NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A jury awarded Erin Andrews $55 million on Monday in her lawsuit against a stalker who bought a hotel room next to her and secretly recorded a nude video, finding that the hotel companies and the stalker shared in the blame.
After a full day of deliberations, the panel said the stalker was responsible for 51 percent of the verdict and the two hotel companies should share the rest, which is nearly $27 million.
Andrews, a Fox Sports reporter and co-host of the TV show “Dancing with the Stars,” wept as jurors announced the verdict. She hugged her attorneys, family and several jurors after the verdict was read. She appeared to sign an autograph for at least one juror.
The jury heard directly from Andrews, who testified that she was humiliated, shamed and suffers from depression as a result of the video, which has been viewed by millions of people online. She had asked for $75 million.
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An FBI investigation would later reveal that Michael David Barrett shot videos in hotels in Nashville and Columbus, Ohio, and posted them online. The trial focused on the video shot in 2008 at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt.
Soccer
King wants more women in top FIFA positions
ZURICH — Tennis great Billie Jean King served new FIFA president Gianni Infantino with a challenge on Monday: Hire more women for top jobs.
After years of corruption scandals, the male-dominated soccer world body has a chance to transform itself, King said in a keynote speech at FIFA headquarters.
Infantino took over a FIFA with no women in top management having responsibility for soccer, commercial, legal or financial issues after more than 17 years under former president Sepp Blatter.
King, a pioneer for women’s tennis who won 39 Grand Slam titles, suggested “three concrete steps” for FIFA to take: one-third of management hires should be women; appoint a CEO-like secretary general with “a proven track record of supporting gender equality”; appoint staff to create a commercial strategy for women’s soccer.
Miscellaneous
Flyers snap Lightning’s nine-game win streak
- In the NHL,
- Shayne Gostisbehere
- scored twice, leading the host Philadelphia Flyers past Tampa Bay 4-2 on Monday night to snap the Lightning’s franchise-best nine-game winning streak.
- Eva-Maria Brem
- took another step toward her first crystal globe by winning the next-to-last giant slalom of the women’s World Cup season, and Swiss skier
- Lara Gut
- finished fourth to go to the top of the overall standings.
- In cycling, French rider
- Arnaud Demare
- produced a late sprint to clinch the first stage of the Paris-Nice race on Monday and claim his biggest victory since winning the national championships two years ago.
- Former European ice dancing champion
- Ekaterina Bobrova
- told Russian media on Monday she failed a doping test, ruling her and her partner
- Dmitry Soloviev
- out of the world championships in Boston this month.
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