Ritz-Carlton Guest Sues Hotel After Staffer Served Her ‘Semen-contaminated Water’: Lawsuit

[Sugar Cookie]

A woman staying at a Ritz-Carlton outside San Francisco to celebrate her birthday claims she was “sexually assaulted and exploited” after a staffer at the luxury hotel “ejaculated his semen into a Ritz-Carlton-labeled water bottle” and served it to her, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.

The married mother-of-three, identified in the court documents only as Jane Doe, booked a room at the five-star Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay with her husband in November 2022 for a “restful and indulgent” birthday weekend.

During her four-night stay, Doe ordered water to her room, and sipped from a hotel-branded water bottle in the middle of the night when she “realized that the taste and texture of the water she had ingested may have been semen,” according to the suit filed earlier this month.

“Doe was mortified, terrified, embarrassed and humiliated, but shared her suspicion with her husband,” according to the court documents, who then contacted the hotel — where rooms start at more than $800 per night — as well as the local police.

The Ritz-Carlton “sent the water bottle to a laboratory for analysis and the testing did, in fact, confirm that the water contained semen,” according to the court documents filed in federal court earlier this month.

The suit claims that Doe — a homemaker who lives with her husband in Washington state — was traumatized by the experience, and went on to seek therapy.

“To make matters worse, the Ritz-Carlton and Marriott International have refused to provide Jane and John Doe with a copy of the actual lab results for the subject water bottle,” according to the filing, which claimed Doe was “emotionally distressed” over whether she ingested a sexually-transmitted virus.

Meanwhile, the law enforcement investigation over who contaminated the water bottle has been stalled because the hotel refuses to turn over the soiled bottle, the lawsuit claims, hindering authorities from cross-referencing the DNA in the water against sex offender registries.


“The Ritz-Carlton and Marriott International have also refused to disclose the identifies of the hotel employees on duty that day so that their backgrounds and criminal histories can be scrutinized,” the suit alleges.

The complaint requests damages for sexual battery and negligence, and demands a jury trial to settle the case.

Ritz-Carlton guest sues hotel after staffer served her ‘semen-contaminated water’: lawsuit

A woman staying at the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay claims she was “sexually assaulted” after a staffer at the luxury hotel “ejaculated his semen into a Ritz-Carlton-labeled water b…

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[thuumpr]

con·nois·seur

noun
an expert judge in matters of taste.
"a connoisseur of music"
synonyms: expert judge (of), authority (on), specialist (in), arbiter of taste, pundit, savant, one of the cognoscenti, aesthete, gourmet, epicure, gastronome, buff, maven

Interesting that she confirmed this first with hubby.

 

[Sejanus]

Hubby wants to know how she knew!

 

[Metalfan]

Fuck them,it just means they know they hired degenerates.

 

[Symmachus]

That's pretty nasty. Putting semen in someone's drink is also pretty unoriginal.

I would advise that if anyone reading this thread would find themselves in a similar situation, they should keep the bottle instead of turning it over to the hotel/restaurant/etc. Keep it so that you can personally facilitate that it can get into investigators' hands. Because if one of the hotel staff is untrustworthy enough to put splooge in a person's drink, then they may also be untrustworthy enough to hoard or obfuscate evidence in their possession. And if it was management who did it, then a business like this has more to lose reputationally from such a thing, which would give them more reason, from the perspective of crookedness and a culture of enabling, to keep the evidence or otherwise be opaque about it.

 

[thuumpr]

 

[McDanel]

I have two possibilities here.

1. She was a supreme asshole during this stay.

2. It's her husbands spooge, and they were counting on being refunded for their stay.

 

[agm8478]

I’m gonna ask because I know I’m not the only one who’s confused: how did she know - definitively- that it was someone’s stuff? I understand semen has a particular taste but c’mon now….

 

[thuumpr]

I’m gonna ask because I know I’m not the only one who’s confused: how did she know - definitively- that it was someone’s stuff? I understand semen has a particular taste but c’mon now….

Maybe watched employee stirring it in?

 

[knockout]

She turned the bottle in to the hotel, any dna sample would determine if it was her husband’s, so I’d say, probably not his. Personally think the hotel discarded the bottle and is now in a bit of a quandary, a large payment might be the only way to resolve the issue

 

[Babs]

$$$$$$$$

 

[thuumpr]

She turned the bottle in to the hotel, any dna sample would determine if it was her husband’s, so I’d say, probably not his. Personally think the hotel discarded the bottle and is now in a bit of a quandary, a large payment might be the only way to resolve the issue

Maybe considering adding it to the menu?

 

[knockout]

Maybe considering adding it to the menu?

An up charge, for sure

 

[thuumpr]

An up charge, for sure

Ala carte!