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Erin Andrews, the Espn newsperson and Dancing With The Stars finalist, is attempting to get $10 million in damages over a 2008 incident when a man taped her in the unclothed through a peephole in his Nashville hotel room.

Andrews has lodged a lawsuit against several parties involved in the 2008 incident, according to the Hollywood Reporter. She’s looking for a total of $10 million for invasion of privacy – $6 million from the West End Marriott where the incident took place, and $4 million from the man who videotaped her. That man, Michael Barrett, was sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison in 2010 after pleading guilty to following Andrews and admitting to stalking her to three cities.

One of his videos was published online and later went viral. Erin is seeking the majority of damages from the hotel, claiming they allowed Barrett to know that she was staying at the Marriott while also giving him a room directly next to hers.

Ultimately, Erin claims the ensuing leak of the footage caused her, “great emotional distress and embarrassment”.

Harry Morgan (April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) a prolific character actor who is best known for his roles in “M*A*S*H” and “Dragnet,” died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 96.

He starred as Pete Porter, in the situation comedy “Pete and Gladys” (1960-62), he played Officer Bill Gannon opposite to Jack Webb’s Sgt. Joe Friday in “Dragnet,” from 1967 to 1970. To millions of fans he was Col. Sherman T. Potter, commander of the 4077th M*A*S*H in Korea (1978-83).

In 1980 his received av Emmy Award as best supporting actor in a comedy series for “M*A*S*H”.

Mr Morgan played in more then 100 movies as sheriffs, loyal sidekicks, soldiers, thugs, police chiefs and judges. One of my favorites court room dramas he was Judge Mel Coffey in “Inherit The Wind,” the judge who presided over the fictionalized account of the 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a young teacher was convicted of the crime of teaching the theory of evolution. What a role.

He was born Harry Bratsburg, in Detroit and grew up in Muskegon, Michigan. He made his professional acting debut in a production of “At Mrs. Beam’s” in Mount Kisco, N.Y., Morgan made his way to Hollywood in 1942.

It was once estimated that in one show or another, he was seen in prime time for 35 straight years.

Morgan is survived by his second wife, Barbara, whom he married in 1986, and three sons, Christopher, Charles and Paul, from his first marriage, to Eileen, who died in 1985; eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. His son Daniel predeceased him.

R.I.P.