Tracy Miller, aka Dakota Rae \nSCOTTSDALE, AZ - They've gone from suspended to fired. Husband-and-wife intensive care nurses, whose adult Web site got them suspended from Scottsdale Healthcare Hospital over the summer, have been terminated officially, says the husband to AVN On The Net.
And, perhaps not surprisingly, the couple is going to sue.
The official firing was done last week. "We knew going in to the appeals that the minds of the administration were already made up," says George Miller. He says the hospital denied the presence of their attorney and of their ability to record the hearing proceedings.
The flap began over their adult Web site, www.touchable.com, in late July. The hospital accused the Millers of soliciting fellow hospital personnel to appear on the site - which shows nude photographs of Tracy Miller, aka Dakota Rae - and suspended them.
The Millers denied the accusation and said what they do on their off time, with their own equipment, is their own business. Their attorney, Lawrence Walters of Wasserman and Walters (www.1st-Amendment.com), says they asked the hospital to provide the names of those they allegedly harassed, but the hospital refused to disclose them.
The couple maintains they began the site to raise money for their children's education. Speculation has suggested the site - which George Miller says is growing rapidly - could bring them up to $100,000 a year if they keep operating it full time, but Walters says that's not exactly what they have in mind, if it's true at all.
In a Wednesday telephone interview with AVN On The Net, Walters said that the site's getting peeks and interest from the story's becoming of national interest is one thing, but that wears off after a certain amount of time. And, the hospital, he says, has done enough damage to make it difficult, if not impossible, for the Millers to resume their nursing careers.
"(It's) not enough for them to survive on," says Walters of the Millers' Web site. "It was intended just as a college fund for their kids. The problem they'll have is, since they've been labeled sexual harassers, nobody's gong to hire them. The hospital has limited their ability to be employed in chosen profession for rest of their lives."
He says the Millers are keeping open the option that the hospital could still negotiate with them, "but we're not very hopeful of that."
