Friday, May 12, 2023

Tiger Woods Rejects Claims of Sexual Assault in Filing, Calling Erica Herman a 'Jilted Ex-Girlfriend'

marry lobez May 12, 2023

New court documents filed by Woods' lawyers allege that Herman is "making salacious and insidious implications" by attempting to use a law for cases of sexual assault to get out of her NDA

Tiger Woods is denying claims made by his ex-girlfriend Erica Herman that she should be released from her non-disclosure agreement based on a law that allows exceptions for victims of sexual assault.

In new court documents filed by Woods, 47, on Monday and obtained by PEOPLE, the golfer disputes Herman's complaint, in which she asked to void the NDA she signed at the start of their relationship in 2017. In the complaint, filed last Monday, Herman suggests that she should not be held to the NDA due to the federal Ending Forced Arbitration Act, but she does not accuse Woods of sexual assault.

"Ms. Herman's position is utterly meritless," lawyers for Woods' trust wrote in the documents. "It is a transparent abuse of the judicial process that undermines the purpose of the federal statute and those whom the statute seeks to protect."

Lawyers for Woods' Trust claim that there is not "a single reference to an allegation of sexual harassment or sexual assault" in Herman's complaint.

"Ms. Herman is not a victim of sexual assault or abuse," attorneys said in the filing. "Rather, Ms. Herman is a jilted ex-girlfriend who wants to publicly litigate specious claims in court," it continued.