boil over.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GRUBBS: I`m not going to ever say what I did was OK.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A public apology from an alleged mistress to a scorned wife.

GRUBBS: When I did air that voicemail, I mean, when I -- the day I received it, it was kind of like a reality check for me. It was kind of saying, you know, I`m not the most important person to him.

GRACE: That is alleged mistress number two, Jaimee Grubbs, describing how she was in love with Tiger Woods.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The 24-year-old tells the TV show "Extra" she was intimate with Woods 20 times over a three-year period. She claims Tiger Woods never discussed his wife, Elin, and she feels badly for her.

GRACE: Just released, part of 100 e-mails and text messages in which Tiger Woods claims he`s found his soul mate.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The series of these e-mails take place where he first professes all this love for her. And then he starts telling her how jealous he is.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "I don`t know if this is going to work. I thought I was getting to know you, but it feels like I`m just another person who happens to be famous. Every time I think about it, I get a lump in my throat. Some of the other parts of your past really get to me. I don`t know what person I was falling for so hard, the one I got to know on the phone, e-mail, text and in person, or the one who likes famous people. I`m so confused because what my brain is saying and what my heart is saying are two different things. Is it the Rachel I know or the character? That`s what`s hard. It guts me to think I`ve fallen for the wrong one and will be number (EXPLETIVE DELETED) five on that list."

GRUBBS: I didn`t really think anything through. I was just -- I was hurt. And I told my story and I didn`t really think of what it was going to do, what it was going to do to my life, especially not what it was going to do to my family. So you know, I think I just did everything on emotion when I first reacted.

If Tiger was here, I think that, you know, I would just tell him that no part of our relationship was fake and I cared for him. I`m sorry that everything, you know, is coming out and happening the way it did. And I just thought it was time for, you know, his wife to know and for me to let it go.

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GRACE: Straight out to Drew Petrimoulx, joining us from WDBO. Drew, what can you tell us about report Tiger Woods has moved out and is now on his mansion (SIC), the Privacy? Is that confirmed?

DREW PETRIMOULX, WDBO: Well, the mansion would be his big yacht. And it`s not actually a houseboat. Honestly, Nancy, we don`t even know where he is. The original thinking was that he`s been up in his Isleworth mansion this whole time, but we know that he has another mansion inside the same neighborhood. He`s got houses in Florida. But nobody has spotted him this whole time. So it really is a mystery as to where Tiger actually is right now.

GRACE: You`re correct. I misspoke. His yacht, the Privacy. But with a home there in the same subdivision, it`s my understanding, why the yacht?

PETRIMOULX: Well, you know, like you said, it`s called Privacy, and that would be a place where he could go and escape. Now, nobody`s seen him move around, but we have heard reports that there was a lot of activity on that boat. So maybe they were prepping for him to come or maybe he`s already there. But a lot of this is just speculation because, again, nobody`s seen him, taken pictures of him. And as you can imagine, there are reporters everywhere looking for him.

GRACE: In the last hours, we have been told that British lawyers have gotten a court order or have gone to court to stop nude depictions, photos of Tiger Woods.

Now, to Ellie Jostad. I`m not convinced such photos exist. If one of these women have, like, cell phone photos of him, you could easily doctor that and place his head somebody else`s body. What type of verification do the papers have to go through before they can print something like that?

ELLIE JOSTAD, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Oh, I wouldn`t even know, Nancy. But the point is, we don`t know, for one thing, if these documents posted by TMZ are, in fact, real. We don`t know if there is a court order. We haven`t been able to obtain them ourselves. And however, this document does say, This does not acknowledge that anything like this exists, but if it does, you can`t print it.

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GRUBBS: Why did I come out? That`s a tough one. I did it for a lot of reasons. Obviously, when I did air that voicemail, I mean, when I -- the day I received it, it was kind of like a reality check for me. It was kind of saying, you know, I`m not the most important person to him. And when I did come out, I kind of did a lot on emotion.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why did you come out with the story?

GRUBBS: Oh, why did I come out? That`s a tough one. I did it for a lot of reasons. Obviously, when I did air that voicemail, I mean, when I - - the day I received it, it was kind of like a reality check for me. It was kind of saying, you know, I`m not the most important person to him. And when I did come out, I kind of did a lot on emotion.

