{"id":874141,"date":"2026-10-07T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874141\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:56:08","slug":"private-investigators-wild-testimony-about-nascar-drivers-salacious-hotel-encounter-leads-to-850k-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874141\/","title":{"rendered":"Private investigator\u2019s wild testimony about NASCAR driver\u2019s salacious hotel encounter leads to $850K bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gentleman, start your engines \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Ladies, too.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina\u2019s \u2018Homewrecker Law\u2019 cost a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/auto\/nascar\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a> driver nearly $1 million last last month, and now we got our smoking gun. Not that we needed one. But, it\u2019s still good to know the right team won.<\/p>\n<p>Truck Series driver Jennifer Jo Cobb, 53, was slapped with a $850,000 bill after a court sided with the now ex-wife of the man she \u201cwillfully, intentionally, and deliberately seduced, enticed and alienated the affections\u201d of back in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The man? Longtime NASCAR spotter, Clayton Hughes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/outkick-sports\/nascar-star-rips-sport-slow-soft-another-makes-shocking-comeback-scorned-wife-bites-back\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR STAR RIPS SPORT FOR BEING SLOW AND SOFT, ANOTHER MAKES A SHOCKING COMEBACK &amp; SCORNED WIFE BITES BACK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jim Rorie, a private instigator hired by Hughes\u2019 wife, told a court that he heard Jo Cobb and Clayton Hughes having \u201crambunctious\u201d intercourse in a Comfort Inn in Oct. 2020 after he followed him to the hotel via a tracking device planted on his car.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of times it\u2019s hard to know exactly what you\u2019re hearing through a hotel wall.<\/p>\n<p>This was apparently NOT one of those times, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no doubt about what I was hearing,\u201d he told a court, adding that he heard \u201cthe squeaking of the bed, quite a bit of that, female tones moaning \u2014 and occasionally a male\u2019s voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, this is how the sausage is made, folks. This is how PI\u2019s make a living. It\u2019s why they get paid the big bucks \u2026<\/p>\n<p>To track down Toyota Camry\u2019s in the hills of Martinsville, Virginia, and sit in a Comfort Inn all night listening to what sounds like one heck of an evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the squeaking continued, the tones of a male moaning and saying, \u2018Oh f\u2013k\u2019 and \u2018Oh my God\u2019 were distinctly heard,\u201d Rorie continued. \u201cI believe there was one point where I heard the female yell, \u2018Don\u2019t stop.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adultery is a moral no-no all over the country (at least it should be), but it\u2019s a legal no-no in certain states. North Carolina is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Stacey Hughes filed a lawsuit against Jo Cobb in 2024, accusing her of having an affair with her husband months before their divorce in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/outkick-culture\/man-trouble-using-robot-vacuum-record-wifes-affair-friends-benefits-lease-hall-pass-wins\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">MAN IN TROUBLE FOR USING ROBOT VACUUM TO RECORD WIFE\u2019S AFFAIR, FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS LEASE UP &amp; HALL PASS WINS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hughes accused Cobb of <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/politics\/judge-allows-homewrecker-lawsuit-former-sen-kyrsten-sinema-move-forward\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">alienation of affection<\/a>, which is basically a civil tort that allows individuals to sue another for intentionally spurring the end of a marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes also filed a second claim, saying her husband \u201cdishonored\u201d the couple\u2019s \u201cmarital bed,\u201d which seems like a fair conclusion to make given the testimony from the private investigator. Didn\u2019t sound like anything honorable was going on in that Comfort Inn.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina\u2019s \u2018Homewrecker Law,\u2019 as it\u2019s been aptly dubbed, was triggered, and last month a Davidson County judge ordered Jo Cobb to pay $50,000 for alienation of affection, and $800,000 for criminal conversation<\/p>\n<p>For those who aren\u2019t up-to-date on their legal terms, criminal conversation is a civil lawsuit that allows a spouse to sue a third party for having sex with their partner while the marriage is still intact. Each act of adultery can give rise to a separate claim for criminal conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it sounds like there were plenty of acts to choose from.<\/p>\n<p>Cobb has 31 <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/outkick-sports\/nascar-drivers-alleged-affair-spotter-cost-king-ransom-college-football-trouble\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series<\/a> starts over a 15-year career, and a whopping 234 Truck Series starts. She finished sixth at Daytona in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gentleman, start your engines \u2026 Ladies, too. North Carolina\u2019s \u2018Homewrecker Law\u2019 cost a NASCAR driver nearly $1 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-874141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}