Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Sues Hotel Over Career-Derailing Incident: ‘It Didn’t Happen’
FIRST ON FOX: Former Navy SEAL Rob O’Neill, the man credited with killing Usama Bin Laden, is speaking out after recently filing a lawsuit against the hotel where he allegedly attacked a security guard and used a racial slur, which he vehemently denies and says crippled his business career.
“I lost a lot of clients. There was a point in my career where I was doing 300 speeches a year, 250 to 300 speeches and multiple cities a year, and now it’s just dried up, because it’s a bad look that doesn’t happen,” O’Neill told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview about the infamous incident at the Omni Hotel in Frisco, Texas, last August when he allegedly assaulted a loss prevention officer while intoxicated and called the guard, who is white, “the N-word.” O’Neill, a former SEAL Team Six member who received two Silver Stars and four Bronze Stars, said he never assaulted anyone and never used profanity, which led him to file a lawsuit against the Omni Hotel. In the lawsuit, O’Neill argues that the security guard, Johnny Lee Loomis, should never have been hired, given his troubled past, and alleges that he made false statements about that night.
“The Hotel Defendants knowingly, recklessly, and negligently hired and retained Loomis as a security guard, despite Loomis’s history of being a pedophile and providing child sex services,” the lawsuit states. “The Hotel Defendants also knowingly, recklessly, and negligently hired and retained Loomis as a security guard despite his history of violence and made false allegations of violence and misconduct against Hotel guests.”
O’Neill admitted that he had been drinking after a long day following a lecture, fell asleep at the hotel bar, and that he encountered Loomis while trying to return to his room, but denied hitting Loomis or calling him a racial slur. racist remarks.
“It was a long day flying from New York to Dallas, and then we had a dinner meeting and stuff like that and went to the cigar bar and came back, and just generally being in a hospitality environment like a hotel, you know, you sit at the bar trying to have a drink before bed and then fall asleep at the bar, unfortunately, that happened before and then got escorted up to my hotel room, which is fine, I guess that can happen,” O’Neill recalled.
“It was weird that it was just one person doing it. It was weird that he knew he was going to a place where there was no sound and no visuals, and it was also weird that he tried to use my wallet, my keys, when as a loss prevention officer, he had the room key. And whenever I saw it happen or was around hotel security people, they didn’t need his key, at first they were surprised when the police showed up.”
