Quote:The sportscaster had sued over a video shot of her through a hotel room peephole.
03/07/2016 05:47 pm ET

Erick Fernandez
Editorial Fellow, HuffPost Sports

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Sportscaster and TV host Erin Andrews sued a Nashville Marriott franchise owner for $75 million, saying the hotel was negligent in allowing a man who stalked her to stay in a room next to hers.

A jury of five men and seven women decided on Monday to award Erin Andrews $55 million in her lawsuit stemming from a 2008 peeping Tom video of the sportscaster shot at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University.

According to reporter Jesse Knutson, the jury found that the hotel operator, owner and the man who shot the videos, Michael Barrett, were all responsible.

Andrews had filed a lawsuit for $75 million against the franchise owner of the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University, as well as Barrett, who, in September 2008, shot the videos of her getting undressed through a hotel room peephole. She believed the hotel was negligent in allowing Barrett to select a room directly next to hers without notification.

In May 2011, Barrett was sentenced to 30 months in prison for stalking and for shooting the videos.

Andrews was brought to tears a number of times during court proceedings. During her testimony earlier in the week, the 37-year-old spoke about the toll the videos took on her psychologically, mentioning that she still switches rooms upon arriving at hotels and checks for "booby traps" and recording devices.

The defense insinuated at one point that the nude videos actually helped Andrews' career.

On the fourth day of the trial, a computer expert estimated that the nude videos of Andrews had been seen about 17 million times since July 2009.

(03-08-2016, 07:19 AM)Emm Wrote: >7 women

Gee, wonder what that had to do with anything.

(03-11-2016, 05:30 AM)Triangle Wrote: The quality of the video leak was so shitty I'd be surprised if anyone could even get it on to it. Seriously. In my opinion $55 million is pretty high up there.

(03-11-2016, 06:13 AM)m0dem Wrote: I got a cool orange because orange is my favorite color.

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