Eric Schmidt’s ex-lover, 31, sues former Google CEO, 70, over alleged stalking and abuse

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.

Michelle Ritter filed the explosive documents on Dec. 11, a week after she and Schmidt previously entered into a written agreement requiring him to make “substantial payments” to her, according to newly discovered court documents. Obtained by The Post,

She ended up withdrawing it on January 6 after they reached a new agreement.

Ritter, 31, She began dating Schmidt, 70 In 2021 – and the billionaire She helped fund AI startup Steel Perlot At $100 million – but they were reported to be outside By May 2024. Although Schmidt has been married to his wife, Wendy, since 1980, it has long been rumored that the Schmidt family had an open relationship for a long time.

Ritter, a Columbia Law School graduate, claimed in the documents that Schmidt used his technical background to block her from accessing her startup’s website.

She also alleged in the lawsuit that he subjected her to an “absolute digital surveillance system.”

“I literally cannot make a private phone call or send a private email without being monitored,” she claimed in the filing.

“My ex-partner has extraordinary power and ability, and has used every means(s) to prevent me from accessing secure data, devices, financial resources, companies, or simply living my life in peace,” she alleged in the documents.

Ritter also alleged in the filing that Schmidt demanded that she agree “to issue a gag order regarding any allegations of sexual assault or harassment and to knowingly sign a false statement that none of these allegations ever occurred.”

Elsewhere in the documents, she asked for court protection for her dog, a German shepherd named Henry, and for access to the Schmidt mansion in Bel Air where she previously lived.

Schmidt’s lawyers responded to Ritter’s allegations in their own filing, according to The Post, calling them “patently false” and “a blatant abuse of the judicial system.”

Ritter later stated in a December 17 filing that she and Schmidt reached an amended settlement agreement and withdrew the request for a temporary restraining order against him on January 6.

However, it has since claimed that Schmidt failed to honor the agreement. She claimed the former tech executive is instead trying to “win by economic attrition and resource drain” because she claimed she could not pay the $75,000 court fees in the pending arbitration proceedings. A hearing is scheduled for December 4 in Los Angeles.

The Washington Post reported that Ritter’s attorney as well as Schmidt’s spokesman declined to comment on the case.