Tiger Woods’ ex-girlfriend Erica Herman has dropped her sexual assault lawsuit against the famed golfer as well as an appeal to a non-disclosure agreement she had signed, according to multiple reports on Tuesday.
In a notice filed in Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal to drop the appeal, Herman said she “was never a victim of sexual harassment or sexual abuse at the hands of Tiger Woods or any of his agents, and it is her position that she never asserted a claim for such,” according to Fox News.
Herman had signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in 2017 at the start of her relationship with Woods, and she had sued to be released from the agreement.
In May, a judge ruled she could not be released from the NDA and Herman filed an appeal due to the ruling.
In Herman’s initial filing, the lawsuit cited the Speak Out Act that allows for a person to be released from a NDA if they’re a victim of sexual assault.
Nevertheless, in the May ruling, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Metzger wrote that Herman’s reasoning for being released from the agreement lacked “factual specificity for any claim relating to sexual assault or…
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