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July
17 th
Earlier today during last call I implied that there was something brewing in Bristol. I thought this whole ordeal would blow over until at least Monday. Clearly that’s not the case as I’ve never been compelled to write a post on a Friday night at 11:30.
While to most of the world, these Erin Andrews videos are “new”. That’s not the case whatsoever. These videos have been sitting on Dailymotion.com for over 4 months. So for anyone claiming that these videos were “leaked” in coincidence with the now famous ESPY dress, you’re just plain wrong.
These videos have been sitting on the Internet, widely available to anyone willing to click on the video tab in Google after searching “Erin Andrews” with safe search turned off.
How these videos flew under the radar for so long is beyond me, beyond the fact that nobody had a concrete source for the videos or could verify that the videos were indeed of Erin Andrews.
That all changed today when ESPN’s general counsel sent and email to NSFWPOA.com requesting to take the videos down. Jaws dropped as this was basically an acknowledgment that the videos were of Erin Andrews.
In the late afternoon Deadspin ran a piece on the videos and the email from ESPN, and then something peculiar happened. Erin Andrews released a statement via her lawyers, that she was indeed in the videos and going to rain Hell on the source.
So now we’re left with questions, and lots of them. If you’ve seen the videos or screen caps, you’ll realize that yes it resembles her but the quality is so poor that if they were not acknowledged it would have been passed off as a sophomoric Internet prank.
So now in the spirit of getting right to the point and saving everyone time and money, I’ll tell you what I have found – and what nobody else is reporting yet.
It appears that the videos were posted on Dailymotion.com by username “Goblazers1″ as early as February 17, 2009. I’ve tried to get a response from this user and they haven’t responded, and given the current threat of legal issues coming their way I doubt anyone will ever hear from this person.
So my gut instinct based on the username is that this person is a Portland Trailblazers fan. So the next question is has Erin ever been in the Portland, Oregon area? Yes. She was there in 2008 for the USC-Oregon State football game on September 25, 2008.
However, that is a pretty generic username. Could there be another place where someone would root for a Blazer? Try the University of Alabama-Birmingham Blazers. While Andrews probably didn’t cover a Blazers game, the ESPN College Gameday crew was in Alabama for the week 5 Tennessee-Auburn tilt and the week 14 Auburn-Alabama game. Both of these games, and their surrounding hotels, are in Blazer Country.
Sure you might think I’m going on all assumptions here, but some of the videos on Daily Motion are geotagged. Some are tagged with Atlanta, some are tagged with an obscure college outside Waco, Texas and others are geotagged, ahem, right outside of Montgomery, Alabama. [see screen shots below]
So if the Erin Andrews wrecking crew is looking for a place to start, I recommend checking the hotel records for her recent stays in the Montgomery area. Get the room number, the employee records, and so on. This case should be closed by next week.
Update: In some of the videos the source code has “Erin Andrews” in it, implying that the original files were named something along the lines of erin-andrews-view-in-original-forma_sexy.wmv. This is what was picked up by Google and one of the reasons why this video the video shows up in the Google Video search tab.
You should fight crime.
This is excellent work.
Impressive work for a Mexican.
Impressive work indeed.
Wow this is some damn good investigative work. Sure you aren’t a PI by day, blogger by night?
[...] Our friends over at Don Chavez are filling in more of the details that I eluded to above, and have also done some impressive amateur detective work: What You Don’t Know Yet About The Naked Erin Andrews Hotel Videos [...]
Impressive work..you would think the high priced lawyers and IT people at ESPN could have quietly gone about finding the video source, contacting Daily Motion directly and having the videos dropped. Or they could have ignored it completely and no one would care.
Good job ESPN.
[...] UPDATE: Don Chavez points out that the videos may have originated from someone in or near Montgomery, Alabama. Mike [...]
Good legwork, but some left-out details:
1. He’s a 49 year old male, says so on his profile.
2. He may have gotten on Dailymotion specifically to post those videos. He joined Feb 15: by Feb 17 he posted them.
3. However, pretty sure he’s not original source; his interest is more in voyeurism than EA. I’m not even sure he knew who she was when he snagged the vids. Unfortunately, seems original poster did.
