ESPN Sports Reporter Erin Andrews caught by "peeping tom."

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A "peeping tom" allegedly shot video of ESPN Sports Reporter Erin Andrews nude in the privacy of her hotel room. It's now all over the internet.







Story below from Dead Spin.


Yesterday a video posted on the site NSFW POA (NSFW, obvs.) hinted that a naked blonde woman videotaped through a hotel peephole was a popular sports personality. ESPN lawyers pounced. Maybe we should mention the woman looks like Erin Andrews.

The video's been removed, after blog proprietor Doug Sheckler (Epic Carnival, On205th) received a strongly-worded letter from ESPN attorney David Pahl:

I am the General Counsel of ESPN, Inc. It has come to my attention that you have posted on your site pictures of a young, blonde woman at http://www.nsfwpoa.com/2009/07/hot-naked-blonde-who-looks-lot-like.html. These pictures were obviously taken through a peephole or otherwise in a fashion constituting a trespass/assault on the rights of the woman involved. Your continued posting of these pictures are highly likely to render you an accessory after the fact to a criminal act. We hereby demand that you (i) immediately remove these pictures from your site and (ii) disclose to us the source of the pictures. We intend to hold you fully responsible for further display of material that so obviously violates the law.

Please confirm by return e-mail that you intend to comply with these demands. In the absence of such confirmation we will assume you are an active and willing participant in these acts.

David Pahl

Sheckler won't reveal the source of the original videos, but what makes ESPN's swift action especially notable is that, in his original post, there was no mention of ESPN or the name of the person being illegally and creepily watched. The verbiage on the post was actually "Hot naked blonde who looks a lot like a sports blogger favorite in her hotel room." But ESPN is obviously not taking any chances, even if the video turns out to be a well-constructed fake. We're still waiting for a statement from ESPN about the whole ordeal and any further legal action they plan to take.


source:
http://deadspin.com/5317084/espn-lawyers-try-to-smoke-out-creepy-amateur-peephole-videographer










With everyone having a small camera at their hip these days, I'm actually amazed stuff like this doesn't happen more often.

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1. That there is some low shit. eom

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2. If I were her and the story is 100% accurate

which it looks like it is (or it's an ***extremely*** well done fake video). I would sue everyone in sight!

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3. I haven't seen the video and I won't

Whoever is in it should sue if the video was taken without consent.

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4. Sometimes you wonder how much of this stuff is really out there.

Think about it,everywhere you go, almost everyone has a pocket sized camera or something.


Voyeurism is downright creepy.

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6. I agree.

[seabeyond]

5. "amazed stuff like this doesn't happen more often." why?... cause males

are so lacking that you assume they would all be out there doing this? cause men dont see a wrong in this invasion and violation of women?

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7. No, not at all. I am against male bashing.

Personally I think enough male bashing goes on in our society without me adding to it. I am sure there are women who are just as capable of this heinous act as are men.


Plus, if this video was sold for money (which it probably was) it REALLY could have been anybody. Money corrupts everyone. It is not gender specific.

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11. when i start seeing

women doing it, i will include them. until then, i will go off what we see happening instead of cushioning in untruth

[abumbyanyothername]

15. Well . . . are you willing to go off on money grubbing?

I mean, women aren't going to be drug around by their sex drive.

They're going to be drug around by their money/status drive. As in, "I've got to have more."

OK, off my soapbox now.

[seabeyond]

19. ahhhhh, so a guy just cant help it, that ole sex drive draggin him around?

see i have a greater respect and confidence in male, than you appear to

as far as the money grubbin women. i too have greater respect and confidence that most women are not that, and those that are... well, they are pretty easy to pick out. a guy can say no. but then no, i dont respect women that are like that.

i think a male can help it. i think why we dont see more of it is cause more men would be bothered, disgusted, or feel it is an invasion. so in answer to the questions i asked the poster, .... most men are not drug around by their sex drive. character

i cant believe that you can even suggest that a man did this cause of his sex drive, as if he is the victim. geeeesh

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16. How did this become a gender debate?

The thread is about voyeurism and privacy. And how everyone needs to be more aware of their surroundings with the tremendous recording technology now available to the masses.



Another poster could easily come here and post shortfalls "they only notice women having." Would that stereotyping be fair?

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18. you need ask?

your post made it into just that on the lecture about male bashing and how this isnt just a male thing. i beg to differ. i responded to your post to me.

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20. If that is the case then I apologize for the mis-understanding.

However I think you were the one who turned the debate into an issue of male bashing.

In any event, I don't think it should be the focus of the story.


