Prison For Key West Spy Cam Hotel Voyeur

JANUARY 13--The businessman who filmed two naked women in an adjoining Key West, Florida hotel room has been sentenced to a year in prison for his felonious voyeurism, court records show.

Robert Privette, 50, entered no contest pleas to a pair of video voyeurism charges during a December 27 Circuit Court hearing at which he was also sentenced. Upon his release from custody, Privette will spend two years on sex offender probation to be followed by two years of standard probation.

Pictured at right, Privette was locked up in the Monroe County jail following his plea. Privette, who lives in South Carolina and has worked as an industrial designer, will soon be transferred to a Florida state prison.

Privette was collared in July 2020 and charged with sliding a tiny camera under the door separating his room at the DoubleTree Grand Key resort from that of two female vacationers, according to an arrest report.

One victim, 28, told cops that when she exited the bathroom after showering, she spotted a “long black cord that appeared to have a camera on it, coming from under the conjoined room’s door.” While the object was “slowly scanning the room,” the woman yelled, “What is that? That’s a fucking camera.”

At the time the spy cam was spotted, the second woman, who is 26, was standing naked in front of a mirror planning to send a photo of herself “to her boyfriend back home,” police reported.

As the older woman was “still frantically pointing at the object and yelling,” the camera was retracted. The victim told police she then heard “someone from the other room run around and a door slam.”

When Privette was subsequently confronted by police, he reportedly confessed to recording the women. Cops found the spy camera hidden in a chair cushion.

Questioned about whether he had previously engaged in such behavior, Privette copped to “using his camera multiple times during his trips for work.” Privette, investigators added, “could only say 10 plus times over the past year, all over the country.”

Though he reportedly admitted to being a serial voyeur, Privette has only been charged in connection with the Key West incident. (4 pages)