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Erin Andrews was filmed naked through the peephole of her hotel room by a stalker. The hotel had given him the room next door. Then he put the video online and nearly 17 million people watched it. Then people said she staged it. Then a jury put a price on it: $55 million. It was 2008. She was 30 and one of the best known faces at ESPN, working the sidelines of college football. Michael David Barrett, a man she had never met, followed her to 3 cities. In Nashville he called the Marriott at Vanderbilt University, confirmed she was staying there and asked for the room next to hers. He got it. Nobody called her to ask. He tampered with the peephole on her door, waited until the shower was turned off and filmed her for about 4 and a half minutes. He filmed her through a peephole in Columbus, Ohio too. In 2009 the video hit the internet. Before anyone knew who shot it, people online said she had set it up herself for attention. Barrett was caught, pleaded guilty and got 30 months in prison. In 2016 she sued him and the hotel's owner and operator for $75 million. She took the stand and broke down in front of the jury. The hotel's lawyers argued that her career had taken off since the video, and went through her endorsements one by one, Diet Mountain Dew included. That same week, comments on her Instagram still said she staged it. On March 7, 2016 the jury gave her $55 million. Barrett was found 51% at fault. The hotel side was found 49% at fault. She says copies of the video are still being posted. A stranger asked for the room next to a famous woman and the hotel handed it over. She says 1 phone call to her would have stopped all of it. Was the hotel guilty for handing a stalker the room next door, or should 1 man have paid for all of it?