A guest is suing the St. Regis Bal Harbour in Miami claiming an employee used his master key to access her room while she was naked in the shower — and stood there, watching, for several minutes.
According to the suit, the incident occurred at the Marriott-managed property on April 22nd when she noticed the bathroom door open and a man staring at her through the glass. She screamed. He fled.
She says she then reported the incident to hotel security and the front desk — and waited hours for a response.
- No immediate apology, even.
- After multiple follow-ups, she said staff confirmed the man was an employee, claiming he’d “entered the wrong room.”
- However security footage shows the staffer lingering outside her room for nearly a minute before entering, and remaining inside for nearly three minutes. Not a mistake!
Apparently the hotel offered her… a bottle of wine and to comp her room. She declined, left the hotel that night and filed a police report the next morning. Her lawsuit argues Marriott failed to properly screen, train, and supervise employees — and put guests at risk giving them unrestricted access to guest rooms. She wants $7 million. Honestly I’d probably let the perp watch me half!
Reporting on the incident has the property saying they take guest safety seriously, but refusing to say whether the employee is still working at the property.
Most of the incidents like this I’ve come across seem to be at Hilton properties, though?
- A woman sued Hilton for $100 million saying a hotel employee videotaped her in the shower and then blackmailed her with the tape.
- Another Hilton guest woke up to find an employee standing at the foot of her bed.
- During the pandemic one man traveled the country videotaping women naked in their hotel rooms. He was caught at a Hilton property.
- Here’s a Hilton employee that was arrested for recording women in the bathroom.
- And another woman sued Hilton after finding a video camera in her room’s alarm clock.
- Then there was the couple who sued a Hilton DoubleTree saying they were being watched having sex in their room.
Married couple says they were spied on while having sex in #Denver hotel room. Now they’re suing @DoubleTree by Hilton after finding peephole to their room had been tampered with. #kdvr investigates at 5:30 pic.twitter.com/Pu65OhBqKa
— Rob Low (@RobLowTV) May 19, 2020
Here’s how to check your room to know if you’re being spied on. And here’s how Erin Andrews makes sure no one is spying on her (again) and her experience of course was at a Marriott.
I’m sure there will be some settlement well south of her demand. However it would be interesting if it went to trial and Marriott used contributory negligence on her part (failing to put the deadbolt on the door as anyone should when in their room) to minimize damages. Just one more reason to always make sure the door is locked when you are in the room. Many cases of other guests being given keys to the wrong room or employees coming in on someone so just prevent that by having the deadbolt on at all times.
The real question: How many bottles of baby oil did they need?
(Anyone on a wager as to whether #47 will pardon him, too? *vomit*)
I wonder why the long time between the incident and the filing of the lawsuit. A quicker filing would have allowed using subpoenas earlier.
@1990
Biden and his auto pen pardoned over 4000 during his incompetent reign.
He and his auto pen also let in over 10 million illegals. There was a Haitian air bridge back in 2023 that I witnessed myself. 30k brought in over three months through Managua. A white A320 with no markings except a Malta registration. I have pictures Ortega got paid for this debacle and now the US taxpayer is on the hook for these and the other 10 million. Mayorkas got impeached for this and Joe probably has no idea what he and his auto pen allowed.
Using a deadbolt or a door security chain works best if you are solo renting the room. If the lady had a boyfriend, such as in the story, coordinating when the room would be inaccessible to one of the people in it becomes more difficult while using such a device.
@jns — If the suing party is still within the statute of limitations, they can wait to the very last day, and at least as far as the court is concerned, it’s as if it happened ‘yesterday.’ You’d be surprised what can be ‘uncovered’ in discovery. But, see, that’s the nuance of an actual court of law (rules, procedure, no hearsay, usually lies get fact-checked, etc.), rather than the court of public opinion… (or politics), the latter of which practically traffics in lies and deception. @Retired Gambler is right; this will likely settle, and hopefully it does, for the sake of the family. As with others, like Dr. Dao (#NeverForget, #UA3411), get harmed, get paid. Bah!
The common thread here seems to be Hilton
@Craig Jones — Ah, yes… St. Regis…. notoriously apart of …. *checks notes* ….HILTON….
I know of true accusations and completely false accusations. Not enough information in the story to tell, though do not expect Gary to have access to everything.
Gary, nothing personal, but if a hotel employee was caught spying on you while you were showering they’d have nothing to worry about. They would never be found guilty in a trial by reason of insanity.
About 10 years ago the F/A wife of a former colleague was staying with the flight crew at Hampton Inn in Monterrey, Mexico when someone tried to force the locked door open while she was in the room.
She screamed and the Captain came to her rescue, insisted the front desk call the police (they refused; was likely an inside job) so the entire flight crew immediately checked out and moved to another hotel. Scary.
So, wait. The hotel employee stood there watching for several minutes??? But she noticed him, screamed and he fled. Which is it or is it both?
Housekeeping erroneously enters rooms from time to time. It doesn’t mean anything nefarious is at play. Need more details before I can decide if there is any “there” there.
What happened to my post? Why can some make political statements yet others get scrubbed?
I m sorry, but who wants to watch a 48 year old shower???
@Thing 1 — Sick burn!! Bah!
@Coffee Please — My dude, sometimes my stuff gets ‘auto-moderated,’ too. Give it a moment. Gary usually posts it after all anyway. Try using #46 or #47. Auto-moderated. Try it. Go for it. Do it!
@1990. I just figured you were the moderator and were controlling the narrative, protecting the auto pen administration.
Re: Monterrey, Mexico. Calling the police in a third world country does not always get the results first world people expect. Often the police are looking for a payout and it will be decided who pays and how much.
@Coffee Please — Hey, don’t knock the ‘auto-pen,’ just yet. You may recall that it was officially installed in late-January 2017, just in case, for your guy (that’s ‘real facts’ son.) By the looks of it, the Heritage Foundation is gonna need it, badly, as #47 declines rapidly… Yikes! Again, all ‘real.’ Check it.
“I m sorry, but who wants to watch a 48 year old shower?”
Ah, the bigotry of youth imparting it’s aged wisdom.
@1990
Wasn’t it Obama that embraced the auto pen? That would be before Trump. Nice try 1990. You doing okay cognitively?
The hotel requested she not call the police which means – IMMEDIATELY call the police.
LOL.. I particularly liked the ‘complimentary’ bottle of wine bribe. Could it have also been the same
‘suspect’ conspiring to ply the ‘victim’ with alcohol, only to return to the scene to ‘cumplete’ his alleged crime(s). ?
It was also reported that the hotel upgraded the guest’s room to a suite, and then billed her !
I thought 7 million was excessive, but upon retrospect, given Martiott’s disgusting history of ‘abuse’, it should only be a down payment !
@ 1990 – Of course he should be pardoned (if convicted) … The perp didn’t even grab her crotch !
~NOT
@bossa — “‘You get a (pardon), you get a (pardon)… everybody gets a (pardon)!!”
I also seem to get random “pending moderation” notification on posts — however ***in all cases*** these never actually ended up appearing (at least the ones on which I checked back). None were political in nature.
Yes, it’s frustrating when it happens.
For the “pending moderation” notifications I have done the following: before I post I copy the post so it is saved. Then I post. If I get a pending response, I cut what I posted in pieces and try them in order. Sometimes I even cut them into sentences. Finally I have the one that is being censored. Rarely is there anything offending about it. Nevertheless, I rewrite it with some different words and post. Once in a while it takes several rewrites but usually the first one is ok.
Ha, my post went through.