The former operator of the JW Marriott Essex House hotel have agreed to pay $1.5 million to the family of a woman who was murdered there in 2009. Andree Bejjani, a real estate investor, was stabbed and strangled by housekeeping manager Derrick Praileau in 2009, the New York Daily News reported. Praileau used his key to get into the unit she was staying in, and he was convicted of murder and sentenced to 23 years […]