Elin and Tiger (Click on the photo for more)

Jupiter Island golfer Tiger Woods‘ secret divorce settlement may be so expensive that he had to mortgage his home to pay for it!

Official records that just popped up in Martin County hint that Woods will have to pay ex-wife Elin Nordegren $54 million by January 2016 — or risk losing the house he spent five years building.

How do I know?

The philandering golf-club swinger took out a $54 million-mortgage last Wednesday, two days after his quickie divorce was finalized in Panama City Aug. 23.

– Click here to read the mortgage docs

– Click here for a better look at Woods’ Jupiter Island digs

And the mortgage holder, according to the records, is a shadowy company with no apparent capital, JRD Florida Ventures LLC. The corporation’s registered agent is none other than one of his former wife’s six divorce lawyers, Dennis Belcher.

Woods, the mortgage shows, used the Jupiter Island property, Sand Turtle, to secure the loan — which means that Nordegren could end up with that Motel 6-style crib if he doesn’t pay up. The document was actually notarized by Tom Sasser, Woods’ West Palm Beach-based divorce attorney.

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Ross, and George

Surprise, surprise!

Radio personality Jennifer Ross, who was canned a year ago from WRMF-97.9 FM’s morning show and replaced by younger, cheaper talent, is returning to the station — but not to the airwaves.

Ross, 52, is scheduled to take over as director of community affairs next week, said station boss Elizabeth Hamma. The job’s description is unclear. Hamma declined to comment further.

In an email to Page2Live, Ross wrote:  “I’m thrilled about the opportunity.  As you know, I’ve always been committed to the community, as has WRMF, so this is the perfect opportunity for me.  I’m looking forward to continuing my relationship with the WRMF team and great things for the future.”

A station insider who asked not to be identified said the move makes sense for both WRMF and the woman who ruled local morning radio for 25 years.

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Lappin

Some business practices at the Palm Beach Pops are leaving the orchestra founded by maestro Bob Lappin exposed to lawsuits and the scrutiny of the IRS, forensic accountants have told the non-profit.

Red-flagged by the Alpern Rosenthal financial sleuths: The Pops is plunking down $20,000 a year for the health insurances of Lappin’s fiancee and his maids.

Also, pops staffers have improperly factored in Lappin’s salary in the books, making it look like he took no pay when, indeed, he’s compensated handsomely. And Lappin is reimbursed for his use of a private jet he co-owns and limo rides, even when it’s unclear whether he is on Pops business or pleasure!

What’s more, the scathing report spells out how the group’s bylaws make Lappin, who’s also the Pops’ CEO and a board member, the sole person in the organization who gets to select, elect and reject members of the Pops board of directors. The board, which includes Lappin’s personal friends and business associates, then approves the conductor’s pay package — about half a million per season!

The forensic report caused such a ruckus that eight board members have resigned over the past month. Only six board members remain, just weeks before the new season’s opening concert.

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Red light cameras on Okeechobee Boulevard

The West Palm Beach Police Department is throwing professional courtesy into the wind.

Patrolmen have been told Friday they’ll have to pay the city’s $125-fines if they’re caught running red-lights equipped with cameras — even while in uniform and in a squad car.

And the same goes for any other law enforcement agency circulating on the city’s territory — unless, of course, there’s a legitimate emergency!

Tired of lawmen trying to weasel out of paying, Assistant Chief Dennis Crispo last week sent a preachy letter to all other area chiefs and  Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw to lay down the law.

“Please advise your members if they are captured on camera in their vehicles running the red light at these intersections, they will be cited,” the letter reads. “The only remedy for relief will be through the traffic court system. All law enforcement personnel must understand the high standard of conduct is applied to them in order for the public to have confidence in their departments and the officers.

“This trust is a critical and precious commodity . . . and yet it is fragile and easily lost.”

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Ramos (Lannis Waters/The Palm Beach Post)

Suicide victim Brett Hall, the well-liked accountant who jumped to his death from the 21st floor of a downtown West Palm Beach office building Aug. 19, is believed to have downloaded dozens of pornographic videos, some showing prepubescent boys with adult males, according to police reports obtained by Page2Live.

