Lawyer's daughter indicates Woods, woman made deal

The daughter of high-profile attorney Gloria Allred says that when her mother canceled a news conference with one of Tiger Woods' alleged mistresses, it could mean only one thing - she made a deal with the Woods camp.

Lisa Bloom is Allred's daughter and a legal analyst for CBS. She said yesterday on The Early Show that she worked with her mother for nine years and had never known her to cancel a news conference.

"I know exactly how she operates," she said.

Bloom estimated that a settlement would be for "at least a million dollars."

Allred is the attorney for Rachel Uchitel, who has been romantically linked to the world's top golfer. Uchitel denied having an affair with Wood when contacted by the Associated Press last week.

Allred said the news conference was called off because of "unforeseen circumstances." The attorney said she would have no further comment.

Woods ran his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree outside his Florida home on Nov. 27.

On Wednesday, he issued a statement conceding that he had "let my family down." That followed a report in Us Weekly magazine of a cocktail waitress who said she had a 31-month affair with Woods.

The AP obtained an audio recording of an interview the Florida Highway Patrol conducted with Woods' neighbors after the accident. Troopers interviewed Jarius Adams, who called 911, and his sister, Kimberly Harris.

Harris told the troopers that Woods' mother, Kultida, and mother-in-law, Barbro Holmberg, were at the scene, but the AP could not confirm that. A voice that strongly resembles that of Woods' mother is heard in the background during the 911 call, saying loudly, "What happened?"

A spokeswoman for Holmberg didn't know whether Holmberg was in Florida when the accident happened.

"I don't know for sure, but I don't think so," spokeswoman Ewa Malmborg said. "I have not been informed about that. She was here again working on Monday again, anyway."

More criticism came from Jesper Parnevik of Sweden, who once employed Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren, as a nanny and told reporters that he owed her an apology for introducing them.

"I have lost all respect for him, primarily as a man and a father," Parnevik said in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet on Thursday from the PGA Tour qualifying tournament in West Palm Beach, Fla.

"It doesn't even feel like it matters what he has done on the golf course," Parnevik said. "My respect for him as a person is gone. We have been nice to Tiger before, but now he only has himself to blame.

"We thought better of him, but he is not the one we thought he was."

Among star athletes Woods considers a close friend is Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. They had dinner in Orlando, Fla., during the NBA Finals this year.

When he heard the word Tiger in a question Wednesday, Bryant said: "Man, get off that. I knew there was going to be one."

Then he ended the interview.