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Could What Happened to Erin Andrews Happen Again? INSIDE EDITION Investigates

Airdate: 10/12/2009
After authorities say a stalker was able to easily book a hotel room right next door to ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews and secretly videotape her naked, you would think security at hotels would now be tighter.

INSIDE EDITION wanted to see if it could happen again.  So Correspondent Jim Moret tried to book a room next door to a well-known TV personality and sports broadcaster, INSIDE EDITION special correspondent Lisa Guerrero.

Jim Moret called and asked for a room next to Lisa Guerrero's at the Vanderbilt Marriott in Nashville, and if the name sounds familiar, it should...it's the same hotel Erin Andrews was staying in when she was secretly videotaped through a peephole.

When Lisa Guerrero checked in two days later, she was not informed that someone had requested a room near her.

And when Moret checked in 20 minutes later and reminded the desk clerk of his request, the hotel confirmed that Lisa Guerrero was a guest and that she had already checked in.  They did not give Moret a room next to her, but they did tell him Guerrero was staying just one floor below.

"Unfortunately, I don't have anything close, but you are a floor above her," the desk clerk told him.

The hotel manager didn't want to talk to INSIDE EDITION on camera.  In a statement the company told INSIDE EDITION, "Marriott takes guest security and privacy very seriously."

Then INSIDE EDITION went down the road to the Sheraton Music City, also in Nashville.  Once again, Guerrero checked in first, and the hotel did not inform her that another guest has made a request for a room next to hers.

But when Jim Moret checked in and tried to confirm that the room he had requested was next door to Guerrero's, the clerk asked, "Does she know you?"

"Does she know me?  Yeah," said Moret.

"Because, you know, after everything that went on," said the clerk, apparently referring to what happened to Erin Andrews.

She examines his identification, and without any further questions he was allowed to check into a room just two doors down from Guerrero.

"Were you surprised when I knocked on your door and you realized how close they put me?" Moret asks Guerrero.

"Jim, it was surprising but also disturbing to think that somebody could walk into a hotel, get a key -- not only on my floor, but virtually 20 feet away from my front door."

We asked the manager at the Sheraton Music City how this could happen.

"It's just one of those things where you have to feel out the situation.  So, if I were that person...I would have called," the manager told INSIDE EDITION

"Do you feel violated in some way?" Moret asks Lisa Guerrero.

"Not only do I feel like my privacy has been violated, but I feel like my safety has been threatened."

Marriott says it has been assisting authorities during their investigation into the Erin Andrews case.

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