Michael David Barrett was Arrested for Made in Erin Andrews Peeping Tom Case
The FBI said, a Chicago-area man accused of making secret taping surreptitious nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews in a hotel room was arrested at Chicago’s O’Hare airport Friday night.
48-year-old Michael David Barrett was arrested overnight on charges of interstate stalking.
Barrett allegedly stalked Erin Andrews “with the intent to harass, to place under surveillance with intent to harass and intimidate, and to cause substantial emotional distress to a person in another state,” according to the FBI.
According to NY Post, the suspect, who also goes by the name Mark Ben nett, allegedly tried to sell the videos to a celebrity Web site. ESPN beauty Erin Andrews told the FBI being a voyeur victim and being ex posed on the Internet was a horrific experience.
“As a result of the incident, [Andrews] did not sleep well and had constant anxiety,” she said, according to the criminal complaint.
“In addition, [Andrews] was having trouble breathing and felt sick all of the time. She was concerned there might be more video and wanted to vomit just thinking about it.”
FBI agents said seven of the eight videos posted online were taken through a modified door peephole while the 31-year-old Andrews was alone and undressed in hotel rooms in Nashville, Tenn., in September 2008.
According to TMZ, The videotapes surfaced in July. At least six clips showed Erin walking around two different hotel rooms in the nude and were shot with a peephole camera. It was virtually impossible to tell when or where the videos were shot.
Erin Andrews’ lawyer, Marshall Grossman from the law firm Bingham & McCutchen, tells TMZ Barrett allegedly contacted hotels in the various venues “where Andrews was working in order to locate her and her room number and some of the hotels revealed that information, permitting him to target her.” Grossman says Barrett would remove the peepholes from the doors or as the complaint states, “hacked off” and inserted tiny camera devices to secretly film her.
Someone tried to sell the clips to TMZ, but we refused to buy or air them because they were an obvious invasion of Erin’s privacy. The federal complaint notes that the videos were offered for sale to TMZ.com through his email account.
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