Celebrity sex tape

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A celebrity sex tape is a home video of sex acts, as performed by a celebrity and his or her partner, which finds Internet and/or bootleg and occasionally legitimate commercial distribution and made available to an audience for which it was not supposedly intended.

[edit] Famous celebrity sex tapes

The following is a list of sex tapes that have either been released or confirmed to exist.

Limp Bizkit Frontman Fred Durst had a video of him and an unknown woman having sex leaked onto the internet by someone who had been repairing his computer. ^[1]
The ex-husband of model Carolyn Murphy, Jake Schroeder, allegedly tried to sell a tape featuring him and his ex-wife having sex during their honeymoon in 1999 while in Barbados.^[2] In January 2006 Schroeder was arrested and charged with extortion for trying to sell the tape.^[3] The video was leaked onto the internet in April 2006.^[4]
Former sportscaster and blaxploitation actress Jayne Kennedy had a sex tape stolen and released showing her with former husband Leon Isaac Kennedy.^[5]
Paris Hilton and then-boyfriend Rick Salomon recorded themselves having sex in a hotel room, shot in night-vision. Hilton initially attempted to stop the distribution of the tape, but later agreed to its release. She now receives profits from the tape. Unusually for a celebrity scandal, the notoriety surrounding the tape only served to increase Hilton's fame.^[6] This footage, along with additional full-color footage, was released commercially under the title 1 Night in Paris.^[5]
A sex tape of figure skater Tonya Harding and her husband Jeff Gillooly was leaked to the internet and subsequently became so widely available that the couple decided to legitimately release it on their own. It is commercially sold by Penthouse Home Video as the "Wedding Night" tape, although the wedding gown was actually a Halloween costume.^[5]
Actor Rob Lowe almost destroyed his own career when, in the 1980s, he taped himself having sex with two young girls, one of whom turned out to be underage.^[6]
California pornography company Red Light District claims to have acquired a 1999 sex tape in which singers Kid Rock and Scott Stapp (former singer of the band Creed) engage in sex acts with four groupies.^[7] RLD planned to release the tape in 2006, but one of the women involved filed to block it.^[8] Rock also filed an injunction, called Stapp an "idiot" and blamed him for the tape's leak.^[9]
An early internet celebrity sex video, the honeymoon of Pamela Anderson and then-husband Tommy Lee, was placed online by Internet Entertainment Group in 1998.^[6]
The sexual exploits of Pamela Anderson and Bret Michaels (singer of the band Poison) were released as a DVD on September 7, 2005. However, the footage had been circulating on the internet for many years.^[5]
In 2004, professional wrestlers Joanie Laurer (better known as Chyna) and Sean Waltman (aka X-Pac) appeared in a home sex tape sold under the title 1 Night in China. Unusually, the tape was not accidentally leaked, but was actually solicited to pornographic film distributors by the duo, possibly in an attempt at a career boost.^[6]
Actor Colin Farrell admitted that a 13-minute sex tape he made with ex-girlfriend and Playboy Playmate Nicole Narain exists. He was successful in obtaining a court order to block its distribution, but in January 2006 copies appeared on the internet.^[6]
Kelsey Grammer sued Internet Entertainment Group under the mistaken impression that it had purchased from Grammer's former girlfriend Cerlette Lamme a sex tape the couple had made. He dropped the suit after IEG counter-sued and stated that it had not bought or possessed the video his ex-girlfriend had been trying to sell.^[10]
Actor Bob Crane of Hogan's Heroes fame made numerous home sex tapes in the 1970s with early VCR technology. His exploits were immortalized in the movie Auto Focus.^[5]
Ulrika Jonsson won a court order banning footballer Stan Collymore from selling an explicit video of the pair indulging in sexual activity.^[11]
South Korean pop star Baek Ji Young suffered a scandal when a tape of her and her former manager having sex in a hotel room appeared on a Korean pay-per-view channel.^[12]
In December 2001, a local paparazzi magazine published a 47-minute video CD of Taiwanese journalist and politician Chu Mei-feng secretly taken with a pinhole camera, purportedly showing Chu having sex with a man who was later confirmed as married Tseng Chung-ming. This video quickly spread via the Internet globally (search engine Lycos reported that her name was among the most searched terms in January 2002), despite local authorities' immediate effort to pull all the magazines in question from the market. In 2002 many Taiwanese lingerie manufacturers reported a significant growth in the sales of white thong panties, which Chu wore in the video.^[13]
Saved by the Bell actor Dustin Diamond authorized the release of a 40-minute sex tape in 2006 in the hopes that it would bring in profits and provide a boost to his career.^[14]^[15]
British TV personality Abi Titmuss appears in a sex tape featuring herself, her ex–TV presenter boyfriend John Leslie, and another woman.^[16]^[17]^[18]
Page 3 Idol 2004 Keeley Hazell had a 10 minute sex tape featuring herself and her ex-boyfriend released in early January 2007. ^[19]
Socialite Kim Kardashian confirmed the existence of a sex tape of her made by then-boyfriend Ray J. She threatened to take legal action to block its planned distribution by Vivid Video.^[20]
A tape of Croatian pop star Severina Vučković having sex with a married man was released on the internet in 2004. She claimed the video was stolen and sued.^[21] The case was later dismissed.
2004 - Survivor finalist Jenna Lewis had her wedding night sex tape released. It features 42 minutes of sex with then-new husband model Travis Wolfe in a Las Vegas, Nevada hotel room.^[22]
1 January, 2008 - Two DVDs of secret hidden camera footage of (then) Malaysian Health Minister Chua Soi Lek were distributed freely and anonymously to various homes in Batu Pahat, Malaysia. On January 2nd 2008, Dr. Chua announced his resignation despite saying he would not do so the previous day.^[23]
Jessica Sierra, a former contestant on American Idol and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, had a sex tape that is scheduled to be released.^[24]