Newly released court records suggest that Tiger Woods’ ex-girlfriend Erica Herman claims he tricked her into leaving his Florida property by saying he was going on a “little vacation,” only to later lock her out in the midst of their nasty and stunning separation.
As Herman attempted to have a non-disclosure agreement she signed in 2017 thrown out in court on Wednesday, details of their months-long legal struggle, which had been kept under wraps until now, became public knowledge.
The Post has obtained court documents showing that their legal battle began in October of last year. Herman filed a landlord complaint against Woods claiming he had illegally evicted her from his expansive Jupiter home using “trickery” and then refused to let her back in.
According to court papers, Woods’ trust employees persuaded Herman to “pack a suitcase for a brief trip and, when she arrived at the airport, they told her she had been locked out of the residence, in violation of the oral lease agreement and in violation of Florida law.”
According to Herman, Woods paid for a “hotel room and various costs for a short period of time” and “frightened her away from returning” to the property.
Workers for Woods allegedly took $40,000 in cash that belonged to her, along with personal items, and then made “scurrilous and defamatory charges about how she received the money,” according to court records.
According to the paperwork Herman filed with the landlord, she and the golf pro had an “oral agreement” that allowed her to stay in the mansion for a total of 11 years, and she still had five years left on the lease when the couple broke up.
Herman claimed in court documents that she was owed over $30 million because of the unpaid rent from her five-year lease. Woods’ attorney filed documents in response to his ex-lawsuit, girlfriend’s claiming that Herman took her stuff out of the house after Woods broke up with her and told her “she was no longer wanted in the household.”
Herman could not assert that she was a tenant, according to Woods’ attorney, because oral tenancy agreements in Florida are null and void after a year.
In a follow-up, his legal team filed a motion arguing that the NDA Herman signed at the outset of their relationship in August 2017 mandated arbitration rather than litigating the matter in court.
“By suing the Trust rather than Mr. Woods, Ms. Herman seeks to evade her obligation to adjudicate her claims in a confidential arbitration and, instead, seeks to gain leverage by litigating her disputes with Mr. Woods in a public forum,” that motion, filed in October, stated.
On January 19, Herman’s legal counsel filed a motion asking the court to rule on the arbitration agreement’s enforceability, arguing that the matter could not be resolved in arbitration because of a s*xual assault and harassment statute.
Herman then took legal action on Monday to have her NDA nullified, invoking the Speak Out Act, which makes non-disclosure agreements unenforceable in cases of s*xual assault or harassment.
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While Herman answered “yes” to a question in her file about whether or not there were “charges of s*xual abuse,” no allegations of assault or harassment were actually included in the case.
There was no immediate response from Woods’s or Herman’s representatives to The Post’s request for comment on the bitter court struggle. In her most recent lawsuit, Herman reportedly wants to know how much information about her nearly six-year connection with the golfing champion she is entitled to share publicly.
Herman’s lawyers want to know, in the event, a judge upholds the validity of the NDA, whether she will be able to disclose material from “sources” not subject to the NDA, such as herself, her family, and their personal photographs and recordings. Woods can react to Herman’s latest grievance until the end of the month.
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