Tiger Woods - Elin Nordegren divorce news update: Nordegren consulting Sorrell Trope, star lawyer 
 
 STLA/Fame Pictures, tropeandtrope.com Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren are reportedly headed for divorce. Elin Nordegren has hired divorce lawyer Sorrell Trope. 
 
 Tiger Woods' wife reportedly has the dean of Tinseltown's divorce lawyers on her side as she and the golfing great head for Splitsville. 
 
 Nobody has more experience at tearing celebrity marriages asunder than Sorrell Trope, who hung his shingle in 1949 and whose star clients span the generations from Cary Grant and Rod Steiger to Nicole Kidman, Nicolas Cage, Hugh Grant and Britney Spears. 
 
 While Trope is no expert on the law in Florida, which is where Elin Nordegren lives, admiring lawyers say he is a hard-nosed negotiator who goes to the mat for whoever can afford him. 
 
 Nordegren reportedly signed a prenuptial agreement before she married Tiger, so Trope would most likely be enlisted to hammer out a postnup to give her a bigger piece of Woods' wealth, they said. 
 
 "There is just one Sorrell Trope," said Manhattan divorce lawyer Robert Wallack. "He's the dean of the California matrimonial bar. 
 
 "He's in a class of maybe 12 or 15 lawyers that handles very high-asset, high-income divorces with contentious custody cases," said Beverly Hills-based family law arbitrator Alexandra Leichter. 
 
 Woods, 33, who cheated on his Swedish spouse with a bevy of women, has reportedly offered her millions to stop her from walking away - and taking their two kids. 
 
 Wallack said it is not unusual for spurned celebrity spouses to bring in a "big gun" to press their case for more dough - and to walk away richer if they were treated especially badly. 
 
 "She might have brought him in to lead the charge," said Wallack, who has represented celebrities like Christie Brinkley and Damon Dash. 
 
 Trope, who is 82 and one of the best-paid lawyers in Los Angeles, did not return a call about his reported entry into the Woods saga. 
 
 In an earlier interview, the Albany-born lawyer said he got into lawyering because it seemed like a glamorous profession. 
 
 "When I was a little boy, on a Saturday you always went to the movies and you saw a double feature and a cartoon," he said. 
 
 "And there were some wonderful lawyer movies, and the lawyers were always dressed up and they looked wonderful." 
 
 Nordegren, 29, who has stayed silent as the sex scandal swamped her husband, fanned speculation they were splitting up when she appeared in public without her wedding ring - and after she bought an island getaway in her homeland. 
 
 The Daily News reported on Wednesday that she was taking the kids with her to spend Christmas in Sweden - and that Woods was staying behind to hang with his buddies. 
 
 A day later, People magazine broke the story that Nordegren wanted out of her five-year marriage and several Los Angeles TV stations reported she was consulting Trope. 
 
 Nordegren's divorce plans emerged on the same day The Associated Press selected the scandal-scarred golfer as the Athlete of the Decade. 
 
 Woods received over a third of the votes cast by AP member editors, who focused on his jaw-dropping exploits on the links - not in the sack. 
 
 csiemaszko@nydailynews.com ||||| Tiger Woods’ wife has hired a private eye to probe the extent of the love-cheat golfer’s wealth after boasting to pals her Christmas present from him was “$300million”. 
 
 Elin Nordegren, 30, plans to divorce Woods in prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / California rather than Florida due to the state’s more generous laws – and wants to know exactly what he is worth. 
 
 The former model could get half the £377million he has earned since they married in 2004 and her lawyer has ordered a PI to sift through every company account, tax return and phone bill. 
 
 She has also hired Sorrell Trope, 82, a partner in Californian law firm Trope and Trope who has represented stars including Nicole Kidman, Nicolas Cage and Britney Spears. 
 
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 A source close to the Swede said: “Elin knows hiring a PI is a smart move. Her lawyers want to make sure she gets every penny she's entitled to. Elin is devastated, but now she's decided to end their marriage she has the future of their children to think about.” Tiger, 33 – the world’s highest-paid sportsman – is thought to be worth almost $1billion (£500million) and has mansions in prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / Florida and California . 
 
