By now, you've heard about the Tiger Woods marital problems that came to light after a Thanksgiving day car crash.

Or else, perhaps you've been hiding under a rock for the past month?

Woods has been hiding, too. Which makes sense, given that his name has been in the news just about everyday since as several women have come forward to claim they had relationships with him.

But now an alleged email is making the rounds of the Web, claiming that he's hiding while recovering from plastic surgery to repair a gash in his face, supposedly made by his enraged wife, Elin Woods. Retired sports journalist Furman Bisher posted it on his Web site last week, and several blogs have picked it up to speculate on various sections.

The email says it is based on an account of a friend of a friend who knows Mark Steinberg, Woods' agent. Steinberg has denied the account.

Snopes.com and E! Online both have done teriffic breakdowns of the email, looking at what might be true, what might be false. Overall verdict: Probably some fact and a lot of fiction.

Still, it's amazing that while the Tiger Woods story clearly has lots of juicy details and rumors, the latest is about, of all things, plastic surgery! As a beauty and style site, we find this pretty interesting.