Posted on 04/03/2010 1:00:24 AM PDT by ATX 1985
(CNN) -- Erin Andrews, the ESPN reporter who was secretly videotaped nude in 2008, has been receiving death threats, her attorney told CNN on Friday. Several threatening e-mails regarding Andrews have been sent to sportscaster Dan Patrick since last September, according to Marshall B. Grossman, Andrews' attorney. "Until very recently, [the e-mails] were of a sexual nature, but then turned violent" last month, Grossman said. He said the e-mails received in March "are specific, they're violent, they identify the location and method of intended murder." Grossman said the existence of the threats were first revealed to Andrews on Thursday morning. The e-mails were provided to Andrews' representatives by DirecTV, which carries the Dan Patrick Show. Patrick was formerly at ESPN. The FBI began work on the case on Thursday and believes it has identified the individual responsible for the threatening e-mails, Grossman said. Andrews is getting round-the-clock security, Grossman said. Grossman has also requested heightened security at Los Angeles' CBS Television City, where Andrews is competing on the show, "Dancing with the Stars." In March, a federal judge sentenced an Illinois man to two and a half years in prison for taping Andrews in the nude. The taping took place through a hotel-room peephole, and the video was posted on the Internet. Michael David Barrett, 49, pleaded guilty to a federal stalking charge in December after prosecutors accused him of altering hotel peepholes so he could shoot video of Andrews while unclothed.
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This poor lady can’t catch a break. Dangerous nut cases seem to flock to her. I’ve never caught her on the air. She must really be good at passing secret signals to the deluded.
Well, she is a beautiful woman and she draws the attention of a lot of strange, meticulous men who already obsess over trivial matters in their underwear at the bottom of their mom’s basement. LOL
If true, I feel sorry for her but I’ve felt, at times, that this has all been a publicity set-up. They should have denied the peep hole video was her (it’s poor quality I am told - I won’t watch it) and then you had the 9-1-1 incident, her revealing dress at the ESPY awards, the Dancing With The Stars thing and now this. It all screams like somebody wanting attention.
She’s one of the better (and more attractive) sideline reporterettes but I do think she’s either getting terrible advice from her advisors or she has a major case of drama queen-itis to attract these sort of loons. That, or ESPN is putting her up to this in their own quest to make her into more of a celeb than she really deserves.
Look at Miami...just saying
I saw her for the first time while flipping channels and landed on Dancing w/ the Stars. She’s likable—kinda quirky and a little bit tomboy.
Sorry to hear that this is happening to her. I can’t imagine how unnerving it must be.
Duct tape?
WTH is that supposed to mean? Because she graduated from UF you think a Miami fan is doing this? That’s crazy.
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