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UPDATE: Judge Rejects Tiger Woods’ Ex-Girlfriend’s Attempt To Throw Out Nondisclosure Agreement

<p>A Florida <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;apnews&period;com&sol;article&sol;tiger-woods-lawsuit-golf-florida-9671f7c70b08a025ac7015e9e9403e25" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">judge rejected<&sol;a> <strong>Tiger Woods&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong> ex-girlfriend <strong>Erica Herman&&num;8217&semi;s <&sol;strong>attempt to throw out a nondisclosure agreement &lpar;NDA&rpar; after she filed sexual harassment claims against the golfer&comma; according to the <em>Associated Press<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; she must abide by the NDA as she resolves several lawsuits she&&num;8217&semi;s filed against her former flame&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">RELATED&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;tiger-woods-ex-girlfriend-erica-herman-sexual-harassment&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Tiger Woods&&num;8217&semi; Ex-Girlfriend Erica Herman Accuses Him Of Sexual Harassment In New Court Documents<&sol;a><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Tiger Woods&&num;8217&semi; Ex Erica Herman Must Abide By 2017 Nondisclosure Agreement&comma; Judge Rules<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Court filings from earlier this month allege that Herman&comma; 39&comma; was sexually harassed by Woods&comma; 47&comma; while he employed her at The Woods Jupiter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; Circuit Judge Elizabeth Metzger ultimately ruled that Herman must abide by the 2017 NDA she had previously signed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The judge reportedly called Herman&&num;8217&semi;s allegations against Woods &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;vague and threadbare&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Herman has had the opportunity &lpar;to&rpar; provide factual specificity for any claim relating to sexual assault or sexual harassment&semi; however&comma; she has not done so&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the judge continued&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Arbitor Now Must Decide On Whether Erica Herman Will Receive New Hearing To Challenge NDA<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The judge added that there was sufficient enough evidence to prove that the two had signed an NDA in 2017&period; She ruled that Herman resolve her lawsuits with Tiger through private arbitration&comma; the AP reports&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Herman&comma; however&comma; said she didn&&num;8217&semi;t recognize the NDA in question when Tiger&&num;8217&semi;s attorney presented it as evidence in court in a May 9 hearing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Judge Metzger then told Herman that denying signing the NDA would require her to order a separate hearing on the issue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An arbitrator now has to decide on the matter due to the fact that Herman can&&num;8217&semi;t recall if she signed it or not&comma; according to the outlet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CsYs0lnO4NQ" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Herman Sues For &dollar;30 Million Amidst Accusations Of Tiger Woods Locking Her Out Of Their Home<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Herman is suing both Woods and the trust that owns his Florida mansion the former couple had previously shared&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"paragraph inline-placeholder" data-uri&equals;"archive&period;cms&period;cnn&period;com&sol;&lowbar;components&sol;paragraph&sol;instances&sol;paragraph&lowbar;BAB860EA-A7B6-5679-6856-F4F07BDDCD9D&commat;published" data-editable&equals;"text" data-component-name&equals;"paragraph" data-analytics-observe&equals;"off">As <strong><em>The Shade Room<&sol;em><&sol;strong> reported in March 2023&comma; Herman <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;tiger-woods-ex-girlfriend-seeks-30-million-after-being-booted-from-his-home-following-their-split&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">claims in a one lawsuit<&sol;a> that Woods owes her &dollar;30 million&period; She accuses Woods of reportedly locking her out of the home with the promise of a bogus Bahamas trip&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to court documents obtained by TMZ&comma; Herman and Woods lived at his &dollar;54 million Florida mansion for the duration of their relationship&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Erica claims they had an &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;oral tenancy agreement&comma;” allowing her to live with him for at least five years after their breakup&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CpjD3eJMMMU" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;tmz&period;com&sol;2023&sol;05&sol;08&sol;tiger-woods-accused-of-sexual-harassment-by-erica-herman&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Another lawsuit<&sol;a> filed in Oct&period; 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