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The ex-mistress of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt accused him of stalking, abuse and “toxic masculinity” in court documents she filed in December 2024 while seeking a domestic violence restraining order against him.
Michelle Ritter filed the explosive docs on Dec. 11, a week after she and Schmidt previously struck a written agreement that required him to make “substantial payments” to her, according to the newly unearthed court documents obtained by The Post,
She ended up withdrawing it on Jan. 6 after they came to a new deal.
Ritter, 31, started dating Schmidt, 70, in 2021 — and the billionaire helped fund her AI startup Steel Perlot with $100 million — but they were reportedly on the outs by May 2024. Although Schmidt has been married to his wife, Wendy, since 1980, it’s been long reported that the Schmidts have had a longtime open arrangement.
Ritter, a Columbia Law School graduate, claimed in the docs that Schmidt used his technical background to lock her out of her own startup’s website.
She also claimed in the suit he subjected her to an “absolute digital surveillance system.”
“I literally cannot have a private phone call or send a private email without surveillance,” she claimed in the filing.
“My former partner is extraordinarily powerful and capable and has used every mean[s] to block me from getting access to secure data, devices, finances, or businesses, or to simply live my life in peace,” she alleged in the docs.
Ritter also claimed in the filing that Schmidt demanded that she agree to “a gag order on any sexual assault or harassment allegations and sign a knowingly false declaration that any such allegations never happened.”
Elsewhere in the docs, she requested court protection for her dog, a German Shepherd named Henry, and to get access to Schmidt’s Bel-Air mansion that she previously lived in.
Schmidt’s lawyers hit back at Ritter’s claims in their own filing, per The Post, calling them “demonstrably false” and “a blatant abuse of the judicial system.”
Ritter later stated in a Dec. 17 filing that she and Schmidt struck an amended settlement agreement and she retracted her temporary restraining order request against him on Jan. 6.
However, she’s since claimed Schmidt failed to honor the agreement. She alleged the former tech executive is instead attempting to “win by economic and resource attrition” since she claimed she can’t afford to pay a $75,000 court fee in a pending arbitration proceeding. A hearing has been set for Dec. 4 in Los Angeles.
A lawyer for Ritter as well as a spokesperson for Schmidt both declined to comment on the case, The Post reported.