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Tupac 'Sex Tape' Sparks Bidding War Between Porn Companies
Alleged footage is proving popular...
Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson - Arguably the most famous sex tape of all, Tommy Lee could barely hide the fact he had Pamela Anderson bouncing up and down on his crotch when footage of their Honeymoon was placed online by Internet Entertainment Group in 1998. To this day it remains one of the most watched in history.
Rihanna - Rihanna felt “humiliated” when a naked photo of her emerged online in 2009. The images, which showed her posing in quite frankly a series of very provocative positions, surfaced just months after her assault at the hands of then boyfriend Chris Brown. She clearly wasn’t too disheartened though. "If you don't send your boyfriend naked pictures, then I feel bad for him,” she added in an interview about the saga.
Hayley Williams of Paramore - We all know Hayley Williams has for a long time now been the only reason anyone like Paramore (just ask Josh Farro), so it was no surprise when Twitter went bananas in May 2010 when a topless photo of her surfaced. It was obtained when somebody hacked into her mobile phone and posted it on the micro-blog. At the time the singer chose to remain silent over the image, but she later said she is “not sorry for who I am”.
Kanye West - A naked photo of Kanye West surfaced online at the end of 2010 at a time when - shockingly - the rapper was also promoting new album ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’. Unsurprisingly, ‘Ye was not happy - not because it leaked, but because it emerged without his manhood on show. "You cannot imagine how disappointed I was how I got cut off. I'm like, 'damn!'" he told a US radio station.
Paris Hilton - Arguably the most popular celebrity sex tape, Paris Hilton’s 1 Night In Paris depicts the multi-million dollar heiress and flopped music star going at it with a former boyfriend. The tape, shot in night vision, has become what’s best described as an online sensation. She initially attempted to stop the distribution of the tape, but Hilton now receives profits from the distribution of the video
Basshunter - Most music stars who have actually been caught in a sex tape choose not to discuss it. But that’s not Jonas Altberg aka Basshunter’s style. He bragged about his “sex orgy” with his girlfriend and her gal pals when images emerged online in 2008. The event took place at his parents’ house. They weren’t, thankfully, involved in the romp.
Miley Cyrus - What is it about Disney stars and nude scandals? In 2007 and 2008 batches of photos of an alleged Miley Cyrus posing in bra and pants hit the internet, and prompted uproar because the singer was then only 15. MTV, however, put it more bizarrely when it said the images had the potential to take Cyrus from ”a tween and teenybopper sensation to a more mature artist”. Guess that’s one way of putting it.
Ke$ha - There’s only one this worse that finding a naked photo of yourself on the internet, and that’s finding a naked photo of yourself covered in someone’s semen. That allegedly happened to Ke$ha in 2010 when Perez Hilton (yes, him again) ran the photos on his blog. “Real or Photoshopped???” he shouted. “Sure looks real to us!!!!” In truth, we never found out.
Britney Spears - There’s no denying it, the middle part of the opening decde of the 2000s was a rough one for Britney. And her problems were compounded in 2008 when former boyfriend Adnan Ghalib claimed to have a sex tape with the star. Fortunately for the former Mickey Mouse Club singer, however, the tape never existed, and a spokesperson for Spears called the claims “completely false”.
R Kelly - One of the biggest names in R&B, R Kelly found himself in the dock in 2008 after he was accused of making an explicit sex video with a girl as young as 13. Both the singer and the alleged victim denied they were in the tape and R Kelly was eventually cleared of all 14 charges of child pornography against him.
Nicki Minaj - She’s barely been around five minutes, but Nicki Minaj has already found herself caught up in a sex tape scandal. In December 2010, Mediatakeout.com claimed to have a video which allegedly showed the rapper engaged in acts with a male associate. A number of online companies were said to be involved in an online bidding war over the tape, with an asking price of $100,000 on the table.
Madonna - The Queen Of Pop found herself at the centre of a sex tape scandal in 2008 when a New York man claimed to have footage of her romping with US baseball legend Alex Rodriguez. The website that carried the claim amusingly said the tape showed them doing the “mattress mambo”. The singer’s lawyers said at the time that they were “aware” of the claims, but did no comment. It turned out to be another hoax.
Gene Simmons - Ewwww. That was our reaction when in 2008 a tape surfaced apparently showing KISS’s Gene Simmons romping with a woman. At the time, Simmons insisted that he didn't have any knowledge of the video being made and that he was “blackmailed” and “extorted” before it leaked. The woman in the so-called tape later claimed she had been victimised.