I didn`t really think anything through. I was just -- I was hurt. And I told my story and I didn`t really think of what it was going to do, what it was going to do to my life, especially not what it was going to do to my family. So you know, I think I just did everything on emotion when I first reacted.

I think with this whole process, that is the hardest part for me, is to know that this whole time, you know, two-and-a-half years, that I thought that I could have been the only woman and the only reason why, you know, we didn`t hang out as much would be that he was busy. And to go back and think that, you know, his reasons for being busy may have been another woman is -- it is really hard, you know?

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GRACE: We are taking your calls live. Straight to Emily in Georgia. Hi, Emily.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy. Great to talk to you. I`ve read your book. You`re an inspiration to everybody in the world!

GRACE: I appreciate that. I don`t deserve it, but thank you for saying that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, you do, dear!

GRACE: What is your question, dear?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. I`ve heard reports that he allegedly had unprotected sex. And my question is, if he had unprotected sex with these alleged mistresses, can anyone sue if the wife gets an STD or if it`s passed on from these alleged mistresses?

GRACE: You know, that`s a legitimate concern. Let`s unleash the lawyers, an expert in his field joining us tonight, Raoul Felder, divorce attorney, author of "Getting Away With Murder" joining us in New York, John Burris, a renowned attorney, defense attorney, joining us in San Francisco, and Alex Sanchez, also famed in his jurisdiction of New York.

Gentlemen, thank you for being with us. What about it, Raoul? Especially in light of two of these women, these alleged mistresses -- and I don`t know, really, if you can believe all of them -- two of them are porn stars.

RAOUL FELDER, DIVORCE ATTORNEY: Well, it`s a little more complicated than that. First of all, if this talk about a new prenuptial agreement is true, there`s probably a general release clause that certainly could have been anticipated to cover this because, at that point, at least, I think, four of the women were known.

New York law is a little peculiar, but it changes from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Every place, a wife has a cause of action against her husband for STDs. Girlfriends, it varies on the jurisdiction because you take more risk. If you meet somebody in a bar and you get something, well, you know, it may be what they call assumption of the risk. So there it is.

But my guess is that there is a post -- a new post-nuptial that -- reduced the number of years, as they say, and it probably has a general release clause that releases him from now until the end of the world for everything.

GRACE: So you think in light of the reports we are hearing that the prenup has now been renegotiated, it`s now, as Raoul Felder is calling it, a post-nup, it would cover Emily`s question regarding sexually transmitted diseases?

FELDER: Well, a general release is a general release for everything.

GRACE: See, a lot of people don`t know what you`re talking about when you say a general release.

FELDER: OK, if there`s going to be money exchanged hands, or promises for money or future money, in return, the person who`s doing this is getting something called a general release, which Nancy well knows about, which means I can`t sue you for anything, imagined claim, real claim or anything, because I`m giving you a great deal of money.

If it`s something that could not have been anticipated when that release, as we say, was given, then he may be able to sue again. But here it seems to me that with four women or five at that time coming out of the woodwork -- and you know, we hate to be pejorative, but these were women who were not school teachers. They`re women -- one woman was in the sex industry...

GRACE: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Raoul Felder...

FELDER: Well...

GRACE: I get it about the porn stars but please lay off the waitresses.

FELDER: No, as a matter of fact...

GRACE: Mommy here was a waitress before. So watch it.

FELDER: As a matter of fact, if you recall, the last time I was on, one of the things I found offensive was these labels that were on these women. And as a matter of fact, there seemed to be real relationships, as you read these text messages. This wasn`t ships in the night. The odd thing about it is, for a person like he (ph), who was a playboy, for want of a better term, he really got emotionally involved with these women and vice versa.

GRACE: Well, I think that is the general description of a playboy, Bethany Marshall. You don`t just have a bunch of one-night stands. The women think they`re having a relationship.

BETHANY MARSHALL, PSYCHOANALYST: They delude themselves into thinking, some day, they`ll be the only one, that they`ll replace the wife. I do not for one second believe he had real relationships with these women. Men who are sexually compulsive have notoriously poor insight into what anybody around them is feeling. They have reckless disregard for the rights of others. They don`t wear condoms, often.

They often marry very, very strong women in the hopes that their impulses will be contained, but then they start to resent the woman because they feel that the woman doesn`t admire them or look highly upon them. So then they start to search out other women in hopes that they will get admiration. In a way, they`re excitement and admiration junkies, and one woman cannot supply it all. So they`ll go on to the next and the next and next, and that`s how the compulsion is born.

