from www.tmz.com – In the world of celebrity, all worlds lead to Kevin Bacon. In the world of celebrity scandal … it’s Gloria Allred.

TMZ has learned Rachel Uchitel — aka the person the National Enquirer calls the Other Woman in the Tiger Woods saga — decided at 3:00 AM today she needed to lawyer up. She left a message for Gloria Allred at her office — and quickly got a return call.

We’ve learned Rachel has hired Gloria and is considering, among other things, suing the National Enquirer for defamation. As we first told you, Rachel called the National Enquirer’s report that she had an affair with Tiger Woods “bulls**t.”

Could a news conference with Gloria and Rachel be far behind. We think not?

BTW — we’ve also learned Rachel left a message for a second lawyer — Mark Geragos. We just found out Geragos did indeed call Rachel back, but she didn’t pick up the message until a few minutes ago. Who would Rachel have picked!?!