Lawsuit of the Day: Is Sexual Assault Supposed to be Part of the Tour?

Five women embarked on Starline’s Haunted Hollywood Tour, expecting to hear celebrity tales of sex, drugs, and depravity. But it sounds like they inadvertently signed up for an immersion tour, with a guide who was drunk, high, and verbally and sexually abusive. Now they’re suing.

From Courthouse News Service:

Five women say their host on a Starline Tours of Hollywood sexually pawed them while drunk or on drugs, called them “ni***rs” and “bitches,” urinated in a man’s front yard, lay down in the street with his shirt off, sexually attacked one woman while the other four yelled at him to stop, and assaulted them.

Maybe they should have been tipped off when their guide showed up in a “run-down, smoking Cadillac.” They claim they thought the car and depraved behavior were all part of the Halloween theme of the tour. Until the guy started to sexually assault one of them.

TMZ [PDF] got its hands on the complaint [PDF]. We’ve posted some choice excerpts after the jump.


Here are excerpts from the tale of horror told in the women’s complaint against the tour guide Brian Sapir and the Starline Company. Sapir was intoxicated and acted erratic from the start, but the women kept on with the tour. They must have been really excited about those Halloween Hollywood haunts.

TMZ has the complaint [PDF]. After grabbing one of the women’s buttocks, Sapir went on to strip down and run around “like a monster:”

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Maybe they trusted him because he “owned the cops.” That’s always reassuring. Reassuring enough that the women put up with two incidents of public urination, including this one:

The women finally fled the car when Sapir attacked two of them, grabbing breasts, ripping shirts, and touching other areas a tour guide shouldn’t explore.

Starline may not have delivered “SPINE TINGLING FUN”, but it definitely delivered on the promise of one of “the many spirits that bedevil tinsel town.”

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Mr. Toad’s Wild Sexual Assault Ride [TMZ]

Well, That Was Fun – Not [Courthouse News Service]