Jennifer Jacoby lawsuit: Widow sues Las Vegas hotel after husband Jeff’s escapade with escort ends in his death. Should a casino be asked to assume responsibility for the behavior and choices of its guests? Incident led to working girl, Cheylee Kessee and her pimp Kashon Glass pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
Asking a hotel to baby sit your wandering husband … The widow of a deceased man is suing a Las Vegas hotel after her husband died there during a $1,000 encounter with an escort he met at the establishment.
Jennifer Jacoby filed the lawsuit against the owners of the Palazzo after husband Jeff Jacoby, 55, died of a fentanyl overdose while staying at the venue in March, 2023.
Jeff, who had three children with Jennifer, according to the suit, traveled from his home in Colorado to Vegas for a work conference when he met sex worker Cheylee Kessee at the hotel bar at 1am. Do you suppose?
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The working girl who was seen in tandem with her pimp, Kashon Glass, was seen walking around the resort’s casino floor with Jeff for 40 minutes.
The pair then headed to a cashier’s cage, where Jeff withdrew $1,000, the lawsuit alleges. Glass followed behind.
Jeff and Kessee went up to his his hotel room, only for Kessee to be caught on surveillance leaving the room just eight minutes later. What could’ve gone wrong?
Jennifer, who described Jeff as her ‘soulmate’ and ‘twin flame’ in his obituary, grew worried when she hadn’t heard from her husband a few hours later.
The wife contacted the hotel several hours later for a welfare check after her husband failed to responded to her messages.
Hotel staff the found Jacoby unresponsive and ‘slumped on the bathroom floor.’
An eventual autopsy ruled Jeff Jacoby dying or a fentanyl overdose. Investigators later claimed the man being robbed by Kessee.
The man’s grieving widow and her daughters have since filed suit against the Palazzo’s owners, Venetian Casino Resort LLC, claiming they’re partly to blame for Jacob’s death. But are they?
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 alleges.
University of Nevada Las Vegas law professor Ben Edwards suggested the Jacobys’ case could have some merit.
He told the Las Vegas Review-Journal: ‘Anytime you invite somebody onto your property, you have an obligation to make sure the place is safe.
‘The kinds of dangers you have to protect against are really dangers you know about. You have to try to prevent known dangers.
‘The question the court will figure out is whether it was unreasonable for the casino to not monitor, or not communicate, for this sort of thing.’
Raising the question, if Kessee and Glass were such a danger, why were they even allowed to enter, let alone roam the hotel premises? And is it really an establishment’s legal obligation to warn guests that one of its ‘guests’ has a prior record or a run in? Or would that be impeding on that guest’s rights?
At what point is one absolved of personal responsibility and assuming reasonable precaution and action and then deflecting said responsibilities on to others if and when something goes wrong?
The Jacobys’ lawsuit does not specify how much in damages they are seeking from the Palazzo’s owners.
Kessee and Glass were charged with murder after being accused of supplying the lethal dose the dailymail reports.
The pair ended up striking a plea deal, leading to them both pleading to ‘voluntary manslaughter and robbery.’
Glass was jailed for 50 years and could be paroled after 20
Kessee was sentenced to 20 years but may be paroled after she’s served eight.
An obituary for Jeff Jacoby outlined his devotion to his family.
‘Jeff Jacoby ran home to Jesus on March 1st, 2023,’ it said.
‘He attended Moorhead High School and graduated from Moorhead State University with a degree in accounting.
‘Jeff met and married Jenny, his soulmate and twin flame in Fargo, North Dakota in 1990.’
‘Jeff went on to raise three girls which was one of the great joys of his life – from soccer games every weekend, ballet recitals, and piano practices to high school graduations, college dorm move-ins, first jobs, and a wedding,’ the obituary continued.
‘He was there for every moment and milestone, cheering his girls on daily. His wife, Jenny, was the greatest love of his life aside from the Lord.
‘They went everywhere and did everything together.
‘They loved to spend time drinking coffee and sitting out on the back porch in the morning sun together, going to church on Sunday mornings, and in more recent years, spending time together with their daughters in Denver, Austin, and Waco.’
Define soulmate and twin flame?