 As his fortune is spread across the globe it makes estimating his true worth difficult. Finance expert David Marchant of offshoreAlert.com said: “Tiger will be hiding money legally in tax havens.” 
 
 Woods has not been seen in public since smashing up his car on November 27. Since then, 18 women have been linked with him. 
 
 Elin barred him from seeing their two children at Christmas and she saw in the New Year with Sam, two, and Charlie, 10 months, in prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" / France . Tiger spoke to them on speaker phone. 
 
 Chalet worker Chris May said: “They didn't argue once.” He added Tiger told his kids: “Daddy misses you all.” 
 
 Win a Louis Vuitton luggage set with Mirror.co.uk ||||| Elin Nordegren says she got $300M 'gift' from hubby; Tiger Woods rumored to be in New York 
 
 Dovarganes/AP Tiger Woods' wife Elin Nordegren, here with daughter Sam whom Woods has not seen in a month, says she scored $300 million Christmas gift from her philandering husband. 
 
 Tiger Woods' scorned wife is telling pals that her philandering husband left a cool $300 million in her Christmas stocking - as reporters played a cat-and-mouse game hunting for him in New York Sunday. 
 
 Elin Nordegren held her head high skiing in the French Alps over the weekend - and a stunning new report reveals why. 
 
 Asked by pals what her tomcatting hubby got her for the holidays, Nordegren coolly declared, "Three hundred million dollars, thank you very much." 
 
 The report, in Britain's News of the World, said it's all part of her plan to get hers - and keep their two kids in comfort - in a coming divorce battle. 
 
 "She's 100% determined to split with Tiger," the source told the tabloid. "When she boasted of the '$300 million Christmas gift' and then laughed, it was clear to everyone around her that she's more focused than ever about moving on with her life." 
 
 Woods has not seen his two children - Sam, 2, and 10-month-old Charlie - for more than a month and had to mail them their Christmas presents, the source said. 
 
 "Elin feels that Tiger isn't mentally well enough to spend time with her or the kids," the source said. "Tiger wanted to see them for Christmas, but Elin went away skiing at a secret location in California and then fled to France for more snow and space." 
 
 Photographs in Sunday's Daily News capture a carefree Nordegren hitting the slopes at France's Chamonix ski resort, where she celebrated her 30th birthday Friday inside the $8,000-a-night hideaway. 
 
 While Nordegren is away, sources suggest her hubby is in New York to play. 
 
 A source told The News that Woods was staying in the Trump International Hotel in Columbus Circle, showing up Saturday accompanied by a leggy blond woman. The source said Woods was staying in a $2,200-a-night, seventh-floor suite. 
 
 The spy also said Woods ordered 16 cases of Red Bull and 20 bottles of Absolut Vodka delivered to his room. 
 
 Woods has not showed his face in public since before Thanksgiving, when he crashed his car in front of his Florida mansion, triggering the almost daily revelations about a bevy of mistresses. 
 
 Photographers and reporters swarmed the Trump hotel hoping for the first post-smashup photograph of Woods. 
 
 Staff insisted that Woods was not a guest - and the NYPD wasn't informed of any Woods-related activities, two sources said. 
 
 The only famous face seen going in and out of the hotel over the weekend was ABC's George Stephanopoulos,the new host of "Good Morning America." The network said he was not there to interview Woods. 
 
 Another source close to Woods trashed the reports Sunday. 
 
 "He's not as flashy as the person who is doing all that ordering of vodka ..." the source told The News. 
 
 whutchinson@nydailynews.com 
 
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– Elin Nordegren didn’t just get herself any old lawyer—she’s reportedly hired Hollywood's superstar divorce guru Sorrell Trope, and is gearing up to go after nearly $284 million. Trope, whose clients range from Cary Grant to Hugh Grant, specializes in “very high-asset, high-income divorces,” an expert tells the New York Daily News, and Elin likely brought him onboard to negotiate a sum on top of her prenup, in light of Tiger’ extramarital mahem. Just how much more money? Sources tell the Mirror she plans to score half of Tiger’s fortune, or about $283.9 million, adding that she told friends, “divorce is 100% on.” Woods could recoup some of that money by taking on a new sponsor—a New York strip club offered the golfer a $1 million endorsement deal, OK! reports.