Visit Greg Norman's home by clicking on the photo (Courtesy Corcoran)

Golfer Greg Norman has put his Jupiter Island home on the market again, at the price he couldn’t sell it for in 2008.

Listed for $65 million the ocean-to-Intracoastal property, called Tranquility, is the seventh most expensive house currently on the market in the United States. The first is a $100 million abode in Zephyr Cove, Nevada.

So, what does one get for $65 million?

According to the listing, the nine-bed, 11-bath main house is one of six buildings on the eight-acre property. There’s also a coach house, carriage house and guest house on the ocean. There’s garage space for a total 17 cars, a 50-foot pool, a gym, and docking for a mega-yacht.

The catch: The Martin County property taxes alone will set you back $130,000!

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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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