Tiger Woods says ‘rejected ex-girlfriend’ Erica Herman ‘not a victim of sexual abuse’ in arbitration motion

Tiger Woods has argued that ex-girlfriend Erica Herman is a “rejected ex-girlfriend” who never filed claims of assault or sexual harassment in the lawsuit over her right to live in his Florida mansion, insisting that the case to arbitration. .

Herman, 38, is suing a trust she claims Woods, 47, has checks, for $30 million claiming that he tricked her into getting the Florida mansion where they lived together for six years after their October breakup.

She claimed she had a verbal agreement with Woods’ trust – the Jupiter Island Irrevocable Homestead Trust – who is the legal owner of his mansion in Hobe Sound where the two lived together, allowing her to live in the property for 11 years.

Woods has now filed a motion in the lawsuit at the 19th Judicial Circuit Court in Martin County, Florida to force arbitration on the case.

In the latest filing obtained by DailyMail.com, the 15-time grand winner’s lawyers claim that Herman is not a victim of sexual abuse, but rather a “rejected ex-girlfriend” seeking to litigate claims “in public” in court.

Woods’ lawyers said the golf star never had a verbal or written lease with Herman to live in his $48 million Florida home and that she was living in the property as a “guest.”

Herman sued the Jupiter Island Irrevocable Homestead Trust, which owns the home in Hobe Sound where she lived with Woods for six years while they were together. Located on Jupiter Island, Hobe Sound has been home to former presidents and A-listers

They additionally claim that her claims are subject to the Woods and Herman arbitration agreement as she has not filed any claims of sexual assault in this particular lawsuit.

The golf icon previously tried to start arbitration proceedings on December 22 to determine that Herman has no right to live in his home and is not entitled to any monetary compensation from him.

The previous motion to suspend the claims and force arbitration stated that Herman had signed a non-disclosure agreement which is included in the filing but heavily redacted. It stated that all disputes should be reviewed by an independent arbitrator rather than through the courts.

However, the proceedings were dropped on January 26 after Herman claimed she could not be forced into arbitration because “her claims of breach of an oral lease involved a “sexual harassment litigation.”

HErman is also suing Woods over the NDA she claims was wrongfully forced on her, citing the Speak Out Act and alleging in the lawsuit that he sexually assaulted her.

In the separate lawsuit filed last week to overturn the NDA she signed with him on August 9, 2017, Herman made the startling claim that the 82-time PGA Tour winner had sexually assaulted her, but went not go into details. what the alleged abuse entailed.

However, in the final filing in the dispute over her claimed lease, Woods’ attorneys note that Herman has not filed any claims for sexual assault or sexual harassment in this particular lawsuit between landlord and tenant.

It is noted that when completing the civil cover sheet for her lawsuit over his Florida mansion, Herman checked the “No” box for the question, “Does this case involve allegations of sexual assault?”

‘She [Herman] has never filed claims for assault or sexual harassment, nor does she in this landlord-tenant action, and if she is honest, she never can,” the document reads.

‘Mrs. Herman’s mere reference to the statute, without any allegations to support its application to the facts of this case, is insufficient to release Ms. Herman from her contractual obligation to mediate. Rather, it is a transparent abuse of judicial process that undermines the purpose of the federal statute and those it seeks to protect.

“Accordingly, Defendant requests that this Court (i) review the allegations in Mrs. Herman’s untitled complaint alleging violation of the Florida Residential Landlord Tenant Act, (ii) determine that this action is not a “case filed under federal, tribal, or state law and pertains to [a] dispute about sexual assault or [a] sexual harassment dispute”; and (iii) order the parties to arbitrate the claims made in these proceedings.”

Woods’ attorneys note that Herman has not filed any claims for assault or sexual harassment in this particular landlord-tenant action

The motion states that Herman checked the ‘No’ box when asked ‘Does this case involve allegations of sexual abuse?’

Woods and Herman were together for six years, but split in October 2022

The couple were last seen together at the US Open in August 2022

The motion therefore asserts that Herman’s complaint alleging violation of the Florida Residential Landlord Tenant Act “does not contain any allegation remotely suggesting sexual harassment or assault.”

The document also states that Herman’s complaint “contains no reference to any federal, tribal or state law relating to sexual harassment or assault,” but instead “alleges that the Trust violated an alleged verbal lease.”

Woods’ lawyers additionally argue that Herman is not a victim of sexual assault or abuse that Congress wants to protect with the act she cited, but rather “a rejected ex-girlfriend who wants to publicly litigate misleading claims in court, rather than have her honor. commitment to resolve disputes in a confidential arbitration process.”

The latest filing comes days after the PGA Tour star also filed a motion to intervene, calling for his attorneys wrote that Herman sued the trust instead of Woods to prevent her from making an agreement with him to settle all disputes.

Woods’ lawyers argue that the trust owns “only a limited residual interest” in his home in Jupiter, Florida, and that Herman’s grievances are against Woods, not the trust.

In Herman’s lawsuit, filed in October, she said she could have lived in the house for another five years, but Woods used “cheating” after she broke up with her, causing “serious” emotional damage.

The complaint states that she provided “valuable services” at Woods’ request as part of the “verbal lease agreement,” which entitled her to live in the property for a “specified length of time,” and claims she continues to a right to live in the property for another five years.

Herman claimed that former world No. 1 Woods persuaded her to go on a short vacation and when she arrived at the airport his representatives told her she had been locked out.

Herman also claimed that Woods’ representatives took $40,000 of her money and made “villainous and slanderous allegations” about how she got the money.

In a separate lawsuit filed last week to overturn a non-disclosure agreement, Herman alleged that Woods had sexually assaulted her, but he did not go into details, only checking the “yes” box under the question “Does this matter allegations of sexual abuse?’

Herman had worked as a general manager at her friend’s restaurant during the Genesis Open at The Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, California

They were first seen at the Presidents Cup in New Jersey in October 2017 (pictured)

Woods’ lawyers disputed those claims last week, saying he never negotiated a written or oral lease with her and that she lived at the property as a “guest” of the golf icon.

They also alleged that Woods arranged for Herman to stay at a local luxury resort and gave her money to sign up for a new home following their October breakup.

Woods and Herman were together for six years after they were first spotted at the Presidents Cup in New Jersey in October 2017.

She had been working as a general manager at the restaurant – a pop-up at the Genesis Open at The Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, California, where Woods recently returned to for the first time since the British Open last July for the first time since the British Open. competitive golf – owned by her boyfriend.

Woods’ lawyers previously stated that he broke things up on October 13, 2022, and that Herman “responded to the breakup by filing this lawsuit.”

They added that her claim that she wants to live in the property “directly conflicts with the best interests of Woods and his children, who live in the home with the professional golfer.”