LIV Golf chief Greg Norman and his spouse are being sued by a highschool lady who says she was sexually assaulted at their Florida house by two boys throughout a celebration the place alcohol was served to her, her alleged attackers and different minors.
The lawsuit alleges that Norman, 68, and his spouse, inside designer Kirsten Kutner, served alcohol to minors throughout a pool social gathering her teenage daughter hosted for her Oxbridge Academy classmates and different teenagers at their Palm Beach Gardens mansion in September 2021.
The lady and her dad and mom allege that Kutner served her daughter and the lady drinks earlier than different friends arrived.
More alcohol was served all through the social gathering, the lawsuit alleges, and the lady turned “incapable of standing on her own and was seen stumbling around the party.”
The lady alleges that two boys, who additionally had been ingesting on the social gathering, then sexually assaulted her on the grass subsequent to the pool.
The lawsuit, which was filed in March, alleges that Norman and Kutner failed to make sure the lady’s security, well-being and sobriety at their house by illegally offering alcohol to her and the opposite teenagers.
The lawsuit is searching for unspecified damages for ache, struggling, psychological anguish and lack of enjoyment.
Norman leads the controversial, Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour, which introduced final week that it could merge with the PGA and European excursions.
Attorneys for the lady didn’t instantly reply to a telephone name searching for remark. The names of the lady, her dad and mom and the alleged assailants aren’t given within the lawsuit.
A Norman spokesperson had no fast remark Friday. Norman and Kutner have been married since 2010. The daughter named within the lawsuit is Kutner’s from a earlier relationship. The couple bought the 12,000-square-foot (1,100-square-meter) mansion 5 months earlier than the alleged assault for $12 million, tax data present.
Norman, a local Australian, gained 20 PGA tournaments and one other 71 internationally, together with two wins on the British Open. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001.
Norman has additionally had a profitable enterprise profession, together with golf course design, clothes, wine and actual property. Forbes Magazine estimates his internet value at $400 million.
A spokesperson for the Palm Beach Gardens police division didn’t instantly return a telephone name asking whether or not a felony grievance was ever filed by the lady or her dad and mom.
The lawsuit was first reported Friday by The Daily Mail.