Rachel Uchitel was born on 29 January 1975. She is an American nightclub manager, hostess and TV correspondent. She first became known following the September 11, 2001, attacks when a photo of her holding a picture of her fiance, 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' mistresses. In 2010 she appeared in the fourth season of the American reality television series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, which depicted her struggle with addiction.Rachel Uchitel is the granddaughter of Maurice Uchitel, who was a restaurant and nightclub owner in the 1950s and 1960s, including the El Morocco club.
When Uchitel was 15, her father died of a cocaine overdose, which according to her, required her to mature quickly, and is one of the inciting incidents in her life that led to her own addictions later in life. She graduated from Millbrook School in 1992 and 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.Uchitel managed the VIP section of "some of the most successful clubs in New York", and a special correspondent on nightlife for Extra. In 2005-06, she was the VIP hostess at Tao in Las Vegas.
In 2005, Uchitel moved to Las Vegas and became a host at the Tao Nightclub which is operated by Jason Strauss. As of 2009, she still lived in Las Vegas but was "too old for being a VIP host anymore". In a November, 2010 interview with UK's Daily Mail, Rachel announced she had applied for a license as a private detective.
