Rachel Uchitel (; born January 29, 1975) is an American nightclub manager, hostess, and TV correspondent. She first encountered publicity 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 on the front page of the New York Post and circulated worldwide. She made headlines again in 2010 as one of golfer Tiger Woods' mistresses. In 2010, she appeared in the fourth season of the American reality television series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. Early life Uchitel is the daughter of Robert N. Uchitel (1946–1990) and the granddaughter of Maurice Uchitel (1911-2000) 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 the age of 13, she was sent to CEDU School in Running Springs, California where she claims she was made to dig a grave with a spoon and then lay in it. Several years later, CEDU would be shutdown after losing several lawsuits for battery, neglect, racketeering, invasion of privacy, and child abuse. In 1990, her father died of a cocaine overdose. According to Uchitel, her father's death required her to mature quickly and was one of the incidents in her life that led to her own addictions later.<ref name=CelebRehabEpisodes>Uchitel discusses these issues in Episodes 1 and 6 of [[Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew#Season 4|Celebrity Rehab'''s fourth season]], which premiered on December 1 and December 22, 2010, respectively.</ref> 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. Career Television Uchitel began 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." Uchitel has served as a special correspondent on nightlife for Extra. VIP hosting In 2005, Uchitel moved to Las Vegas and was a VIP hostess at the Tao in Las Vegas, Nevada, the following year, and whose ownership included occasional boyfriend Jason Strauss. She said, "In a random career move and a life-changing experience, I found