Paris Hilton 'Humiliated' Over Sex Tape
Video Making Rounds On Internet
POSTED: 10:40 a.m. EST November 18, 2003
UPDATED: 11:15 a.m. EST November 18, 2003
Hollywood socialite Paris Hilton is speaking out about the sex tape she made with her ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon that's making rounds on the Internet.
In a statement issued to The Associated Press, the heiress to the Hilton hotel chain said she was in an intimate relationship and never thought the video she made with Salomon would become public.
"I feel embarrassed and humiliated, especially because my parents and the people who love me have been hurt," Hilton said in the statement.
Hilton made the homemade video with then-boyfriend Salomon three years ago. Snippets have been sent to various media outlets and have popped up on the Internet.
Lawsuits from three different parties have resulted since word of the sex tape surfaced.
Last week, Salomon filed a $10 million slander suit against Hilton, her parents and publicist.
In the suit, he claims Hilton, 22, and her family have waged a "cold, calculated and malicious campaign to portray Salomon as a rapist" to protect her image.
Salomon said Hilton, her parents and their publicist "implied to the press" that Hilton was incapacitated and was therefore sexually assaulted during the 27-minute video.
Instead, he said Hilton "posed and preened"' during the video, said "hi" to the camera and even interrupted sex to answer her cell phone.
Salomon has also filed a $10 million suit against Marvad Corp., a Seattle-based Internet porn company, claiming it distributed footage from the video without obtaining the legal rights.
Marvad in turn, has filed a $10 million breach-of-contract suit against Salomon's former roommate Donald Thrasher.
Marvad claims in the suit that Thrasher misled the company into believing he owned the rights to the video.
Hilton is set to be featured along with singer Lionel Ritchie's daughter, Nicole, on the upcoming riches-to-rags reality series "Simple Life" -- where the two go to live on a farm for a month.
Salomon, 33, went on to marry former "Beverly Hills 90210" star Shannen Doherty last year.
In a statement issued to The Associated Press, the heiress to the Hilton hotel chain said she was in an intimate relationship and never thought the video she made with Salomon would become public.
"I feel embarrassed and humiliated, especially because my parents and the people who love me have been hurt," Hilton said in the statement.
Hilton made the homemade video with then-boyfriend Salomon three years ago. Snippets have been sent to various media outlets and have popped up on the Internet.
Lawsuits from three different parties have resulted since word of the sex tape surfaced.
Last week, Salomon filed a $10 million slander suit against Hilton, her parents and publicist.
In the suit, he claims Hilton, 22, and her family have waged a "cold, calculated and malicious campaign to portray Salomon as a rapist" to protect her image.
Salomon said Hilton, her parents and their publicist "implied to the press" that Hilton was incapacitated and was therefore sexually assaulted during the 27-minute video.
Instead, he said Hilton "posed and preened"' during the video, said "hi" to the camera and even interrupted sex to answer her cell phone.
Salomon has also filed a $10 million suit against Marvad Corp., a Seattle-based Internet porn company, claiming it distributed footage from the video without obtaining the legal rights.
Marvad in turn, has filed a $10 million breach-of-contract suit against Salomon's former roommate Donald Thrasher.
Marvad claims in the suit that Thrasher misled the company into believing he owned the rights to the video.
Hilton is set to be featured along with singer Lionel Ritchie's daughter, Nicole, on the upcoming riches-to-rags reality series "Simple Life" -- where the two go to live on a farm for a month.
Salomon, 33, went on to marry former "Beverly Hills 90210" star Shannen Doherty last year.
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