Tiger Woods is building this mansion near Jupiter for mom Tida (Click on the Splash News photo for more)

As Page2Live first reported, embattled golfer Tiger Woods has been building this magnificent mansion in Unincorporated Palm Beach, just north of Jupiter, for mom Tida. And here are the first pictures! Woods bought two adjacent properties directly across the Intracoastal from his soon-to-be Jupiter Island residence for $2.4 million in 2007. Now, the cleaned up serial philanderer is plunking down another $2.6 million for construction. Usually a presence in the background only, Tida burst onto the media stage Friday with her long embrace for her son after his televised apology. Mama Tiger then went after the media for treating her son “like a criminal.” She’ll be one of us next year. Click on either picture, or here, for more.

Tiger Woods is building this modest home for his mom near Jupiter (Click on this Splash News photo for more)

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Tiger Woods and his mom after his televised apology (Click on the photo for more)

Embattled golfer Tiger Woods is building a whole lot of homes for a whole lot of people these days.

Woods’ company, ETW, financed his public relations man Glenn Greenspan’s modest $1 million-dwelling in Stuart.

A Scandinavian-looking house is going up just south, on Jupiter Island, from blue prints bearing the specs of Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren.

And, according to recent paperwork filed in Palm Beach County, the 22,000-square-foot crib he’s building for his mom, Tida, is moving along quite nicely.

Usually a quiet presence by her son’s side, Tida jumped into the fray with both feet at his made-for-TV apology Friday when she blasted the media treating Woods “like a criminal.”

Still, there’s nothing like the soon-to-be-reformed philandering fool to kick a down real estate market into gear!

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What does the guy who literally has everything want for his 47th birthday?

How ’bout a dismal NBA team?

Retired basketball superstar Michael Jordan, who should be living in Jupiter this time next year when his humble Walmart-sized home at the Bears Club is finished, turns 47 today.

And right on cue comes the news he wants to buy the Charlotte Bobcats from part-time Wellington dweller Bob Johnson, the co-founder with ex-wife Sheila Johnson of the BET network.

According to Chicago’s WGN, league commish David Stern expects the former Chicago Bull to be a majority owner of the not-so-good team by spring.

Bob Johnson clearly overpaid for the then-new franchise when he plunked down $325 million in 2003. Word is he’d more more then happy to get his original investment back.

By the way, Happy Birthday MJ!

Jim Sitton, staring at one of his awards for a story titled "Dangerously Dim" (Courtesy b-roll.net)

The WPTV-Channel 5 newsroom is going through the toughest day in its 55-year history.

Tragedy struck the station’s best-known, award-winning photographer, Jim Sitton, on what should have been one of the happiest times of the year.

A gunman related to Sitton’s wife, Muriel, entered their Jupiter home and allegedly shot six people gathered for the Thanksgiving feast. Four have died, including Sitton’s 6-year-old daughter, Makayla. The suspect, Michael Merhige, remains at large.

“Since Makayla was born, Jim has been taking pictures of her every single day to chronicle how she was developing and growing,” said a station insider who asked to remain anonymous. “You’d turn on the computer used for editing tapes, and there’d be pictures of Makayla all over the screen. It’s like everyone at the station knew her.”

Sitton, 48, has been at the NBC affiliate for about 15 years, after a short stint at WPBF-Channel 25. Sitton mostly worked investigative assignments with the station’s Contact 5 reporters, Shannon Cake and Kelley Dunn. Both women spent some time with Sitton at the home after the 10 p.m. shooting.

“He’s the most amazing friend,” Cake said, her voice breaking with emotion. “I just can’t talk about it.”

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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?

Schmidt threw out the first pitch of the Phillies' World Series game against the New York Yankees Saturday (AP Photo)

Hall-of-fame third baseman Mike Schmidt has put on the market his home in the fancy Admiral’s Cove in Jupiter.

Schmidt bought the 8,500-square-foot home pre-construction in 1991 — just two years after he played his last game. He paid $425,000 for the land then another $1 million to build.

Now, he wants $4.5 million for it.

Realtor Rob Thomson, who has the listing with Admiral’s Cove Realty’s Dick Capozzi, said Schmidt, 60, and his wife, Donna, are looking for another home in Admiral’s Cove.

