Tiger Woods’ Ex-Girlfriend Erica Herman Drops $30 Million Lawsuit Claiming He Violated Their Tenancy Agreement
19.07.2023 - 02:25
/ usmagazine.com
Tiger Woods’ ex-girlfriend Erica Herman has dropped her $30 million lawsuit which claimed he violated an oral tenancy agreement following their split.
Herman, 39, dismissed the case pending the result of her latest appeal of a judge’s order to throw out a different lawsuit she filed to nullify a 2017 nondisclosure agreement she signed with Woods, 47, according to documents obtained by the New York Post on Tuesday, July 18. That case remains pending.
Herman first sued Woods’ trust —the titleholder on his home — in October 2022, claiming that he violated the oral agreement that stated she could live at his residence for a “certain duration of time” in exchange for performing “valuable services.”
In documents obtained by Us Weekly at the time, Herman alleged that she was “locked out” of the home “by trickery” when there were five years left of the pair’s oral agreement. She claimed that $30 million represented “the reasonable rental value” of the property for the remaining five years of the alleged agreement.
Woods’ trust, for their part, filed documents to dismiss Herman’s complaint in November 2022. The entity claimed in their response that per Herman’s NDA with Woods, she was required to resolve “any and all disputes, claims or controversies” with the golfer through confidential arbitration.
“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,” the documents read. The Trust also denied the existence of an oral tenancy agreement.
While a hearing for Herman’s lawsuit regarding the oral tenancy was initially scheduled for August, a