Tying the knot for the 11th time... golf’s answer to Liz Taylor and Richard Burton
Brit star to wed former topless dancer
time we were married, we married for one and a half years.
“It was like $15,000 I had to pay her, and I told my lawyer she was so good in bed, give her $20,000.
“So I gave her $20,000.” Despite both the marriages ending in divorce, wealthy Randy admitted having a soft spot for “captivating” Lindsay and said he understood why Sir Nick had fallen for her.
He said: “There is something about her. I still kinda like her, but I know that is nutty thinking.
“If you speak to her, tell her everything I said in our last call was said to keep me away from her until I got over her. Time does heal all. And the RollsRoyce, and the helicopter helped.”
Last year, the Mirror revealed Sir Nick was dating Lindsay, and told how she had drug convictions and once made a living “jiggling her boobs” in men’s faces as a topless dancer.
When approached by the Mirror, she denied having worked as a dancer, saying, “Oh, my gosh” several times before then adding, “No”.
Randy claimed Lindsay kept trading up hubbies as she was “consumed” with climbing the social ladder.
It was when Lindsay was working as a manager at one of his other businesses, The Tobacco Emporium, that the pair got in trouble.
In 1990, the business was one of 13 stores in central Florida raided by federal agents as part of a three-year undercover probe.
It led to Lindsay, who in 2012 was crowned the Republican party’s Mrs Conservative USA, and Randy being charged with drug offences, including possession of marijuana and selling drug paraphernalia. In October 1990, Lindsay pleaded no contest at state level, which accepts conviction but does not admit guilt, and got a $250 fine (£190) and six months’ probation.
Two years later, in a Florida federal court, she did a deal, entering a guilty plea to a charge of “use of interstate conveyance to ship drug paraphernalia”.
Lindsay, who has used 18 different names and lived at 42 addresses in 25 cities, got six months’ house detention and two years’ probation.
By the time of her sentencing,
Lindsay had wed Colonel Nicholas De Marco, who was described in court as a “career officer” in the legal wing of the U.S. Air Force. The charges against her were said to have put the military federal agent in a “sensitive position” as he was previously an FBI liaison.
Her first marriage had been to navy corpsman William Smith in 1982, but he fell on hard times, becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol.
By 2001, she was wed to Thomas Bracken, a successful media executive, and living in Redondo Beach, California. By the late Noughties she was on her sixth marriage, to multimillionaire Scott Sangalli. She and
Sangalli were close to failed 2012 Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
She has been with Faldo for three years and they live in their £2million Ponte Vedra bungalow in Florida.
He has found himself in the romantic rough several times.
He wed Melanie Rockall in 1979, but it ended when it was revealed he had checked into a hotel with another woman claiming to be “Mrs Faldo”.
That was Gill Bennett, who he wed in 1986. They had three children, but it ended in a £7.5million divorce when Faldo, in 1995, took up with 20-yearold golf student Brenna Cepelak.
In turn, Brenna was furious when Faldo, who recently became a grandfather, traded her in three years later for PR consultant Valerie Bercher.
Brenna took a nine iron to his precious £200,000 Porsche, causing £10,000 worth of damage.
“This one is going to last,” he said optimistically of his subsequent marriage to Bercher.
But they, too, divorced, in May 2006.