Tim Mahoney and Terry prepare to face the press in October 2008 (Meghan McCarty/Palm Beach Post) Click on the photo for more pictures of the scandal

Former U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, a Democrat whose philandering cost him his re-election in 2008, now is legally free to take on as many girlfriends as he wants.

He was officially divorced last week in Palm Beach County — and quickly hooked with one of his mistresses, former Martin County Engineering Operations Manager Kim Roden.

According to the “Final Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage” filed in his hometown of Palm Beach Gardens last week, Mahoney will end up paying ex-wife, Terry Mahoney $6,250-a-month for the rest of her life. Once the couple’s barn and five acres in the western confines of the county are sold off, Terry, 58, could receive another $270,000. An equestrian, Terry also gets two horses, Toy and Pacman. And she’s allowed to take the marital bed, her grandpa’s chair, the sewing machine, three tables and her jewelry.

Tim is supposed to give her $14,000 to help her move.

Terry Mahoney, by the way, keeps the Mahoney family name.

In all, the former lovebirds split evenly about $2.8 million in assets.

Court papers indicated Terry’s moving out of the area. She couldn’t be reached for comment.

Tim? He won’t be poor. He keeps the former marital home in PGA National and a ski-slope condo in Canada.

And there are fringe benefits to his divorce. I’m told by a source at Martin County Hall that Tim and Roden, one of two paramours whose names surfaced, no longer need to sneak around.

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Norman seems to tell Evert "You're outtahere!" in September at the US Open tennis championship

Links Leviathan Greg Norman and tennis legend Chris Evert, who spectacularly broke up their respective longtime families in order to get hitched, were secretly divorced Dec. 8 in Key West.

They were six months short of their second anniversary!

It was the former world No. 1 female tennis player’s third attempt at holy matrimony. It was the golfer’s second.

Taking advantage of the attention paid by the press to the firestorm surrounding the Tiger Woods accident and sex scandal, the two worked out a quickie settlement behind closed doors.

Then, on the morning of Dec. 8, I’m told by a source in the Florida Keys with access to flight information, the Great White Shark flew to picturesque Key West with his divorce lawyer, Jeff Fisher. Fisher, who also handled Aussie Norman’s divorce from his wife of 25 years, Laura Andrassy, shepherded the paperwork through the courthouse within a couple hours.

Evert, 55, was not present, according to the source. Norman, 54, officially was the complainant.

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Tiger Woods with wife Elin Nordegren

With Tiger Woods‘ wife, Elin Nordegren, moving out with their two ninos today, what’s next for golf’s first family?

A half-dozen local high-profile divorce lawyers, who’ve made a living handling the splits of top pro athletes, report that none of them has heard from either Woods or Nordegren.

Yet.

But with the list of Woods’ alleged paramours growing by the day — porn star Holly Sampson may also have been a member of Woods’ harem — so does the embarrassment for Nordegren.

“If there were such a thing as a divorce, I’m not sure they’d pick Orlando lawyers,” said Martin Haines, who recently worked for Australian golfer Greg Norman. Norman’s divorce from his longtime wife, Laura Andrassy, cost more than $100 million.

“I think they’ll reach out to lawyers in South Florida. But you can expect this divorce, if there is one, will be negotiated and settled privately. It’s obviously best for Tiger Woods to keep this under lock and key.”

Haines cited the fourth divorce of Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh, from former fan and aerobics instructor Marta. The former lovebirds took care of everything behind closed doors in 2004. Then Limbaugh flew to Key West to file in the morning and have a star-struck judge sign off by the end of business that day. Floridians can file in any county, not just where they are homesteaded. How much Limbaugh doled out is unclear, but Marta quickly bought $15 million worth of homes between Miami and Jupiter Island.

Joel Weissman, who handled many society divorces, said a lawyer is not what Woods and wife currently need.

“They need a good marriage counselor,” Weissman said. “I assume they have a prenup agreement, so they should relax and go to a counselor first. Then they can seek legal help if they don’t resolve anything.”

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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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The Loebs (Courtesy NickLoeb.com)

Florida Senate hopeful Nick Loeb dropped out of the District 25 race a day after Page2Live reported that his Swedish wife had filed for divorce.

Loeb tells The Palm Beach Post’s George Bennett that he’ll personally reimburse donors who contributed a total of more than $100,000 to his campaign.

He also tells Bennett that wife Anna Loeb ran into an old boyfriend in Sweden this summer and rekindled with that dude.

She filed for divorce Oct. 2, just weeks after getting picked up for DUI.

“I wish things could be different,” Loeb said.

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Anna Loeb (Courtesy finest.se)

Does this young woman appear distraught over her pending divorce?

