Dion and her elderly husband, Rene Angelil

There’s a good reason why Canadian songbird Celine Dion has been flying below the radar over the past few months.

Holed up in a rented house at the Bear’s Club in Jupiter while her waterpark-outfitted castle on Jupiter Island is being finished, Dion suffered a miscarriage, according to her husband.

And the singer of My Heart Will Go On then went through another unsuccessful attempt at artificial insemination, he told the French Canadian Journal de Montreal.

A third attempt is scheduled this weekend in New York.

The 41-year-old Dion’s hubby and manager, Rene Angelil, told the newspaper that Dion became pregnant in August but lost the baby a week and a half later.

Said Rene, who’s 67: “We are living the same reality as the majority of couples who face these techniques of procreation. The road can be long and arduous. It doesn’t always work like it did the first time with (their son, born at Palms West in Loxahatchee in 2001) Rene-Charles. In August, the doctor believed that the pregnancy had started well. It wasn’t the case. We were in shock.

“But you know Celine. She doesn’t let go. We are not discouraged.”

Hey, guys, here’s a novel idea: How ’bout an adoption?

A cross between a discount motel and a beachside nursing home? Na ... it's Tiger Woods' home under construction on Jupiter Island. (Splash News/Special to Page2Live)

Elin Nordegren and Tiger Woods

Is it any wonder that golfer Tiger Woods had everybody building his Jupiter Island home sign a confidentiality agreement? I mean, look at this place! It’s a cross between a discount motel and a beachside nursing home! But hey, from what I’ve been told, Woods’ Swedish missus, Elin Nordegren, is calling the shots on this one. Woods bought four adjacent properties on the tony island for a Martin County-record $44.5 million in 2006. He then tore down the existing homes on the 12 acres, including a classic Bahamas-style manse. The new 9,700-square-foot home is split between the living quarters (right on the photo above) and a gym (left side). Both sides will be connected with a glass-covered walkway, according to the blueprints. Good thing the plans call for so much foliage around the house that few passers-by will be able to see it! For more photos, and the poll, look below or click (Read more…)

Chris Evert in a red dress Saturday night at the Boca Raton Resort (Michele Sandberg/Special to Page2Live)

Just a month after tennis legend Chris Evert said she was “fine” with her split from her husband of 18 months, Aussie golfer Greg Norman, Evert told Page2Live that she misses the Great White Shark.

Looking elegant in a red dress, Evert made the startling admission Saturday night at the Boca Raton Resort, as she walked into the gala of her fund-raising tennis tournament.

She was asked: “Are you a happy woman?”

“I’m happy with this event,” Evert first said. Then, after a brief silence, she added: “Greg is missed. I miss him. He was always a big part of this.”

She didn’t discuss what the future holds for her and Norman, whom she married in June 2008 after both divorced their long-time spouses. They announced in early October that they were splitsville.

A dozen celebrities, meanwhile, put on their best outfits and dancing shoes for the gala, which marked the 20th anniversary of the event. Songbird Natalie Cole sang for the 500-plus who paid $750-a-pop to get in. Among other celebrities: Burn Notice hunk Jeffrey Donovan, tennis great Martina Navratilova, Navratilova’s old doubles partner Pam Shriver, Lindsay Davenport, Monica Seles, Justin Gimelstob and Vince Spadea, TV and the movies’ Elisabeth Shue, comic Jon Lovitz and soap opera star Maeve Quinlan. Most of them will be playing tennis at the Delray Tennis Center on Sunday.

Norman (AP Photo)

Double bogey for Jupiter Island golfer Greg Norman!

Not only is he dealing with his separation from new wife Chris Evert, the Boca Raton-based former tennis star, but now he’s got a ticked off ex-wife to deal with.

Palm Beacher Laura Andrassy says the Great White Shark stiffed her in his yearly payment of their divorce settlement.

She contends in new paperwork filed in the Martin County courthouse in Stuart that his $2 million wire transfer to her June 15 was about $72,000 short. She asked a judge to force Norman to pay up, or order arbitration.

According to their contract, the ex-missus, a former flight attendant, will be $103 million richer by 2023 as a result of the agreement they signed when they were divorced two years ago.

So, what’s $72,000?

“It’s a substantial sum of money,” said Andrassy’s lawyer in West Palm Beach, Jack Scarola. “I have no desire to annoy Mr. Norman. But he has an obligation to meet his contractual commitments. If someone owes $72,000, just pay up.”

