According to recent court documents, Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, was accused by a 31-year-old ex-married lover of tracking, abusing and showing “harmful big masculinity” behavior.
Born in 1955, Schmidt was 70 years old this year, he served as CEO at Google for ten years from 2001 to 2011, and was also a member of the board of directors of Apple. Michelle Wright, 31, was Schmidt's latest public out-of-marriage, and the two started dating in 2020 and broke up in 2023.
After the "huge settlement fee",
The woman applied again.Restriction of Domestic Violence
According to the legal documents submitted by Michelle to the Los Angeles court on September 8th, in early December last year, Michelle and Schmidt (whose net assets are estimated to be 44.8 billion dollars) reached a "written settlement agreement", which stipulated that Schmidt should pay Michelle a "huge sum of money", but the specific content of the settlement agreement has not yet been announced.
On December 11 last year, a week after a written settlement agreement was reached, Michelle suddenly applied for a "domestic violence restraining order" against Schmidt. After the two sides reached a newly revised settlement agreement, the restraining order was withdrawn, but Schmidt has not been able to fulfill the revised settlement agreement, and Michelle filed legal charges in September this year.
In a previously withdrawn “Conditioning Domestic Violence Order,” Michelle claimed Schmidt locked her out of her own startup, Steel Perlot.Steel Perlot is a venture capital firm focused on artificial intelligence, which Schmidt invested $100 million in, a company previously owned by Michelle.
Although Schmidtly invested $100 million, Steel Perlot’s operations fell into chaos. In January 2023, an executive of Steel Perlot asked Schmidt to pay $2.5 million to repay the company’s and its subsidiaries’ cumulative salary and credit card debt that month. Schmidt paid the bill through the family office.
According to media reports, during the management of Steel Perlot, Michelle did not attend the staff meetings arranged by herself many times, and drank alcohol in a coffee cup during the meetings. Some employees think that they have been deceived by a "face-saving project" enterprise.
The latest indictment: the woman claimed to have been arrestedFull monitoring
The lawyer said the complaint.Obviously untrue”
In the court documents filing the complaint, Michelle stated that Schmidt used his Internet technology capabilities to monitor her in all directions, and that her private emails and private phone calls were under surveillance.
Michelle also accused Schmidt and his lawyers of refusing to continue mediation unless allegations of abuse and harassment were ruled out. Michelle's lawyers did not accept the request and "retaliation action and consequences followed immediately".
In his complaint, Michelle wrote: “My ex-partner is very powerful and capable, he has done everything he can to prevent me from accessing security data, equipment, money or business, and he has prevented me from living a peaceful life.”
Michelle also said that two days before the Decree on Restriction of Domestic Violence was filed last December, her parents were tracked by two private detectives in a restaurant in Los Angeles. The lawsuit documents showed that one of them claimed to work for a “milionaire’s private guard” when police received a report to question the private detectives.
Court documents show that Michelle has lived in a 15,000-square-foot mansion that Schmidt bought for $61 million.Michelle demanded exclusive use of the mansion in the lawsuit and asked the court to protect her dog.
In the latest 82-page plea filed on October 8, Schmidt's lawyers claimed: "The complaint filed by Michelle Ritter is manifestly untrue and constitutes a flagrant abuse of the judicial system." Schmidt's legal team also filed a motion on October 8 to seal the court records, but the court has not yet made a final ruling on this.
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