Tiger Woods’ ex-girlfriend Erica Herman accuses him of ‘sexual harassment’ in courtroom submitting

Tiger Woods allegedly compelled his ex-girlfriend to signal a non-disclosure settlement whereas they dated — or threat being fired from her job managing his restaurant, based on courtroom papers.

Erica Herman has accused the 15-time major champ of sexual harassment and of locking her out of the house they shared.

Requiring her to signal the non-disclosure settlement whereas she labored for him constitutes sexual harassment, Herman, 38, claims in newly filed Florida courtroom papers, based on Sports Illustrated.

She ran The Woods Jupiter in August 2017 when she and the golfer first began courting.

Herman, 38, is attempting to legally nullify the settlement.

She and Woods, 47, dated 5 years and he or she beforehand lived with him in at his South Florida house.

“Mr. Woods was Ms. Herman’s boss,’’ Herman’s lawyer Benjamin Hobas wrote within the submitting.

“…A boss imposing completely different work circumstances on his worker due to their sexual relationship is sexual harassment.”

Hobas additionally alleged Woods’ breakup ways had been brutal.

He claims {the golfing} nice tricked Herman into go away his house final 12 months by telling her to pack her luggage for a visit to the Bahamas, however when she arrived on the airport Woods’ attorneys advised her she was locked out of the home, couldn’t see Woods once more and requested her to signal one other NDA.  

She refused.

“Tiger Woods, the internationally famend athlete and one of the highly effective figures in world sports activities, determined to pursue a sexual relationship along with his worker, then – based on him – compelled her to signal an NDA about it or else be fired from her job,” Hobas famous.

“And, when he turned disgruntled with their sexual relationship, he tricked her into leaving her house, locked her out, took her money, pets, and private possessions, and tried to strong-arm her into signing a distinct NDA.”

Herman filed a lawsuit in October towards a belief for Woods’ residence that seeks $30 million in damages. It claims she was compelled to go away his house regardless of an settlement with him to proceed dwelling there one other 5 years, however the swimsuit didn’t particularly accuse Woods of sexual misconduct.

Herman then filed authorized papers towards the belief in March alleging the NDA she signed shouldn’t be enforceable, however Woods slapped her with a counterclaim two days later in search of to be added as a defendant.

It’s half of a bigger push he hopes will transfer the dispute out of a public courtroom and to a confidential arbitration continuing, based on experiences.

Reps for Woods couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.