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Tiger Woods: Judge rejects ex-girlfriend’s request to void NDA
Erica Herman’s claims that case involved sexual harassment are labelled ‘vague and threadbare’ by judge who ruled in favour of golfer
Herman and Woods met when she was working at his restaurant and were together for five years before their split in 2022
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A Florida judge ruled in Tiger Woods’s favour on Wednesday as she rejected a request by his former girlfriend to void a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that was signed during their relationship.
Lawyers for Erica Herman, 39, had cited the Speak Out Act, a clause in federal law that states an NDA connected to claims of sexual harassment can be declared void, which would have allowed a separate $30 million (£24 million) eviction suit against the trust that owns Woods’s Florida mansion to be heard in a public court.
Woods, 47, said that the NDA, which Herman signed in 2017, should mean that any disputes go straight to private arbitration, and Judge Elizabeth Metzger of the Circuit Court in Martin County, Florida, agreed with the golfer