4. 4chan poster, for what it’s worth, claims videos as “The original format is 3gp (they were recorded on a cell phone)”
Now THAT is investigative journalism at it’s finest. Oh, and here’s the comment we all knew was coming: Hehe, boobs.
Now if you can use that investigative reporting to find a higher quality .WMV format to the video, you would be a legend! It’s pretty obvious the quality is bad because it was converted into the low quality .flv format.
It’s pretty obvious that the videos were taken through a hotel room door peephole from the external hallway. You can tell by the way the video fisheyes as they track her moving around.
So in other words, it really could have been absolutely anyone who saw a woman was staying in that room, and perhaps (or not) recognized who it was and simply stood outside the door at a predictable morning hour and shot through the peephole.
Good luck with tracking them down! They could just as easily been a visitor, hotel employee or guest (registered or not).
It was ultimately stupid for ESPN to make a scene at all. The video probably would have faded into obscurity without their blunder. I’d be suing them for damages for incompetent damage control if I were her.
But the bottom line really is this: who cares anyway? Only sniveling prudes who as chronological adults still haven’t wrapped their heads around the idea that people sometimes are naked and even worse have sex – which isn’t even the case with this video. My take-home is that she’s beautiful woman with or without her clothes on and that’s not exactly surprising.
Looks like all that guys vids are the same room/room types, so whoever it is (looking to be an employee most likely) got quite a bit of footage there. I’m thinking this will get solved pretty quick as well.
You’d think if you were going to the trouble of secretly filming a naked celebrity, that when you uploaded it to the internet you *wouldn’t* geotag it and pinpoint the location in which it was made!
If there is a reward out there, I vote that Don gets a share of it…well done sir
Great work, Don.
Most people obviously assumed the poster was in Oregon. I’m not a PI like yourself but it seems Daily Motion could track his IP address pretty easily, no?
This guy will be caught pretty quickly.
[...] Don Chavez has put together a piece examining the origins of the videos and the details of his findings are pretty amazing. [...]
Obviously the man in me wanted to see the video right off the bat, but after watching it and realizing it was completely non-consensual, it was kind of disgusting. After reading this article though it makes me wonder if it wasn’t some kind of publicity stunt (if the article is true, anyway). Regardless, Erin Andrews has nothing to be ashamed of. She is entitled to her privacy though, and the video(s) clearly violated just that.
I don’t think that College Gameday schedule is accurate. They werent there for the UT game. They were there for LSU/Auburn on Sept. 23, 2008. Our crew was there, Erin Andrews wasn’t working that game.
@bustedcoverage I’m sure Daily Motion has the IP address as that person had logged into their account earlier this week.
@thefamilyman This whole situation sucks multiple fronts. For EA it’s clearly an invasion of her privacy and whoever did these needs to be brought to task.
ESPN’s legal department mishandled this situation – it was a non-story that nobody would touch with a ten foot pole until they got involved. As I mentioned in my post, these videos were extremely easy to find with a Google Video search. If they had done that, they could have gone directly to Daily Motion and handled this more discreetly.
Also the mainstream media is going to (undeservedly) shit all over the blogging community for this.
it’s true Don Chavez is a Tijuana PI
[...] Blogger Don Chavez did a little investigation and he found out that the tapes were tagged as being in Montgomery, Alabama. Turns out some creepy dude made a peephole and videotaped the busty reporter in her hotel room without her consent. [...]
Looks like they laid the kaibosh down on that username:
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His page isn’t up anymore, lol.
[...] [...]
Yeah, Gameday wasn’t at Auburn for Week 5. Gameday was at Auburn Week 4 for LSU/Auburn. Week 5 Gameday was in Georgia. Week 14 was OKie St. But EA doesn’t travel with the Gameday crew everyweek.
It’s obvious the person who shot these videos is/was a hotel employee who had access to the guest menu and could determine which room to place the guests.
I guess that’s why most celebrities check in under fictious names.
