sex tapes (25 posts)

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Call it a minibetrayal.

A Los Angeles judge has given TMZ permission to repost a snippet of a sex tape featuring Verne Troyer after his willing costar, former girlfriend Ranae Shrider, informed a federal court that she was the one who leaked the footage in the first place.

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There's one less unnecessary thing on the Internet these days.

A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order preventing distributors from haggling over the new Verne Troyer sex tape and TMZ.com—or any other site—from posting anymore clips of the 50-minute video.

Troyer sued TMZ, celeb-porn broker Kevin Blatt and online adult-film rental service SugarDVD for $20 million, claiming violation of privacy and right to publicity, copyright and trademark infringement and misappropriation of name and likeness.

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So much for capitalizing on the exposure.

Verne Troyer, best known for playing Dr. Evil's Mini-Me in the last two Austin Powers movies, filed a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit Thursday against TMZ.com for posting snippets of a sex tape he made sometime over the last year with his then-girlfriend.

The 39-year-old actor says that TMZ disregarded cease-and-desist letters sent both before and after the video showed up on the site.

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The tale of the tape was apparently only half of the story.

Several documents pertaining to R. Kelly's child-pornography case were unsealed Tuesday, days after the R&B star was acquitted on all 14 counts, revealing previously inadmissible allegations from the prosecution's star witness.

Chief among the damning revelations are Lisa Van Allen's claims that one of Kelly's associates threatened to kill her for ratting out the superstar.

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Well, that was easy.

It took more than six years for the case to go to trial, but after less than a day of deliberations, a Chicago jury has found R&B superstar R. Kelly not guilty of all 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl.

If convicted, the 41-year-old singer could have faced a minimum of four years in prison and a maximum of 15 years and would have had to register as a sex offender in Illinois.

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Sitting through reruns can be such a drag. Or it can just be really uncomfortable.

The eight-man, four-woman jury sitting in judgment of R. Kelly rewatched the sex tape at the center of the R&B star's child-pornography trial before beginning their deliberations Thursday.

As part of their closing argument today, prosecutors replayed the 27-minute video, which they allege features Kelly having intercourse with—and then urinating on—a girl who was only 13 or 14 years old at the time.

Kelly is "directing her to dance, where to stand, when to stop urinating," Assistant State's Attorney Robert Heilengoetter told the jury as the video played.

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R. Kelly has spoken up for the first—and probably last—time in his child-pornography trial.

The embattled R&B star announced to the judge today that he would decline to take the stand in his own defense.

"I decided not to testify," he told Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan outside the presence of the jury.

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R. Kelly's lawyers have called it a case.

The defense in the R&B superstar's trial on kiddie-porn charges rested its case today, after spending only two days calling witnesses to counter prosecutors' charges that Kelly taped himself engaging in sex acts with a minor.

Cook County Criminal Court Judge Vincent Gaughan dismissed the jury following the brief morning session, which ended minutes after starting when Kelly's crew announced they had no intention of putting anybody else on the stand.

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The topic was extortion. Here's telling whether it pays off for the defense.

A private investigator testified on R. Kelly's behalf Thursday that the fiancé of Lisa Van Allen, the prosecution's so-called star witness who told the court yesterday that she engaged in several threesomes with the singer and the underage girl he's accused of making a sex tape with, attempted to extort $300,000 from Kelly in exchange for his girlfriend's silence.

Van Allen had testified Wednesday about meeting once with Jack Palladino, saying the P.I. threatened her.

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So much for the tale of the tape.

The reporter who first received the video that launched the R. Kelly kiddie-porn case won't be testifying after all.

A Chicago judge ruled today that Chicago Sun-Times music critic Jim DeRogatis will not have to explain how he received the tape—purportedly showing the R&B star engaged in sex acts with a minor—or whether he altered or copied the video before turning it over to authorities.

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According to the prosecution's so-called star witness, R. Kelly's relationship with a certain minor amounted to more than one videotape.

Lisa Van Allen testified Monday that, starting in late 1997 or early 1998, she participated in several threesomes with the R&B singer and the girl he's accused of making a sex tape with when she was only 13 or 14 years old.

Both the alleged victim, who's now 23, and Kelly—who has pleaded not guilty—have denied that they're the ones on the video.

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The tape shown in court last week that prosecutors say shows R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl was not edited to make it look as if something entirely unreal was taking place.

Probably.

George Skaluba, a forensic video analyst for the FBI, testified Thursday during the R&B star's child-porn trial that the copy in the court's possession depicts "real people in a real environment," although he couldn't be absolutely certain that the original wasn't doctored in some way.

Skaluba couldn't determine how many levels of copying the tape currently in the court's possession went through, but he concluded it would have been costly and "very, very time consuming and very hard" to manipulate the faces and/or the actions of the male and female on the original copy.

Skaluba's testimony punctures the defense's argument that the tape, whose "stars" have been positively identified by multiple prosecution witnesses, is a fake. However, the alleged victim, who's now 23 and was said to be 13 or 14 when the video was made, has since denied being Kelly's costar.

Meanwhile, prosecutors told the judge they need more time to interview a new potential defense witness before he's allowed to testify, ostensibly to refute the testimony of their theoretical star witness—a woman who's reportedly planning to testify she engaged in a threesome with Kelly and the girl.