Back in March, Tiger Woods’ ex-girlfriend of six years, Erica Herman, filed a $30 million lawsuit against him and his trust, Jupiter Island Irrevocable Homestead Trust, as she aimed to null and void a non-disclosure agreement she claimed he’d forced her to sign.
Woods is now facing an accusation of sexual harassment by his ex-girlfriend.
The documents accuse the 47-year-old of pursuing a sexual relationship with Herman when she was working at his Florida restaurant, and then allegedly forced her to sign a non-disclosure agreement in order to keep her job.
“Tiger Woods, the internationally renowned athlete and one of the most powerful figures in global sports, decided to pursue a sexual relationship with his employee, then – according to him – forced her to sign an NDA about it or else be fired from her job,” Herman’s attorney, Benjamin Hodas, wrote in the filing.
“When he became disgruntled with their sexual relationship, he tricked her into leaving her home, locked her out, took her cash, pets, and personal possessions, and tried to strong-arm her into signing a different NDA.”
“Now, he wants to deny her access to the courts and put this case into secret arbitration, based on a highly redacted document that he claims is a contract between them.”
In March, Herman alleged that at the end of their relationship, Woods broke a “verbal tenancy agreement” they had and “tricked” her into moving out of the home the couple shared under the guise of a vacation.
In her second filing, the documents further described the “scheme” in which Herman claims Woods told her to pack for a weekend trip to the Bahamas. However, when Woods dropped her off at the airport, his lawyer was there to meet her and allegedly told her that she would no longer have access to the home they shared since 2017. She was also informed she would never see Tiger again.
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“Then, Mr. Woods’s California lawyer, out of the blue, told her that she was not going anywhere, would never see Mr. Woods again, had been locked out of the house, and could not return,” Hodas explained in the filing. “She would not even be able to see the children or her pets again.”
“While still in the hangar, ‘Ray Donovan (a fictional character) with a pen’ proceeded to insult Ms. Herman, (advised) her she had no legal rights, and (tried) to force her to agree to a (different) non-disclosure and arbitration agreement,” the document states.
Herman refused to sign and instead chose to file suit against the trust owning the house from which she was ejected.
The couple was last seen in public at the 2022 US Open together to support Serena Williams from the stands.
