Celebrity sex tape

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

Famous celebrity sex tapes

The following is an alphabetical list by surname of individuals known to have their sexual acts recorded and distributed:

• Pamela Anderson
  • Pamela Anderson and then-husband Tommy Lee had various interludes from their honeymoon placed online by Internet Entertainment Group in 1998 as one of the earliest internet celebrity sex tapes.
  • Pamela Anderson and Bret Michaels (singer of the band Poison) had a sex tape released as a DVD on 7 September 2005. The footage had been circulating on the internet for many years.

• Chu Mei-feng had a 47-minute video CD secretly taken with a pinhole camera, released by a local paparazzi magazine in December 2001. The video showed Chu having sex with Tseng Chung-ming, who was later confirmed as a married man. Despite local authorities' immediate effort to pull all the magazines in question from the market, the video quickly spread via the Internet. In January 2002, search engine Lycos reported that her name was among the most searched terms. That same year, many Taiwanese lingerie manufacturers reported a significant growth in the sales of white thong panties, the same style Chu wore in the video.

• Chua Soi Lek, while serving as Malaysia's Health Minister, was secretly videotaped having sex. Two resulting DVDs were distributed freely and anonymously to various homes in Batu Pahat. On 2 January 2008, Chua announced his resignation, despite saying he would not do so the previous day.

• Daniela Cicarelli is a Brazilian TV show hostess for MTV Brasil and fashion model. Her sex video was broadcast on the TV show Dolce Vita on Spanish channel Telecinco. It revealed Cicarelli on a beach in Spain fondling her boyfriend, Merrill Lynch employee Renato "Tato" Malzoni, and later having sex with him in the water.

• Actor Bob Crane, of Hogan's Heroes fame, made numerous home sex tapes in the 1970s with early VCR technology. [1]

• Dustin Diamond of Saved by the Bell fame 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.

• Fred Durst, the frontman for the band Limp Bizkit, had a video of him and an unknown woman having sex leaked onto the internet by a repairman who had been repairing his computer. He later sued the website Gawker and nine others for $70 million dollars for publishing it.

• Tonya Harding and her husband Jeff Gillooly had a sex tape that was leaked onto 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.

• Keeley Hazell of Page 3 Idol (2004) fame, had a 10-minute sex tape featuring herself and her ex-boyfriend released in early January 2007.

• Ophélie-Marie and her Boyfriend recorded themselves having sex. Ophélie Marie was Playmate for French Edition in 2006, then was candidate for the French Real TV show Secret Story in 2007. This video was tagged "The Real Sextape" because in the past she had promoted a poker website with a fake sextape. At the moment, there is no official news about legal proceedings.

• 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. This footage, along with additional full-color footage, was released commercially under the title 1 Night in Paris.

• Vietnamese television star Hoàng Thùy Linh lost her job on a TV series after a video of the 19-year-old having sex with her boyfriend was released on the internet.

• Ulrika Jonsson won a court order banning footballer Stan Collymore from selling an explicit video of the pair having sex.

• 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. Her sex tape made her a household name when E! gave her and her family an appearance in a reality show called Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

• Jayne Kennedy, a former sportscaster and blaxploitation actress, had a sex tape stolen and released showing her with former husband Leon Isaac Kennedy.

• Joanie Laurer (better known as Chyna) and fellow professional wrestler 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.

• Jenna Lewis, a contestant on Survivor, had her wedding night sex tape released. It features 42 minutes of sex with her husband, model Travis Wolfe, in a Las Vegas, Nevada hotel room.

• Rob Lowe faced controversy in the 1980s; he taped himself having sex with two young women, one of whom was underage.

• Mimi Macpherson is a celebrity in Australia and sister of supermodel Elle Macpherson. She made a sex tape with boyfriend Michael Hellwig.

• Carolyn Murphy's ex-husband Jake Schroeder allegedly tried to sell a tape featuring them having sex during their honeymoon in 1999 while in Barbados. In January 2006, Schroeder was arrested and charged with extortion for trying to sell the tape. The video was leaked onto the internet in April 2006.

• Nicole Narain and Colin Farrell have a 13-minute sex tape. Farrell confirmed the existence of the tape and successfully obtained a court order blocking its distribution, copies of the tape appeared on the internet in January 2006, however.

• Noelia Puerta Rican pop star. In June 2007, a sex tape of Noelia and former boyfriend Yamil started circulating on the Internet, which caused a media hype.

• Robert Ritchie (aka Kid Rock) and Scott Stapp (former singer of the band Creed) appear in a sex tape from 1999 in which the two have sex with four groupies. California pornography company Red Light District planned to release the tape in 2006, but one of the women involved filed to block it. Ritchie also filed an injunction, called Stapp an "idiot", and blamed him for the tape's leak.

• Jenni Rivera's sex video was stolen from her house and released onto the internet in October 9, 2008.

• Jessica Sierra, a former contestant on American Idol and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, had a sex tape that is scheduled to be released.

• Abi Titmuss, a British TV personality, appears in a sex tape featuring herself, her ex–TV presenter boyfriend John Leslie, and different women.

• Verne Troyer, actor and stuntman, is currently suing over the release of a sex tape between himself and a model, which he claims was stolen and is in the hands of the same film producer that released Paris Hilton's sex tape.

• Severina Vučković, a Croatian pop star, had a tape of her having sex with a married man released on the Internet in 2004. She claimed the video was stolen and sued. The case was later dismissed.

External links

• Sex Tape Site With All Sex Tapes on File.