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Web Log Archives: November 09, 2003 - November 15, 2003

Saturday, November 15, 2003

The New York Post reports on several more Paris Hilton sex tapes.

Not only has Hilton appeared in at least 10 amateur pornographic flicks, the horny hotel heiress also filmed a tryst with Playmate Nicole Lenz, a Frederick's of Hollywood model, on Feb. 15, 2003 — Hilton's 22nd birthday, sources said.

Three sources told The Post they've seen the steamy girl-on-girl video, which took place at the Bellagio in Las Vegas on a camera Hilton owned.

They described it as "graphic" and said it also involves a Hollywood actor.

[Hilton's ex-boyfriend Jason] Shaw went to Hilton's Hollywood home to clean out his belongings and "found a video of Paris having a tryst with Nicole," Shaw's pal added.

A business acquaintance of Shaw's — who owns several clubs in L.A. that Shaw invested in — heard of the tape and started shopping it around without his knowledge, Shaw's friend said.

Once Shaw found out his pal was shopping the tape without his consent, he destroyed it, a source said.

But one source says Hilton may still have her copy and claims to have seen it recently, within the past few months.

"Paris showed me the [tape with Lenz] and then asked me to help her get back the Rick Solomon tape," the source said.

Let's just hope she learned something about lighting between the Solomon and Lenz shoots.


The day after suing the Hiltons and their publicist, Rick Solomon filed another $10 million lawsuit against porn company Marvad and ex-friend Don Thrasher. Meanwhile, Marvad has filed its own $10 million lawsuit against Thrasher.


Salon transcribes this wonderful exchange from The O'Reilly Factor. O'Reilly apparently couldn't get Jessica Lynch on his show, so he interviewed Diane Sawyer about her interview with Lynch.

O'Reilly: By the time you talked to her, this topless thing wasn't out yet, right?

Sawyer: No.

O'Reilly: OK.

Sawyer: But we've checked and I don't think she's going to have a comment on it.

O'Reilly: No, I wouldn't either. But -- and isn't it a sad commentary that this is the country we live in now?

Sawyer: Yes, and somebody sold these. I mean this ...

O'Reilly: Of course they did. I mean, you know, we're going to have this Paris Hilton video tomorrow. You know about this thing?

Sawyer: You're going to have it here?

O'Reilly: We have it, yes. We have it right here.

Sawyer: Are you going to put it on?

O'Reilly: I'm going to put some of it on, not a lot. I'm going to show the folks tomorrow. But isn't it a sad commentary that everybody now ...

Sawyer: Why are you going to put it on?

O'Reilly: Going to put what?

Sawyer: Why are you going to put it on?

O'Reilly: I'm not going to put on the sex stuff.

Sawyer: Oh, all right.

It's a sad commentary. Tune in tomorrow to see just how sad!

The O'Reilly Factor website doesn't have the Sawyer transcript up, but it does have a partial transcript of O'Reilly's interview with security and privacy expert Parry Aftab, which included this entertaining article/ad juxtaposition.


Friday, November 14, 2003

Let the lawsuits begin. Rick Solomon has filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against Paris Hilton, her parents and publicist Siri Garber. The suit focuses on Garber's claims to various media outlets that Paris was an unwilling, incapacitated, possibly underage victim who "can't even get up" during the sex acts caught on tape. The Smoking Gun has posted the nine-page lawsuit filing by Solomon's lawyers.

More news in the E! story:

Though Solomon said he had nothing to do with the Hiltoon tape's release, the man who sold the tape told Celebrity Justice that Solomon actually had a hand in duplicating and selling the fruits of his night as an amateur pornographer.

Don Thrasher said he received a check for $50,000 for the tape, and paid Solomon a $25,000 cut of it in cash. He said Solomon was the one who told him where and how to hawk the footage.

Solomon's lawyer, Marty Singer, told Celebrity Justice that his client was not involved with leaking the tape, and that Thrasher took the tape from Solomon's home, copied it and returned it without his knowledge. Singer said Solomon has a police report alleging the theft and plans to sue Thrasher.

Salomon or Solomon? The lawsuit says "Richard Salomon," but most news outlets still use "Solomon." My guess is that he uses "Solomon" professionally but hasn't changed it legally.


