Flying solo! Tiger Woods’ ex-girlfriend Erica Herman claimed she was dumped on an airport tarmac by the athlete’s lawyer in an elaborate “scheme” as their authorized battle continues.
The previous supervisor of The Woods Jupiter, 39, alleged in courtroom paperwork filed on Friday, Might 5, that she was lured from the previous couple’s shared dwelling “by way of trickery” after a “dispute” with the golfer, 47, in October 2022 — solely to be damaged up with and ejected from their home.
“The scheme concerned convincing Ms. Herman to pack for a weekend tour to the Bahamas,” Herman’s attorneys claimed in paperwork obtained by Us Weekly. “She and Mr. Woods typically travelled on quick discover for fast getaways, and she or he was instructed this could be one other such journey.” (Based on the submitting, the now-exes argued on the time over whether or not Herman would “be permitted to proceed dwelling in the home” they shared within the occasion they referred to as it quits.)
The Florida native packed mild for the getaway as she anticipated to “return dwelling in a number of days,” per the submitting. A non-public aircraft was allegedly ready when she arrived on the airport.
“As a substitute of boarding the aircraft, Mr. Woods instructed Ms. Herman to speak to his lawyer, and Mr. Woods left,” the docs learn. “Then, Mr. Woods’s California lawyer, out of the blue, instructed her that she was not going wherever, would by no means see Mr. Woods once more, had been locked out of the home, and couldn’t return.”
Herman claimed she was notified by Woods’ lawyer that she “wouldn’t even be capable of see the youngsters or her pets once more.” (The five-time Masters winner shares daughter Sam, 15, and son Charlie, 14, with ex-wife Elin Nordegren.)
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The California native’s legal professional allegedly suggested Herman that she “had no authorized rights” and tried to “power” Herman in to signing “a non-disclosure and arbitration settlement,” which she refused.
The College of Central Florida alum’s authorized crew argued in her Might submitting that neither Woods nor his lawyer “invoked some pre-existing arbitration settlement that day as they ejected Ms. Herman from the home and took away her private property and pets.”
It was after that “scheme” that Herman filed her October 2022 lawsuit towards the Jupiter Island Irrevocable Homestead Belief, which owns the home that she had been dwelling in with Woods after beginning their romantic relationship in 2017. She is in search of $30 million.
Information broke in March that Herman and Woods had referred to as it quits after courting 5 years. Us confirmed on the time that the previous Blue Martini lounge VIP supervisor was trying to nullify the NDA that the skilled athlete had her check in 2017.
Herman cited the Converse Out Act in her March submitting, which “prohibits the judicial enforceability of a nondisclosure clause or nondisparagement clause agreed to earlier than a dispute arises involving sexual assault or sexual harassment in violation of federal, tribal, or state legislation,” per Congress.
Woods, for his half, referred to as his ex’s claims “meritless.” He alleged in his personal set of courtroom docs in March that Herman was “a jilted ex-girlfriend who needs to publicly litigate specious claims in courtroom, quite than honor her dedication to arbitrate disputes in a confidential arbitration continuing.”
Nonetheless, in Herman’s submitting from this month, she additional alleged that Woods sexually harassed her shortly after she started working at his restaurant in 2014. Her attorneys claimed that she was “compelled” to signal an NDA in 2017 out of concern that she would “be fired from her job” forward of the pair’s romantic relationship.
Herman then claimed that her 2022 “ejection from her dwelling additionally reveals this dispute pertains to sexual harassment.” Based on her authorized crew, “When the sexual relationship ended, she was kicked out of her dwelling.”
The attorneys identified that because the former restaurant employee had a “tenancy settlement with the belief” that owns the house, she ought to have been allowed to remain there regardless of the pair’s cut up.
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“That settlement was damaged, and Mr. Woods and his brokers have taken the place that this occurred due to the top of the sexual relationship between Ms. Herman and Mr. Woods,” the Might docs learn. “In different phrases, the owner made the supply of her housing conditional on her having sexual relationship with a co-tenant. That conduct quantities to sexual harassment underneath federal and Florida honest housing legal guidelines.”