Andrassy, leaving a divorce hearing with lawyer Jack Scarola in 2007 (The Palm Beach Post archives)

Norman’s divorce attorney, Jeff Fisher, declined comment. But in his response filed in court, Fisher wrote that Norman and his ex promised they’d seek arbitration for disputes instead of the court system.

Andrassy’s recent motion to enforce is nothing more than a “method to feed information (usually of a disparaging nature) about the former husband to the media.”

The $72,000 alleged shortfall, according to court papers, comes from the calculation of Andrassy’s share in Norman’s Colorado ranch, Seven Lakes Lodge. She’s supposed to get close to $780,000 a year for the ranch, but got much less.

Incidentally, Norman recently put the property on the market for $55 million.

The motion reopens the saga of golfer/vintner’s divorce, which was filed in June 2006 after Andrassy accused him of cheating on her with tennis champ Evert. Although Norman and Andrassy were officially divorced when he married Evert in June 2008, they’ve been ironing some of their differences since.

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(Splash News/Special to Page2Live)

So, this is why Canadian songbird Celine Dion has been drilling wells all over her Jupiter Island property! Now that the water can flow, worker bees are laboring extra hard on her double-wide beachfront home’s lazy river and main pool, according to these aerial pictures taken Monday. Still to come, the water slides!

(Splash News/Special to Page2Live)

Celine Dion using some of the precious liquid

Calling Celine Dion a water hog did have some effect after all.

Now that she’s having a water park installed on her Jupiter Island property — that’s two giant pools (one for the guests, of course), several waterslides and a lazy river — Dion’s doing it somewhat sensitively.

(See exclusive pictures of the construction here)

Last year, as the area suffered through one of its worst droughts, the Canadian songbird became the area’s heaviest user of drinking water. About 6.5 million gallons flowed through her nest, and that was just during construction. Cost the singer of My Heart Will Go On $36,343, and beaucoup public scorn, even if it was partly due to a broken pipe.

Now, La Dion told Martin County she’s having American Drilling Services drill wells on her $12.5 million beachside property. That’s three wells to extract water, and three to re-inject some of it, post use, back into the ground, according to the paperwork.

The water will not only be used for the waterpark but also to cool the home’s air conditioning units.

By the way, Dion is having a reverse osmosis system installed to purify the water 98 percent on its way to her water park.

Water flowing without scrutiny? Priceless!

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Andy Mill, in 2001 with his children, Nicky (left), Colton and Alex (Jennifer Podis/The Palm Beach Post)

Tennis legend Chris Evert’s ex husband said Monday he’s happy.

And that’s somewhat of a novelty for Andy Mill, a 1970s Olympic skiing hero and a respected area deep-sea fisherman.

Three years ago, he inked his side of his divorce settlement agreement with Evert in a Fort Lauderdale courtroom.

Depression set in.

Mill didn’t mind standing in Evert’s shadow. He once drank champagne in one of her high-heel shoes in public at the Boca Raton Resort.

But when it came to an abrupt end, Mill had a hard time.

“I cried routinely for close to three years,” the 55-year-old Mill said in an exclusive interview with Page2Live. “I loved my family. I loved Chris and our three sons and my life with them.”

And Mill, who now alternates between homes in Boca Raton and Aspen, Colo., still angrily blames his then-best friend, Jupiter Island golfer Greg Norman, for bringing misery to the life he loved.

Norman and Evert, who left their respective spouses for each other in 2006, announced Friday they were separated – 15 months after getting hitched on Paradise Island, The Bahamas.

These days, however, life is good for Andy Mill.

He’s engaged to, and lives with, a 40-year-old Aspen homemaker, Debra Harvick.

She, he says, is the loyal partner he always wanted.

“We do everything together,” Mill said while waiting for a flight to Florida so that he can check on his kids during the current firestorm. “We go hiking. We go bow-hunting. We go fishing. We go camping. She’s beautiful and a world-class chef. Deb has two kids herself.

“I didn’t know this when I got divorced, but I ended up happier than Chris, or Greg for that matter.”

When asked if he was surprised when he heard that Evert and Norman were on the outs, he said: “Nothing surprises me with those two. Look at the trail of destruction they left behind them for this fling.”

Despite the bliss, Mill says, he’ll never be able to forgive Norman, with whom he and Evert vacationed often. Once, Norman flew birthday boy Mill on his private jet to Augusta, Ga., to play a round of golf at Augusta National.