Susannah Breslin, the erstwhile reverse cowgirl, recently published her first collection of short stories, You're a Bad Man, Aren't You?. Those in the know say it kicks ass. Daze Reader sat down with Breslin for an interview about the book, Porn Valley, erotica vs pornography, bukkake and book festivals. I tried my best to make her cry on camera, but no luck.

Interview with Susannah Breslin
"There are no pendulous breasts being fondled in my book. There are no quivering wankers spewing forth salutations."

Excerpt from You're a Bad Man, Aren't You?
"Oh, he was a bad man. He had been terrible since the day he was born, before even then, perhaps. He had cried constantly as a small baby, masturbated obsessively as a young teen, and become the kind of man as an adult who only truly enjoyed himself when he was hurting other people. Now, he wanted to know, what was so wrong with that?"

You can buy this book at Powell's and Amazon.


Fleshbot gets a rave write-up in Wired.


Thursday, November 13, 2003

Another story about the naked lady dining craze (it's not just for sushi anymore).

The Samsi Japanese restaurant in Manchester is charging £75 to eat food placed on the bodies of two nude women.

Angel Tan, 22, and Kit-Ying Ross, 25, will act as human tables at the first of the "nyataimori" nights on Friday.

The word translates as "adorned body of a woman". The women will spend the night naked and lying face up.

Dishes will be arranged over them, including lobster, ginger yakitori chicken, smoked salmon sushi and garlic udon noodles.

The amazing Xeni at Boing Boing links to past images of naked lady tables from photographer William Klein and Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange as well as this naked sushi humor photo series, which is reportedly "very funny" if you understand Japanese.


Elizabeth Spiers, the original Gawker blogger now blogging for New York magazine, reports that there may be another Paris Hilton sex tape. "There allegedly exists a tape of Paris having a threesome with then best friend, Playboy playmate Nicole Lenz, and her boyfriend at the time, former MTV VJ/actor Simon Rex."


Reason editor Nick Gillespie ponders the death of outrage regarding the Jessica Lynch nude photos and Paris Hilton sex tape. "Once upon a time in a not-too-distant past, both of these cases would have destroyed the careers of the women involved and occasioned long, windy sermons about the demise of morals in this once-great nation. Now they elicit instead a pornographer's self-restraint (who knew such a thing existed!) on the one hand and a bevy of ratings-building buzz on the other. This represents social progress of no small measure."


Pamela Anderson gives the Paris Hilton sex tape "two thumbs up".


Pornsite company Marvad now says it won't show the Paris Hilton sex tape at its site SexBrat.com. Marvad/SexBrat also plans to sue the guy who sold them the tape, one Donald Thrasher, on the grounds that Thrasher misrepresented himself as Rick Solomon's broker and that there were other copies of the tape in circulation before the sale. The company's publicist says — get this — "It is SexBrat.com's belief that there are two victims in this matter: SexBrat.com and Paris Hilton."


New York Times columnist David Brooks praises internet dating for imposing a structured, slower pace on the progression from meeting to dating to sex.

If you're dating in the Age of the Hook-Up, sex is this looming possibility from the first moment you meet a prospective partner. But couples who meet through online dating services tend to exchange e-mail for weeks or months. Then they'll progress to phone conversations for a few more weeks. Only then will there be a face-to-face meeting, almost always at some public place early in the evening, and the first date will often be tentative and Dutch.

Online dating puts structure back into courtship. For generations Americans had certain courtship rituals. The boy would call the girl and ask her to the movies. He might come in and meet the father. After a few dates he might ask her to go steady. Sex would progress gradually from kissing to petting and beyond.

But over the past few decades that structure dissolved. And human beings, who are really good at adapting, found that the Internet, of all places, imposes the restraints they need to let relationships develop gradually.


Short but interesting CNN article on China's sexual revolution. "Meet Bao Huai, a Chinese youth set out to demystify sex in China. 'People no longer use sex as a yardstick of personal ethics. We have humanized sex,' says Bao. He is writing a book titled 'In and Out' on the explosion of sex in traditionally modest and prudish China."


Let the parodies begin. Claire Zulkey presents a previously unknown version of the Paris Hilton sex tape.


Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Björk doll and furry porn! 1 2 3 4 5 6.


In The Onion: I think I'll drive the kids up to the state park to see this 'glory hole'. A cheap one-joke piece, but a funny cheap one-joke piece.


Paris Hilton Sex Tape Hits the Net. "Despite threats of legal action by her parents, links to bootleg copies of the vixen's steamy sex tape sprouted like fungus all over the fertile ground of the World Wide Web Tuesday." But not everything labeled "Paris Hilton sex tape" is legit: "a search for 'Paris Hilton Sex Tape' on the file-sharing site KaZaa leads to clips of everything from large naked women doing provocative dances to a monkey drinking his own urine."

Next legal tango in Paris tape case. Rush & Molloy report that Rick Solomon is threatening legal action against both Marvad and Hilton.

Martin Singer, Salomon's high-powered Hollywood attorney, tells us that he may "bring action against Paris for her defamatory statements."

Last week, Hilton rep Siri Garber claimed in print that Salomon took advantage of Hilton when she was incapacitated. Garber was quoted as saying that, on the video, Hilton "can't even get up. ... She is the victim here."

Anyone who's seen the tape knows this is bogus. Solomon also claims he had nothing to do with the tape's release (contrary to earlier reports that he sold it) and may take legal action against the porn company that announced plans to market it.

This week, Singer says he'll seek a restraining order to bar Marvad Corp., the Seattle Internet porn merchant, from peddling the video on Sexbrat.com.

"The video was stolen from Rick Salomon's home and sold to these distributors," says Singer. "They know Mr. Salomon is the owner of the copyright."

As of Wednesday noon, Marvad's site still lists the Paris Hilton video as "coming soon."

On a side note: Solomon or Salomon? The New York Daily News is the only place using the latter spelling.


Publishers, distributors and academics all agree that porn magazines are in decline, mostly due to competition from internet porn. Al Goldstein shut down Screw magazine and filed for bankruptcy last month. Penthouse has been on the verge of collapse all year. Larry Flynt says, "This past decade has been very, very bad for men's magazines and it could become worse," though Hustler has thrived by diversifying into video and internet porn. Journalism professor Samir Husni says, "The magazine may remain the cornerstone for the name brand, but in the future, the real money will be made elsewhere."


The Seattle Times covers a local controversy over naked sushi, a restaurant trend "which has its roots in Japan but has arrived more recently in Los Angeles and New York."

Saturday night at Bonzai in Pioneer Square, a nearly naked woman is laid out on a table. A chef slices sushi behind her, to be arrayed on her torso, bare except for a sheath of plastic wrap and some decorative flower petals.

Hours earlier, across town on the campus of the University of Washington, eight activists, mostly Asian-American women, express outrage at what they call the prostitution of sushi and the exploitation of women. They plot their strategy.

While the promoter and the sushi model say this melding of prandial and sexual is performance art, Bonzai's patrons — men and women of various ethnicities — say it merely adds to the restaurant's sensual vibe.

Opponents say treating women like a serving platter reinforces attitudes that make domestic and sexual violence so prevalent.

The night's model, an Asian-American woman who won't say how much she is paid and asked not to be named, said the experience is relaxing, sensual and meditative.

"It's ridiculous to comment on it without experiencing it. It's hearsay," she said of her critics, who contend the model has "internalized her oppression."

(Link snagged from Boing Boing.)


Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Larry Flynt claims to have acquired topless photos of Jessica Lynch from two former soldiers who served with her.

Lynch's new torment erupted the day before Veterans Day - and on the same night she made a dramatic appearance at a Manhattan awards event with fellow rescued POW Shoshana Johnson and pop star Britney Spears.

Lynch, walking in public for the first time since her rescue, used crutches to enter the American Museum of Natural History for Glamour magazine's 2003 salute to the "Women of the Year."

Flynt said he plans to run the photos he says he has in Hustler's February issue, which goes on sale the first week of January.

He claimed they show Lynch topless and cavorting with two men stationed with her at Fort Bliss, Tex., before she shipped off to Iraq last spring.

According to two people who have seen them, the person they identify as Lynch is wearing just jeans in one photo and a blue thong in another.

