Big Fat Story
The actor kicked off sex-tape scandals with his romp at the 1988 Democratic convention.
On July 17, 1988, the night before the Democratic Convention kicked off in Atlanta, Rob Lowe and pals Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson headed to the Club Rio on Luckie Street for a party hosted by Ted Turner. As he slipped past the velvet ropes, the Brat Packer locked eyes on a 16-year-old hair-salon assistant, and her lover, 22-year-old receptionist Tara Siebert. A few hours later, the trio headed to Lowe’s hotel room at the Atlanta Hilton and engaged in what a future personal injury lawsuit would describe as Lowe using “his celebrity status as an inducement to females to engage in sexual intercourse, sodomy, and multiple-partner sexual activity for his immediate sexual gratification, and for the purposes of making pornographic films of these activities." That night, the women stole and duplicated said film, setting off a PR firestorm that drove the then-24-year-old actor underground. After a public apology and support from friends like Emilio Estevez, he completed his Hollywood comeback in 1999 as a proud Democrat on Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing.
Will we ever see the Marlon Brando movie? Or Marilyn with JFK?
Sometimes the rumors are too good to be true. Is there a tape to go along with the famous photograph thought to purports to show Marlon Brando fellating actor Wally Cox? Was that actually Jimi Hendrix with two brunettes in the 11-minute video released last year? And, perhaps the biggest question of all, will America ever get a look at the 15-minute tape of Marilyn Monroe in flagrante with another man, who just might be JFK or RFK? A New York businessman reportedly bought an illicit copy of the classified FBI sex tape for $1.5 million in 2008. Monroe’s ex Joe DiMaggio reportedly once offered $25,000 for the silent black-and-white tape, filmed in the 1950s on 16mm film, but was rebuffed. Chances are the video won’t come to light for some time. Its current owner has promised to lock up the tape and throw away the key.
From Paris to Pam and Tommy Lee, fading stars reclaim the spotlight.
At some point—shortly after the 1997 release of a tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee cavorting on their honeymoon catapulted both falling stars back into the headlines—it dawned on celebrities (and their publicists) that an embarrassing sex tape could be a boon to a flagging career. One Night in Paris, the video of one beautiful encounter between Paris Hilton and ex Rick Salomon, sold 600,000 copies after it leaked in 2003 and landed the socialite a book deal, a fragrance contract, a reality show, and the covers of Vanity Fair and W magazines. And Kim Kardashian sent the law after Vivid Entertainment when it released a video she’d made with ex Ray J, but the 2007 scandal quickly brought her a Playboy pictorial, a Bongo jeans contract, a workout DVD, and a coveted spot on Dancing With the Stars.
Naked Ambitions
Grey’s Anatomy’s Eric Dane is the latest star caught on a McSteamy sex tape. From Rob Lowe to Pamela Anderson to Prince Charles, The Daily Beast deconstructs the growing canon.
Some careers just can’t be resuscitated by a sex tape.
Mini-Me, Screech, skater Tonya Harding, and wrestler Chyna stand out among the many who tried to breathe new life into old careers with the help of a timely skin flick. Verne Troyer, the diminutive Austin Powers star, was filmed with his former live-in girlfriend at the couple’s apartment. While Saved By The Bell’s geek god Dustin Diamond released his hideous sex tape, Screeched in 2007. Former WWE wrestler Chyna, neé Joan Marier Laurer, shot a video with fiancé and fellow wrestler Sean “X Pac” Waltman. The creative title? 1 Night in Chyna. While Harding, best known for placing a kneecapping hit on fellow Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, put out a film with her ex-husband in 1994. None of these tapes, however, gave these celebrities the bounce they were looking for.
In 2008, Hong Kong actor-singer Edison Chen, heartthrob of multiple continents, had his career derailed by the appearance of 1,300 images with him in bed with several women, including many celebrities. "I have failed as a role model,” Chen said in his public apology. “However I wish that this matter will teach everyone a lesson," he said. And Iran of all places had a sex tape scandal of its own in 2008 when a robed cleric was caught on tape with a chador-clad woman. “Want to do some Nasnas?” he asks, referring to an Iranian monster—their “beast with two backs.” When the tape was leaked online, the whole world knew definitively what was under a cleric’s robe.
Leave it to the Europeans to be classy and go the audio rather than videotape route. Still, some of the stuff originating on the other side of the Atlantic should be buried at sea. In the 1992 scandal known as “Camillagate” Prince Charles was captured on audiotape joking with his then paramour Camilla Parker Bowles that he’d like to be reincarnated as one of her Tampax. (“You are a complete idiot,” she replied. “Oh, what a wonderful idea.) And last month, Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was caught on tape offering a call girl some prime advice: “You should have sex with yourself. You should touch yourself often.”
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THIS is the Big Fat Story??!!?! And Britney's REALLY Big Fat Late Night Bikini adds to it?
What's happened to the Daily Beast? Why did you get so desperate and lost?
Unwelcome, uninteresting, unfunny, Tina.
The main example isn't even a sex tape, it's more of a coke tape. Just three famous people high off their minds, naked. But I don't think the tape even shows them kissing.
Don't dis the Daily Beast -- it's news and sex. You got to headline sex in the US of A. So many have huge hangups about sex here.
Don't get me wrong -- you wouldn't see my rear on video... who'd want to see it anyway?
McSteamy supposedly enjoying the McNasty in a McThreesome after doin some McDruggies. At least they weren't at McDonalds.
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To quote the outspoken political femme fatale from The View... "Who cares? So what?"
McSteamy was probably too coked up to be able to enjoy any McNasty. The only thing on this tape is naked, nonsensical chatter. It's not a sex tape.
Sex is THE engine that drives the human race. Money, power, fame, drugs and anything else that people like to acquire and use are all really about sex.
Most popular music seems to be about sex or romance or sex based relationships. Religion is saturated with notions of how to conduct oneself sexually. Literature is saturated with sex. Art has tons of sex or sexual metaphors in it.
Even so, spare me Prince Charles and his sex life. The man is a dork. I could have done a better job of being the heir apparent to the British crown, unless I too was raised by Prince Phillip and the QE II. Maybe I would have turned out badly as well. Or worse.
This is good stuff. Especially the Marilyn Monroe tape thought to be with John Kennedy when she was married to someone else.
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