Thank you Detective. Now why don’t you go fuck yourself.
[...] What You Don’t Know Yet About The Erin Andrews Hotel Videos [...]
[...] Friday however, the blog owner of Don Chavez has done some good investigation on the subject and found that these videos have been sitting on [...]
[...] Andrews can be seen curling her hair while being awesomely naked. The grainy video had apparently been around for 4 months, but no one really linked it to Erin or knew it was her for sure. Until ESPN and her lawyers [...]
[...] be Erin Andrews. We are reporting the incident and some of the stories behind it. Here is what D0nChavez.com had to say [...]
[...] rape can be leaked on the Internet by someone who filmed it without his knowledge or consent. Here’s a good piece with a lot of research done as to who might have done [...]
[...] Don Chavez What You Don’t Know Yet About The Naked Erin Andrews Hotel Videos [...]
[...] It appears that a lot of the internet-surfing public who tuned out on Friday afternoon is just now getting acquainted with the story about Erin Andrews’ peephole video. A few idiots are even searching for Aaron Andrews. For those of you late to the party, you can find one of the most complete summaries here. [...]
Be careful with the conclusions you make re: Goblazers1- he’s a link in a chain of events that may include others. Either way, you want to be as accurate as possible in your articles, it’s fairly obvious you know what you’re doing. Good job.
This may come as a shock, but you can be a fan of a team and not live in their city. It’s crazy, I know.
Goblazers1 could very well be just a collector of these types of videos, and like you said he’s a link in a chain of events that may include others.
Just doing a Google search of some of the people (and looking at their Daily Motion playlists) revealed some creepy stuff. There are forums out there (I don’t recommend visiting them) dedicated to this sort of stuff. I’m not talking about stuff that’s being shot to look like it’s from a peeping tom, I’m talking about people carefully planning ways to spy on someone they know will be a house guest or even a roommate.
As of right now the trail stops with Goblazers1 unless someone can find the video posted somewhere prior to February.
[...] What You Don’t Know Yet About The Naked Erin Andrews Hotel Videos [...]
That doesn’t mean the it wasn’t downloaded then re-uploaded then geo-tagged again. If the video was taken in 2008 I’d get a record of all the hotels she stayed in 08 and goto each room and use a similar recording device and then analyze those to the original (for object placement). Sure that would take some leg work but you’d at least get a 99.9% chance where these videos were taken.
What if it was a friend of Erin that took the video (without her knowledge), then tracking the IP of the original poster would be null. Either way, they are wasting to much time on this, there are better things to spend money on then some hot sports reporter video. And heck for all we know those videos could have been staged (look-a-like) and Erin is using this as a popularity booster.
[...] with some real dirtbags across the board. All of this sent Donny Chavez, crimefighter in training, looking for the perps. It appears that the videos were posted on Dailymotion.com by username “Goblazers1? as early as [...]
Valdosta State Blazers were part of the ESPN “TitleTown” promo in 2008 and won.
so probably not portland
Doesnt anyone else smell something fishy here? Watch the video, you cannot really tell it’s her. There is no confirming through the video it is actually her. So Why does she actually come out with a confirmation?
Things to note, the peep hole actually moves with the camera, not just the camera moving. At one point she appears to look directly at the camera and finally notice she is sucking in her gut when bent over. Old Hollywood used to post “candid” movies where you could see the actors in makeup. Also watch her actions, they are too random, IMHO.
These are observations, I leave you to draw your own conclusions…..
IO
[...] Chavez combined some digging, direct messaging, and dart throwing to narrow the culprits down to someone who lives within driving distance of an SEC football stadium. That should help the [...]
I thought the same thing when I saw the clip ( lets see the lawyers close down all bittorrents, DC++ hubs, etc): it was such a bad quality that all you could tell was that she was a blonde.
It could have been anyone.
And if they had denied it was her, this would have just been another hoax and people would have forgotten about it.
And I have to agree with the 4chan guy, this is NOT a spycam quality video and much closer to cellphone with crappy video.
Which means you should investigate all Iphone owners.
Or Chris Berman.
