The following is an alphabetical list by surname of individuals known to have their sexual acts recorded and distributed:
A •
Farrah Abraham, the former
Teen Mom star, had a pornographic film released by
Vivid Entertainment in May 2013 that was marketed as a sex tape. The video featured her having sex with porn star
James Deen which she legally sold to Vivid reportedly for $1.5 million. Abraham defended her decision to make the video claiming that she wanted to "celebrate [her] awesome body". •
Pamela Anderson has appeared in two distinct sex tapes. • Pamela Anderson and then-husband
Tommy Lee had various interludes from their honeymoon placed online by
Seth Warshavsky of the Internet Entertainment Group in 1997 as one of the earliest internet celebrity sex tapes. • Pamela Anderson and
Bret Michaels (singer of the band
Poison) had a sex tape released as a DVD on 7 September 2005. The footage had been circulating on the internet for many years.
B •
Joe Barton, a US Congressman from Texas, came to national attention when nude selfie photos of him and video he had taken of himself
masturbating both surfaced online in 2017. •
Wally Bayola An intimate video of this Filipino noontime show host & celebrity, with a dancer of the group "EB Babe" surfaced on YouTube in 2013. •
Chuck Berry, American musician who recorded videos of himself
urinating on and engaging in
coprophilia with women.
C •
Chyna – Former professional wrestler Joanie Laurer made her adult film debut with the 2004 video
1 Night in China. Laurer and
Sean Waltman approached
Red Light District Video to distribute the homemade video. She then appeared in her second video entitled
Another Night in China in 2009. In 2011, Chyna starred in her first professional pornographic film for
Vivid Video entitled
Backdoor to Chyna. She also starred for Vivid as
She-Hulk in their parody of
The Avengers, released in May 2012. A spinoff feature centered on the She-Hulk character titled
She-Hulk XXX was released to video in April 2013. •
Chu Mei-feng had a 47-minute
video CD secretly taken with a pinhole camera, released by a local paparazzi magazine in December 2001. The video showed Chu having sex with
Tseng Chung-ming, who was later confirmed as a married man. Despite local authorities' immediate effort to pull all the magazines in question from the market, the video quickly spread via the Internet. In January 2002, search engine
Lycos reported that her name was among the most searched terms. •
Chua Soi Lek, while serving as
Malaysia's Health Minister, was secretly videotaped having sex. Two resulting DVDs were distributed freely and anonymously to various homes in
Batu Pahat. On 2 January 2008, Chua announced his resignation, despite saying he would not do so the previous day. •
Tulisa Contostavlos is a British singer/actress and during her time on talent show
The X Factor, on which she was a judge, a tape was released that showed her giving oral sex to her ex-boyfriend, rapper Justin Edwards, also known as MC Ultra. She also got her lawyers to take it off the internet and released a YouTube video to put "her side of the story" across to the public.
D •
Fred Durst, the frontman for the band
Limp Bizkit, had a video of him and an unknown woman having sex leaked onto the Internet by a repairman who had been repairing his computer. He later sued the website
Gawker and nine others for $70 million for publishing it. •
Artem Dzyuba, Russian professional footballer, had a video depicting him masturbating go viral in 2020. He was subsequently dropped from Russia's
Nations League games against
Moldova,
Turkey, and
Serbia.
E •
David Ellefson, the bassist for the heavy metal band
Megadeth, had videos of him masturbating leaked to social media in May 2021. The videos were recorded from 2020 to 2021 by a female 19-year-old Dutch fan he was in correspondence with. Accusations of child grooming were initially levelled against Ellefson, though he and the fan denied these claims and maintained their encounters were consensual. Within days of the videos being leaked, Megadeth fired Ellefson, who vowed to take legal action against the party responsible for the leak. •
Tami Erin, former child star of 1988's
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, sold a sex tape of her and an ex-boyfriend in 2013, after determining she could not otherwise prevent its release.
F •
Jose Figueroa Agosto, better known as
Junior Capsula, is a Puerto Rican convicted drug lord who made a sex tape that was later available to the public to buy. •
Amy Fisher, also known as the "Long Island Lolita", was made famous by her shooting and severely wounding her former lover's wife, while Fisher was a teenager. She has marketed a sex tape with her husband.
H •
Katrina Halili was one of three principals associated with the so-called "Hayden Camera" controversy, in which videos were leaked in May 2009 that revealed sexual encounters between Halili and Dr.