Had he lived, he could have been charged with felony computer child exploitation and sexual performance by a child, and faced more than 20 years in prison.

Hall’s home in Boca Raton was being tossed by online pedophile-hunter Charlie Ramos, a Boynton Beach Police detective at the time Hall committed suicide. He jumped from the “Darth Vader” building, which ironically is located in the shadow of the county courthouse and the office of the State Attorney.

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James' first moments in a Heat uniform in July (Click on the photo for more)

Two months before the Miami Heat and its all-star trio — LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh — take on the National Basketball Association, scalpers report ticket prices for Heat games home and away are burning up.

A Fort Lauderdale ticket broker tells Page2Live that some courtside seats for the Heat’s Oct. 29 home-opener against the Orlando Magic are selling for $7,500-a-piece!

“And if the Heat win their first 10-12 games, it’s going to go past $10,000,” said Todd Chitoff of ticketplayground.com.

Nosebleed ducats with face values around 50 bucks are going for an average of about $450 at the Boston Celtics, where the retooled Heat open the season Oct. 26, and at American Airlines Arena for the Orlando home opener.

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Life goes on for newly single Elin Nordegren on the week she divorced golfer Tiger Woods and granted a cozy, softball interview to People magazine about her crowded marriage.

Still surrounded by bodyguards, the 30-year-old was just photographed exiting a pediatrician’s office near Orlando with her and Woods’ two children. (above)

Elin, meanwhile, is not the only one squawking about her world falling apart. Miss Congeniality star Sandra Bullock is scheduled to sit down with Today’s Matt Lauer Tuesday to discuss her pending divorce from philandering motorcycle builder Jesse James.

– Click here for more about the divorce

– Click here for a look at the Jupiter Island home that soon will be Tiger’s homestead

Raban, on his old job

Brent Raban, a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office sergeant once known on the tough streets of Belle Glade as “The Punisher,” was fired by Sheriff Ric Bradshaw.

Raban, 34, an 11-year veteran, broke his promise to be good made last year to save his job when he was demoted to patrolman. He’d been bragging on Facebook about beating suspects.

Now, one of his neighbors in Lake Worth has been complaining Raban is “harassing” and “intimidating” her, and Internal Affairs recommended after a long probe that he be terminated.

Bradshaw signed off on it Friday.

Raban made news last year when it was revealed he patrolled the nightscape wearing a camouflage skullcap with the word PUNISHMENT. His strange Facebook postings also surfaced.

In one, he wrote he considered his job to be not so much about fighting crime as about applying punishment! Another read: “But like a good batterer, I know the areas that hide the marks well.” Better yet: Raban, who admitted to being a fan of comic books with troubled heroes like Batman and The Punisher, once commented how he hadn’t beaten anyone in 11 days.

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Lional Dalton (Click on the photo for his booking mug, and more)

Former National Football League journeyman Lional Dalton spent today in a West Palm Beach jail after surrendering to Palm Beach County authorities on charges of domestic violence.

The 350-pound defensive tackle, who made Boca Raton his home when he retired in 2006 after playing for the Baltimore Ravens, Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans, was scheduled to post his $2,000-bail today.

The wife, 5-foot Kimberly Dalton, also was arrested last week in connection with the same incident, which occurred at their home in March.

According to court records, the Daltons have been going at it for more than a year. He filed for divorce earlier this year.

Each has asked courts to grant several domestic violence injunctions against the other. Yet, they still share a $1 million-house at the fancy Fox Hill Estates, even if a judge ordered Lional to live in the pool house. He is only allowed in the main house, where Kimberly lives, to prepare food and attend to personal needs.

Still, they run into each other every so often — and that’s not good.

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Hard to believe, but Grease sweetheart Olivia Newton-John is about to turn 62! Here is the cancer-surviving Jupiter Inlet Colony resident with her nature conservationist hubby, John Easterling, at a Miami Beach junket last week. The two were married two years ago at the Jupiter Beach Resort. (Click here for more photos)

– Click here for a bird’s eye view of Newton-John’s Jupiter Inlet Colony’s home on the exclusive Page2Live map of celebs