Video Tape
March 26th, 2010
ERIN ANDREWS VIDEO TAPE DRAMA
On July 16, 2009, a video was posted on the website NSFW POA of a naked blonde woman videotaped through a hotel peephole – the site hinted that the woman featured was a popular sports personality.Wikipaedia reports that supposedly, the woman was curling her hair unclothed while doing squat-like moves in front of a mirror. The following day, Andrews authorized her attorney to issue a statement to say that yes, she was the woman in the video and that the video was made without her knowledge or consent.
The video was originally uploaded to the video site Dailymotion on 17th February 2009, and had apparently been available via Google Search for months. The Legal Counsel for Erin Andrews and ESPN moved quickly to remove the video from sites that had posted it and worked closely with the authorities in an attempt to locate and prosecute the perpetrators of the privacy invasion.
On September 11, 2009, Andrews appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show in what Andrews called her “first and last interview” about the situation. Andrews described the situation as a “nightmare”, and stated that at the time she discovered the video, she believed that her career would end.