Hayden Kho, and which were distributed over the Internet without her consent. •
Tonya Harding and her then-husband
Jeff Gillooly had a sex tape that was copied and marketed exclusively by
Penthouse. The couple decided to release it legitimately on their own. It was commercially sold by Penthouse Home Video as the "Wedding Night" tape, even though the wedding gown was actually a Halloween costume. •
Keeley Hazell, a British
glamour model, had a sex tape made with her ex-boyfriend Lloyd Miller published on the Internet in early January 2007. •
Paris Hilton and then-boyfriend
Rick Salomon recorded themselves having sex in a hotel room, shot in
night vision. Hilton initially attempted to stop the release of the tape and threatened to file a lawsuit, but she now receives profits from the distribution of the video. •
Hulk Hogan, professional wrestler, and radio host
Bubba the Love Sponge's ex-wife Heather Clem Cole were seen in a grainy video that surfaced early in 2012.
Hogan sued Gawker for $100 million for defamation, loss of privacy, and emotional pain due to the release of the tape. He won the lawsuit, and on 18 March 2016, he was awarded $115 million. On 10 June 2016,
Gawker announced its bankruptcy filing as a direct result of the monetary judgment against the company.
I •
Nazril Irham, an Indonesian pop star known as "Ariel" was sentenced to years in prison in January 2011 for appearing in two sex videos circulating on the internet. TV presenter
Luna Maya and soap opera star
Cut Tari initially denied being the women in the videos. Under a controversial
anti-pornography law that came into effect in Indonesia in 2008, The video would have resulted in his prosecution under a law banning
adultery, owing to Cut Tari having been married at the time the video was made in 2006.
K •
Kim Kardashian made a sex tape with her then boyfriend
Ray J in October 2003. The video—called
Kim Kardashian, Superstar—was leaked in 2007. She threatened to take legal action to block its planned distribution by Vivid Video. Her sex tape bolstered her career when
E! made her and her family the focus of a reality television show,
Keeping Up with the Kardashians. •
R. Kelly's sex tape, published in early 2002, showed the singer having
sexual intercourse with (and allegedly
urinating on) a fourteen-year-old female. He had repeatedly
denied being involved in the taping, despite overwhelming evidence. That June, Kelly was indicted for 21 counts of
child pornography. After six years of a delayed trial in
Illinois, he was acquitted in 2008. •
Jayne Kennedy, a former sportscaster and
blaxploitation actress, had a sex tape stolen and released showing her with former husband
Leon Isaac Kennedy. •
Will Levis, quarterback for the
Tennessee Titans, faced controversy after a sex tape of him and his girlfriend Gia Duddy was leaked online in 2024. •
Nikko London and
Mimi Faust of
VH1's reality show
Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta have a sex tape, which leaked in April 2014. •
Rob Lowe faced controversy in the 1980s when he taped himself having sex with a young woman and a teenage girl he met at an
Atlanta night club. After the tape was released, Lowe's career rebounded, with the actor spoofing the tapes during an appearance on
Saturday Night Live. •
Jenna Lewis, star of
Survivor during honeymoon with ex-husband Travis Wolfe on 23 July 2004.
M • A pornographic video tape of
Mindy McCready and an ex-boyfriend referred to as "Peter" went on sale by Vivid Entertainment on 19 April 2010. McCready claimed the video was stolen from her home three years prior. •
Carolyn Murphys ex-husband Jake Schroeder allegedly tried to sell a tape featuring them having sex during their honeymoon in 1999 while in
Barbados. In January 2006, Schroeder was arrested and charged with
extortion for trying to sell the tape. The video was leaked onto the Internet in April 2006. • A sex tape of
Meera, a
Pakistani film actress, was released on internet in 2014. In video Meera was shown having sex with her husband Captain Naveed. • A sex tape of Spanish rapper
Morad with his ex-girlfriend was leaked in March 2025.
