Jordon Hudson sues two Airbnb hosts in Massachusetts over Ring video of Bill Belichick
Jordon Hudson filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts on Friday accusing two Airbnb hosts of leaking a summer 2023 Ring doorbell video showing a shirtless Bill Belichick that she says led to public disclosure of their private romance. Hudson says the clip invaded her privacy and prompted intense public scrutiny despite her not appearing in the footage.
Hudson’s complaint says she and Belichick were keeping their relationship private when they stayed at a Boston-area rental in the summer of 2023 and that the doorbell video, which showed a shirtless Belichick stepping out of the home, surfaced that fall and circulated in the media. Although Hudson was not in the recording, she was later identified as Belichick’s partner; the suit notes the age gap between them, describing Belichick as almost 50 years her senior. The former New England Patriots head coach has been a visible figure alongside Hudson since the clip’s release, the lawsuit asserts.
The lawsuit names the Airbnb hosts, Elise McDevitt and Craig Nolan, and accuses them of leaking the footage and personal information about Hudson. “These egregious violations of Ms Hudson’s privacy have, among other things, resulted in significant unwanted publicity and scrutiny of Ms Hudson and her relationship with Mr Belichick” and subjected her to ridicule, attorney Howard Cooper and colleagues wrote in a complaint filed on Friday in Massachusetts.
McDevitt, Nolan and Belichick have yet to respond publicly to the lawsuit, and Belichick is not a defendant in the case. At a recent news conference the 74-year-old would not answer a question about whether he is still in a relationship with Hudson, 25, according to the complaint.
Hudson’s filing says Belichick was nearing the end of his 24-year tenure as the Patriots’ head coach when the pair spent time at the Airbnb. The complaint alleges Hudson learned of the recording when McDevitt texted it to her along with an instruction not to park in front of a neighbor’s house and that McDevitt later joked about football and said it was “clear who is on the video.”
According to the suit, Hudson repeatedly pressed McDevitt to delete the clip; McDevitt said she would remove it but cautioned that “videos are never totally deleted,” and added she was “not distributing the video.” After the footage appeared on social media in November 2023, McDevitt initially denied posting or leaking it but later texted that she “had sent it to a few people” and did not expect it to become public, the complaint states.
The lawsuit says Hudson reported the incident to Airbnb, which subsequently removed McDevitt and Nolan from the platform; messages were left on Monday for Airbnb, which is not named in the legal filing. The complaint was filed on Friday in Massachusetts and initiated the civil action against McDevitt and Nolan.