Tiger Woods’s ex-girlfriend Erica Herman has accused him of sexual harassment that included her alleging that the golfer forced her to either sign a non-disclosure agreement or be fired from her job, according to a court document.
Herman, 38, who dated the 15-time major winner, 47, for almost six years, filed the document through her attorney, Benjamin Hobas in Martin County, Florida, late Friday.
Requiring her to sign the non-disclosure agreement while she worked for him constitutes sexual harassment, Herman, 38, claims in newly filed Florida court papers, according to Sports Illustrated.
She ran The Woods Jupiter in August 2017 when she and the golfer first started dating.
Herman, 38, is trying to legally nullify the agreement.
She and Woods, 47, dated five years and she previously lived with him in at his South Florida home.
“Mr. Woods was Ms. Herman’s boss,’’ Herman’s lawyer Benjamin Hobas wrote in the filing.
“…A boss imposing different work conditions on his employee because of their sexual relationship is sexual harassment.”
Hobas also alleged Woods’ breakup tactics were brutal
He claims the golfing great tricked Herman into leave his home last year by telling her to pack her bags for a trip to the Bahamas, but when she arrived at the airport Woods’ lawyers told her she was locked out of the house, couldn’t see Woods again and asked her to sign another NDA.
She refused.
Herman filed a lawsuit in October against a trust for Woods’ residence that seeks $30 million in damages. It claims she was forced to leave his home despite an agreement with him to continue living there another five years, but the suit did not specifically accuse Woods of sexual misconduct.
Herman then filed legal papers against the trust in March alleging the NDA she signed should not be enforceable, but Woods slapped her with a counterclaim two days later seeking to be added as a defendant.
It’s part of a larger push he hopes will move the dispute out of a public courtroom and to a confidential arbitration proceeding, according to reports.
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