Tiger Woods' mistresses: A complete guide

Tabloids around the world have been obsessed with Tiger Woods and his alleged mistresses.

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last updated 8 January 2015

As the Woods affair continues to grab headlines around the world, newspapers and news sites have taken to referring to the women in numerical terms—speaking, for instance, of Tiger Woods' "seventh mistress" or "8th woman." Making it even more confusing, much of the reporting that has driven the tally has come from tabloids and gossip websites, without clear reporting standards. Keeping in mind the caveat that nearly all the "facts" in the Woods affair remain murky, here's a numerical key to the women who have reportedly been involved with the golfer:

1. RACHEL UCHITEL

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Details: According to The National Enquirer, Uchitel and Woods met at a nightclub in May of this year. Uchitel, who reportedly has hundreds of text messages and e-mails from Woods, denied the alleged affair, saying, "We have never had an affair, talked on the phone, or sent any type of text, sexy or not." But after Uchitel's lawyer, Gloria Allred, canceled a scheduled press conference during which Uchitel was expected to "come clean" about the affair, reports surfaced of a seven-figure "payoff" from Woods to keep Uchitel silent. Thus far, neither Uchitel nor Woods has admitted to the affair. More recent reports suggest that Uchitel's larger role was to arrange "women for Tiger during his globetrotting excursions."

Details: Grubbs, the second woman linked to Tiger Woods in the press, was the first to openly admit to having been sexually involved with him. Grubbs, who previously appeared on VH1's Tool Academy, told Us Weekly that she and Woods had sex "20 times" since April 2007. She also released a voicemail and text messages from Woods to the magazine. Grubbs has reportedly received $150,000 for the rights to her story. Woods has not yet commented directly about the alleged affair.

Details: Jungers, the fourth alleged mistress to surface in press reports, was first named in the British tabloid The Mirror. Her former fiancée says, "I knew Tiger had come on to her and asked for her number. I knew that he called her whenever he came to Las Vegas. But she insisted that nothing was going on." Jungers, a former model for Trashy Girls lingerie, was reportedly in the process of landing a deal with a British tabloid to tell her story when, at the last minute, she decided not to go on the record.

Details: The most outspoken of Tiger's alleged mistresses, Mindy Lawton reportedly met Woods at a Perkins restaurant near the golfer's Isleworth, Fla., home, where Lawton was an $8-per-hour waitress. According to Lawton, their relationship soon turned into an intimate affair with regular rendezvous in Woods's mansion and even in the back seat of his Cadillac in a church parking lot. In an interview with News of the World, she's alluded to "rough" antics. Later she realized that "all he wanted [her] for was sex." Lawton claims to have come forward with details of the affair because she wants "his wife to know what a cheat he has been."

Details: According to unnamed sources, known New York partygoer Cori Rist met Woods last year at Manhattan's Butter nightclub. After the pair ran into each other again at a party, Woods allegedly began flying Rist to meet him while on tour. "Tiger would typically get a large suite at a hotel," a source told the N.Y. Daily News. "Someone would book Cori an adjacent room, so she wouldn't be seen coming into his room." When asked about the affair, Rist refused to comment.

Details: Holly Sampson was first named as an alleged mistress by Britian's Daily Mail, which reported that the erotic-film star was "not denying she bedded Tiger." In a video interview recorded in May 2009 for the adult website Naughty America, which surfaced after reports of the affair, Sampson admitted to having had "protected" sex with Woods at his bachelor party. Sampson, who also goes by Nicolette Foster, has appeared in 85 films, including OMG, Stop Tickling Me and Cheating Housewives 6.

Details: Hollywood madame Michelle Braun claims to have set up Tiger Woods with former Playboy pinup Loredana Ferriolo (aka Loredana Jolie) "four or five times," and that he paid $15,000-per-evening with the model. Braun also said Woods would pay up to $60,000 for group sex with Ferriolo and other high-priced prostitutes. Speaking through her lawyer, Ferriolo denied that she'd had sex with Woods, but that he gave her money and jewelry.

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