Paris Sex Suit Dropped
Paris Hilton's life just got a little bit simpler.
Her ex-boyfriend (and her costar in the infamous sex video) Rick Salomon has dropped his $10 million slander suit against the heiress and her parents.
The video entrepreneur had been seeking compensation for what he called the "devastating effects" from their "shady behind-the-scenes maneuvers" in trying to block him from airing the sex tape on the Internet last fall. But in court papers filed Tuesday, Salomon's legal team decided to dismiss the charges.
Salomon is still seeking damages against Hilton's publicist Siri Garber and continues to maintain that the PR flack "orchestrated" a slanderous campaign against him.
When the tape surfaced in November, Garber quickly hit the airwaves, calling Paris a "sweet-natured" girl who comes across on tape as an incapacitated "victim" who "can't even get up" over the course of the now famous, darkly lit encounter.
Salomon claimed the tape was stolen and continues to insist that Hilton was an active, and even excited, participant during its taping three years ago, when they were a couple.
In his suit against the Hiltons and Garber (which was posted on the Smoking Gun Website), he said, "Any reasonable person who views the tape will surely conclude that Hilton was fully aware and cognizant of everything that was happening throughout the videotaped encounter and freely engaged in a wide variety of sexual activities."
Neither Salomon nor the Hilton camp could be immediately reached for comment.
But the news may be of little consolation to the much hyped star of Fox's The Simple Life. Portions of the video have been released on the Internet and have been viewed by millions of salacious Netizens.
Nevertheless, the video hasn't seemed to have much negative impact on the famed socialite's career. She is in the midst of filming the second edition of The Simple Life, where she and her fellow moneyed cohort Nicole Richie travel across the country in a pink pickup truck towing a live-in trailer.
She's also working on a pop album and has been fielding offers left and right for endorsement and movie gigs. She recently signed on as the new face of Guess? and will play a lead role in the horror film House of Wax, a remake of a 1953 classic. Filming is slated to begin this summer in Australia.





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