Why Would Elin Nordegren Stay With Tiger Woods After at Least 9 Purported Affairs?

 

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It's the question on the lips of so many people sucked into Tiger Woods' downward spiral:

Why is Elin Nordegren, the Swedish nanny and former model who married Woods five years ago and bore their two young children, still with him after at least nine women have said they had affairs with the professional golfer?

Well, it turns out, Nordegren may have moved out of the couple's Windermere, Fla., home in the Isleworth gated community into a nearby house, according to ABC's Orlando affiliate WFTV.

What's more, Swedish newspapers today reported that Nordegren bought a $2 million home dubbed Faglaro Mansion on a small, secluded island reachable by ferry from Stockholm.

The news comes on the heels of WFTV's report that she may have told police that Woods had been drinking before he crashed his SUV into a tree near their home Nov. 27.

As for why she didn't up and leave when the other women started emerging from the woodwork: It's all about the Benjamins, or at least the prospect of them, New York divorce attorney Raoul Felder said.

"Money," he said. "That's what it's all about, $75 to $80 million is what Elin stands to get now. Before all this, according to the pre-nup [speculation], it was a $20 million deal at the end of 10 years."

Now, to make an understatement, Woods stands to lose a lot more.

Below, get to know the nine women who've revealed their apparent relations with the golf star.

Mindy Lawton and Holly Sampson

Over the weekend, a porn star and a pancake house waitress added their names to an ever-increasing list of women who have come forward or been called out for reportedly having affairs with golf superstar Tiger Woods, bringing the tally to nine -- that the world knows about, for now.

Tabloids over the weekend named porn star Holly Sampson and pancake waitress Mindy Lawton as two of the names on Tiger's steamy scorecard, raising the question of how Woods would have been able to keep so many affairs secret for so long.

Sampson, 36, is a busty blonde and Los Angeles resident. The star of the films "OMG, Stop Tickling Me" and "Flying Solo 2" has not denied an extramarital affair with the golfer, whose squeaky clean reputation has been tarnished since a bizarre early morning car accident two weeks ago raised questions about the stability of his marriage and was followed by a slew of allegations about alleged affairs.

Denver-based lawyer Andy Contigulgia, representing Sampson, declined to comment and did not return calls from ABC News.com.

Holly Sampson.

Most of the women linked to Woods are models or work at some of the country's swankiest nightclubs, but Lawton, 33, who disclosed her alleged relationship to Britain's News of the World, worked for $8 an hour at a Perkins restaurant in Orlando.

"Sometimes I looked like a rag doll after we'd made love," she told the paper. "He really did like it quite rough. He wanted to spank me and loved pulling my hair as we had sex. He also liked me to talk dirty to him, but hair-pulling was what really turned him on.

For one year, beginning in 2006, Lawton said she and Woods regularly saw each for sex, partying at Orlando's Blue Martini club and having sex in the golfer's home and in his car parked in a church parking lot.