Private Jessica Lynch nude pics in Hustler? As a professional sleazemonger who usually delights in envelope-pushing bad taste, even I think this is in bad taste.

UPDATE: Larry Flynt now says he's changed his mind and will not publish the photos.

Porn king Larry Flynt, casting himself in the unlikely role of white knight to U.S. Army private Jessica Lynch, said on Tuesday he bought semi-nude photos of the former POW "to keep them out of circulation." [...]

"I purchased them at first with the intention of publishing them, however, I quickly changed my mind and decided simply to keep them out of circulation," Flynt said in a statement. "If Jessica Lynch wants to join the army and see the world, and if she wants to have a good time while she's at it, I'm not here to judge her."


The Prince Charles sex scandal just keeps getting sleazier!

British newspapers reported that [Paul] Burrell, the married former confidant to Princess Diana, had sex with his Australian boyfriend, Greg Pead, in Buckingham Palace and proposed a threesome with a businessman, Kevin Horkin.

Separately, a former palace security chief, David Davies, revealed that homosexual royal servants, part of a "gay mafia", had regularly smuggled male prostitutes into Buckingham Palace and other royal residences.

He told The Sunday Times that servants regularly brought "rough trade" into the palace, despite fears the practice compromised the security of the Queen and other senior royals. [...]

Mr Pead, an antiques dealer, told the News of the World that Mr Burrell had sneaked him into Buckingham Palace and that they had "sex on his bed with a picture of the Queen over it" after they met in 1980. Mr Burrell was a footman for the Queen at the time.

"I was immediately accepted as Paul's partner by all the other male palace servants, most of whom were also gay," he said. "They were happy Paul had found someone."

So do the Buckingham Palace gay mafia and the Hollywood gay mafia ever have turf battles? That would rock.

As you'll recall, George Smith has made two separate allegations: (1) that he was raped by another palace servant, which Prince Charles helped cover up, and (2) that he saw Prince Charles and Michael Fawcett in bed together. I've heard and read several comments from people who think the mystery rumor is "Prince Charles raped a servant" (example). Prince Charles really should consider dropping the media injunctions and letting the authentic, less damaging (to him at least) rumors be published.

Some new details about the rape allegation have emerged. The same article excerpted above states, "The man accused of the rape, who remains on the prince's staff, has denied the allegation." Daze Reader had previously fingered Michael Fawcett as the accused rapist, but that's apparently not the case. Fawcett lost his job on the prince's staff in March. The actual accused rapist remains unnamed but released a statement over the weekend through his lawyers. Royal aide denies rape allegation.

The statement, from Kingsley Napley solicitors, said: "The allegations made now to the Mail on Sunday by Mr Smith differ substantially and significantly in many regards from those made to the police last year and must cast serious doubt on Mr Smith's reliability and the accuracy of any allegations he might be persuaded to make."

It added: "Our client has consistently denied that these offences ever took place, and whilst he has no desire to enter into the current media frenzy, cannot allow wholly untrue allegations against him to be reported and unchallenged."

A number of "demonstrable discrepancies", between what Mr Smith told police in 2001 and his account to the Mail on Sunday today, are outlined in the statement.


Monday, November 10, 2003

Someone emailed me a three-minute highlight reel from the Paris Hilton sex tape this morning. Other sexbloggers have reported getting the same video, and apparently it's the real thing. It looks like crap, shot with a cheap camcorder in low light and transferred to Windows Media format. (Fleshbot says, "The video is shot in what looks like military night vision, reminding us spookily of all that footage from the first Gulf War." Hey look, Fleshbot is Jonno and Carly!) The best part is when Paris's cellphone rings, and she bounds off the bed to answer it and Rick yells, "fuck your phone!" The sender (who didn't give a name and used an anonymizer) wrote, "Eat it up. Rick doesn't want the pornsites to make any money off this." No, I'm not going to post it. No, I will not forward it to you. But it's almost certainly all over KaZaa and WinMX by now. The file is around 4.5MB and titled "parissexmovie_256k.wmv".


The steamy tale of three cities that sums up China’s sexual confusion. This Sunday Herald article treats recent news items about two Chinese sex museums as symptomatic of Chinese attitudes towards sex.

