Woods (Click on the photo for more)

According to new documents released in the Thanksgiving car crash that eventually brought golf prodigy Tiger Woods back down to earth, Woods’ wife handed ambulance personnel two bottles of pain medicine which she told them Woods took earlier in the day.

The paperwork, released by the Florida Highway Patrol to the Orlando Sentinel today, also shows that Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren, tried to ride to the hospital in the ambulance with Woods. The paramedics, however, barred her from entering, citing as a reason that the case was domestic violence-related.

The state troopers’ notes also intimates that the hospital where Woods was taken after he hit two curbs then a tree while pulling out of his driveway, went all out to protect Woods.

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Casey

For the second time since 2007, the Palm Beach area chapter of the Red Cross is losing its CEO after just a brief tenure.

Larry Casey, the visible frontman of the disaster-responding charity, told Page2Live he’ll step down on April 9. He has been leading the non-profit’s branch, which reaches into the Treasure Coast and cuts across Florida to the west coast, for just 20 months.

Casey took the reigns from J.B. Hunt, who was fired in 2008 because she made it a habit of taking on her own decisions that should have been discussed with the board.

About his departure, Casey said he is looking for a change in his career. And he’s taking in a teenage family member, with whom he plans to spend more time.

Privately, according to an insider, Casey had expressed frustration with the American Red Cross’ current drive to take more control of local chapters.

“It’s just the right time to go,” Casey said. “Hurricane season is still a few months away and the chapter will have time to find someone else.”

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Philanthropist Patrick Park dug deep in his legendary wine collection, and some of his world-class bottles went up for auction Thursday at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.

The bottles of rare Chateau Lafite, Mouton-Rothschild and Chateau Margaux brought in thousands, although organizers were still counting the loot late Thursday. And it was all for charity: National Enquirer heiress Lois Pope’s Disabled Veterans LIFE Memorial Foundation. Pope is raising money to build a memorial to wounded warriors in Washington, D.C.

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Wine consultant Dennis Foley shows off a bottle of Staglin Family Cabernet Thursday night at Mar-a-Lago (Click on the photo for more)

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Beckham, last night in Manchester (Reuters)

To the rest of the world, L.A. Galaxy superstar David Beckham’s gesture Wednesday night didn’t mean much.

But in England, it was the equivalent of Becks flipping the bird at Palm Beacher Malcolm Glazer!

Heartthrob Beckham, who’s with AC Milan in Europe when U.S. soccer is off in winter, was lingering on the pitch after playing against his old Manchester United squad when a fan handed him a green-and-gold scarf.

Beckham put it around his neck.

And the Brit media went nuts.

Yep. Just of a scarf.

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Wilson

Attorneys representing the mother of a recent college graduate who died after his car was struck by Wellington polo mogul John Goodman’s Bentley are launching their own investigation into the crash that killed her son.

Jack Scarola, a partner at the high-profile West Palm Beach law firm Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart and Shipley, said the firm is starting from scratch its own probe into the death of Scott Wilson, 23.

International Polo Club Palm Beach founder Goodman suffered minor injuries in the Feb. 12 accident. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and State Attorney are conducting a criminal investigation. They’re not expected to decide before May whether charges will be filed against Goodman.

Said Scarola: “We will independently and thoroughly investigate. It’s highly unlikely that there’ll be a single lead that we won’t follow.”

Scarola said the firm has been representing Wilson’ mom Lili in other matters. He said the firm’s involvement “could include civil action arising from the death.”

Goodman visited two parties before the crash, and authorities seized credit card receipts showing Goodman paid for 18 shots of booze less than an hour before he allegedly blew through a stop sign and struck Wilson. And Page2Live revealed Monday that fire rescue workers failed to find Wilson’s body in his car, which was partly submerged in a canal after the Bentley hit it.

Rachel Uchitel, a.k.a. golfer Tiger Woods‘ No. 1 mistress, must have really liked Palm Beach.

Uchitel, the first woman outed in the scandal of Woods’ busy busy extra-marital sex life shortly after Thanksgiving, finally packed her bags and left town after three months of sucking in The Island’s calm lifestyle.

