On August 2, 2024, massage Andres Biasone of Volusia County, Florida, got his license to practice restricted by the Florida Department of Health. An Order of Emergency Restriction was issued after a complaint was filed against Biasone of sexual assault on a client while working at Massage Envy in Volusia County. Biasone has been a licensed massage therapist in Florida since 2021. According to Biasone's LinkedIn page, he was also a self-employed massage therapist and Reiki master. The emergency order prohibits Biasone from practicing massage therapy on female patients in Florida, effective immediately.
According to the Emergency Order, a 55-year-old female client received multiple massages by Andres Biasone at Massage Envy on August 24, 2023, Sept. 20, 2023, October 24, 2023, and March 17, 2024. The Order states that Biasone requested the client's phone number on a few occasions. On her last visit in March, her experience with Biasone took a turn. The woman claims she was face-down on the table, covered by a sheet, when Biasone began the massage. She then stated that Biasone allegedly moved his hands to the client's inner thighs and groin area. Biasone then cupped his hand over the client's vagina and digitally penetrated her, and rubbed her clitoris. The woman froze and asked what he was doing, and Biasone stopped and replied, "It's very difficult to know the lines of being friends or something else."
Clients of massage therapists are placed in isolated, vulnerable settings where they can be subject to abuse by their massage therapists. Due to the potential for abuse that is inherent under these circumstances, massage therapists must possess good judgment and good moral character in order to practice massage therapy safely. Biasone willfully abused his position as a massage therapist to sexually violate a patient. Biasone abused his power and lacked good moral judgment to practice massage safely on female clients.
Horowitz Law has filed numerous sexual assault lawsuits against massage therapists for clients who were inappropriately touched at Massage Envy and various salons and spas. If you have been a victim of sexual assault or sexual battery during a massage, or if you know someone who has, please contact our law firm at 888-283-9922 or email sexual abuse lawyer Adam Horowitz for a free consultation.