Widow sues Las Vegas hotel over husband’s fentanyl OD death after he was robbed by prostitute

The widow of a Colorado man who died of a drug overdose after spending time with a Las Vegas prostitute is blaming the hotel her husband was staying in for his sudden 2023 death, according to a new lawsuit.

Jennifer Jacoby lodged the wrongful death suit against the owner of the Palazzo last month, about two years after her spouse Jeffrey Jacoby took a business trip and never came home.

During his stay, Jacoby met Cheylee Kessee, a woman prosecutors called a sex worker, at a hotel bar early in the morning on March 1, according to the lawsuit reported on by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The hooker and husband walked around the hotel casino for about 40 minutes before the pair went to a cashier’s cage area so Jacoby could withdraw $1,000, the legal papers state.

She reportedly went with Jacoby, 55, to his hotel room, but left about eight minutes later.

During the interaction with Jacoby, Kessee was texting Kashon Glass, who was acting as her “pimp,” the lawsuit alleges.

After Jennifer Jacoby called the hotel to see if staff could check on her husband who hadn’t been in touch for hours, a worker found him “unresponsive, slumped on the bathroom ground,” the lawsuit states.

Glass, 38, and Kessee, 24, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and robbery counts last year with Glass hit with at least 20 years behind bars and Kessee facing at least eight years in the clink, KLAS reported.

They were accused of giving Jacoby a deadly dose of fentanyl.

Kessee reportedly told police she and Jacoby smoked fentanyl together leading up to his death. When he was found, his cell phone and wallet were gone.

But Jacoby’s grieving wife argues in her lawsuit the hotel should’ve known about “Kessee and Glass’ history of targeting hotel guests to rob and victimize them” and both should’ve been booted from the property, the legal docs state according to KLAS.

Jacoby should’ve been alerted by Palazzo security guards he was being followed by Glass, the lawsuit also claims, according to the Review-Journal.

An email to the Venetian Casino Resort, which owns the Palazzo, seeking comment was not immediately returned Monday night.