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CBS News
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Michigan family sues Disney theme parks, alleges ex-employee filmed up teen girl's dress in Florida
A Michigan family has filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. Inc. of Florida and a former employee, who is accused of filming up the dress of an underage female guest and, according to investigators, had hundreds of similar photos and videos on his phone. The lawsuit claims the minor was a resident of Commerce Township, Michigan, when the alleged incident happened on March 30, 2023, during a family visit to Disney's Hollywood Studios Theme Park in Orlando, Florida. The family is seeking damages of at least $50,000 in the case filed on March 21 in Orange County, Florida, in the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court. The employee named in the case is Jorge Diaz Vega, 28, of Kissimmee, Florida. The lawsuit claims that Diaz Vega, who worked at Disney's Hollywood Studios Theme Park in Orlando, was in his Disney employee uniform when he approached the underage girl at a "Star Wars"-themed retail store. She was visiting the park that day with a sibling and a grandparent. Diaz Vega allegedly picked up a toy to show the girl and sibling how to use it, and was holding another toy in his armpit, "which he intentionally dropped on the floor." The suit says Diaz Vega then "bent down to pick up the toy he had intentionally dropped and in doing so he reached his arm under the dress of the plaintiff's minor grandchild while holding an electronic recording device with the lens facing upward and he took photographic and/or videographic images up the dress of the plaintiff's minor grandchild without the child's knowledge or consent." Upon realizing that she was filmed or photographed, "the plaintiff's minor grandchild began hysterically crying and screaming, and the child ran into a nearby restroom and began dry-heaving, vomiting and suffered a panic attack," the lawsuit states. In response to the situation, the lawsuit claimed, the adult relative notified Disney security, who then contacted the Orange County Sheriff's Office. The lawsuit claims that Disney, through its employees or agents, "knew or should have known" that Diaz Vega had a history of similar acts of voyeurism over the six years he worked for the company, citing hundreds of images and videos that investigators say were found on his phone. According to a March 31, 2023, criminal complaint filed in Orange County, Diaz Vega "admitted he has been taking videos up the dresses/skirts of unknown females in the Disney World theme parks for approximately six years," adding he "estimated he had over 500 videos on his phone." According to the criminal complaint, he specifically admitted to investigators that he took videos of multiple females on March 31, 2023. One of those individuals was an 18-year-old woman who learned from a security officer that she might have been a witness or victim of such activity. Court records show Diaz Vega was booked in August 2023 in Orange County, Florida, on multiple counts, including video voyeurism under or through clothes with a victim younger than 19. He has pleaded not guilty. His lawyer is seeking a competency hearing. CBS News Detroit has reached out to the family's attorney for comment.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Family sues Disney after former employee secretly records up teen's dress in 2023: report
ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA)— The family of a teenager is suing Disney after a cast member was allegedly caught taking a video up the girl's dress in 2023, NBC affiliate WESH announced. Jorge Diaz Vega was an employee of Disney for around six years when he engaged in an act of 'upskirting' video voyeurism, the lawsuit claimed. While working at Hollywood Studios in a store called Star Wars' Galaxy Edge, Vega walked up to the minor and intentionally dropped a toy in front of her before placing his phone under her dress and recording. SeaWorld Orlando faces fine after killer whale injured trainer According to the lawsuit, the minor realized Vega was filming or photographing up her dress and began hysterically crying and screaming before running to a nearby restroom and dry-heaving, vomiting, and suffering a panic attack. Disney security was contacted who then contacted the Orange County Sheriff's Office which took over the investigation. Vega admitted to the incident as well as many others and his phone was seized where they found more than 600 images and videos of victims on his phone, the lawsuit said. Before this incident, Vega was caught recording a female co-worker and was reported to a Disney employee supervisor, WESH said. More customers claim money disappeared from Tampa Bay kitchen remodeling company 'Disney, through its employees, agents, servants, and/or apparent agents knew or should have known of Jorge Diaz Vega's propensity to commit acts of video voyeurism and to otherwise film other employees and guests without their consent and Disney ratified the proper misconduct of its employee when it failed to take appropriate action to prevent the incident from occurring,' the lawsuit said. The family is accusing Disney and Vega of invasion of privacy, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Vega is also facing two criminal cases for video voyeurism. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Yahoo
Disney faces lawsuit in 2023 upskirt investigation of former employee
Legal action is being taken against Disney World regarding the former employee accused of taking a video up a girl's dress. We first told you in 2023, when Jorge Diaz Vega was charged with voyeurism and admitted to investigators that he took multiple videos up women's skirts while working at the theme park. A new 18-page lawsuit claims Disney World should have known Jorge Diaz Vega was unfit for his position and posed a risk for park guests and employees. The lawsuit says the park should have been aware of evidence uncovered by investigators that included 'more than 600 images and videos of unwitting victims on his phone.' Criminal Attorney Jose Rivas explains why the lawsuit has ground. 'All they have to prove is that the individual was working during the term of employment, they committed this act, and Disney had a duty to investigate him. There's a prior act. In this case, they should have known, fired, or kept him under supervision. By allowing him to work, they were negligent, and for that, they'll be held liable,' said Rivas. Court documents reveal the victim in the lawsuit was 14 years old at the time of the March 2023 incident. She told her grandmother Diaz Vega 'bent over to pick up a toy and used his cellphone to take a picture under her dress while at the Star Wars' Galaxy Edge marketplace. Both an Orange County Sheriff's Office affidavit and the lawsuit say Diaz Vega's recording history involved park employees. Court documents state he was caught recording a female employee at Disney's Animal Kingdom— before the incident involving the minor. Diaz Vega admitted to taking videos and even showed investigators some of what he took. The affidavit says he said, 'Taking the videos was a guilty pleasure.' He told them he had been doing it for six years, the duration of his employment at the park. 'This is a perfect case where you have to be aware of your surroundings. This particular case you have a person in uniform who is trying to record a minor, had it not been for this individual seeing this, who know how many more times it occurred,' said Rivas. During an interview with deputies, Diaz Vega wrote an apology letter to his victims. He also shared why he committed the act. He told investigators that when he was little and living in Puerto Rico, a female clown placed him under her dress. Diaz Vega remains in the Orange County Jail. He's set for a competency hearing in May. WFTV has reached out to attorneys on both sides and Disney for comment but haven't heard back. Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
