Moral: Do not let your phone loose into anyone else’s hands, period.
Lawsuit filed Thursday against Grapevine car dealer and employee
A Grapevine, TX, car salesman took a customer’s cell phone to obtain information on financing a new vehicle, and the customer later discovered that compromising photos of his wife had been emailed to a swingers website, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.
Tim Gautreaux said he was buying a new car in January 2015 at Texas Toyota of Grapevine when he turned over his cell phone to the salesman because he had a pre-approved credit application on it.
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He later discovered that photos of his wife Claire, “in a compromising stage of undress,” had been emailed to a swingers website.
The lawsuit, filed in Dallas County District Court, was announced Thursday by the couple and their high-profile attorney, Gloria Allred, of Los Angeles.
“My husband took a photograph of me in a private moment in our home,” Claire Gautreaux said. “I never imagined anyone else would see it, let along that they would send my picture to an email address associated with swingers. We were at a Toyota dealership to buy a car and not to share anything about our lives with the people there.”
Tim Gautreaux, a church music minister, said he discovered deleted emails on his cell phone of the pictures in question.
“I was shocked when I found my private photos had been looked through, then sent to an email address connected to a swingers website, and then the perpetrator had attempted to delete and hide all evidence of what he had done,” Tim Gautreaux said.
Allred said the Gautreauxs were “victimized by a phone predator.”
She said the photos showed the woman getting in and out of a bathtub.
The lawsuit seeks at least $1 million and names the dealership, along with Toyota Motor North America, and the employee, Matt Thomas.