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Erin Andrews awarded $55 million in peeping tom video lawsuit


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this is not worth 55 million - i mean she deserves compensation for this but not 55 million. Cant find a national stat but it looks like the average wrongful death settlement in the US is around 4 million. I don't think she suffered a fate 13x the rate of a wrongfully dying

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this is not worth 55 million - i mean she deserves compensation for this but not 55 million. Cant find a national stat but it looks like the average wrongful death settlement in the US is around 4 million. I don't think she suffered a fate 13x the rate of a wrongfully dying

 

Eye of the beholder, some might think it may be worse to have the live the rest of your life with the entire population of the country being able to see you naked as they desire. That's a lot of potential embarrassment and mistrust to have to deal with when you were not seeking that type of attention. If she ever has kids, she may very well have to explain what happened to them after classmates talk about it in school.

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Eye of the beholder, some might think it may be worse to have the live the rest of your life with the entire population of the country being able to see you naked as they desire. That's a lot of potential embarrassment and mistrust to have to deal with when you were not seeking that type of attention. If she ever has kids, she may very well have to explain what happened to them after classmates talk about it in school.

still not 55 million worth - you will see this get reduced to a sensible amount on appeal or in a higher court. I just did a quick google search and I cant even find it

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I personally agree with frenzal rhomb. So someone saw her naked. A lot of people saw her naked - big deal. We all have the same body parts - hers just so happened to be a lot smaller than most other women. And it's not like the pictures of her are THAT clear. Sure, I looked back in 2008 when it first came out - I'm a male. Could I see anything? Other than a small bump on her upper torso with a small dot on it - no. Was it worth $55M to her to have that put out there? F' no! Just as frenzal said - wrongful DEATH is on average of about $4M. Someone saw her tit - and a small blurry tit at that. Honestly, I felt bad for her until she just used this to get paid.

 

Should the hotel be held accountable? Sure. Should the dude who took naked pics/video of her be punished? Yep - and he received a prison sentence for it. But again - $55M dollars?!?!?! That chick needs an academy award for her acting / crying / claiming that she is mentally distraught and this will affect her the rest of her life. Bullshit man. The f' outta here..

 

I think a couple million is WAY more than sufficient. I hope Marriott appeals and gets that number drastically reduced.

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Ya I'm out of this thread...She deserves whatever she can get cause again, this was done to her. It was a gross violation of privacy and the damage/repercussions she will have to deal with the rest of her life. Not Marriott, not the person who filmed it, her and her alone.

 

Is it a lot of money? Yes, but she was not a Kardashian prostituting herself in the mirror. The jury of peers found the parties responsible and determined the amount, so I don't understand the callous attitude like she did something wrong in having this judgement awarded to her. Odds are she's never going to see a dime anyways as both the hotel and the convict are just going to file bankruptcy. Peace out.

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Uggh, you guys want to argue about whether this was too much money :crazy:

 

I wonder if you guys would be saying this if it was your sister, daughter etc.

of course I wouldn't be OK with it, but I wouldn't expect a $55m payday either. I feel extremely bad for saying this but it's not like she was raped. She didn't do anything wrong, her privacy was violated, and I'm certainly not condoning what happened but I'm dumbfounded on how that case was ever accepted let alone ruled in her favor. Edited by Shorttynaz
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Uggh, you guys want to argue about whether this was too much money :crazy:

 

I wonder if you guys would be saying this if it was your sister, daughter etc.

I would yes. Absolutely.

 

The brown and goldman families won a combined 20 million less in the OJ case than this woman won and I would say they suffered a tad more.

 

175 million was split amongst 200 people injured or deceased in the nightclub fire in RI during the great white concert.

 

Frenzal Rhomb $4.23 in the red bull settlement.

 

I think she got way overpaid

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Milking the cash cow is the American way. Find an oil chute or gold vein and exploit it till it's gone.

 

I mean these young pretty hosts have a short career life span so I can't blame her anymore for taking the case for all it's worth and cashing in now any more than I can blame a player for trying to milk their team for a mega contract.

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Milking the cash cow is the American way. Find an oil chute or gold vein and exploit it till it's gone.