“We had her going away party on Saturday and she’s gone,” said one of her good friends here, club owner Gus Renny. “She’s headed for Las Vegas. She said she landed a great job as correspondent on (tabloid tv’s) Extra.”

Uchitel, in January in Palm Beach (Click on the photo for more)

In her time among us, the former club hostess who allegedly was flown by Woods’ corporation to Australia to be with him: stopped traffic outside Publix; was photographed in a skimpy bikini on the beach (above) ; chain-smoked while chatting up the boys at 251 PB Lounge; allegedly dated Hooters heir Chris Harding; celebrated her 35th birthday, and refused to go on satellite radio king Howard Stern’s pageant of Woods girlfriends.

“She really liked it here,” Renny said. “But I don’t think she’ll be coming back for a long time.”

You nasty thing, Charlie Crist!

The guv went on Greta Van Susteren’s On The Record on Fox News Monday night wondering if his opponent for the U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio, used the Republican party’s credit card to get his back waxed.

Yikes!

Crist is behind in the polls, but still!

Crist matter-of-factly threw that line at Greta while the two discussed the recent revelations that Rubio had used a party card for personal expenses. Check out the exchange, and vote in the poll below.

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The Fanjuls

Emilia Fanjul, the wife of Palm Beach sugar mogul Pepe Fanjul, told Page2Live today that the thief they allowed into their suite at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills “didn’t take much.”

The Fanjuls were on the Left Coast to attend the Oscars when a polite, well-groomed man they thought was a hotel worker weaseled his way into the suite Friday afternoon, saying he needed to repair the AC.

While the couple milled about their expansive suite, the man helped himself to their bling.

“At least, there was no violence, nobody was hurt, and very little taken,” Emilia said. “He went into our bedroom and he took what was on the bed. A gold chain that my great-grandmother gave me before we left Cuba and some pearl earrings.

“It was more sentimental than valuable. But the police asked me how much it was worth.”

She told them: 45 Gs.

Pepe Fanjul is, along with his brothers, one of the owners of the West Palm Beach-based Florida Crystals and one of the biggest landowners in the state.

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Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh is pulling an Alec Baldwin!

Ten years after the staunch Democrat star of 30 Rock swore he’d leave the country if George W. Bush won the White House, GOP leader Limbaugh said on his show Monday that he, too, would leave — if Prez. Barack Obama’s health care reform becomes law of the land!

Rush Limbaugh with galpal Kathryn Rogers Saturday at Mar-a-Lago

Limbaugh said on his show (WJNO-1290 AM) Monday that he’d hightail it outtahere if doctors were banned from seeing private patients under the new health care plan.

“If it passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I’m leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica,” Limbaugh said.

But like Baldwin, who never made good on his promise even after two terms of Bush, Rush seems hesitant, and clarified his statement in this e-mail to Page2Live this morning: “If U.S. doctors aren’t allowed by law to see patients in private practice outside the coming government health care monopoly, I will consider leaving the country for any major medical treatment.”

Costa Rica?

El Rushbo tells me that insurance companies are already bankrolling clinics in that Central American country in anticipation of the reform.

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Palm Beach sugar and land baron Pepe Fanjul and his wife Emilia were robbed in their room at the fancy Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills Friday night, shortly after the couple arrived in the Los Angeles area to attend the Oscars.

Fanjul, 65, a generous donor to the Republican Party, is one of the owners of the West Palm Beach-based sugar grower and manufacturer Florida Crystals.

According to several reports from the West Coast, the Cuban-born Fanjul and his missus, 63, struck a conversation in Spanish with a man as they rode up in a hotel elevator. The Fanjuls went to their room, then heard a knock on their door.

It was the man from the elevator, wearing a blue uniform with the word “hotel” written on it. He claimed he needed to fix their air-conditioning.

As he pretended to work around the room, the suspect allegedly helped himself to Emilia’s extensive jewelry collection, which Pepe described to police as “valuable.”

Hotel staffers have been going through security videos to identify the suspect. There’s been no arrest. The Fanjuls weren’t injured.

The Fanjuls, who are highly-visible on Palm Beach’s do-gooder circuit, were on their way back today and couldn’t be reached for comment.