BOSTON (AP) — Jordon Hudson is suing two Airbnb hosts over a doorbell camera video of a bare-chested Bill Belichick, saying that the 2023 clip invaded her privacy by ultimately prompting public disclosure of her relationship with the Super Bowl-winning coach.
Hudson, who went on to become a public presence by Belichick's side, says in the lawsuit that they were keeping their romance private when they stayed at the Boston-area rental in the summer of 2023. Then the doorbell video — which showed him stepping, shirtless, out of the home onto a porch — emerged that fall and made media rounds.
Hudson wasn't in the video, but she ultimately was publicly identified as the paramour of the former New England Patriots and current University of North Carolina head coach, who is almost 50 years her senior. Her lawsuit accuses rental hosts Elise McDevitt and Craig Nolan of leaking the footage and personal information about her.
"These egregious violations of Ms. Hudson's privacy have, among other things, resulted in significant unwanted publicity and scrutiny of Ms. Hudson and her relationship with Mr. Belichick” and have subjected her to ridicule, attorney Howard Cooper and colleagues wrote in a complaint filed Friday in Massachusetts.
Voicemail and email messages seeking comment were left Monday for McDevitt and Nolan, and a social media message was sent to McDevitt. No attorney is listed for them yet in the court record.
Belichick isn't part of the lawsuit. Messages seeking comment from him were left for a UNC football team spokesperson. At a recent news conference, Belichick, 74, wouldn’t answer a question about whether he was still in a relationship with Hudson, 25.
Belichick was nearing the end of his 24-year, six-time-Super Bowl-winning tenure as the Patriots' head coach when he and Hudson spent time at the Airbnb she booked in Winthrop, according to her lawsuit. It says she learned of the video when McDevitt texted it to her along with an instruction not to park in front of a neighbor's house.
In subsequent texts, McDevitt joked about football and said it was “clear who is on the video,” and Hudson repeatedly pressed her to delete it, according to the lawsuit. It says McDevitt eventually said she'd trash the footage but hedged that “videos are never totally deleted," adding that she was “not distributing the video.”
After the clip emerged on the social platform X in November 2023, McDevitt denied having posted it or leaked it to anyone, the lawsuit said. But McDevitt later texted that she “had sent it to a few people” but never envisioned it becoming public, according to the complaint.
Messages were left Monday for Airbnb, which isn’t named in the lawsuit. It says the company kicked McDevitt and Nolan off the platform after Hudson reported what had happened.
File - Former NFL head coach Bill Belichick and girlfriend Jordon Hudson, pose on the red carpet at the NFL Honors award show ahead of the Super Bowl 59 football game, Feb. 6, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters he believes the war in Iran “militarily is effectively over," suggesting that — at least for now — he’s not prepared to resume the bombardment that has devastated the Islamic Republic and caused reverberations across the global economy.
The president made a surprise visit to the White House briefing room after meeting earlier in the day with Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani.
“Iran militarily is effectively over,” Trump said. “We’re just keeping it the status quo.”
He added that Iran has been “decapitated” but said he is still looking to make sure there’s a long-term solution to ensuring that Iran’s nuclear program is defanged.
It was some of Trump's most definitive comments about moving away from his threat to resume strikes on Iran after the U.S. midterm elections had passed.
The president's Republican Party lost both chambers of Congress to Democrats in last week's elections. The elections were shadowed by dissatisfaction among the American electorate over the 8-month-old war, which has led to a surge in fuel prices that's impacted nearly ever sector of the global economy.
Trump, over the course of the conflict, has repeatedly said he is on the cusp of ordering U.S. forces to escalate attacks if Iran’s leaders don’t quickly agree to U.S. terms to end the war, only to back down. In earlier cycles, he has also edged away with a last-minute declaration, sometimes at the behest of Gulf allies, that he’s going to give diplomacy more time.
In a posting on social media shortly before speaking to reporters, Trump once again asserted that Middle East allies — Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait and others — "would prefer the status quo." Minutes later, in his exchange with reporters, he sought to assure war-weary Americans that there was “positive momentum” and that he saw a “good chance” that the war “could get ended.”
“They’re talking to us, and they’re talking very politely, And we’ll see what happens," Trump said. He added, “The military action doesn’t seem to be a very necessary thing, but we’re locked and loaded, ready to go for any reason that changes."
Trump, however, gave no hint of a drawdown of the thousands of U.S. troops who have been shifted to the waters off of Iran and maintain a naval blockade to stem the flow of Iranian oil into the global market.
“We’re keeping it going. We have the greatest military blockade ever,” Trump said.
Qatari officials last week presented proposals on Iran’s nuclear program, according to two Middle East government officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The White House declined to comment, though Trump last week alluded to ongoing indirect talks with Tehran.
All the while, Tehran continues to insist on several concessions from the U.S., which Trump has declined in the past. Among the core demands Iran says must be met before engaging in nuclear talks: ending the U.S. blockade on Iran’s ports, lifting sanctions, unfreezing its assets, issuing compensation for war damage and ending hostilities throughout the region, including Israeli operations in Lebanon.
Earlier Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has come under fire over the conflict, said the next steps on the war are up to Trump, including the possibility of telling Iran: “Hey, we’re done, and we’re going to watch your nuclear material. You better not move it.”
The defense secretary has been one of the administration's most prominent defenders of the war. Critics say the administration launched the war without proper authorization, violated the War Powers Resolution and subverted congressional war-declaring powers.
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky moved Monday to force a vote to impeachHegseth, largely over his execution of the war.
Trump told CNN in a phone interview Sunday that as long as the U.S. sees progress in negotiations with the Iranians and they sign a “strong agreement,” it’s “highly unlikely it’s going to be necessary” to resume strikes.
Trump said, however, that the U.S. had identified infrastructure targets, including 38 bridges, that it would strike if military action resumes.
The U.S. military, meanwhile, still has carried out limited strikes on Iran, including against its air defenses, at least twice over the past week. It also fired on and disabled a commercial ship Saturday that the U.S. says was trying to breach its naval blockade on Iranian ports.
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AP writers Konstantin Toropin, Samy Magdy and Seung Min Kim contributed reporting.
President Donald Trump speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
