The complaint links the 2023 recording to Hudson’s public identification
In a complaint filed Friday in Massachusetts, Hudson alleges that McDevitt and Nolan, the hosts of the Boston-area Airbnb, leaked doorbell-camera footage and personal information about her. The clip showed Belichick stepping shirtless out of the home onto a porch during a summer 2023 stay. Hudson was not in the recording, but the complaint says the video’s later circulation prompted her public identification as Belichick’s partner.
The dispute concerns who shared the 2023 footage and how its later circulation preceded Hudson’s public identification as Belichick’s partner. Voicemail and email messages seeking comment were left Monday for McDevitt and Nolan, and a social media message was sent to McDevitt. No attorney was listed for either in the court record.
Belichick, 74, is the current University of North Carolina head coach and former New England Patriots head coach; Hudson is 25, and Belichick is almost 50 years older. Hudson says the couple were keeping their romance private during the stay; she later became a public presence by his side. Belichick is not a party to the case.
The visit came near the end of Belichick’s 24-year tenure with the Patriots, a run that included six Super Bowl wins. Hudson booked the Airbnb in Winthrop and says she first learned of the video when McDevitt texted it to her 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,” Hudson’s lawyers said in the filing. Hudson repeatedly pressed McDevitt to delete the recording. McDevitt said she would trash the footage but hedged that “videos are never totally deleted” and that she was “not distributing the video.”
After the clip surfaced on X in November 2023, McDevitt denied having posted it or leaked it to anyone, according to the complaint. She later told Hudson that she “had sent it to a few people” but never envisioned it becoming public. The footage made media rounds, and Hudson was subsequently identified as the partner of the six-time Super Bowl-winning coach.
Howard Cooper and colleagues wrote: “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.” The filing also says Hudson was subjected to ridicule.
Voicemail and email messages seeking comment were left Monday for McDevitt and Nolan, and a social media message was sent to McDevitt.
Airbnb is not named in the lawsuit. Messages seeking comment were left for the company on Monday. The complaint says Airbnb removed McDevitt and Nolan from its platform after Hudson reported what had happened.
Messages seeking comment from Belichick were left with a UNC football team spokesperson. At a recent news conference, Belichick would not answer a question about whether he was still in a relationship with Hudson.
As the complaint stood Monday, the dispute centered on the sequence Hudson described: a recording sent by text, its later appearance on X and the subsequent public identification of the couple. Belichick remained outside the lawsuit.