"The biggest sex tape of the year, with the smallest star" has taken a legal turn. The two foot tall plus change, 39 yr old actor best known from Austin Powers as "Mini-Me" made a steamy home-made sex tape with his then live-in girlfriend age 22."
Troyer now has an order from a federal judge to shut down internet distribution, and force porn distributors to surrender the videos they may have. The diminutive star has long regaled captive audiences with tales of threesomes and Play Boy Bunnies, and was getting a fair amount of publicity from this video. Any publicity is good, as I understand it. I'll admit it delighted Troyer much more than I quite recently, when my radio alarm clock wakened me with a talk show speculating upon the size of Mr. Troyer's equipment, and the hot (publicity mad) babes he's dated. His sudden umbrage is stranger still, as he now claims the tape was stolen from his home months ago...something I do not recall hearing while he was riding the crest of the talk show circuit.
Why the sudden change of heart - literally within days of freely sharing his good times? I know it's difficult to believe, but money could have something to do with it. Troyer's sudden turn around coincides with an offer from the same people who bought Paris Hilton's "One Night in Paris" video. They have tempted Troyer in the neighborhood of 50,000 pounds. The judgement also seeks ten million pounds in damages. The main target of the suit seems to be entertainment website TMZ, which has now pulled the 25 second snippits. I can safely say the snippits, and perhaps even the full length videos are not difficult to locate, without going anywhere near TMZ, and even after the judge's ruling.
I particularly love this statement, and wonder if this judge is from Central Casting. US District Judge Philip Gutierrez wrote that Troyer's motion "demonstrated that he will suffer irreparable harm to his reputation" if the tape is distributed.
Call me Ditzy, naive, or uncomprehending - but his reputation will be ruined if the tape is free for viewing, but will be intact - if he is paid a lot of money first?
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