GRACE: Back to the lawyers, Raoul Felder, John Burris, Alex Sanchez. This proposition that Emily in Georgia has brought up -- we`ve heard from these various women, if they can be believed, about unprotected sex with Tiger Woods. Now, I personally can`t believe that this many women are telling the truth about Tiger Woods. I don`t know how he would have time in the day for all these women, plus a career and a wife and two children.

But long story short, is there a possible lawsuit if there`s been some type of a health risk? First to you, Burris.

JOHN BURRIS, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, not so much that there`s a risk, if something actually happens, if, in fact, there`s some seriously sexually transmitted disease and they get it and he knew he had it beforehand and he failed to tell them, then he has -- then he can be responsible for their condition.

But you know, if nothing happens and he just had sex and he didn`t have protected sex and there`s no disease transmitted, there`s no liability there, it seems to me. It`s only if something actually does happen.

GRACE: What about it, Alex?

ALEX SANCHEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, if you knowingly infect somebody with a sexually transmitted disease, you can be held liable civilly and you may even be held liable criminally. For example, if you`re suffering from, let`s say, AIDS and you go and have sex with somebody and you infect them, you know what? You could be arrested and brought up on criminal charges.

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GRUBBS: I did put a lot of, you know, emotions into this. I did care very much for him. And when we were together, I mean, he did make me feel like I was the only girl. So to go back and see, and I mean, especially now, when there`s more and more...

Me telling this story wasn`t, you know, the way I wanted to end things or say good-bye necessarily, but it`s my closure. It`s just kind of -- you know, this was a man I cared about. This was a man I spent two-and-a-half years with.

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GRACE: Straight out to Barry Levine, a special guest joining us tonight. He is the executive editor of "The National Enquirer." Barry, thank you for joining us.

BARRY LEVINE, "NATIONAL ENQUIRER": Sure, Nancy.

GRACE: Barry, now the tally is even higher. Do you really believe all these women?

LEVINE: Listen, Nancy, it took us several weeks to vet the first girl, Rachel Uchitel, who started this whole thing. Obviously, we`d be working into the -- you know, into the middle of next year to try to confirm every one of these women. I think that, based on what we know about Rachel`s story, with the text messages, with the phone calls, and the way she was moved to meet Tiger in Australia in early November, that I believe that some of the accounts of some of these other women are correct. I cannot vouch for all of these women, but certainly, we know that there are multiple affairs.

GRACE: What do we know tonight, Drew Petrimoulx, about the rewriting of a prenup? What do we know about the prenup? There are rumors it could cost him almost immediately $55 million, much less over the span of the next seven years it apparently covers.

PETRIMOULX: Yes, and all the way up to $80 million. But really, like a lot of things with this story, we don`t really know. We haven`t seen exactly what this prenup calls for, but we do understand that it`s been renegotiated so that Elin might be able to get more money quicker and not have to wait out a long time to get payment if this thing still lasts.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Infidelity in a marriage is one thing, but a serial infidelity, a cheater, is a symptom in the character of the person who is cheating.

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GRACE: The facts really don`t seem to hang together between his and his wife`s story about what happened that night. Coincidentally, the incident occurred just hours after the story hit the stands with the "National Enquirer" front cover that Tiger Woods was allegedly involved in an affair with a New York party girl.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The sports superstar is address tabloid speculation set off by his one-vehicle accident in Florida last week. Woods is apologizing for, quote "personal failings."

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: This comes on the very day "Us Weekly" is out with a story alleging Tiger began an affair with a Los Angeles cocktail waitress in 2007. Jaimee Grubbs, who appeared on the VH1 network show "Tool Academy" said she has text messages and voice mails from Tiger Woods including one recorded just three days before he crashed his SUV in Florida.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: CNN has not confirmed the authenticity of that recording or whether the voice on it does belong to Tiger Woods.

(BEGIN AUDIO)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, it`s Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favor. Can you pleas take your name off your phone? My wife went through my phone and may be calling you. If you can, please take your name off that. Just have it as a number on the voicemail. Just have it as your telephone number, that`s it, OK? You got to do this for me. Huge. Quickly. All right, bye.

