The widow of a Colorado man who died of a drug overdose after spending time with a Las Vegas prostitute is blaming the resort her husband was staying in for his sudden 2023 dying, in response to a brand new lawsuit.
Jennifer Jacoby lodged the wrongful dying go well with 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 dwelling.
Throughout his keep, Jacoby met Cheylee Kessee, a girl prosecutors referred to as a intercourse employee, at a resort bar early within the morning on March 1, in response to the lawsuit reported on by the Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal.
The hooker and husband walked across the resort 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 resort room, however left about eight minutes later.
Throughout the interplay with Jacoby, Kessee was texting Kashon Glass, who was appearing as her “pimp,” the lawsuit alleges.
After Jennifer Jacoby referred to as the resort to see if employees might verify on her husband who hadn’t been in contact for hours, a employee discovered him “unresponsive, slumped on the lavatory floor,” the lawsuit states.
Glass, 38, and Kessee, 24, pleaded responsible to voluntary manslaughter and theft counts final 12 months with Glass hit with no less than 20 years behind bars and Kessee going through no less than eight years within the clink, KLAS reported.
They have been accused of giving Jacoby a lethal dose of fentanyl.
Kessee reportedly advised police she and Jacoby smoked fentanyl collectively main as much as his dying. When he was discovered, his mobile phone and pockets have been gone.
However Jacoby’s grieving spouse argues in her lawsuit the resort ought to’ve recognized about “Kessee and Glass’ historical past of focusing on resort company to rob and victimize them” and each ought to’ve been booted from the property, the authorized docs state in response to KLAS.
Jacoby ought to’ve been alerted by Palazzo safety guards he was being adopted by Glass, the lawsuit additionally claims, in response to the Evaluation-Journal.
An e-mail to the Venetian On line casino Resort, which owns the Palazzo, searching for remark was not instantly returned Monday evening.
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