The alleged “other woman” in golf prodigy Tiger Woods’ bed is not just some cheap bimbo who mans the velvet rope at fashionable night clubs and dates famous, married men.
The clubs that Rachel Uchitel, 34, is also accustomed to include the Everglades Club and the Bath & Tennis Club, both Palm Beach high society hang-outs.
Uchitel is the granddaughter of powerful Cleveland banker and amateur golfer Warner Bishop, who moved to The Island with a much younger wife in the 1990s. He died in 2001 at 82. And her mom is socialite Susan Bishop.
“I can’t talk about this,” said Susan Bishop, who lives part-time in a $600,000-condo on Palm Beach’s Bradley Place. “But I can tell you I’ve never met Tiger Woods or heard anything about it until these stories came out.”
And either by blood or Uchitel’s own short-lived marriage, she has dozens of relatives in the upper spheres on The Island.
“Rachel comes to see her mom in Palm Beach fairly often,” said a local society maven who asked not to be named. “She may come off as sleazy now, but she’s from old money, even if there isn’t much of that old money left for her.
“The thing about Rachel is that she is exquisitely beautiful, and she knows it. She uses it to her advantage. She always has perfect hair. Always on high heels.
“She turned heads at the old Everglades Club and the B&T. The way she moves around a room is studied, like a model. The pictures don’t do her justice.”

Rachel Uchitel (left) and Elin Nordegren (right)

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Uchitel is making international news after Woods’ mysterious car crash over Thanksgiving weekend.
The soon-to-be Jupiter Island resident Woods, 33, was injured while backing out of his driveway in Windermere, near Orlando. He hit a fire hydrant and then crashed head on into a tree. The golfer’s wife of five years, former nanny Elin Nordegren, 28, supposedly helped free him out of the car by smashing a window of Tiger’s Escalade with a golf club.
But the couple’s attitude since, including their turning back investigating state troopers three times and Woods’ statement yesterday that details of the accident are “private,” has fueled rumors that Woods was injured during a lover’s spat.
Over what? A front page story in the National Enquirer outing Uchitel as Woods’ alleged mistress.
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