 

I mean these young pretty hosts have a short career life span so I can't blame her anymore for taking the case for all it's worth and cashing in now any more than I can blame a player for trying to milk their team for a mega contract.

yeah - I want to be done too but I see this as a big part of the problem today. No one sees anything wrong with this behavior or sees anything wrong with the 55 million bucks. My wifes car got hit this weekend with our two year old granddaughter in it. Its a 2010 Corolla and it got whacked hard enough to cause 5000 dollars damages and certainly hard enough to cause injury to her and the child. Guess no one would think twice about us trying to rake in a little cash for the emotional damage it caused her or the baby due to the negligence of another. I'm sure at our age an mri would show some kind of spinal issue we could cash in on

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I agree the number is high, but I don't fault her for shaking the tree. The responsibility of making sure punishment/compensation is fair is on the justice system.

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I would yes. Absolutely.

 

The brown and goldman families won a combined 20 million less in the OJ case than this woman won and I would say they suffered a tad more.

 

175 million was split amongst 200 people injured or deceased in the nightclub fire in RI during the great white concert.

 

Frenzal Rhomb $4.23 in the red bull settlement.

 

I think she got way overpaid

 

:rolleyes: so much dumb in this post i don't even know where to begin...

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It may be excessive, but I don't really care. Hilton employees made a huge mistake, one I cannot even fathom considering the responses I've got when asking to locate my own friend or family in various hotel.

 

This isn't like some kid drowning in a pool and the inevitable headline we expect of them suing somebody for it. This is somebody whose privacy was breached by the hotel staff (placing the guy in the room next to her) and by the slimeball taking the nudy films and posting online.

 

If anybody has an issue with the settlement make sure you direct your outrage at the proper people who made the decision (judge and jury) and not on the VICTIM (Erin) who was awarded that amount.

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:rolleyes: so much dumb in this post i don't even know where to begin...

I wouldn't say it's dumb at all. The only reason she got that amount was because of the high profile nature of the case. There are tons of judgments out there that deserve way more than Andrews was given. True, the amount was basically meant to be a wake-up call to perverts seeking celebrity nudes as well as the hotel industry for making her so easily accessed, but it is excessive in the sense that she's getting way more (at least on paper) than what others who have had to endure much worse have gotten. So I can see why the judgment here, the system that allows it and specifically not Andrews herself, can be criticized. Andrews herself deserves whatever is awarded ultimately. She deserves justice as do all that are put in this situation &at least she will get it thankfully.

 

What I think would be a great gesture by her is to make a charitable donation of some sort of a large portion of the award. I think that would go a long way towards making it clear that she was not doing this for the financial gain.

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:rolleyes: so much dumb in this post i don't even know where to begin...

As rajn states - its not dumb at all. Its contrasting the settlements of two people butchered to death is a horrible manner with a near decapitation and a killer who got away with murder so there was never any justice in case one. In case 2, nearly 200 people were killed or maimed, trampled, died of burns, smoke inhalation, crushing injuries and suffocation. Each victim awarded less than 1 million dollars (this settlement was in 2008 - I don't think inflation has brought the settlement od each victim up to 55 million when factored into 2016 dollars). I was lied to about the caffeine in red bull and only received 4 dollars for all those years of being misled by a trusted product. She had a couple seconds of blurry video taken of her (again which I have never seen and cannot find) on line to this date and she got 55 million. I will take her fate over any one of the OJ victims or the people who burned up in that fire any day. I'd love to read your explanation of how this is dumb to assert her settlement is way out of line for the "suffering" she endured.

 

The person who victimized her was arrested and sent to jail - she got her justice. 55 million is way over the top and you will see it dramatically reduced

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As rajn states - its not dumb at all. Its contrasting the settlements of two people butchered to death is a horrible manner with a near decapitation and a killer who got away with murder so there was never any justice in case one. In case 2, nearly 200 people were killed or maimed, trampled, died of burns, smoke inhalation, crushing injuries and suffocation. Each victim awarded less than 1 million dollars (this settlement was in 2008 - I don't think inflation has brought the settlement od each victim up to 55 million when factored into 2016 dollars). I was lied to about the caffeine in red bull and only received 4 dollars for all those years of being misled by a trusted product. She had a couple seconds of blurry video taken of her (again which I have never seen and cannot find) on line to this date and she got 55 million. I will take her fate over any one of the OJ victims or the people who burned up in that fire any day. I'd love to read your explanation of how this is dumb to assert her settlement is way out of line for the "suffering" she endured.

 

The person who victimized her was arrested and sent to jail - she got her justice. 55 million is way over the top and you will see it dramatically reduced

 

Not sure what OJ SImpson and your overuse of Red Bull have to do with anything. Yet another dumb post.

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