Golf Champ Daly`s Wife Sues Mistress
NANCY GRACE, HOST: Breaking news tonight, live, Mississippi. After the number one golfer in the world, Tiger Woods, and ex-wife Elin melt down over mistresses, including an attack with a golf club, he`s back in the headlines when it`s revealed claims Tiger Woods breaks with his Olympic girlfriend, Lindsey Vonn, over more alleged cheating. But bombshell tonight. A new PGA bad boy takes center stage when his wife takes his mistress to court, blaming her, the mistress, for their failed marriage.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A fan favorite in the golf world.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Teed (ph) off my life as a player`s wife.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But his ex-wife, Sherrie Miller, is suing Daly`s new fiancee.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think karma is so serious.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Claiming alienation of affection.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It wasn`t just Tiger. But when they`re bad, they`re just so bad.</s>GRACE: That video from Simon & Schuster and YouTube. And tonight, live, Oregon. After a stormy love life, 23-year-old Rhonda Casto (ph) announces to friends and family that that night, her live-in lover plans a romantic hike where he`ll either propose marriage or throw her off the cliff. Well, friends and family laughed, but they`re not laughing now, 23-year-old Rhonda Casto`s lifeless body found at the foot of Eagle Creek Trail, a 100- foot plummet to her death.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A 23-year-old mom falls 100 feet to her death while hiking on a dangerous trail with her boyfriend. Shortly after Rhonda`s death, her boyfriend tried to cash in her million-dollar life insurance policy. When that was denied, a legal battle followed.</s>GRACE: And live, protests under way, claims a U.C. San Diego male art professor encourages female co-eds to get naked by candlelight in order to graduate?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The art (ph) visual class at UCSD, according to the teacher, involves students acting out a series of gestures, the very last one they`re asked to perform in the syllabus labeled "erotic self."</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everyone`s going to be naked.</s>GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight, live, Mississippi. After the number one golfer in the world, Tiger Woods, and his wife, Elin, melt down over mistresses, including an attack with a golf club, he`s back in the headlines when it`s revealed claims Tiger Woods breaks with Olympic girlfriend Lindsey Vonn over more alleged cheating. But tonight, a brand-new PGA bad boy takes center stage when his wife takes his mistress to court, suing her for tons of money, blaming her, the mistress, for their failed marriage. What is it with these pro golfers? Straight out to Candace Trunzo, senior news editor, Dailymail.com. All right, John Daly is a world-class golfer, not really a world-class husband. So let me understand this. It`s wife number four, I think, suing the mistress for what?</s>CANDACE TRUNZO, DAILYMAIL.COM (via telephone): Yes, for alienation of affection. I mean, this is just the best love triangle going. It`s right out of a Harlequin romance. I can`t even talk today, I`m so excited about this. I mean, John Daly is a wild guy. In fact, he`s known as the "wild thing." And he had a fourth wife, and then he started an affair. They were separated, not divorced, and his fourth wife, Sherrie Miller, decided that she wasn`t having it and she sued Anna Cladakis, his girlfriend and now actually fiancee, for alienation of affection.</s>GRACE: Whoa! Whoa! So the wife is suing the golf pro -- wait, the mistress of the golf pro -- for tons of money, claiming the mistress broke up their marriage. Well, you may wonder, is it true? Can a wife sue a mistress? Take a listen.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Would you hold this up so the jury can see how you appeared in office and how you were dressing (ph) him for this trial?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just don`t see what you hope to gain from all this. Lynn was fired, too. You`re not going to get money out of her. Why bother suing?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This isn`t about money. I don`t care if I get a penny, Joe. I just want someone to agree with me that what Lynn did was wrong!</s>GRACE: That is a movie from Lifetime TV about a real case, one of the first, where the wife sues the mistress and gets a huge money settlement from a jury. It`s happening again, once again in the pro golf circuit. Joining me right now, Brian Katrek, host, "PGA Tour." Brian thank you for being with us. What is it with this guy, John Daly? The women love him. He`s in and out of rehab I`ve forgotten how many times for alcohol. He tells "Playboy" that he`s lost, what, $600 million or $800 million -- I can`t -- million dollars. Was it $60 million or $80 million gambling on wife number four. And I tried to look at all of his -- he`s just 48, 49 years old, guys. That`s it. He says he has 15 Diet Cokes a day, two packs of Marlboros and for him, that`s healthy. What about it, Brian?</s>BRIAN KATREK, HOST, PGA TOUR RADIO (via telephone): Well, for him, that is healthy. He`s made a nice improvement there, Nancy.</s>KATREK: You know, it`s all about where you start from. This guy is -- we were just debating just a week ago whether John Daly, who has a Hall of Fame resume on the golf course, deserves to be in the Hall of Fame because of his transgressions off the golf course. He is one of the great lightning rod figures in our game.</s>GRACE: Everybody, you are seeing video right now of John Daly. It`s not first time the pro golf circuit has erupted over mistresses. Listen.</s>OPERATOR: Is it a car accident, sir?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s a car accident, yes. I need -- yes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The investigation has determined that Mr. Woods is at fault in the crash.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There had to be something that caused him to lose control of his vehicle.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There were reports that there was a domestic dispute before Tiger Woods left his house.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Elin had found Tiger`s phone, and on it, she had seen text messages.