Mother-of-5 claims Vegas landlord made her sign 'Direct Consent for Sexual Intercourse' agreement before letting out house
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Allan Rothstein, 81, stands on trial after being accused of forcing a woman to sign a document titled "Direct Consent for Sexual Intercourse and/or Fellatio or Cunnilingus" in order to proceed with her lease as per the court documents. The Las Vegas landlord allegedly forced the mother of five to sign a contract agreeing to have sex with him in order to rent the four-bedroom house on Wedgebrook Street near Las Vegas Boulevard and St Rose Parkway in November 2018.
According to the complaint, Rothstein charged the woman more than what was decided upon in her Section 8 voucher and attempted to evict her, claiming she was obliged to pay more than $4,000 in back rent — despite the fact that he was receiving money from the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority, DailyMail reported. According to the lawsuit, Rothstein knew the house was in default and on the verge of foreclosure but never informed the woman while continuing to charge her rent.
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Rothstein's real estate broker and property management licenses have since been revoked, according to KTNV, and he is now facing a federal trial for violating the Fair Housing Act, with sources claiming that he preyed on other victims. If the mother-of-five wins the suit, she is entitled to unspecified punitive damages and injunctive relief. According to the lawsuit filed in Nevada District Court last June, the document, which Rothstein allegedly obtained online, instructed the tenant to ''Please read this legal contract carefully.''
According to the terms of the lease, the lawsuit said, the tenant ''does hereby freely give implied consent to consecutive or concurrent sexual encounters between the REPONDENT/S and the INITIATOR/S,'' which in this case would have been Rothstein. As part of the contract, the lawsuit said, the tenant had to swear she wasn't signing "under the influence of an incapacitating intoxicant, aphrodisiacs, or psychoactive substances, including but not limited to alcohol, drugs, oysters, Bremelanotide, truffles, sea cucumber, strawberries, lobster, dark chocolate, cocaine, LSD, cannabis or any other mind-altering chemical or substance, nor have they been given the same by the INITIATOR/S.''
It reportedly went on to say the tenant swears she ''does not currently have a boyfriend/girlfriend/parent who is larger, meaner and more physically aggressive, owns firearms and/or is more possessive than the INITIATOR/S.'' According to the suit, the woman was horrified by the document's title. Rothstein reportedly told the mother-of-five that if she did not sign it, he would be unable to proceed with her lease of the property, despite the fact that she had signed a separate lease months before. At the time, he also allegedly required her to sign a "Release of Liability and Assumption of Risk."
During the course of the investigation, Rothstein agreed to the Nevada Real Estate Division that he obtained the sex contract online and required the tenant to sign it, stating that ''any agreements or documents mentioned speak for themselves,'' according to KTNV. The woman who rented the house was said to be needy for a place for herself and her minor children. According to the lawsuit, she and her five children were homeless as of August 2018 and were living from week to week in a residential hotel.
The Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority approved her family for a Section 8 voucher, a federal program that provides local housing authorities with funds to help low-income families rent from private landlords. According to the lawsuit, the woman feverishly contacted several landlords to rent their homes, but most refused to accept her housing voucher.
Finally, in September 2018, she answered a web ad for the four-bedroom home on Wedgebrook Street near Las Vegas Boulevard and St Rose Parkway, for which Rothstein worked as the property manager and real estate broker. According to court records, he let her move in and had her pay for repairs so that the US Department of Housing and Urban Development would approve it as a Section 8 home.
However, according to the lawsuit, Rothstein allegedly obligated the mother to charge more than what was required under the terms of the voucher and billed the woman for utility costs in violation of the contract. He began charging her late fees after she refused to pay these additional costs. Rothstein began the eviction process against her in February 2019, claiming she owed $1,057 in back rent despite the fact that he was still collecting rent from the Regional Housing Authority.
The woman was only supposed to pay $145 per month at the time, but she was paying him $500 per month as he demanded. Rothstein then filed a summary affidavit for expulsion for unpaid fines of rent on March 13, 2019, claiming she did not sign a written lease and owed him $4,221 in back rent. The eviction proceedings were eventually abandoned. Since then, Rothstein has denied any violations of the federal Fair Housing Act.
During the investigation, state investigators discovered that he listed a false address for his brokerage firm — and the address he provided was for an auto parts retailer. They also discovered that he made unwanted sexual advances to the tenant when he had him come to his home, where he actually conducted his business, to sign documents. For the violations, Rothstein was fined $94,000.