An elderly American filmed his tenant with a hidden camera (4 photos)

A Southern California woman is suing her landlord for installing hidden cameras in her smoke detectors. The retiree recorded her naked and shared the racy videos with friends.





Jane Doe is accusing Bond Nichols, a 74-year-old father of three, of violating her “fundamental right to privacy.” She claims his criminal actions have caused her “intense emotional distress, anxiety, and mental anguish.”



The case against the retiree is a civil one, so he does not face criminal charges.

Jane’s nightmare began in September 2018, when she rented a bedroom and bathroom in Nichols’ 3,000-square-foot Long Beach residence through Roomies.com. Long Beach is a coastal city of 450,000 people located about 25 miles south of Los Angeles, home to the second-largest port in the United States.

The complaint describes Nichols as a “real estate mogul” who owns a large number of properties and rents out both individual rooms and entire homes.





About three weeks after Doe moved into the apartment, Nichols began complimenting her and offered to pay her rent in kind. The woman didn't take it seriously. At first, she thought he was just being an eccentric old man. But when she noticed several young women coming into his bedroom, she realized the landlord wasn't kidding.

In November of that year, Doe told Nichols she was going on a two-week vacation, to which he responded out of the blue, "You know I would never put a camera in your room, right?"



The woman moved out in December 2018 when she found a place closer to work. More than six years later, in February 2024, Nichols' friend told Doe that her room had smoke alarm cameras installed and that the landlord was filming her intimately. He also showed the videos to friends.

Jane contacted Nichols, who confessed. It turned out that the pensioner sent the videos to a male porn star and tried to arrange a meeting between them and Doe.

The woman is asking the judge to impose an injunction on further distribution of the videos and is also demanding $150,000 from Nichols for each instance of filming and to cover legal costs.