LIV Golf League CEO Greg Norman and his wife Kirsten Norman are being sued by a family in Florida accusing them of negligence that led to an underage girl being intoxicated and sexually assaulted while at Norman’s home in September 2021.
The suit was filed in Palm Beach County, Fla., in March and came to light Friday through multiple media reports.
A plaintiff, identified only as Jane Doe, said she was a classmate of Greg Norman’s stepdaughter and invited to a pool party at the Norman’s residence. The complaint alleges that Kirsten Norman gave the plaintiff alcohol at the party, as well as minors identified as M.B. and C.R.
“After the consumption of lots of alcohol present at Defendants’ home, Plaintiff was incapable of standing on her own and was seen stumbling around the party,” the lawsuit alleges. “After Plaintiff became visibly inebriated, she was sexually assaulted by both M.B. and C.R. simultaneously while on the grassy area near Defendants’ pool.”
The suit claims that the Normans “breached their duty of care” by providing alcoholic beverages to minors and not preventing “abusive conduct by other minor invitees” that left the girl with bodily injury and mental anguish.
Greg Norman’s lawyer, Stuart Grossman, told the Daily Mail that the matter had been “fully investigated and closed,” claiming that the allegations are false.
Norman has served as the CEO of LIV Golf since it launched in November 2021 and served as the Saudi-funded league’s figurehead throughout 2022 as it peeled away several PGA Tour stars with massive financial offers.
In an announcement earlier this month that the PGA Tour would partner with the Saudi Public Investment Fund to form a new, for-profit entity, Norman was nowhere to be found in the announcement and left out of the proposed leadership structure. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan would be the new entity’s CEO and PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan its chairman.
–Field Level Media