(END AUDIO)

GRACE: I can`t really speak to their character except that they knew they were dating a married man.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This guy is behaving like an irresponsible adolescent whose wildest dreams came through. Money, fame, superstardom. And with emphasis on the irresponsibility.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

GRACE: We are taking your calls live. To Kim in Colorado, hi, Kim.

KIM, CALLER FROM COLORADO: Hi, Nancy. As a mother of two sets of twins, I want to say congratulations to yours.

GRACE: Wow.

KIM: Yes. And also, I was wondering if Mrs. Woods would be able to sue the mistresses for alienation of affection, because as famous as he is, they knew he was married when they started the relationship.

GRACE: Well, as a matter of fact, Kim in Colorado, that`s next on my list of questions tonight. And a lot of jurisdictions a wife can actually sue a mistress or lover of the husband especially after it`s shown the lover knew he was married.

To Ellie Jostad, our chief editorial producer, you have researched this. It`s true. That lawsuit does exist, that cause of action does exist.

ELLIE JOSTAD, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER, COVERING STORY: Right. That`s right. We`ve been looking at various state statutes today. And there are several states where this does apply. If you believe that your spouse has alienated their affections, in other words they are giving affection to someone other than you, you can go then and sue that other person in the relationship.

GRACE: There`s your answer, Kim in Colorado. Now I don`t believe that that statute exists in Florida but with all of their multiple homes all over the world -- Drew Petrimoulx, how many homes do they have? Where are they?

DREW PETRIMOULX, REPORTER, WDBO RADIO: Total of about nine. There`s two here in the Orlando area. One down in Jupiter, Florida. Also a house over in Sweden and then a couple houses out in Cali, so -- California, so there`s a bunch of houses and maybe if something happened in one of those.

GRACE: There`s Jackson Hole -- can we put that map back up, please, Elizabeth? There`s Jackson Hole home in Wyoming. There are a couple in California, I believe, near some really nice golf courses. Windermere, Florida, Jupiter Island. There you have one down further south in Florida where the boat is docked. In Sweden and in Dubai.

So my point is, to Kim in Colorado, even though Florida may not allow that cause of action, alienation of affections, that lawsuit could be brought in a lot of jurisdictions where they have domiciles.

Out to the lines, Laurie, South Carolina. Hi, Laurie.

LAURIE, CALLER FROM SOUTH CAROLINA: Hi, how are you, Nancy?

GRACE: I`m good, dear.

LAURIE: Great. First, I want to thank you for being a voice to the voiceless and being an advocate for children. You are just wonderful. Thank you so much for that.

GRACE: Well, I got to tell you, thank you for your kind words. What`s your question, love?

LAURIE: Well, it`s kind of a two-part question here. Number one, shame on Tiger Woods. I`ve been through this myself as a divorced married woman of three children. But his little squeaky clean thing has gone down now. But these women -- my two parts to this is it`s my understanding that Tiger Woods paid some of them off not to speak. But they are still coming out and speaking.

Shame on them, too. They knew he was a married man with children. That just bothers me that marriage means nothing to anybody anymore. But I want to know, can anything be done about that? Are these women just coming out to make the money? That`s a devil`s name.

GRACE: I don`t think there is anything that can be done to stop them unless they`re not telling the truth.

Let`s go to the lawyers. Raul Felder, John Burris, Alex Sanchez.

Raul, if they`re not telling the truth, they can be sued for slander or libel. John Burris, isn`t that, correct?

JOHN BURRIS, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, I don`t think much about the slander and libel against Tiger at all. He`s such a public figure. At the end of the day he will not pay the people off. He`s just going to have to deal with the fact that people are going to make false statements about him.

He is a huge, huge public figure. And you have a lot of -- you have a high standard and gross reckless disregard for the truth. It may all be true -- false but at the end of the day there`s not much Tiger is going to be able to do about women making false claims against him. It`s just not going.

GRACE: What about it, Alex?

ALEX SANCHEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: You know, even if the charges were false and these were completely erroneous complaints against him, what does a guy who`s worth $600 million going to do? Sue a cocktail waitress making, I don`t know, $45,000 a year? The whole thing would be completely ridiculous. He`s just has to -- has to accept this.

BURRIS: Right.

GRACE: To Sue in California, hi, Sue.