Whatever the reason, organisers of an exhibition show casing sexual artefacts dating back two millennia were certainly unprepared for the opening-day stampede that attended this first-of-its-kind display in Beijing. . . . Matters came to a head when a glass display cabinet was shattered in the ensuing mêlée, resulting in panicky organisers pulling the plug after just one day. [...]

Ironically, it was the sort of publicity the country’s leading sexologist, 71-year-old Professor Liu Dalin, would have loved. The retired sociologist will next month see the doors close on his Ancient Chinese Sex Culture Museum in Shanghai, a city dubbed the Whore of the Orient during its freewheeling colonial days.

Not that he is complaining too much: he is being welcomed with open arms by the local government of Tongli in Jiangsu Province. It is offering rent-free space for the display of ancient sex toys, scrolls, fertility idols and erotic paintings. The authorities see a potential goldmine in tourism revenue.


Mike Seely covers a local St. Louis shoot for Elimidate and uncovers the shocking truth about reality dating shows. (Link snagged from Gawker.)


The Guardian runs a profile of George Smith, the former royal servant making all the allegations.

The Guardian collects excerpts from other London papers' weekend coverage.

Prince Charles's spokesperson denies any intentions to sue George Smith or to make a TV appearance.


Sunday, November 9, 2003

Prince Charles 'set to sue' Palace aide over scandal. (This link might lead to a registration screen.)

Senior royal aides say that the heir to the throne is prepared to sue George Smith, who worked for the Prince for 11 years until 1997, for breach of confidence. [...]

Last night Sunday tabloid newspapers ensured that Prince Charles and his private office were beset by a new wave of extraordinary claims. In a bizarre twist, a front page story in the News of the World claimed that Sir Michael Peat, the Prince's private secretary, had asked Mark Bolland, the Prince's former deputy private secretary, in a phone call: "Do you think Charles is bisexual?" [...]

Meanwhile, The Mail on Sunday boasted a "world exclusive" of "Charles and his valet: the true story". The newspaper reported a lengthy interview with Mr Smith, but failed to make specific allegations about the nature of an alleged "incident" that he was said to have witnessed. "I stand by my story," said Mr Smith. The newspaper claimed that another royal servant, who was not named, had also supported the allegations.

Furthermore, Mr Smith claimed that he was beaten and stalked by a hooded gunman after Diana, Princess of Wales, had made it known that she had recorded his claims in 1996 in the so-called "rape tape" that went missing after her death.

Senior officials at Clarence House say that the Prince has so far been reluctant to take legal action against Mr Smith, who they describe as a "sad, sick man" with a series of alcohol and stress- related health problems. [...]

Mr Smith's latest revelations were expected to appear in a Sunday newspaper today after court injunctions against two national newspapers, taken out last week on behalf of Michael Fawcett, a second royal servant, were relaxed on Thursday.

Mr Smith, a former royal valet, is expected to expand on claims that he first made to the Mail on Sunday last year when he was paid an estimated £30,000. This time his deal with the newspaper is likely to be worth considerably more after he agreed to swear an affidavit to support his allegations.

According to BBC News, none of the London papers printed new details today. The Mail on Sunday carried an interview with George Smith, but didn't mention any names or news details. The Scottish newspaper Sunday Herald printed the allegations, but the article doesn't appear on its website. It's only a matter of time.

The Daily Telegraph's legal affairs editor Joshua Rozenburg told BBC Radio Scotland's Sunday Live programme that the allegation would soon appear in other newspapers.

"This story is pretty close to being out, even though some of us are being a little bit cautious," he said.

"I think everybody in the media is looking to see what everyone else is doing, just prepared to do what everybody else is doing because there is safety in numbers.

"Within a day or so, perhaps tomorrow's papers, then pretty well the full allegations that have been denied by the palace will be published."

Meanwhile, Prince Charles is reportedly "pondering a televised broadcast to the nation" to deny the rumors.


So what do Paris's parents have to say? Gossip mavens Rush & Molloy pass along this quote:

Paris, 22, is being consoled there by her sister, Nicky, 20, according to a friend. Their parents, Rick and Kathy Hilton, "have suggested she stay Down Under till this blows over," says the pal.

Millsy will be glad to hear it. (Link snagged from Gawker.)


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