In an incident that ESPN sports reporter Erin Andrews later called a "nightmare" , she was secretly videotaped while nude in hotel rooms.  After the peeping tom posted the video online, it reached nearly 300 million views before her attorneys saw to its removal.

Andrews has now filed a lawsuit  against several different hotel chains, including Marriott and Raddison, for failing to "adequately protect her privacy."  The damages she seeks are for negligence, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and invasion of privacy.  The suit alleges that hotel staff provided her room numbers to her stalker, who then checked into connecting rooms and was able to modify door peepholes in order to videotape her.

In filing the suit, Andrews is holding the hotels responsible for putting her personal safety at risk and allowing for a gross invasion of her privacy.  If hotel employees did indeed not only provide her room number without her consent and then allowed a request to book the connecting room without informing Andrews, then it is very possible they could be held liable for the consequences.

This case brings to light the issue of what duty of care hotels owe their guests, particularly when it comes to privacy.  Did the hotel breach that duty when it provided Andrews' room number to a third party?  And should hotels exercise even more care in protecting the privacy of their high-profile guests?  Andrews has stated that though she cannot erase the impact of the incident on her own life, that she hopes the hospitality industry will learn from the experience and be more vigilant in protecting guests.