Tiger Woods and his girlfriend of six years, Erica Herman, have split and Herman is now taking Woods to court over an NDA she claims she was forced to sign.
According to legal documents seen by DailyMail.com, Herman is saying the NDA is being wrongfully enforced on her, citing the Speak Out Act. The Act states that an NDA is not enforceable if agreed to before a dispute involving sexual assault or sexual harassment. Herman alleges she was made to sign the NDA at the start of the couple’s relationship, in August 2017.
Herman also claims that Woods locked her out of his $40m Florida mansion and tricked her into packing a bag for a “short vacation” only to tell her she had been permanently kicked out of the property when she arrived at the airport. She alleges that Woods then removed her personal belongings from the house and “took $40,000 in cash that belonged to her, before making scurrilous and defamatory allegations about how she obtained the money.”
Herman argues that she is now entitled to compensation of around $30m, as she and Woods had an “oral agreement” that meant she could live at the mansion for a total of 11 years, of which she still had five years remaining when the couple called off their romance.
Woods, 47, and Herman, 38, started dating in 2017 and had been seen together in public at the US Open tennis tournament in August of last year. Woods is a 15-time major winner and won the PGA Tour’s “Player Impact Program” last season, taking home $ 10 million for his popularity.
Woods shares his two children — 14-year-old daughter Sam and 13-year-old son Charlie — with ex-wife Elin Nordegren, who he married in 2004, but divorced in 2010 following reports of his infidelities the previous year.
It is unclear if the NDA dispute will be resolved in court or through an out-of-court settlement.