For the record, there was a boys high school wrestling team ( Iowa I think) where someone filmed the wrestlers in the locker room or at a weigh in. It was the same situation.


This is not a gender issue. It's a violation of privacy issue.

[seabeyond]

21. "It's a violation of privacy issue."... yes

and that is the whole point in this.

this is not a new phenomenon. it has been going on for a long time. are you female? how many times do you get a creepy feeling in a bathroom, or when single get a room in hotel and creeped out by the guy that gives you the room, or an odd feeling in dressing room and you look around for a pin hole for a camera. we have been hearing about men *gasp* yes men, doing these things for a long time and as a woman i have been aware of it for a long time. and there are times when my senses make me especially aware.

there was a thread a couple days ago about two mps filming women in the showers then distributing it to fellow soldiers. none of the soldiers figured out it was a "privacy issue". they didnt do anything about it. a father of one of the female soldiers did something about it.

not one soldier turned those two mps in

then on the thread all but a few of the males (and i say male, cause i dont know the ages) jumped on hootin and hollerin in the most juvenile manner about, useless without pictures. stripes, mash, a gag. ha ha ha funny. and the like

yes it is a privacy issue. yes it is a violation.

now, i think it is time to teach it isnt cutsey, or cause males are "dragged around by their sex drive" but that it is an INVASION of PRIVACY. a VIOLATION against a person. humiliating. degrading.

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22. Um..... yea, like I said earlier, I wasn't the one to make this into a gender war???????

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It sounds like you are caring a lot of resentment. Anger. Hate.



Remember we do agree that it is a serious privacy issue. Your opinion is that only men are perpetrators. I think anyone can be an aggressor or victim.

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24. for 8 yrs we watched bushco lie, break law, dishonestly campaign beyond anything we have ever seen

and when i would call repugs on it, they would say

both parties do it

that neutralizes the issue and then we can not recognize, acknowledge, correct and heal

what you are doing is the same thing with this issue

it is a denial i wont embrace

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25. I am sorry you hate men so much.

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8. I'm a guy, and I interpreted it as

even if the percentage of guys who would do that were very small, that's still a lot of guys. I'm kind of surprised we don't see a lot more of it also.

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10. it is the casual acceptance of the behavior that is bothersome. n/t

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14. Where does this "casual acceptance" come from?

The OP stated that he was surprised that this sort of stuff doesn't happen more often, given the proliferation of miniature recording devices. How does that constitute a "casual acceptance"? I don't think it's a stretch to say that there are quite a few creeps out there.

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28. Another Male bashing thread on D/U. I think this makes five for the week.

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9. Erin Andrews just released a statement. The story looks to be true.

Statement of Behalf of Erin Andrews


LOS ANGELES, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- With respect to recent Internet postings of Erin Andrews, she has authorized her attorney, Marshall B. Grossman of Bingham McCutchen LLP, to issue the following statement:


"While alone in the privacy of her hotel room, Erin Andrews was surreptitiously videotaped without her knowledge or consent. She was the victim of a crime and is taking action to protect herself and help ensure that others are not similarly violated in the future. Although the perpetrator or perpetrators of this criminal act have not yet been identified, when they are identified she intends to bring both civil and criminal charges against them and against anyone who has published the material. We request respect of Erin's privacy at this time, while she and her representatives are working with the authorities."


http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-17-2009/0005062035&EDATE=

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12. It's true

Here's a story about it.

http://www.totalprosports.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/was-that-erin-andrews-video-taped-naked-through-a-hotel-peephole/

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13. That is such a violation.

This is actually one of my biggest irrational fears - that someone would be spying on me unbeknowst to me.
To have it happen at all - even on a small individual scale would be devastating enough, but to have what you thought were your private actions posted on the internet...
I cannot imagine how overwhelmed and violated she must feel right now. I hope they find whoever did this and punish the shit out of him/her.

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17. That was nice of the lawyer to provide a link

You don't see courtesy like that any more these days.

On edit:
Oops, the link has gone dead. I retract my former statement.

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23. Everyone is a spy with these cameras.

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26. You always have to wonder if this is a publicity stunt

There's no question that she's more famous now than she was before the video. Sometimes these accidents happen on purpose.

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29. Well maybe,

but I would know it was for sure if it were Lisa Guerrera (Fox Sports eye candy).

I am pretty sure that Fox was behind the Paris Hilton sex tape leak, coming as it did, right as her show opened.

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27. Its not right by any means

But if they had just ignored it, .001% of the country would know about it.

Now 100% of the country knows about it.