Holly Madison Secretly Filmed: Hugh Hefner’s Ex Claims She And Other Showgirls Were Recorded Changing


Holly Madison claims that she and other burlesque performers were secretly filmed by managers at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, and she’s suing “multiple people” over this invasion of privacy.

According to E! News, Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriend has alleged that she and her fellow showgirls suffered a major violation of privacy in the dressing room for her Vegas show, 1923 Bourbon and Burlesque by Holly Madison. The former Girls Next Door star has claimed that managers at the Mandalay Bay venue secretly filmed performers while they were changing costumes. Madison alleges that these recordings went on for five months before she became aware of them.

Holly was made aware that the managers were recording the burlesque performers in the nude when two girls noticed the camera feed. When one of the managers was confronted about the secret recordings, he claimed that they were “not a big deal.” However, Holly Madison disagrees with this assertion.

“It’s a crime,” Madison’s attorney, Eva Garcia-Mendoza, told E! News. “Not only Holly has been damaged—but four of the dancers that I field a suit for separately. They are going through some serious emotional distress right now.”

Mendoza points out that Holly and the girls weren’t just changing clothes — they were standing around naked and wiping down their bodies, among other things. The girls are mortified thinking about what the managers may have seen.

However, a lawyer for Mandalay Bay claims that Holly Madison and the others were never secretly filmed — they simply chose to change in a public area that was monitored by a surveillance camera.

“Once management learned of the camera it was re-positioned to monitor a smaller area,” attorney Jared Kahn told Fox411. Kahn also claimed that the management never viewed any of the tapes that showed the girls changing, and he believes that Holly Madison’s claim about the cameras is just a publicity stunt.

If Kahn is telling the truth, perhaps Holly and the rest of the girls simply weren’t aware of the camera. If this is the case, maybe someone should have told them about it instead of letting them change in front of it for months.

Holly Madison’s gig at 1923 Bourbon and Burlesque didn’t last very long — she started performing there last April, but she was gone by last summer. The club allegedly wasn’t a fan of her performance, and she wasn’t a fan of being criticized.

Unfortunately, Holly’s lawsuit against the club isn’t her family’s only legal issue. As the Inquisitr previously reported, Madison’s husband, Electric Daisy Carnival creator Pasquale Rotella, was accused of bribing Los Angeles city officials in 2011. A civil case against the rave concert promoter was initially dropped, but Pasquale isn’t in the clear yet.

In January, the LA Times reported that a California appellate court decided to reinstate key parts of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum’s civil suit against Rotella, another concert promoter, and their companies. A criminal case against Pasquale and the others is still pending.

Holly Madison and Pasquale Rotella welcomed a daughter named Rainbow Aurora Rotella on March 5, 2013, and the couple was married at Disneyland on September 10, 2013. Unfortunately, all these legal issues are making it difficult for Holly to get her Disney princess-style happily ever after.

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