SUE, CALLER FROM CALIFORNIA: Hi, Nancy. I love your show. And I`m glad you bring the truth out every night.

GRACE: And you know what`s difficult about this case, Sue, and I appreciate your compliment, is that I don`t know what the truth is. I think some of these women are telling the truth but it`s hard for me to believe that there are 11 women that had these longtime affairs with Tiger Woods.

And yet I believe some of them are absolutely telling the truth but I don`t believe all of them.

SUE: Maybe not all of them. I was married to a man for almost 20 years who cheated with woman after woman. And like the girl said she thought she was the only one. I don`t understand how they can think that when they`re already not the only one because there`s a wife.

And we went to counseling. It didn`t help because he didn`t want to change and by Tiger calling the girl to take her name off of the answering machine or the voicemail, I believe he`s already keeping the door open to keep going back.

GRACE: You know, you`re right about that, too. Dr. Bethany Marshall, it seems as if at some point somebody gets a wake-up call and they say, you know what, I`m going to lose everything and if I don`t change. And at that point you either change or just get a divorce.

BETHANY MARSHALL, PSYCHOANALYST, AUTHOR OF "DEALBREAKERS": Except in the case of compulsions, and I don`t know if he is, but someone who`s compulsive will continue on and on at enormous personal, social, professional costs. That`s the nature of a compulsion that the person persists despite the cost to self or others.

And these women may have allowed themselves to become seduced into thinking that they would be the next Miss Tiger Woods. That they`re like being -- that they`re with a golf star. They`re injecting themselves into his notoriety.

GRACE: To Marvet Britto, PR brand strategist, president of the Britto Agency in New York.

Marvet, at one point I believe, being a Woods` fan, that if he came out and came clean and said I did it. I did it. I am a jackass. You know I risked everything. And now I may have lost my children. One day when they grow up and they read all of this, they may not have anything to do with me anymore.

I -- but at this point, would even that save him?

MARVET BRITTO, PR/BRAND STRATEGIST, PRESIDENT, THE BRITTO AGENCY: At this point, Nancy, I think that he needs to continue to really work on the restoration of his relationship with his wife. I think it doesn`t matter for Tiger to come out and try to really chop down every story like the lawyers said earlier, and like you said yourself.

We don`t know what`s true. People are coming out of the woodwork saying anything and at this point for Tiger to address every allegation is irrelevant. Right now Tiger needs to focus on his family. He needs to focus on his children, his wife and maybe, he could emerge a better husband, a better person and a better golfer.

He can speak when he`s ready to speak and only then will we know the truth. But until then it`s all allegations and Tiger should remain silent, let everything die down and then emerge and speak when he`s ready to tell his truth.

GRACE: Everyone, quick break. But as we go to break, here`s "NG Family Album." Now here are photos of the twins just recently. Lucy and John David just got these from a viewer. Little sweatshirts. And there is John David`s first haircut. Just last week.

Here they are with some chalk out in front of our little church we attend, playing in the parking lot.

And thank you, McDonald`s because we sure had a good time this afternoon there in your play area.

And now photos from you. Ohio friend Dominique, beautiful granddaughter of Renee who never misses a show. And Kentucky friends, Charles and Jules, celebrating 45 years together. Now that` is an inspiration to me.

Happy anniversary.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Hours after celebrating thanksgiving, Tiger Woods is involved in an accident. So now there`s so many questions because Tiger Woods and his wife, Elin, will not talk to police officers.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: With questions swirling around him and the Florida highway patrol turned away three times, that has a lot of people even more curious. Woods` efforts to maintain his privacy are legendary.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Under our constitution Tiger Woods doesn`t have to tell us anything.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Everybody wants to know. All right. What happened? What does Tiger Woods have to tell us?

MICHAEL GORDON, CEO, GROUP GORDON, CRISIS PR EXPERT: Well, if he talks about what happened, if he`s honest about it and he apologizes to his family, to his fans -- you know, we live in a forgiving country and he can get past this but the way this is unfolding with more revelations coming out every day, he`s not saying anything. He`s hiding behind these three statements on his Web site and he hasn`t come forward yet.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Every time you stonewall the cops three days in a row, looks like you`re hiding something. Or looking like you`re guilty of something terrible.