In 2001, BFFs Greg Norman (left), his now ex-wife Laura Andrassy, Chris Evert and Andy Mill (The Palm Beach Post archive)

Comparing Evert and Norman to “two alpha dogs going at it,” Mill said there’s no doubt they’re headed for divorce court.

“And a divorce is like a golf swing,” Mill said. “It always makes somebody happy.”

She’s not returning calls about her split from fresh, new husband Greg Norman, the Aussie golfer. But Boca Raton resident tennis star Chris Evert did leave her Palm Beach Farms home Saturday, telling paparazzi “I’m fine.” Evert and Norman announced Friday that they separated 15 months after their wedding. The two divorced their previous spouses to be together. On Saturday, Evert had two of her three sons in tow to go shopping in a surf shop. She added: “I just want to spend time with my family.”

Chris Evert leaves a surf shop near her home in Boca Raton (Splashnews/Special to Page2Live)

Chris Evert behind the wheel (Splashnews/Special to Page2Live)

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She could have said: I told you so!

She didn’t.

Andrassy (middle) with daughter Morgan and son Gregory Jr., her children with Greg Norman

Laura Andrassy, the woman dumped by links Leviathan Greg Norman for new wife Chris Evert, took the high road Friday when she talked exclusively to Page2Live about her ex-husband’s sudden announcement that he and Evert have separated after just 15 months of wedded bliss.

“I feel sorry for the children,” Andrassy said by telephone from her new home in the Hamptons. Andrassy, whom Norman paid $103 million in the divorce, divides her time between Palm Beach and Long Island.

“The kids (Evert, 53, has three teenage boys with ex-husband Andy Mill, an Olympic skiing hero) are the ones who are going to deal with another breakup. They just went through the same thing with their mom and dad.”

Does she feel sorry for the 54-year-old Norman?

“Not really,” she said. “He made his bed. Both he and Chris are adults and they were supposed to know what they were doing. But they were in the throes of lust and weren’t thinking (when they got married).

Evert in 2003 with her son Colton on her lap (he was 7 at the time) and Alex, then 12. Her middle boy, Nicholas, is missing from the shot. (File photo/The Palm Beach Post)

“But being with Chris is what Greg wanted. Well, he got it.”

Andrassy attributed the shocking split, announced Friday, to the fact the Great White Shark and the tennis hall-of-famer jumped into another marriage too quickly.

Evert’s divorce was final at Christmas in 2006.

Within months, she and Norman were officially an item. They were married in The Bahamas in 2008, weeks after Norman and Andrassy were pronounced divorced after 25 years.

“You just can’t get in a relationship like that so quickly,” Andrassy said. “You go from a 25-year (marriage) to something new slowly. You need to get to know each other first, and they didn’t do that. This was puppy love.

“You know, like in high school. When you just can’t live for five minutes without the other person.”

Andrassy said she had no idea Norman and Evert were on the outs and was as surprised as the general public when a friend called her to tell her.

She wouldn’t speculate on the reason for the separation, but several issues emerged in recent months.

First, according to public records, Evert and Norman, whose worldwide corporation is based in Jupiter, never moved in together. Their respective drivers license still list their pre-marital addresses, Jupiter Island for Norman and Boca Raton for Evert.

Then, friends of the two have described them as both having huge egos that, at times, have clashed.

Evert rarely missed a chance to rib Norman in public. In 2007, she called the Great White Shark a “big chicken” before the media in South Africa.

So, does Andrassy — who called Evert a “predator” on TV last year — expect to see Norman crawl back to her?

“No way,” Andrassy said, “that wouldn’t happen in a million years.”

Norman, who had arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder this week, is listed as a celebrity player at Evert’s yearly charity tournament next month in Delray, but it isn’t known whether he’ll show. Neither he nor Evert commented.

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Evert and Norman seemed chummy enough two weeks ago at the US Open of tennis (AP Photo)

Stick a fork in one of sports highest-profile couples.

Just 15 months after their romantic wedding in The Bahamas, golf legend Greg Norman and former tennis champ Chris Evert have separated.

In a joint statement, the couple said: “We will remain friends and supportive of one another’s family.”

A source close the couple told Page2Live the two gave “a great deal of consideration” before separating.

“They haven’t said whether they’ll divorce,” added the source, who asked to remain anonymous.

The announcement came three days before Norman is to captain the international team at the Presidents Cup in San Francisco. Traditionally, players’ wives take a visible role in the tournament but the Great White Shark showed up this morning alone.

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