Vince Neil - If we’ve learned one thing, it’s that sex tapes come back to haunt you. In 1993, Motley Crue’s Vince Neil shot what he probably thought was an innocent romp with porn star Janine Lindemulder and Penthouse Pet Brandy Ledford. Only it wasn’t when the company responsible for Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s aforementioned sex fest got its hands on the footage.
Meg White - Not long after Meg White dropped out of The White Stripes tour suffering with “acute anxiety” a sex tape emerged online suggesting she had found ways to overcome it. Indie fans went crazy trying to guess whether or not the woman in the footage was indeed White, but in the end the band’s publicist spoke out to insist that the tape was fake.
Bret Michaels - Pammy’s back, and making her second appearance on out countdown of sex tape scandals. This time it’s because she had a romp with Poison singer Bret Michaels, which was released as a DVD in 2005 years after it had already been available for millions of internet users. The Baywatch star certainly knows how to choose them.
Fred Durst - There are some music stars you would like to see involved in a sex tape, and then there’s Fred Durst. The internet was rather put off when an alleged tape showing the Limp Bizkit star going at it for two minutes emerged online. It as apparently leaked by a repairman who had been fixing his computer. Durst later sued the website Gawker and nine others for $70 million dollars for publishing it.
Lily Allen - We’ve all done it. It’ been late, we’ve had too much to drink and - ping - absolutely sent a message of something to someone we definitely didn’t mean to. You’ll be pleased to know that Lily Allen has done the same thing. In 2009, the ‘Smile’ singer revealed that she accidentally sent a topless picture of herself to Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson. It was “really embarrassing” she said, but refused to admit who the intended recipient was. Fortunately for her, Wilson didn't choose to forward it on.
Kid Rock - You might expect Kid Rock to be a bit wild after gigs, and that proved to be the case when a sex tape emerged in 2006 of him receiving a blow job on his tour bus in 1999. Creeds Scott Stapp was also in on the action, and in an interview with Spin magazine claimed that it wasn’t a sex tape because it contained “no sex”. A sexless sex tape, then. The pair still aren’t talking.
Pete Wentz - In 2007, Perez Hilton claimed to have unearthed another celebrity sex tape - this time Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz. The 30 second video, which is still available online, was a pretty tame effort showing a tattooed man and a blonde at it in bed, and like most of the content on the blogger’s website, turned out to be utter rubbish. The bassist went on record and said “there is no Pete Wentz sex tape in existence”.
Cassie - US singer Cassie awoke to find naked photos of her on the internet in 2009 after apparently being stolen from her computer. If there was ever any doubt over their authenticity, then you should try searching for the sites that orginally hosted them.
Jimi Hendrix - The sex tape is a relatively new phenomenon, but that didn’t stop reports of one featuring the late Jimi Hendrix surfacing in 2008. Vivid Entertainment, the world's largest adult film producer, claimed to have a video that allegedly showed a man who resembled Hendrix having sex with two brunettes in a hotel room. The video never came to light, which is a good think because the legendary guitarist may have struggled to deny it.
Ian Watkins of Lostprophets - It’s not every day you find a story about Ian Watkins on US gossip blog Perez Hilton, but re-wind to September 2010 and that’s exactly what happened when the blogger published images which allegedly showed the Lostprophets singer engaged in a lewd gay sex romp. He never confirmed the authenticity of the photos, but did write on Twitter at the same time: "I love it when a plan comes together...x"
N-Dubz Dappy - Not content with being in one of the worst pop acts in history, N-Dubz star Dappy was unearthed has having a not particularly long libido when images allegedly showing him passed out naked in bed hit the internet in January 2011. What a way to start the year.
D.R.U.G.S’ Craig Owens - It’s one thing starring in a sex tape, it’s another faking one. That’s what former Chiodos frontman Craig Owens has admitted doing with porn actress Raven Alexis. Owens revealed in a blog recently that he started the rumour it was a genuine explicit video to show that people should "not get caught up in the unimportant garbage". In reality, it did exactly the opposite.
Tags: Nicki Minaj
A bidding war has erupted over an alleged sex tape starring the late Tupac Shakur.
According to TMZ, the sex tape, filmed back in 1991, shows the rapper receiving oral sex from a groupie while rapping and dancing along to one of his own tracks.
The celebrity gossip website reports that one of the companies seeking to buy the tape is YouPorn, despite not seeing it.
They have apparently made an official $150,000 offer for the tape, but the person in possession of the alleged footage believes the figure is “way too low”.
Reports of the sex tape come just a week after similar claims of an alleged filmed sexual exchange between Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne.
Music Star Sex Tape And Naked Photo Scandals