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EXCLUSIVE: Tiger Woods’ Privacy for sale!

Troubled Jupiter Island golfer Tiger Woods is putting his mega yacht Privacy up for sale, Page2Live has learned.

Privacy

Privacy

Woods

Woods

A Woods camp insider is telling me the golfer originally offered the 155-foot Christensen ship to ex-wife Elin Nordegren as his wedding present in 2004.

But Nordegren turned down the yacht during divorce-settlement talks with philandering Woods last summer.

“She didn’t want it because the upkeep is incredibly expensive,” the source said.

With a permanent crew of 13, Privacy costs more than $2 million a year to maintain.

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Woods had the vessel sailed south to Fort Lauderdale in the fall. It was dry-docked in a yard for two months to paint the hull and re-surface the deck.

Privacy is now back at its home-port in North Palm Beach’s Old Port Cove, and Woods is shopping for a broker to list it for $25 million.

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DUI killer in minimum security camp

Zegeye

Zegeye

The former Benjamin School student who pleaded guilty to being drunk when he drove into another car stopped at a red light  in Palm Beach Gardens two and a half years ago, killing the driver, has found a new home.

Beruch Zegeye is expected to celebrate his 20th birthday this summer at the minimum-security Lancaster Correctional Institution near Gainesville.

He’s scheduled to be released in January 2017 although he could receive credit for good behavior.

Lancaster is listed as a medium- to low-security camp for young criminals, and that isn’t sitting well with his victim’s family.

According to the Florida Department of Corrections’ website, the camp houses about 570 offenders between 19 and 24 years old in dorms.

Lancaster is mandated to provide its residents with 12 hours of a day of activities and classes like graphic and culinary arts, sports, weight training and wellness.

Oh, yes: There’s a stress management program, too.

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Palm Beach State prof, ex-Sheriff’s deputy Charlie Mosher arrested in wife stalking

Mosher's booking mug (Click on the photo for more)

Mosher's booking mug (Click on the photo for more)

A well-known Palm Beach State College adjunct professor and freshly-retired Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy was held overnight in the county slammer where he once worked after being arrested in a domestic violence incident.

Seventy-year-old Charlie Mosher, of Royal Palm Beach, was charged with aggravated stalking and aggravated assault after several alleged spats with his estranged wife, Norma Jean Hoefs, since last week. Hoefs, 57, declined comment but confirmed she was his victim.

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Mosher allegedly harassed the lady with incessant phone calls then tailed her in his car around their gated community.

At one point, Hoefs told investigators, she had to swerve off the road to avoid Mosher, who came right at her in his vehicle.

Mosher was released on $10,000-bond about noon today.

He was relieved of duty as a reserve deputy, a volunteer position. Mosher retired from PBSO in June after 22 years as corrections and training deputy.

The six criminal justice courses he taught at the college this term — including “interpersonal skills for corrections officers” and “defensive tactics” — have ended.

The school’s spokeswoman, Dr. Grace Truman, said Mosher has been an adjunct professor since 1992. His status at the school will be evaluated before next term, as is the status of every adjunct professor, she said.

– With Palm Beach Post researcher Niels Heimeriks

Reports: Tiger Woods new girl is 22-year-old Northwood University student

Lahti (via Facebook)

Lahti (via Facebook)

Golfer Tiger Woods is back on the dating scene, and somehow landed a pretty, 22-year-old graduate student at West Palm Beach’s Northwood University, according to several unconfirmed news reports.

According to records the woman, identified as Alyse Lahti, lived down the street from Woods in Windermere, near Orlando, with her stepdad.

The stepdad, Alastair Johnston, is a high-ranking employee of IMG, the sports agency that represents Woods.

A woman at Johnston’s other home in Cleveland, where IMG is based, and where Lahti grew up, told Page2Live that Lahti no longer lives there and couldn’t be contacted. Lahti didn’t respond to emails asking for comment.

As a Northwood student, Lahti once again lives close to Woods, whose new home is in Jupiter Island.

With blue eyes and blonde hair Lahti, 13 years younger than Woods, bears a faint resemblance to Elin Nordegren, Woods’ ex-wife and the recent buyer of a $12.2 million-house at Seminole Landing in North Palm Beach.

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Lahti (via Facebook)

Lahti (via Facebook)

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Ex-GOP moneyman and alleged war profiteer Harry Sargeant bankrolls son’s $1 million-wedding

Harry Sargeant III, middle, introduces then-Gov. Charlie Crist to King Abdullah of Jordan in 2007 (AP Photo)

Harry Sargeant III, middle, introduces then-Gov. Charlie Crist to King Abdullah of Jordan in 2007 (AP Photo)

Gulf Stream oilman Harry Sargeant III, who’s been called a war profiteer by a Congressional leader, is putting to good use the $200 million-plus that Pentagon officials now say they overpaid him during the Iraq War.

Sargeant, a former finance chairman for the Republican Party of Florida and a college friend of ex-Guv Charlie Crist, is throwing lavish parties in Palm Beach this weekend to celebrate the wedding of his son, 27-year-old Harry.

The younger Harry is marrying Port St. Lucie hottie Morgan Elam Saturday at The Breakers.

I’m told the elder Sargeant reserved about 60 rooms for friends and family through the weekend. In season, most rooms at the resort go for $400-plus.

With the $300-a-bottle banquet, weekend activities for all the guests and not just one, but two rehearsal dinners tonight, word is the elder Sargeant could spend upward of $1 million.

“We’re having about 280 guest at the wedding,” said the bride, 28, when reached at The Breakers today. She’s the daughter of Fort Pierce CPA James H. Elam.

“I’m wearing a Vera Wang dress. Everybody’s going to be in black and white. There’s a five-course meal after the ceremony.”

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