</s>TIGER WOODS, PRO GOLFER: My wife went through my phone and may be calling you. So if you can, please take your name off that and -- what do you call it, just have it as a number.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s all blowing up as we speak.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re getting word of more alleged affairs.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It wasn`t one woman. It wasn`t two. You know, we...</s>GRACE: Unleash the lawyers. Joining me tonight, Donald Schweitzer, family law attorney out of LA, Yale Galanter, defense attorney of O.J. Simpson fame, out of Miami, and Alex Sanchez, defense lawyer out of New York. So Alex Sanchez, explain to me why the mistress should not be sued. I mean, she`s responsible for breaking up the marriage.</s>ALEX SANCHEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: I mean, correct me if I`m wrong, Nancy, but wouldn`t a lot of women, including yourself, be against this lawsuit because doesn`t it let the guy off the hook? It seems to me that the only person that is being held accountable would be this mistress, and this golfer is, like, you know, laughing, like, Hey, I have no responsibility here.</s>GRACE: No, disagree. Remember, she`s already getting him in the divorce lawsuit, Yale Galanter. So she`s not only going for the mistress, she`s going for him in the divorce. So why shouldn`t she, Yale?</s>YALE GALANTER, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Yes, I mean, most states have abolished these alienation of affection laws to begin with. They`re archaic. The whole idea that you can blame the mistress for a man straying is inconceivable to me. Whatever happened between the husband and the wife happened between the husband and the wife, and that`s what caused him to stray.</s>GRACE: No, no!</s>GALANTER: You know, if something`s not wrong...</s>GRACE: Put him up, please!</s>GALANTER: ... you`re not looking outside the relationship.</s>GRACE: No, no, no, no, no. It`s the husband`s fault and the mistress`s fault. I mean, Donald Schweitzer, are you trying to tell me the mistress did not know this world famous, world-class golfer was married when she shacked up with him?</s>DONALD SCHWEITZER, FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY: No, I`m not telling you that because, apparently, she did. But apparently, this relationship started when these married people were separated. And that`s going to be a key factor in this case. Not only that, but she has to be able to show -- I`m talking about the wife here -- has to show that the relationship caused the breakdown of the love that the husband had, and that`s going to be an impossible burden. Usually, when people separate, that means that there`s big problems in the relationship. A lot of times, people separate because there`s no love, and one party wants to get the relationship back together again. This is going to be a problem for the plaintiff in this case, Ms. Miller.</s>GRACE: Really?</s>SCHWEITZER: You`ve got to show that...</s>GRACE: You think so?</s>SCHWEITZER: ... that this -- yes, absolutely.</s>GRACE: I`d pack that jury full of women and let it rip! Back to Brian Katrek, host of PGA Tour radio. Brain, again, thank you for being with us. So tell me, what is it about John Daly that the women love?</s>KATREK: Well, it`s not just the women, Nancy. It`s everything. It`s all the golf fans. He`s just very popular. It`s his Everyman qualities, the fact that he is -- wrote in the book that you read excerpts from and that they take excerpts from for these articles about his struggles, just in general life, the gambling, the struggles with alcohol. He smokes all the time. This is not a polished individual by any stretch of the imagination. He`s one of the game`s great stars and really one of great stars in all of sports. It doesn`t have that system in place of management that polishes him and makes him look good at all times. A matter of fact, kind of the opposite. He is what he is and people kind of love him for it, and it`s one of the great head-scratchers we`ve had. But when we talk about galleries at PGA tour events, you look at the blimp shot, you can always tell where Tiger is on the golf course because there`s a huge group of people and you can see where Phil Mickelson because there`s a huge group of people, and that other huge group of people, sometimes rivaling the galleries of Tiger and Phil, is a group following John Daly. They just love him.</s>GRACE: Well, I notice the same woman is always there being his caddy. Who is that? Which wife is that one?</s>KATREK: That is the fiancee. That`s Anna. And that`s who is the subject of this lawsuit.</s>GRACE: Wa-wa-wa-wait! Did you just say the fiancee? That`s certainly putting perfume on the pig. That`s the mistress, right, that allegedly broke up the marriage?</s>KATREK: That is...</s>GRACE: The fiancee?</s>KATREK: That is the -- I believe the defendant is how you would call it...</s>GRACE: OK.</s>GRACE: She`s awfully smart, Brian.</s>KATREK: ... when they were cooling (ph) off. There was a jail sentence involved, and it wasn`t John Daly that was in jail while they were cooling off -- .</s>GRACE: Hey, Brian, I`ll tell you one thing about this mistress turned fiancee, she`s pretty smart. I`d be his caddy, too. If he`s already been through wife number four and I`m lined up to be number five -- oh, yes, right, all those out of town trips. That`s where Tiger Woods gets in trouble. I would absolutely be his caddy. Now, take a look at wife number four. When I saw her, I thought she must be the mistress. Listen to this.</s>SHERRIE MILLER, DALY`S EX-WIFE: My name is Sherrie Daly. We`re here today doing the book photo shoot for the cover of my book, "Teed Off: My Life as a Player`s Wife on the PGA Tour." Being married to a professional athlete is not what you think. There is a huge price to pay. The motto of my life is karma. I think karma is so serious. No matter what religion you are or who you decide to marry, what you decide to do, karma is a bitch. I thought I had my wild side out, and I`ll be a golfer and have, like, a nice family and be a preppy life with kids, and you know, kind of like how the music plays on golf on Sunday afternoon. That`s what I was looking for. The reality of it is, here I am 10 years later. My 20s kind of got stolen from me. I`m a little mad about that.</s>GRACE: Oh, that`s terrible when your 20s get stolen from you. OK, that video is from Simon & Schuster and YouTube. It`s Sherrie Miller talking about her book, "Teed Off."