Colombian woman whose boss recorded nude videos of her awarded $2.7 million

A live-in nanny who was secretly videotaped by her millionaire boss has been awarded $2.7 million by a Manhattan jury. A camera hidden in the smoke detector in Kelly Andrade's room filmed hours of footage of her in the nude.

The man who placed the camera is Michael Esposito, the 35-year-old owner of three LaRosa Grill franchises. Andrade had been hired to look after the man's children.

While she has been awarded compensation, Andrade feels that Esposito got away with a lenient punishment. He has been ordered to undergo counselling and serve two years of probation. He was also ordered to pay US$780,000 in emotional distress damages as well as US$2 million in punitive damages — totalling $2.8 million.

“It’s not enough for the whole situation I’ve been through these three years. It’s not enough,” Andrade told the New York Post. “I was angry because the damage that he caused me is irreversible.”

Andrade is originally from Colombia and came to New York in 2021 to work as an au pair for Esposito and his wife Danielle's four children. She was hired by the placement firm Cultural Care Au Pair.

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However, she was living at Danielle’s parents' home in Tottenville on Staten Island as the couple’s mansion was being renovated.

Andrade found camera in smoke detector

Andrade began to grow suspicious of Esposito after she caught him in her room frequently, as per the lawsuit. She saw him messing with the ceiling smoke detector which “was constantly being repositioned.”

The lawsuit further states that after about three weeks of joining, she checked the smoke detector and found a tiny camera hidden inside. She checked it and found that the memory card was filled with “hundreds of recordings". Several of them had her “nude and/or dressing/undressing,” the lawsuit said.

Esposito reached her room minutes later and "seemed very nervous" and "very worried when he arrived at the house,” Andrade said.

He started banging on her door but she pretended to be asleep in hopes that he would go away. However, she soon grew afraid and jumped from the first-floor window. She injured her knees and hid in a bush on the street for the night.

The next day, she went to the police and gave them the footage, following which Esposito was arrested.