PETRIMOULX: The only thing he`s issued are statements that he`s made through his lawyer and on his Web site and what he said is that he wants to keep his privacy on that. His lawyer has said that it`s his right to not speak.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tiger is living in Tigerland which doesn`t have terribly much to do with adult responsibility, judgment or thinking about consequences.

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GRACE: To Dr. Titus Duncan, general surgery, Atlanta Medical Center. Dr. Duncan, it`s great to have you with us again. Tiger Woods still in hiding. Many people reporting that it`s because of his facial injuries. How serious must they be for him to be in hiding this long?

DR. TITUS DUNCAN, GENERAL SURGERY, ATLANTA MEDICAL CENTER: Well, you can have several levels of facial injuries. But they can go from scratches to deep bruises to actually something going on deeper inside beneath the skin itself. So it takes a little while for that to heal. As a matter of fact, for a regular incision or a regular scratch, it can take up to six weeks in order for that to heal properly so it leaves very little scar.

GRACE: To Tom Shamshak, former police chief, now private investigator and instructor at Boston University. Tom, thank you for being with us. Tom, there are reports that Elin Nordegren, the wife, knew of Tiger Woods` behavior, alleged promiscuity before their marriage, that he had promised to clean up his act. Now she finds out that he didn`t.

Isn`t it typical in your line of business before disaster strikes and everything hits the fan, the spouse is on to the other one and they`ve already hired a private investigator? Do you believe that`s how she found out?

TOM SHAMSHAK, FMR. POLICE CHIEF, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR, INSTRUCTOR AT BOSTON UNIV.: Good evening, Nancy. Thank you for having me back. It is quite possible that his wife hired a private investigator who went about acquiring with her assistance cell phone records, texting, photographs that might have been sent, and private investigators routinely work with computer experts to harvest that kind of information. Tiger`s undoing will be the electronic trail that most cheaters have to deal with.

GRACE: Out to the lines, Louise in Florida. Hi, dear.

LOUISE, CALLER FROM FLORIDA: Hi. Thank you, Nancy, for my question. This is -- how does he compartmentalize his life to know which woman he`s talking to, what her likes and dislikes. He must be a different person with each one of them.

GRACE: Louise in Florida, if I knew the answer to that, I could make millions of dollars in the shrink business.

Dr. Bethany, this one is on you.

MARSHALL: Well, hopefully he didn`t call each one by the wrong name. Actually, people who cheat are really un-integrated meaning that the experience that they have when they`re with their wife is completely put out of their mind when they`re with a mistress. And I think why he was caught is that Jaimee Grubbs -- he saw her 20 times in three years. That`s only once a month.

He made her believe she was so special. She is a woman scorned and she came out with those text messages because when he asked her to take her name off the phone, she realized she wasn`t so special. So that was the undoing.

GRACE: Everybody, we are switching gears. Still taking your calls. A little 2-year-old girl out of Montana is in danger. Police believe she is with a three-time convicted felon in different states and he is on the run. Take a listen.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Law enforcement needs your help in tracking down 2-year-old little girl Heavenly Echo Erickson. Heavenly vanishes in Montana while at her father`s house. Police believe she may be with her mother, Viola Cathel, who lost custody. The situation extremely urgent. Cathel may be traveling with her boyfriend, James Worthington in a 1998 four-door red Saturn with temporary license plate.

Little Heavenly just 2 years old and needs to be brought to safety immediately.

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GRACE: That is the age of the twins and I can imagine what this little child is going through. Now you heard that she was taken by the mother. Well, the father has custody and the mother took the baby and she is with a convicted felon, convicted on felonies in three different states.

Thanks, mom.

Out to Andy Malby, editor in chief with the "Belgrade News." What can you tell me, Andy? And thank you for being with us.

ANDY MALBY, EDITOR IN CHIEF, BELGRADE NEWS (via phone): Thank you, Nancy. All I know is that she disappeared November 23rd from Bozeman, Montana, in the company of her mother who doesn`t have custody and this boyfriend of the mother, James Worthington.

It`s my understanding that she -- custody was to be given to an aunt but she went in and took the girl before the aunt could get there.

GRACE: Marc Klaas, president and founder of KlaasKids Foundation, this guy is a felon in three different states, Marc.

MARC KLAAS, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, KLAASKIDS FOUNDATION: Yes, indeed, he is, Nancy. And it`s going to take a combination of public vigilance and law enforcement, electronic investigation to bring this in. People either are going to have to see him or their cell -- their cell pings are going to have to be monitored or tracked and/or credit card information.

