An image provided to Business Insider appears to show a human dummy alongside packets of zip ties in Alison Weinsweig's apartment.
An image provided to Business Insider appears to show a human dummy alongside packets of zip ties in Alison Weinsweig's apartment.
  • Alison Weinsweig told BI she lost over $170,000 in rent and spent almost 3 years trying to evict a tenant.
  • When she eventually got access to the apartment, she found it in disarray.
  • She said she cried after seeing blood-stained floors, cigarette burns, and a life-sized dummy.

When Alison Weinsweig, 67, rented her luxury Westwood apartment to a tenant in 2020, she never anticipated it would turn into an almost three-year ordeal, let alone one that would set her back more than $200,000.