Staff at the Minneapolis Hotel Ivy played an “integral role” in Minnesota GOP donor Anton Lazzaro’s repeated sex trafficking of teen girls at his luxury downtown condo, according to a new lawsuit filed on behalf of one of Lazzaro’s teen victims.

A new lawsuit accuses the Hotel Ivy in downtown Minneapolis of permitting the sex trafficking of teenage girls by former Minnesota GOP operative Anton Lazzaro.

The lawsuit accuses staff at The Hotel Ivy of ignoring red flags that allowed minor victims to be sex trafficked by Anton Lazzaro.

This comes a little over a year after Anton Lazzaro, a former tenant at The Hotel Ivy, was sentenced to 21 years in prison for sex trafficking of minors in 2020. Attorney Jeff Anderson and his law firm are pursuing the case.

Attorney Jeff Anderson alleges Hotel Ivy "permitted" Lazzaro to engage in the sex trafficking of five teenage girls.