Planet Fitness perv secretly filmed dozens of naked women in tanning booths: lawsuits

Planet Fitness is facing a barrage of lawsuits from women who claim a male gym member repeatedly broke into locked tanning rooms and secretly filmed dozens of naked patrons — sometimes recording himself masturbating — as employees allegedly ignored warnings and suspicious behavior for months.The explosive allegations center on a Planet Fitness in Arroyo Grande, Calif., where Kyle Combs was accused of amassing more than 50 photos and videos of roughly 47 women in various states of undress between January and December 2025, according to court papers.Combs, 40, of Grover Beach, Calif., has been charged with 12 misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy for secretly recording nude women in tanning booths, according to prosecutors.He has pleaded not guilty.Eight women suing as Jane Does allege that Combs sometimes videotaped himself masturbating while filming his unsuspecting victims, according to one of four complaints filed recently in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court.One woman claims she caught Combs inside her tanning area in May 2025 and immediately begged a Planet Fitness employee and manager for help — only to have them laugh at her and blame her for supposedly failing to lock the door.When the woman insisted she had locked it, the workers allegedly dismissed her complaint and told her there was nothing wrong with the locks, the suit claims.Combs’ alleged spree nevertheless continued for another seven months, until a different woman caught him pointing a cellphone camera through a crack in her tanning booth on Dec.

29, according to the complaint.The woman, identified as Jane Doe I, had stripped down except for a bikini top when she spotted the camera lens aimed at her unclothed body, the suit alleges.She screamed, prompting Combs to bolt from the gym and run through the parking lot while at least one employee saw him flee but did not intervene, according to the complaint.The woman called police and was left “screaming and hysterical,” according to...