The widow of a Colorado man who died of a drug overdose after spending time with a Las Vegas prostitute is blaming the lodge her husband was staying in for his sudden 2023 demise, based on a brand new lawsuit.
Jennifer Jacoby lodged the wrongful demise swimsuit towards the proprietor of the Palazzo final month, about two years after her partner Jeffrey Jacoby took a enterprise journey and by no means got here house.
Throughout his keep, Jacoby met Cheylee Kessee, a girl prosecutors referred to as a intercourse employee, at a lodge bar early within the morning on March 1, based on the lawsuit reported on by the Las Vegas Overview-Journal.
The hooker and husband walked across the lodge on line casino for about 40 minutes earlier than the pair went to a cashier’s cage space so Jacoby might withdraw $1,000, the authorized papers state.
She reportedly went with Jacoby, 55, to his lodge room, however left about eight minutes later.
In the course of the interplay with Jacoby, Kessee was texting Kashon Glass, who was performing as her “pimp,” the lawsuit alleges.
After Jennifer Jacoby referred to as the lodge to see if employees might test on her husband who hadn’t been in contact for hours, a employee discovered him “unresponsive, slumped on the bathroom ground,” the lawsuit states.
Glass, 38, and Kessee, 24, pleaded responsible to voluntary manslaughter and theft counts final yr with Glass hit with a minimum of 20 years behind bars and Kessee going through a minimum of eight years within the clink, KLAS reported.
They had been accused of giving Jacoby a lethal dose of fentanyl.
Kessee reportedly instructed police she and Jacoby smoked fentanyl collectively main as much as his demise. When he was discovered, his mobile phone and pockets had been gone.
However Jacoby’s grieving spouse argues in her lawsuit the lodge ought to’ve recognized about “Kessee and Glass’ history of targeting hotel guests to rob and victimize them” and each ought to’ve been booted from the property, the authorized docs state based on KLAS.
Jacoby ought to’ve been alerted by Palazzo safety guards he was being adopted by Glass, the lawsuit additionally claims, based on the Overview-Journal.
An electronic mail to the Venetian On line casino Resort, which owns the Palazzo, in search of remark was not instantly returned Monday evening.