And bravo to the geniuses at ESPN who could have hushedhushed it (like they neveeeeeeer did that before!) and let it fade away. (btw, this isnt huge news except at Deadspin.)
Now please go on to some more important work, never have I been so bored by a sorta maybe naked woman before.
[...] [...]
[...] About the Erin Andrews naked hotel videos – [Don Chavez] [...]
Neither Tuscaloosa (home of the University of Alabama) nor Auburn (home of Auburn University) is “Blazer Country.” In fact, even Birmingham (home of the UAB Blazers) isn’t “Blazer Country,” especially when it comes to football.
As a resident of Portland, OR it should be noted that the USC/Oregon State game was played in the Beavers home stadium in Corvallis, not in Portland. She may have stayed in Portland, or flown into Portland of course. And someone in Corvallis might be a Blazers fan of course. Corvallis is a couple hours south of Rip City so my guess is that she would have stayed in a Motel 6 behind a truckstop off the freeway down there.
[...] Erin Andrews Andrew’s Statement Sexiest Sportscaster [...]
WAKE UP!!! This dumb broad did it herself…and is trying to break into Reality TV, and Movies. As for her Lawyer…Any one with PrePaid Legal…Can have the same thing done in 5 mins with a crying phone call to there 1800 number. Its a Stunt… For Attention and $$$$$$$ MONEY!
lol..
you all make me laugh!
But I must say I did drop the boys off at the pool, one the clip ended.
hehe
Is it just me or am is it not true that this whole story breaks a couple of days before ESPN airs its ESPY awards in prime time tv? Maybe the video was up for an award!!
Heart of Dixie, shut up. UAB has more employees in the state of Alabama than any other business, school, or other employer. The whole state is Blazer Country.
One fact that I know is that she was not the only woman who was taped at this location. It seems our peeper shot several women in this and another room(s) at the hotel, but she was his big catch. He didn’t mention her being famous though. Makes it almost a certainty that it was an employee. I wonder if he even knew who he was shooting. Maybe he did and traded it privately with another person into this fetish and he posted them after changing the source name.
Of course once they find the hotel, then every woman who has stayed there since it opened will be suing.
So for all the people claiming publicity stunt, not true.
My friend is a big Erin fan and is into these kind of vids. He emailed me and was very excited because he had downloaded this video a while back, and HE never figured out it was her. He is smitten with ESPN now.
Do a search at Google Images and watch what turns up.
Search “goblazers1″ in google images. The UAB Blazers logo will be one of the first team logos you see in the google results.
Follow that UAB Blazers Logo to the web blog where it is located. (you can right click the .jpg of the UAB Logo and see that it is indeed called “goblazers1.jpg”
But here’s the interesting part. At the blog where the photo exist, about 2 inches above the photo is a Screen Capture shot of none other than a photo of an ESPN event taking from some sort of electronic medium.
Statistically speaking what are the chances – right?
now throw in Montgomery Al is connected to the overall story.
Then in the same Blog, you see more photo with individuals wearing the AU logo indicating Auburn University sports fans. No proof of coarse any connection – BUT.
What are the chances when added up that…..
1) one of the nude photos was taken in Montgomery Al
(long known for being a big time home of Auburn Sports
supporters)
2) A blog with a photo called “goblazers1″
3) 2″ away from that photo is an ESPN screen shot of an
ESPN event.
So Investigate this from a certain angle. Does an Auburn Univeristy supporter, student of graduate work for ESPN in some sort of capacity.
dccrawford,
There were several different women taped, wouldn’t that take us away from the ESPN theory or the publicity ruse story.
Now maybe it’s just me, but wouldn’t she know where this was taken? The posing and primping seem very unique. Or are these actions her common hotel room antics?
how incompetent, really, is ESPN; I mean, this idiot was stupid enough to post this garbage online. If he had any brains at all, he would have snapped the video, rejoiced at his luck, and never shown anyone anything. If they can’t find somebody this dumb within 24 hours, then ESPN’s “legal team” is as useless as tits on a boar.
Wow…. just wow.
Great content! Keep it going