Erin Andrews suing for hotel videotaping incident


ESPN television sportscaster Erin Andrews arrives at the 2009 ESPY Awards in Los Angeles in this July 15, 2009 file photograph. Chicago insurance man Michael David Barrett was sentenced to 30 months in prison on March 15, 2010 for making nude videos through hotel peepholes of television sports reporter Erin Andrews and posting them on the Internet. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SPORT)

Erin Andrews is making it big in the male dominated sports casting industry, and now she’s proving she’s got game on a different court as well.

According to the Tennessean, the ESPN reporter filed a $10 million lawsuit in relation to the peeping Tom incident in 2008 when she was unknowingly taped nude through the peephole of her hotel room in Nashville by a man named Michael Barrett.

People reported the suit was originally filed last year, but Andrews re-filed it to make sure the statute of limitations doesn’t expire.

The former Dancing with the Stars contestant wants $6 million from the West End Marriott and $4 million from Barrett. Last year, he was sentenced to two and a half years in jail.

Andrews claims the Marriott played a role in her violation of privacy by allowing Barrett to learn that she was in the hotel and booking him in a nearby room, knowing that he had taped her in other cities before.

The 33-year-old also wrote in the suit that she continues to experience "great emotional distress and embarrassment” because she was observed naked and because images of her nude were posted on the web.

The Marriott Hotel has yet to comment on the suit.

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