But I`d very quickly like to suggest, Nancy, we have two million long- haul truck drivers on our highways. And so many of these are road centric cases that those truck drivers had knowledge of these situations, and given the fact that they`re in constant communication with each other, I have no doubt that many of these cases, this one included, would be solved much more quickly than they are.

And quite frankly there`s a proposal before the FCC to provide them with that information right now and the FCC has been stalling on this for more than five years.

GRACE: So here`s our plea tonight to all of you long-haul truck drivers. Take a look at this little girl. She is now with her mother, non-custodial parent, who stole her. And she`s with a three-time convicted felon. Tip line, 406-582-2100.

What more can you tell me, Matt Zarrell?

MATT ZARRELL, NANCY GRACE STAFFER, COVERING STORY: Well, mom waived her parental rights just a month ago when the aunt applied for guardianship. Now the father was unaware that the aunt applied for guardianship. He actually was with the child the day she was taken. She had no -- he had no idea he lost custody. Mom came, wanted the child, he handed her over, he didn`t think twice about it.

GRACE: Everyone, and very quickly, to tonight`s case alert. The search for a missing 32-year-old Chicago man vanishing into thin air after a late night call from his parents. Dave Delceillo, last seen November 20, boarding a local bus. Family said he`d never lose contact. Or leave behind his beloved pet or his prized musical instrument.

Also found in his apartment, the bed made, the TV on. Medication left on the desk. He is 6`2", 140 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes.

Please, take a look. If you have information, please call Chicago police, special victims unit, 312-744-8200.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Law enforcement needs your help in tracking down 2-year-old little girl Heavenly Echo Ericsson. Heavenly vanishes in Montana while at her father`s house. Police believes she may be with her mother, Viola Cathel, who lost custody. The situation extremely urgent.

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GRACE: Straight back to Matt Zarrell. Matt, I`m a little unclear about the custody thing. The father still had custody, even though the aunt was petitioning, is that what you`re saying?

ZARRELL: Yes, in the petition for the aunt to get guardianship, the aunt and the mother both claim that the father was not interested in raising the child, hadn`t seen the child in six months. However.

GRACE: But he had the girl.

ZARRELL: Yes, he did. And the father said in the filing in the court, he asked for a motion recently asking foe a hearing about it because he said I had no idea that you were taking custody or guardianship away from me. And if I did, I wouldn`t have handed the child over to the child`s mother.

GRACE: So how did the mother come up -- come to take the child? She just drove up and took advantage of his lack of knowledge of what they were trying to do in court?

ZARRELL: Exactly. The mother just came up to the father and said I want to see my child. The father handed her over, didn`t think about it.

GRACE: What can you tell me about this convicted felon, Matt?

ZARRELL: Well, this guy Worthington, he`s got convictions in Montana, Florida -- for drug possession and burglary. He spent some time in jail. He was recently released and he has violated the terms of his release.

GRACE: Take a look at this, possession of marijuana, burglary. What else do we have? Theft by transportation. Burglary, Montana. Are there more? Are those all of them, Liz? Or do we have any additional? OK, if there are more, let`s see them.

Take a look at this guy, everyone. Right now, the guy`s name is James Worthington, age 33. The mom`s boyfriend.

Dr. Bethany, how can this keep happening where mom takes off with a convicted felon and the baby?

MARSHALL: Well, you know, most kidnappings are at the hands -- or committed by noncustodial relatives. So you think it`s the guy in the dark trench coat lurking at the end of the block. But it`s not. It`s the cousin, it`s the mother, it`s the aunt, it`s the person who shouldn`t have the child who becomes obsessed with the child, who puts the child at the greatest risk.

GRACE: Everyone, let`s stop and remember Army Staff Sergeant David Kuehl, 27, Wahpeton, North Dakota. Killed, Iraq. On a second tour, awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal.

Loved hunting, family barbecues, his F150 pickup, his cocker spaniel, Ozzie. His kitty cat, Doodles. Leaves behind grieving parents Keith and Laura, sisters Shauna and Wendy. Widow Amy, daughters Kylie and Messa.

David Kuehl, American hero.

Thank you to our guests, but especially to you for being with us. I`ll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp Eastern. And until then, good night, friend.

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