Erica Herman, former lady friend of golfing legend Tiger Woods, has filed a lawsuit towards a dwelling house believe managed by way of Woods in Hobe Sound, Florida, for damages of over $30 million. According to the lawsuit, Herman claims that the believe and its brokers misappropriated $40,000 in money that belonged to her and made defamatory allegations about how she received the cash.
Herman additionally alleges that she had an “oral tenancy agreement” with Woods to stay on the house for 5 years after six years in impact ahead of the breakup.
The believe is making an attempt to put in force a non-disclosure settlement (NDA) signed by way of Woods and Herman in 2017. Lawyers for each side are recently struggling with it out in court docket.
Herman additionally filed a separate grievance this week, suing Woods and soliciting for free up from her NDA with him. She argues that the NDA isn’t enforceable beneath the federal Speak Out Act. The lawsuit unearths that the home dispute between Woods and Herman spilled into court docket in Florida after Woods broke up together with her in October and allegedly had her locked out in their beach mansion at the Treasure Coast.
According to the swimsuit towards the believe, Herman used to be pressured out by way of the “trickery” of the believe’s brokers. They satisfied her to pack a suitcase for a brief holiday, and when she arrived on the airport, they instructed her she have been locked out of her place of abode in violation of the oral tenancy settlement and Florida regulation. Woods established the believe in 2017, and its best doable beneficiaries are Woods and his youngsters. Its best asset is its possession pastime within the place of abode.
Herman, who labored as the chief of Woods’ eating place in Jupiter, Florida, has no longer made explicit allegations of attack or harassment towards him. However, she is looking a court docket to claim her NDA no less than in part unenforceable, thereby allowing her to mention extra.
The lawsuit additionally unearths that Woods has confronted a number of troubles over time clear of the golfing path, together with a automotive crash close to Los Angeles in 2021 and a intercourse scandal that resulted in his divorce from his spouse Elin Nordegren in 2010.