Nick Loeb

Anna Loeb, the model-material wife of Florida Senate candidate Nick Loeb, filed divorce papers in a Palm Beach family court in Delray Beach, citing “irreconcilable differences” as pictures of her partying in her native Sweden appeared online.

Trust-funder Nick and the bombshell were married four years ago in the office of West Palm Beach lawyer Michael Walsh, who now represents the former Anna Pettersson in the split.

Rumors were abounding all summer that the wannabe pol and the wife were splitsville. While the two were attached at the hip earlier in the campaign, Anna started spending more time in her native European country. Then pictures of her partying up a storm in Stockholm turned up on the Swedish nightlife site finest.se.

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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.”

Ross (Lannis Waters/The Palm Beach Post)

For former radio personality Jennifer Ross, it’s really the mean season.

She was fired earlier this week from her popular morning show on West Palm Beach’s WRMF-97.9 FM.

And now this: Her husband filed for divorce!

The divorce, according to the paperwork in Martin County, is uncontested and their 15-year marriage deemed “irretrievably broken.”

“They’ve had issues for the past two or three years,” said a friend of Ross’. “They were going to do it before, but they got back together.”

The two – Ross, whose real name is Elena Whitby, and her soon-to-be-ex, airline pilot Harvie Whitby III – told the court they’ve worked out most details.

The former morning jock gets their $400,000-home in the Stuart West neighborhood of Palm City. She’ll be the primary caretaker of her daughter with Whitby, and her child from a previous marriage.

Harvie, who was out of work for several years, won’t ask for alimony.

A week ago today, after the show she co-anchored with sidekicks Danny Czekalinski and Deena Lang, Ross was called in by station managers and told she’d be fired. She had a year and a half left on her contract. Her replacement is Detroit out-of-work jock Chad Mitchell.

Ross didn’t return calls. Whitby couldn’t be reached. Neither is represented by an attorney.

Patti

Because of a post-nup that guaranteed $5 million to his wife if Boca restaurateur Dennis Max cheated on her, again, the 2000 divorce between the owners of the iconic Max’s Grille in Mizner Park made national news.

Nearly 10 years later, the War of the Maxes isn’t over.

According to court records, Dennis now wants out of his obligation to pay ex-wife Patti 40 percent of the management fee for their popular Boca grill, which they co-manage.

“I don’t know what it’s all about,” said Patti’s lawyer, West Palm Beach divorce honcho Joel Weissman, about the court filing. “But I can guess that, since the economy has hit the restaurant business hard, there isn’t as much money as there used to be.”

Through the late 1980s and 90s, Dennis, 64, and Patti Max, 55, were considered visionaries in South Florida’s foodie biz. They introduced a healthier, more sophisticated California-style cuisine to the land of the greasy spoon. Caviar pies called to diners who otherwise would do burgers. At one point, the Maxes co-owned 17 joints throughout SoFla, including Cafe Max in Pompano Beach, Brasserie Max in Plantation and Max’s Grille in Palm Beach Gardens.

Dennis

But by his own admission, Dennis went through a mid-life crisis as the couple’s empire grew, and his roving eye came back to haunt him. He cheated on Patti, which led her to obtain the now famous post-nup then a divorce amid accusations that Dennis impregnated a Ukrainian beautician.

What Dennis now objects to is a clause in their settlement that reads he would have to pay Patti until the restaurant is sold. It was supposed to be unloaded months after the divorce. It never happened.

And now, Dennis wants Patti out. He paid her an undisclosed amount for years, said his lawyer, even though he didn’t have to.

“He’s just a nice guy,” said Boca attorney Phil Schwartz.“The way we read their marital settlement, he didn’t have to pay her beyond September 2001, when they were going to sell. Most people out there would have stopped paying.”

Nice payday for the ex-wife of former Florida Panthers hockey star Richard Zednik.

Welch

Stunning B-series actress and model Jessica Welch, 30, is set to receive $1 million cash from the player, plus $9,270 a month in support for their five-year-old daughter.

Not bad for a three-year marriage that officially ended today!

“She’s grateful it’s over,” said her lawyer in Boca, Doreen Yaffa.

The couple, whose home is in Delray Beach, settled in a Palm Beach County court amid allegations of domestic violence.

The Slovakia-born Zednik, 33, recently signed with a team in the Russian league and wasn’t available for comment. His lawyer, Dale Sanders, declined comment.

The torn lovebirds met in 2001, when Zednik played for the Montreal Canadians.

Yaffa noted that her client left a good film and television career in Canada when she moved with to Florida with Zednik in 2007.

“She gave up her film career to be his wife,” Yaffa said. “But it was a rocky marriage right from the start.”

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