A heartbroken wife is suing a Las Vegas hotel after her husband died there during a $1,000 encounter with a prostitute.
The widow, Jennifer Jacoby has filed a lawsuit against the Palazzo owners after husband Jeff Jacobs, 55, died of a fentanyl overdose there during a stay there in March 2023.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Jeff, who had three children with Jennifer, traveled from his home in Colorado to Vegas for a work conference when he met sëx worker Cheylee Kessee at the hotel bar at 1am.
Kessee, working with a pimp named Kashon Glass, was seen walking around the resort’s casino floor with Jeff for 40 minutes.
According to the lawsuit, the pair then headed to a cashier’s cage, where Jeff withdrew $1,000, and Glass followed behind.
Jeff and Kessee went up to his his hotel room, with Kessee seen emerging from the again just eight minutes later.
Jennifer grew worried when she hadn’t heard from her husband a few hours later.
She contacted contacted the hotel several hours later for a welfare check because he had not responded to her messages.
That was how a hotel staff the found Jacoby unresponsive and ‘slumped on the bathroom floor.’
Investigation claims that he’d died of a fentanyl overdose and been robbed by Kessee.
DETAILS OF THE LAWSUIT
Jennifer and her daughter’s have now sued the Palazzo’s owners Venetian Casino Resort LLC and claim they’re partly to blame for Jeff’s death.
The suit alleges that Palazzo security guards should have warned Jeff that he was being followed by Glass while chatting with Kessee.
Kessee and Glass had a history of ‘targeting hotel guests to rob and victimize them’ that casino operators were well aware of, the suit claims.
Kessee was later jailed for 20 years for manslaughter.
