Who doesn’t have a sex tape? Singer Jennifer Lopez and dethroned Miss California Carrie Prejean have both been embarrassed by sex tapes they made when they were young. Prejean, however, is making a wacky claim that the sex tape is being used to “destroy” her because of her controversial views on gay marriage. What gives?
The real question is why did she ever make a sex tape in the first place. The truth is sex tapes have become a ticket to celebrity for a number of well-known, well, celebrities, who don’t have any real talent. Think Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.
It’s odd that Prejean’s sex tape surfaced just as she was promoting her new book, and she has been making the talk show rounds to discuss both. But the book probably wouldn’t be receiving near the publicity with the sex tape controversy.
In Lopez’s case the issue largely seems to be money. On Monday (Nov. 9), she won a court temporarily blocking her first husband from making their sex tape public. But the case is not over. Ex-husband Ojani Noa vowed to fight to win the right to cash in on the tape, called “The J.Lo and Ojani Noa Story.”
The order came in a $10 million lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by Lopez. The hearing is expected to continue today.
Lopez claims her ex-husband is violating a confidentiality agreement by selling the movie, which contains raunchy video footage, shot on the couple’s 1997 honeymoon. The marriage only lasted 11 months.
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In 2007, Lopez won $545,000 in damages and fees in another lawsuit that blocked Noa from publishing a ghostwritten tell-all book. Lopez claimed Noa had demanded $5 million to keep him from publishing the book, according to the Associated Press.
Lopez, 40, married Marc Antony in 2004 and they have two children. Before that she was married for nine months to choreographer Cris Judd.
Meanwhile, Prejean claims that news about the existence of her sex tape is part of a conspiracy to discredit her because of her opposition to gay marriage and other conservative beliefs. Her controversial statements during the Miss California contest ultimately cost her the crown.
She called making the tape the “worst mistake of my life.”
“I was all by myself. I was sending my boyfriend at the time, who I loved and cared about, you know, video of me. I was a teenager at the time and never did I ever think it would come out,” she said on Fox News, “taking total responsibility for it.”
While J.Lo can probably just blame stupidity and a poor choice of husbands for her predicament, Prejean bears the additional burden of being a hypocrite.
She wasn’t even married when she made the tape and her actions are sharply contrary with her current conservative, family values philosophy. She told NBC’s “Today Show” she is the victim of “a campaign against me to try to silence me.”
More likely she’s a victim of her own stupidity compounded by her own hubris. Unfortunately, she’s likely to leverage the tape into even more notoriety. What ever happened to shame?
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