Celebrity sex tape

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 distribution and made available to an audience for which it was not supposedly intended.

Famous celebrity sex tapes

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

• 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. 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.
• Former sportscaster and blaxploitation actress Jayne Kennedy had a sex tape stolen and released showing her with former husband Leon Isaac Kennedy.
• 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. This footage, along with additional full-color footage, was released commercially under the title 1 Night in Paris.
• 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 as the "Wedding Night" tape, although the wedding gown was actually a Halloween costume.
• 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.
• 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. RLD planned to release the tape in 2006, but one of the women involved filed to block it. Rock also filed an injunction, called Stapp an "idiot" and blamed him for the tape's leak.
• 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.
• 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.
• In 2004, professional wrestlers Joanie Laurer (better known as Chyna) and Sean Waltman (aka X-Pac) which is being 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ulrika Jonsson won a court order banning footballer Stan Collymore from selling an explicit video of the pair indulging in sexual activity.
• 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.
• 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.
• Saved by the Bell actor Dustin Diamond authorised 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.
• British TV personality Abi Titmuss appears in a sex tape featuring herself, her ex–TV presenter boyfriend John Leslie, and another woman.
• Page 3 Idol 2004 Keeley Hazell had a 10 minute sex tape featuring herself and her ex-boyfriend released in early January 2007.
• Socialite and friend of Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian confirmed the existence of a sex tape of her made by then-boyfriend Ray J. She threatened to use legal means to block its planned distribution by Vivid Video.
• 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. The case was later dismissed.
• In 2005, Anna or full name Issaraporn Jandrasopark is a singer from the Thailand music group JAMP as well as her numerous roles in TV shows, drama and commercials. A sex video stolen from her boyfriend's computer when it was taken in for repair. The video leaked in 2005 ended her career.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
• 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.
• American actress, model and former Penthouse Pet of The Year, Brandy Ledford appeared as part of a threesome in a home-made hardcore porn film with musician Vince Neil and porn actress Janine Lindemulder.
• A 16-minute sex clip of Vietnamese teen actress and singer Hoang Thuy Linh, famous for playing the lead role in the Vietnamese educational television show The Yellow Bird's diary (Nh?t kí Vàng Anh in Vietnamese), and her ex-boyfriend appeared on several Internet websites in October 2007. The end of the show was announced shortly afterwards.
• Two DVD's 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.

According to Chris Kellund, president of BookCenterfolds, the release of Kim Kardashian & Ray J's personal sex tape brought the phenomenon of home-brew porn tapes around the corner to a new level of social exploitativeness. He says the totality of Kim's national "fame" and media work derives from being a home-brew pornstar, and without the tape having been released, her name would not be in the public mind today. He says while the matter of whether she deliberately leaked the tape to gain fame or not is fuzzy... "from her behavior since then, its obvious she cares for fame at any price, for doing blatantly nothing much at all". Kellund says he suspects Kardashian's sex tape was a deliberate publicity vehicle, and Paris Hilton's may have been also. He further comments - its hard to believe with all their money and personal power that Pam Anderson, Paris Hilton, and Kim Kardashian (daughter of a famed attorney), were all unable to stop allegedly illicit sale of personal tapes. [Ironically, Pam Anderson is now in a relationship with the co-star of Hilton's sex tape, Rick Salomon.] Kellund comments... the "celebrity" and "wannabe" home-brew-porn phenomenon has apparently become part of the landscape of a society now more interested in trivial titillation than art, and of a media voraciously seeking - the hype of the moment.

Rumored, disputed and fraudulent sex tapes

Many tapes that are released or believed to be available claim to involve a particular celebrity, but the claims are disputed or found to be false. In the case of disputed tapes, poor quality video, bad lighting and similarities in physical features can make many question whether the tape is of the celebrity mentioned. Many other celebrities are rumored to have made sex tapes; however, there is no video or excerpt generally available to confirm the rumour.

• A pornographic clip featuring a woman who bears a resemblance to Barbra Streisand has been distributed for many years. It was first distributed by Al Goldstein on his 1970s TV series Midnight Blue. In an 1977 interview with Playboy, Streisand stated that the woman in the film is not her and she had actually viewed a copy of the film out of curiosity.
• In an interview with the British newspaper News of the World, Playboy Playmate Nicole Marie Lenz claimed that she made a lesbian sex tape with Paris Hilton.
• A fraudulent sex tape of an O.J. Simpson look-alike and two prostitutes was distributed over the internet in June 2006. Simpson's lawyer acknowledged that Simpson does appear fully clothed in the tape but that the man engaged in sex acts with the same women is not him. The tape's distributor, however, maintains that the man in the tape is, in fact, Simpson.
• Zahra Amir Ebrahimi is one of the best-known actresses in Iran. In 2006, a 20-minute sex tape from 2004 hit the Internet starring Ebrahimi's then-fiance and a woman bearing a resemblance to Ebrahimi. Ebrahimi has denied that the girl is her and has suggested the possibility of a look-alike being used by her ex-fiance to hurt her career. See also Iranian sex tape scandal.
• During her life there were persistent rumors that Joan Crawford acted in several pornographic films early in her career, including some with lesbian content. The films (if they ever existed) are supposed to have been all destroyed upon her entry into Hollywood as a legitimate actress.
• In 1980, a Swedish photographer discovered a 16 mm hardcore sex short film from around 1948, purportedly featuring a young Marilyn Monroe. Despite the woman in the film bearing only a passing resemblance to Monroe, supporters of the theory that the woman in the film is indeed her point to FBI files in which Joe DiMaggio is reported to have offered twenty-five thousand dollars for a print of a "French-type" movie ostensibly featuring Monroe "in unnatural acts with an unknown male."
• Popular 50s and 60s television actor Chuck Connors, and star of such series as The Rifleman and Branded, was rumored to have appeared in a hardcore gay film short, although the man in the film is most likely an unidentified look-alike.
• A man whose voice bears a strong resemblance to that of pioneering rock singer and guitarist Chuck Berry is heard on a urologically-themed tape commercially sold under the title "Chuck Berry's Home Movies". The tape largely consists of the man urinating on a woman in a bathtub while passing gas loudly, although the man's face cannot be seen.
• Meg White, the drummer for band the White Stripes, has stated, through a spokesperson for the group, that a clip circulating the Internet rumored to be a sex tape of her is not hers.