Former reality show star and Playboy model Holly Madison is suing two Las Vegas clubs, claiming that the managers put cameras in the dressing rooms to film her and other showgirls changing.
Madison and her Awesometown Inc. company filed the lawsuit on Monday, naming managers of Mandalay Bay, where the show 1923 Burbon and Burlesque by Holly Madison was being performed, as defendants. According to The Las Vegas Review-Journal, another lawsuit was filed by the dancers. Both suits were filed by Las Vegas firm Garcia-Mendoza and Snavely.
Three managers are named in the suit and are accused of putting a secret digital camera in the dressing rooms. The lawsuit claims that they then put the video on their cameras and shared it. One of the dancers, Burgendy Candace Kirtz, discovered what the men were doing when she saw the video on a computer on Aug. 7, 2015. She confronted the manager, who revealed that they had been filming the dancers since April.
Madison’s agent, Jason Verona, met with the managers on Aug. 19. The suit says that one of them said, “It’s not a big deal.” It certainly was a big deal for the women, who all quit the show.
“It's a crime,” Madison’s attorney, Eva Garcia-Mendoza, told E! News. “Not only Holly has been damaged but four of the dancers that I filed a suit for separately. They are going through some serious emotional distress right now. Who might have seen them. What they might have done when changing clothes. It was very personal."
A lawyer for the venue, Jared Jahn, told Fox News, that the camera was placed in a public corridor under general surveillance. He also called the claim that the managers distributed the video bogus.
“This was not an issue until 1923 became involved with contract negotiations with Holly last summer,” Khan told Fox. This is really part of filling up her memoir."
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