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It appears issues have absolutely run their course between Tiger Woods and his girlfriend of 5 years, Erica Herman. Per PEOPLE, new paperwork have surfaced by which the 38-year-old former restaurant supervisor claimed in a lawsuit that he owes her $30 million for locking her out of his residence throughout an obvious October 2022 breakup. In the submitting, (obtained by the outlet March 8 amid information Erica is looking for to nullify their non-disclosure settlement,) a defendant firm reacted to Erica’s lawsuit.
“Ms. Herman responded to the breakup by filing this lawsuit,” the response doc, filed by attorneys for Jupiter Island Irrevocable Homestead Trust learn. “Herman claims she’s owed $30 million after the oral agreement was breached when the trust’s employees ‘locked her out of the Residence, removed her personal belongings, and informed her she could not return.’ Herman also said that she had more than $40,000 in cash that was ‘misappropriated.’” The attorneys are reportedly arguing that she was solely allowed to reside there throughout their relationship. Tiger’s two teenage kids with ex-wife Elin Nordegren additionally reside there.
The firm was asking for the matter to be heard by an arbitrator, after Erica claimed she had an oral settlement via the belief that gave her permission to reside at Tiger’s residence for 5 extra years. She’s suing for damages, together with lawyer’s charges, beneath the Florida Residential Landlord Tenant Act.
The extra bombshell information got here after Erica reportedly filed paperwork looking for to nullify a non-disclosure settlement with Tiger, citing a pair of federal legal guidelines that enable for NDA’s to be cancelled in instances of sexual harassment or assault, per Page Six. That report additionally emerged on Wednesday.
The legal guidelines — the Speak Out Act and Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 — are pretty new, so Erica reportedly hopes to make clear questions as as to if or not his NDA remains to be “valid or enforceable.” The information appeared to level to a risky break up between the yearslong couple. Tiger and Erica, who beforehand managed one of many golf nice’s eating places, had been relationship since 2017.