An aspiring Minnesota politician is suing her former Airbnb housemate, alleging the woman ruined her career by accusing her of throwing a tarantula at her during a living situation that went off the rails.

Marisa Simonetti, 31, is still facing the misdemeanor assault case for the alleged tarantula tossing reminiscent of the prank in the Home Alone movie. Now Simonetti is suing the woman who accused her in the incident , along with the police department and its officers who investigated the matter, and the prosecutors who charged her with the crime. She's asking for $28 million.

Simonetti allowed the woman, attorney Jacklyn Vasquez, to live in her home as an Airbnb guest last year in Edina, a Minneapolis suburb. But the relationship between the two became "increasingly adversarial as Vasq

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