Jordon Hudson files lawsuit over shirtless video of Belichick that helped disclose romance

Age-gap relationship generated intense scrutiny

Jordon Hudson is suing two Airbnb hosts over a Ring doorbell camera video of a bare-chested Bill Belichick. Hudson says that the 2023 clip invaded her privacy by prompting public disclosure of her relationship with the former New England Patriots head coach.

Hudson, who went on to become a public presence by Belichick’s side, says in the lawsuit that the pair were keeping their romantic relationship private when they stayed at the Boston-area rental in the summer of 2023. However, the doorbell video – which showed a shirtless Belichick stepping out of the home – emerged that fall and soon made the rounds in the media.

Hudson wasn’t in the video, but she was later identified as the partner of the Super Bowl-winning head coach, who is almost 50 years her senior. Her lawsuit accuses the Airbnb hosts, Elise McDevitt and Craig Nolan, 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.

Belichick isn’t part of the lawsuit. At a recent news conference, the 74-year-old wouldn’t answer a question about whether he is still in a relationship with Hudson, 25.

Belichick was nearing the end of his 24-year tenure as the Patriots’ head coach when he and Hudson spent time at the Airbnb, according to her lawsuit. It says she learned of the video when McDevitt texted it to her along with an instruction not to park in front of a neighbor’s house.

In subsequent texts, McDevitt joked about football and said it was “clear who is on the video”, and Hudson repeatedly pressed her to delete the clip, according to the lawsuit. It says McDevitt eventually said she’d get rid of the footage but hedged that “videos are never totally deleted”, adding that she was “not distributing the video”.

After the clip emerged on social media in November 2023, McDevitt denied having posted it or leaked it to anyone, the lawsuit said. But McDevitt later texted that she “had sent it to a few people” but never envisioned it becoming public, according to the complaint.

Messages were left on Monday for Airbnb, which isn’t named in the lawsuit. The suit says the company kicked McDevitt and Nolan off the platform after Hudson reported what had happened.