Atlanta’s Erin Andrews gets rights to peephole videos
The Smoking Gun (remember them?) has gotten documentation showing Atlanta ESPN reporter Erin Andrews now has legal ownership of the naked peephole videos of her taken by Michael Barrett.
Barrett is going to prison next week for a felony stalking conviction. He secretly shot the videos in three hotels while she was on the road for her job.
According to the site:
Barrett, sentenced last month to 30 months in federal prison, recently signed over his rights to the videos to Andrews, according to Daniel Alberstone, one of the sportscaster’s lawyers. With ownership of the videos legally transferred from the felon, Andrews could pursue federal copyright lawsuits against anyone distributing or broadcasting the videos.
In an interview I did with her a month ago, she expressed frustration that the Internet makes it virtually impossible to snuff out the videos completely.
Andrews, an Atlanta resident since 2002, has been in Los Angeles on “Dancing With the Stars.” With five contestants out, she remains a contender to win, though she has gotten mostly middling to good grades but has never been able to out-dance leader Nicole Scherzinger.
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27 comments Add your comment
Ted Striker
April 30th, 2010
6:12 pm
Does this mean I need to send her a check for what I saw?
Old devil
April 30th, 2010
6:14 pm
You go girl! 1st, by the way…
Old devil
April 30th, 2010
6:14 pm
I stand corrected. 2nd
Old devil
April 30th, 2010
6:15 pm
I don’t owe her anything, because they removed before I got a chance to see it.
Michael Brown
April 30th, 2010
6:28 pm
mark my words Bush she’ll make some bucks from that someday
KJ
April 30th, 2010
6:41 pm
Michael, looks like you transposed “bush” and “someday” in your post. Common mistake.
Dawn
April 30th, 2010
6:49 pm
This stupid video is old news. Having “ownership” of this video won’t change anything.
The Grinch
April 30th, 2010
7:26 pm
Well, I’m glad after going on Oprah (twice!), the Today Show, Dancing with the Stars and so forth, she can “finally put this behind” her and “move on.” KJ, I’ve watched it. It’s really more of a landing strip.
adam
April 30th, 2010
7:43 pm
So…….what’s she gonna do with da vidyo? Sit at home and watch it and say, “God i’m so fat?”
Michael
April 30th, 2010
7:43 pm
Who?
David C
April 30th, 2010
7:45 pm
Get a brain Dawn. She wouldn’t have paid lawyers to do this if it “won’t change anything” . Anyone hosting this video (we know your i.p. address, you idiot), will be tracked down and sued. Go ahead, Dawn, download it.
gadawg
April 30th, 2010
8:44 pm
What is all the fuss about Ms Andrews isn’t all that good looking sort of looks plain to me.
e.lo
April 30th, 2010
9:25 pm
gadawg I thought the same thing until I saw the video. She has a ever so fine body.
P
April 30th, 2010
9:52 pm
e.lo and Ted Striker….you are a part of the problem here….
Dawn
April 30th, 2010
10:02 pm
I don’t have it, and rather not watch it. My only point is the cats out of the bag, most anybody that wants to view it has already. As I said before, this video is old news, most people have moved on.
Mitchell
April 30th, 2010
10:35 pm
It’s still out there. Finally saw it recently. Amazing.
GAWoman
April 30th, 2010
11:40 pm
And yes, I did mean compassion! But I’m sure its a word most of you would have to look up!
KJ
May 1st, 2010
1:02 am
“you are a part of the problem here….”
If you’re referring to the “problem” of horny men wanting to look at nekkid women…. well, good luck eradicating that, pal.
sugarfoot
May 1st, 2010
6:00 am
Who cares?
bornloser
May 1st, 2010
8:31 am
anybody know where i can see the video.
darb
May 1st, 2010
8:39 am
I dont condone how it was obtaimed, but a good looking woman neked never bothers me, glad I got to see the video.
Arthtur Blank
May 1st, 2010
10:09 am
I would rather see Danica Patrick Nekid!!!
Roy Hobbs crackpipe
May 1st, 2010
5:20 pm
Erin makes me feel all funny down there.
Vavoom
May 1st, 2010
9:20 pm
Erin needs a good six months at my house, with some loving healing bikini-car-wash therapy, strictly for her own well-being, mind you…
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Rodney Ho Moe
May 3rd, 2010
1:43 pm
Hey Rodney would you hit it ?
skinnymini
May 26th, 2010
1:44 pm
You guys who want to see and have seen it disgust me. I mean its sad if you can only see a woman nude, because she was exposed on the internet.