Lawyer: Erin Andrews Profited From Nudie Scandal!

The lawyer for the hotel where sportscaster Erin Andrews was secretly taped nude through a peephole by a deranged stalker suggested in court today that the humiliating experience of being naked on the Internet has helped her career and boosted her income!

Erin is suing the stalker and the owner and manager of the Nashville Marriott for $75 million in connection with the 2008 incident, in which Michael Barrett asked for and was given a room adjacent to hers, altered her door’s peephole and secretly shot naked video of her. She maintains that the hotel failed to provide adequate security.

Under cross examination during the trial in Nashville today, Erin’s successful career following the incident was questioned by Marc Dedman, a lawyer for the hotel. “With respect to your career…when you found out about this in July 2009, you were working for ESPN, right?” Dedman asked. “Yes,” Erin replied. “You got a second contract with ESPN, right? And it was a better contract than you had the first time, right?” Dedman said.

“After that you got a contract with Fox Sports right? And that was a better contract than you had with your second contract with ESPN, right?” Then he listed Erin’s endorsement deals that she signed after the July 2009 incident, including TruBiotics, Reebok and Diet Mountain Dew. “Your income has gone up substantially since this occurred,” Dedman charged.

The Fox Sports reporter testified that she was traumatized, and now compulsively checks her hotel rooms and booby-traps the door. “I put a piece of paper down by the door so when I leave, if someone comes into the room I can tell,” she testified Tuesday. She said she always covers the peephole, checks for small cameras in places like the air conditioner and makes sure the room isn’t adjoining another. “If I see a room is adjoining, I ask to be taken out,” she said.