N •
Nicole Narain and
Colin Farrell have a 13-minute sex tape, recorded in 2003. •
Nelly apologized after the accidental posting of a video to his Instagram in February 2022 of him receiving oral sex from an unidentified woman. •
Noelia In June 2007, a sex tape of Puerto Rican singer Noelia and her former boyfriend started circulating on the Internet. •
Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen, best known as
Tila Tequila. Two sex tapes featuring Tequila were rumoured to exist as early as 2010. In 2011,
Vivid Entertainment released a video of Tequila engaging in sexual acts with
pornographic actresses Kristina Rose and Charlie Laine. Tequila stated that the video was made for personal use and she did not consent to its release. In December 2013, another sex-tape was announced, this time of Tequila and "an ex-boyfriend." It was released as a Vivid Video download in mid January 2014.
P •
Carrie Prejean, American model and author, had a sex tape stolen and released showing her alone. It featured him engaging in oral sex with different men. In an interview with rapper and media personality
Joe Budden in May 2022, Rashad revealed that he identifies as
sexually fluid and addressed the leaks, saying that he was "super in [his] head" when he learned of the leak.
S •
Karissa Shannon, Playboy Playmate and glamour model, attracted some publicity by confirming in 2010 that she had been involved in sex tapes with
Spencer Pratt and
Heidi Montag. One sex tape of her and boyfriend actor
Sam Jones III was released on DVD by Vivid Entertainment in October 2010 as
Karissa Shannon Superstar. •
Shannon Sharpe, former football player, accidentally created a sex tape by inadvertently livestreaming audio of himself and an unidentified woman having intercourse on
Instagram. He later apologized and admitted that the livestream had been started accidentally. • In 2008, a video on the Internet surfaced which purported to be
Gene Simmons engaging in sexual activity with an unnamed woman. Simmons later stated that the tape was recorded without his consent or knowledge and that his legal team was pursuing legal options including copyright infringement. •
Saraya Bevis, private photos and sex tape featuring professional wrestler Saraya were leaked online in March 2017. •
Scott Stapp,
Grammy award-winning lead singer of
Creed, achieved much notoriety in 2006 for a 1999 sex tape featuring Stapp and fellow musician
Kid Rock receiving
oral sex from
groupies in a tour bus. While many previews of the tape had been posted online at the time, the release of the full tape was blocked following a lawsuit by Kid Rock to block the release of the sex tape. These previews notoriously featured a video clip of Stapp uttering the phrase "It's good to be king," a fact verified by Stapp himself. •
Courtney Stodden, reality show contestant, attracted controversy over a sex tape featuring them performing
oral sex on their significantly older husband,
Doug Hutchison, as well as another solo video. The video was released through
Vivid Entertainment. According to Vivid, it is the most successful "self-pleasure video", with $1.2 million netted after 24 hours. Stodden has stated that they intend to donate their $1 million payout to charity.
T • On 25 June 2008, a private home video leaked of
Verne Troyer and his former live-in girlfriend, Ranae Shrider, having sex. The video, filmed in 2008 in
Beverly Hills, California, and Shrider's hometown of
Fort Cobb, Oklahoma, was leaked to the public by Shrider and
TMZ.
Kevin Blatt, the man responsible for brokering the deal for
Paris Hilton's sex tape in 2003, tried to sell the video. Troyer, through his long-time attorney, Ed McPherson, sued TMZ, Blatt, and online rental company
SugarDVD, for invasion of privacy and copyright infringement.
V •
Vivian Velez: In the 1980s, a
betamax-based celebrity sex tape of this
Filipina celebrity/actress supposedly with political personality
Rodolfo Fariñas circulated. •
Severina Vučković: In 2004, the Croatian singer was involved in an internationally reported
sex scandal after a video featuring her and
Bosnian Croat businessman Milan Lučić leaked onto the Internet, which was reported by the Croatian online tabloid
Index.hr. Vučković had earlier opposed
premarital sex in her public appearances and was claimed to be a practicing
Roman Catholic. Vučković sued the website that released the tape for damages, claiming that the video was stolen from her and that it was her intellectual property, but her lawsuit was later dismissed by a
Zagreb district court in July 2004.
W •
Jasmine Waltz appeared in a sex tape released on the Internet. Waltz said she was unaware that the video, made with an unnamed boyfriend and titled "Hollywood It Girl", had been leaked: "I'm absolutely shocked that the public is now going to see what I made with my boyfriend on Valentine's Day". •
Kendra Wilkinson, from
Playboy's
The Girls Next Door, had an unauthorized sex tape released by Vivid in May 2010. She tried to block the release of the film, but it soon reached the Internet. The video was filmed in 2003 when she was 18 and before she had
breast implants. ==See also==