Woman Sues Hilton After Employee Secretly Recorded Her In The Shower
A Chicago woman is suing Hilton for $100 million after claiming an employee secretly filmed her in a hotel shower and then tried to blackmail her with the footage.
The unidentified woman said the incident occurred when she was staying at the Hampton Inn and Suites - owned by Hilton Worldwide - in Albany, https://themomsite.bookmark.com/cheap-gifts-for-coworkers-under-5 New York back in July 2015.
She only became aware of the nude footage when it was posted on a porn website this past September and she was emailed a link by the employee.
The woman received a follow up email that vowed to expose the video if she didn't email over more nude footage of herself.
The Chicago woman is suing Hilton for $100 million after claiming an employee secretly filmed her in a hotel shower and then tried to blackmail her with the footage
The employee wrote in his email that he wasn't a 'perv' but that just liked 'to watch'. He promised to remove the video if she sent the additional footage, according to the lawsuit.
'It was like I had been hit by a truck. It just knocked the wind out of me,' the woman told [ ].
'I had no idea who took the video. I had no idea who this guy was, and all I could think is my life is over.'
The woman said the employee had access to her full name, school and where she worked. She claims that when she ignored the emails, the employee started emailing the footage to her coworkers.
He then threatened to send it to a wider network of people after she refused to pay him a total of $14,000.
The unidentified woman said the incident occurred when she was staying at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Albany, New York (pictured above) back in July 2015
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'It was just absolutely traumatizing because these are people I went to law school with. They're friends, they're coworkers. And they were sent a link to what looks like an email I sent,' she said.
The video and her full name ended up being posted to at least a dozen porn websites.
'It's sadistic and it's designed to terrorize me and force me into a place where I feel like I have to give into his demands and give him more photos or give him money. He did this so that whenever someone googles me, they're going to see this,' she said.
The woman is suing Hilton Worldwide for negligence and emotional distress. She is holding the hotel responsible because the employee was able to retrieve her personal information.
She said she is still trying to restore her name and continually has to monitor porn sites in case her video has been posted and she needs to petition for it to be removed.
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