Rachel Uchitel Biography – Rachel Uchitel Wiki
Rachel Uchitel is an American nightclub manager, hostess, and television correspondent. She became publicly known when, following the September 11 attacks, a photo of her holding a picture of her fiancé, who worked in the World Trade Center, was published by the New York Post and circulated worldwide. She made headlines again in 2010 as one of golfer Tiger Woods’ alleged mistresses. In 2010, she was cast in the fourth season of the American reality television series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.
She started her career after college working in television and film, with a five-year stint as a producer in the Bloomberg News television division, a period in which she became “engaged to a man who died in the 9/11 attacks.” She has served as a special correspondent on nightlife for Extra.
In 2005, she moved to Las Vegas where, in 2005–06, she was a VIP hostess at the Tao in Las Vegas, Nevada, whose ownership included occasional boyfriend Jason Strauss. She said, “In a random career move and a life-changing experience, I found myself living in Las Vegas to launch Tao nightclub and restaurant…. Two years later, I was back in New York to oversee VIP operations for all of their companies and venues, such as Stanton Social, Marquee, Tao Bistro, and Dune. She ran the VIP section of “some of the most successful clubs in New York.” In 2009, she was a resident of Las Vegas, but was self-described as being “too old for being a VIP host anymore”.
In December 2013, she opened a children’s boutique on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The store was named Wyatt Lily, after her 2-year-old daughter, and was named “Best Kids Birthday Presents” in New York magazine’s annual Best Of issue in 2015. It has since closed down.
Uchitel was a cast member in the fourth season of the VH1 reality television program Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, which documents notable persons being treated for substance abuse; in her case, she was treated for addictions to alcohol, opiates, and benzodiazepine drugs. Dr. Drew Pinsky, who normally is not involved with casting for the series, reportedly visited her personally in order to convince her to be cast on the show, for which she was paid $500,000 to appear, double the amount initially offered to her by producers.
She graduated from Millbrook School in 1992 and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1996 with a degree in psychology. She spent five years after college as a news producer in New York for Bloomberg Television.
Rachel Uchitel Age
She was born on January 29, 1975, in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.
Rachel Uchitel Husband
She has been married and divorced twice. On October 2, 2011, she married insurance underwriter and former Penn State fullback Matt Hahn. In May 2012, she gave birth to a daughter. Hahn filed for divorce from her in 2013. The divorce was finalized in January 2014.
In 2004, she married Wall Street trader and childhood friend Steven Ehrenkranz. Their marriage lasted four months.
In 2010, actor David Boreanaz admitted to having an affair with her. At the time of the affair, Boreanaz’s wife was pregnant.
She had been engaged to James Andrew O’Grady, an investment banker, who was killed in the September 11 attacks of the World Trade Center. A few days later, she appeared on the front page of the New York Post holding a picture of O’Grady, which was republished worldwide. Uchitel and her fiancé’s family subsequently debated the disposition of his estate.
Rachel Uchitel Children
She has one child, a daughter, Wyatt Lily Hahn born in May 2012.
Rachel Uchitel Parents
She is the daughter of Robert N. Uchitel (Bob Uchitel) and Susan Bishop. She is also the granddaughter of Maurice Uchitel a restaurant and nightclub owner born in the Russian Empire. He owned several establishments in the 1950s and 1960s, including the El Morocco nightclub. Her surname Uchitel means “teacher” in Russian and several other Slavic languages.
At age 15, her father died, which according to her, required her to mature quickly, and which she claims was one of the incidents in her life that led to her own addictions later.
Rachel Uchitel and Tiger Woods
In late 2009, The National Enquirer published a story that alleged that Uchitel had had an affair with Tiger Woods at the Australian Masters, an allegation she denied to the Associated Press. As of 2021, Uchitel is being sued for breaking the contract (NDA) and speaking out about her affair with Woods. She revealed in an interview that she signed a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) with Woods for $8 million but now is being sued for allegedly breaking it.
Uchitel, represented by Hollywood lawyer Gloria Allred, said the document she signed was over 30 pages long. It stipulated that she could not talk about Woods to anyone. The NDA prevented her from discussing “directly or indirectly, verbally or otherwise” Woods’ “lifestyle, proclivities, customs, private conduct, fitness, habits, sexual matters, familial matters,” among other topics, with anyone, “including but not limited to, family members, relatives, acquaintances, friends, associates, co-workers, journalists,” per the Times.
“His lawyers are saying, ‘We want all your text messages and here’s the price,’ and you’re, like, ‘Screw you,’ and you move into dealmaker mode – and all of a sudden it’s the rest of your life,” she recalled.
She claimed she was promised $5 million upfront and agreed to an annual salary of $1 million for three years. But Uchitel didn’t get the $8 million. She had to pay $2 million in legal fees and taxes ($1 million to Allred for five days’ work) and then Woods’ team reneged on the $1 million salary. She later filed for bankruptcy.
The Times reports, however, that Woods’ attorney Michael Holtz is bringing a claim against Uchitel to block her protection from creditors so that he can go after her for violating the NDA she signed.
Rachel Uchitel Instagram
Her Instagram account is @racheluchitelnyc.
