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In the photo, which was not taken with a peephole camera, Barrett is seen leaving the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago today after posting $4,500 bail.

During today's hearing, Barrett was ordered to home confinement with electronic monitoring -- but is allowed to leave for work and to go to the doctor. He has a curfew from 9PM to 6AM.

He'll face interstate stalking charges in Los Angeles on October 23.

The man accused of secretly videotaping ESPN reporter Erin Andrews is about to be released from his Chicago jail cell after forking over $4,500 in bail money -- but he ain't exactly a free man.

The suspect -- Michael David Barrett -- appeared before a federal judge in Chicago this morning where he was granted his release with the following list of stipulations:

- He will have to wear an electronic monitoring device.
- Curfew enforced from 9pm to 6am.
- He can go to work and doctor's appointments.
- No Internet access for two weeks.

Barrett was ordered to turn in his passport by tomorrow morning, and he's not allowed to leave Northern Illinois.

The judge said he was releasing Barrett because he doesn't have a criminal record and because his family lives in the area.

MIchael David Barrett -- who was arrested Friday at Chicago O'Hare International Airport -- has been charged with the federal crime of felony stalking.

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UPDATE 11:25 AM PT: The judge just set a curfew for Barrett from 9 PM to 6 AM. Barrett is allowed to go to work and the doctor, if needed.

Barrett has to turn in his passport by tomorrow morning -- and his travel is restricted to northern Illinois ... except for when he as to travel to California for the case.

The prosecution says there are allegedly more video of different women on Barrett's hard drive.

TMZ has learned an arrest has been made in the Erin Andrews Peeping Tom case -- the one in which the ESPN reporter was secretly videotaped walking around naked in various hotel rooms ... and the suspect has been charged with the federal crime of felony stalking.

48-year-old Michael David Barrett was arrested at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on Friday.

According to the FBI, Barrett allegedly stalked Erin "with the intent to harass, to place under surveillance with intent to harass and intimidate, and to cause substantial emotional distress to a person in another state."

The videotapes surfaced in July. At least six clips showed Erin walking around two different hotel rooms in the nude, and were shot with a peephole camera. It was virtually impossible to tell when or where the videos were shot.

Andrews' lawyer, Marshall Grossman from the law firm Bingham & McCutchen, tells TMZ Barrett allegedly contacted hotels in the various venues "where Andrews was working in order to locate her and her room number -- and some of the hotels revealed that information, permitting him to target her." Grossman says Barrett would remove the peepholes from the doors -- or as the complaint states, "hacked off" -- and inserted tiny camera devices to secretly film her.

Someone tried to sell the clips to TMZ, but we refused to buy or air them because they were an obvious invasion of Erin's privacy. The federal complaint notes that the videos were offered for sale to TMZ.com through his email account.

The complaint says Andrews was so upset when the tapes began to circulate elsewhere she was "having trouble breathing and felt sick all of the time." The complaint adds, "She was concerned there might be more video and wanted to vomit just thinking about it."

UPDATE -- Barrett appeared in court today where he was ordered to be returned to California to face charges.

You know you're screwed when the supreme intergalactic powers of President Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey combined aren't enough for a successful bid to host the 2016 Olympics in Chicago.

Chicago was just eliminated from consideration for the 2016 Olympics -- in fact, it was eliminated in the first round of voting.

Lary Kennedy and Greg Omotoy claim they opened an account at fulltiltpoker.com and -- as luck would have it -- they amassed winnings of more than $80,000.

The famous poker defendants who own the site -- including Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey and Mike Matusow -- allegedly accused the plaintiffs of using an automated play functions called "robots" instead of playing the game themselves. Since using robots violates Full Tilt's rules, the site's owners confiscated more than $80,000.

There are other gripes as well in the lawsuit, filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, including an allegation that fulltilitpoker.com manipulates the game through the use of robots of its own so it becomes more a game of luck than skill which is outlawed in California.

Plaxico Burress' new prison digs are more Four Seasons than Howard Johnson -- we're told the lucky felon just landed the equivalent of a lockdown penthouse.

We're told Plax's new room -- not cell -- at Oneida Correctional Facility is an impressive 12 feet wide by 12 feet long -- as opposed to some places where they're only 10 X 6.

We've also learned the room comes equipped with its own window -- so Plax can have a good look at where he would be if he didn't shoot himself in the leg.

And there's this: Plaxico doesn't have to share the super-sized sleeping quarters with anyone named Bubba -- he gets it all to himself.

... New York, where he'll now be staying in a luxurious prison known as the Oneida Correctional Facility.

The New York State Department of Correctional Services tells us Plaxico was moved from Ulster Correctional Facility in Napanoch, NY this morning and taken to his new permanent home at Oneida, which is in Rome, New York.

We're told Plaxico -- who was sentenced to two years in prison last week -- will be separated from the general population and staying in the long-term protective custody unit.

We're told there are only 18 inmates currently staying in Plax's section of the prison -- which can hold up to 43 at a time.

When the guy asked the former UFC champ for some cash, Tito flatly denied him, saying "I worked my ass off for my s**t ... laziness don't get you anywhere in life."

This has been Tito Ortiz's motivational moment of the day.

DMX -- who has to be good an bobbing and weaving by now -- is set to box some dude named Eric Martinez during the "Celebrity Fight" section of an Alabama Pride MMA event in December. We're told Eric is an "up-and-coming actor" -- who we're guessing will soon star in DMX's next police report.

X's rep tells us the rapper has been "working out really hard," "eating right," and is "looking forward to having some fun" -- which we're guessing is prison-speak for beating some poor sap's face in before laundry duty.

On a positive note, maybe they were all just chanting "Booooooks."

The San Diego Charger legend was a guest at the Professional Bull Rider's Invitational this weekend in Ontario, CA -- where he learned first hand what it feels like to be taken down to the ground ... hard.

Although the bull's tackle looks pretty painful, we're told Seau only suffered minor bruising.

Yesterday in D.C., the preacher man with the best bouffant in the biz told us the only things he'll be fighting are "illiteracy" and "ignorance" as part of a national tour on education. No word on how "ignorance" looks in spandex.

We're told Sharpton was given a "nominal fee" for travel expenses -- but donated that moolah to the tour.

It appears Lamar Odom has gotten cold feet and called the whole thing off -- his planned appearance at a sporting goods store, that is.

L.O. was supposed to sign autographs today at a mall in Huntington Beach, Calif. -- but just canceled. We talked to the store and apparently Odom told them he couldn't make it because of that whole wedding thing he's got going on tomorrow.

The appearance was booked about a month ago -- or right around when he met Khloe Kardashian.

UPDATE -- A rep for the company that set up the event tells us they "will be and are currently reimbursing individuals for their pre-paid tickets."

Odom has lawyered up and so has Khloe. The problem is ... they have to get married on Sunday and there isn't enough time to hash out the details of a prenuptial agreement.

Why, you ask, isn't there enough time? We've learned they must get married on Sunday because one of the Kardashian reality shows is footing the $1 million bill for the wedding, but the deal is that the wedding must be shot this Sunday.

So we're told Lamar wants a postnup -- meaning the agreement will be hashed out and hopefully signed after Sunday's event.

Now here's the intrigue. There's talk that Sunday's wedding might not be the real deal -- it could be a non-binding ceremony. It's common with a postnup that bride and groom would not officially tie the knot until after they sign the document. What they typically do sign before the ceremony is an acknowledgment that it's not really an official wedding, to prevent misunderstandings down the road.

And speaking of problems ... we're told lawyers for Odom and Kardashian are already arguing and hitting road blocks.

One answer required some divine intervention.