“They just want a change,” said Thomson, of Waterfront Properties. “The house was perfect for them and their two kids. Now the kids are gone, they want something that fits their lifestyle.”

With 548 career homers, Schmidt is No. 14 on the list of the top Major League homerun hitters.

Visit Schmidt’s home by clicking here, or check out the gallery below, courtesy of Waterfront Properties:

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Michael Jordan, as he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame two weeks ago (AP photo)

The plans for former NBA star and basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan’s new castle in Jupiter are in.

And the stack of papers recently submitted to town officials by Jordan’s architects, contractor, consultants and lawyer show that residents of the Bears Club, a posh golf community, better get ready for something the size of a Walmart.

The developer, Lavelle Construction Corp., submitted applications for a 37,942-square-foot building, with 26,000 square feet under air conditioning. There’s a cottage and guard gate.

In all, Jordan’s crib will have 11 bedrooms, and a yet-to-be-determined number of bathrooms.

The house, at 172 Bears Club Road, will dwarf most in the north side of Palm Beach County, and all around it at the Jack Nicklaus development.

Jordan's property (Courtesy Google Maps)

According to property appraiser records, most homes around Jordan’s are about 10,000 square feet.

Jordan’s slamming down $7,627,669 to build the two-story home, which will feature an elevator, a grand stairway, 10-foot ceilings and a giant fireplace.

So far, the Hanes undies pitchman has paid $152,553 to the town in permits and other fees.

Jordan, 46, bought two adjacent lots at the Jack Nicklaus-founded Bears Club last year for a total $4.8 million. He’s got three acres of wooded land adjacent to a golf course. Golf, and the privacy of a gated community, is what caught Jordan’s attention.

The sheer size of the soon-to-go-up digs, slightly smaller than the beachfronter in Palm Beach that Donald Trump sold for $100 million last year, is already having some local environmentalists chomping at the bit.

“Who needs that kind of a footprint,” said Joanne Davis, a growth management specialist with 1000 Friends of Florida. “It’s insane, a waste. Cities see nothing more than a tax base in these giant homes, but I can’t imagine anyone needing anything like that, except to show off.

“This house is going to require an enormous use of natural resources for no good reason.”

While Air Jordan’s manager in Washington, D.C., hasn’t commented (for reasons of security and privacy, she said), town officials said the part-owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats is well within code.

“The Bears Club was specifically designed for large lots,”said town zoning principal planner Scott Tatcher. “The Bears Club has done a good job setting aside upland pine areas and wetlands to offset construction. It’s true other homes are in the 10,000-square-feet range, but he is building on two lots.”

In yet another not-so-green move, the six-time NBA champion Chicago Bull has had most tall trees on the property taken out.

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Professional autograph hounds hound Burt Reynolds outside the Maltz Theatre in Jupiter Sunday night with photos from Deliverance. Reynolds, 73, then had to be helped into his waiting black sedan by two people. “He looked a little out of it,” a spywitness said. Reynolds, the veteran of such classics as Smokey and the Bandit and The Longest Yard, attended a fundraiser for the cancer-stricken Wellington filmmaker Aaron Wells.

(Fred Montana/Special to Page2Live)

Bored even before the weekend starts? Check out these potentially fun affairs:

– Pistache, the excellent Parisian food place on lower Clematis in West Palm Beach, celebrates its first anniversary tonight. The champagne’s supposed to flow freely (and free of charge) at 6 p.m. There’s also a band and a three-course meal for the French socialist price of 35 bucks . . .

– Then, just cross the bridge into Palm Beach for a Brazilian carnival party at the reborn 251 Sunrise watering hole . . .

– Those on the T-Coast may want to get up a tad early Saturday morning for the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour. It’s at 7:17 a.m. Remember. The shuttle program is set to end next year . . .

– Sunday evening, silver-screen legend Burt Reynolds and other area film biz standouts are hosting a fundraiser for the cancer-stricken Wellington film-maker Aaron Wells. Broadway star Avery Sommers and local actress Suzanne Niedland. It all starts at 6 p.m. at the Maltz Theater in Jupiter . . .

(Alina Lambiet/Special to Page2Live)

Their tiny nails painted and all, these chihuahuas patiently wait their turn in the K-9 costume contest at the no-kill dog rescue Safe Harbor’s 22nd Annual Celebrity Dogwash Saturday at Carlin Park in Jupiter.

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