“They told me not to come home”

Tiger Woods It’s news today, although not because I’m at TPC Sawgrass to play The Players Championship. His ex-girlfriend, Erica Herman, has sued him for $30 million.claiming it was evicted from mansion on Jupiter Island (Florida) where he lived with the winner of 15 majors during his five years of courtship.

The fact is that, according to Herman’s version, after the breakup, the Tiger would have agreed to she used the residence during a period equivalent to the time they lived there as a couplei.e. five years.

The agreement, which was verbalincluded that a tiger trust -Jupiter Island Irrevocable Homestead Trust- take care of all household expenses. Therefore, the 30 million requested by the ex-partner of the five-time Masters winner correspond, according to Herman’s lawyers, to the “reasonable rental value” over the years he would have been promised that he could continue to live there.

The story is even more intricate, because Erica says that she was manipulated into leaving the house and could no longer re-enter, as her lawyers explain: “By deceit, the defendant’s agents [Tiger] convinced the plaintiff [Herman] for him to pack a suitcase and leave for a short vacation. When she arrived at the airport, they told her not to go back to the residence.”.

This week, Herman has presented court documents that testify that the golfer and she lived in that mansion together. Erica affirms that from the airport she returned to her house, where she was not allowed access and they handed over her belongings, except for $40,000. “They misappropriated more than $40,000 in cash that belonged to Herman, using defamatory and libelous arguments about how she got the money.”said lawyers for Woods’ ex-girlfriend. In Erica’s version, it is also said that a lawyer for Tiger offered him various proposals without allowing him to get legal advice.

A confidentiality agreement?

According to the TMZ websiteErica signed a confidentiality agreement when he began dating Woods in 2017. This same medium says that Herman would like to break said agreement to reinforce his accusations, but it is not possible. The press asked Herman’s lawyers directly if “this case involved any kind of sexual abuse.” The plaintiff’s legal representatives did not respond but, According to TMZ, in the court file that Erica’s lawyers had just filed, asking the question: “Does this case involve allegations of sexual abuse?”, the lawyers checked the box with a “Yes.”

This is how Tiger and Herman met

It should be remembered that Herman was the manager of a restaurant that Tigre opened in Jupiter -The Woods- and that was how they met. In fact, in 2019, both were sued for the death of a waiter at the establishment. His family alleged that the young man, after completing his shift, stayed on the premises, where you were given an excess of alcoholic beverages until reaching alcohol intoxication. He left The Woods in his vehicle and was in a fatal accident. The claim was unsuccessful.