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Earlier, we shared what we know about the Eric Dane-Rebecca Gayheart-Kari Ann Peniche sex tape. The four-minute version on Gawker didn’t include sex, it was just three naked people hanging out, taking a bath, talking about what their porn names would be. I found it a little sexy, because I enjoyed seeing what a pimp Eric Dane was and is. Both Eric and Rebecca seemed really into “good hang” Kari Ann, and there are still lingering questions about exactly what Kari Ann is doing, in the video and for her profession. The credit card part in the video was definitely strange – but we don’t know for sure if Kari Ann is a hooker, or maybe she was just hanging out naked, ordering something from J.Crew.
However, Eric and Rebecca’s lawyer Marty Singer just released a statement about the “sex tape” and Marty wants us to know that we should really, really stop referring to it as a sex tape. Singer’s denial is pretty classic, so you should just read it in its entirety:
So when is a celebrity sex tape not a celebrity sex tape? Apparently, when it stars Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart — at least according to a lawyer for the couple.
In a statement released about the naughty nude clip featuring McSteamy and now-wife Rebecca, along with disgraced beauty queen Kari Ann Peniche, the couple’s legal eagle tries to downplay the lewdness of the taped situation.
Reads the statement from lawyer Marty Singer:
“This is simply a private, consensual moment involving a married couple, shot several years ago, which was never intended to be seen by the public.”
“Although the participants are nude, the tape is not a ’sex tape.’ It is a private tape made for only my clients’ personal use, and nobody has the right to exploit it. If anyone exploits the tape, they will be violating my clients’ rights and will be exposed to significant liability.”
[From OK! Magazine]
Ah, yes. They were just three naked people, hanging out, taking a bath. There was no sex. So we will not refer to it as a “sex tape”. It is only a “naked hang-out tape” or even a “flirty naked bath tape”. I love when lawyers gets their panties in a bunch about the semantics of situations. It reminds me of that old hounddog, President Clinton, and his “it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is” and the hair-splitting on “sexual relations”.
Here’s one of the strangest twists to this story. It seems that this non-sex tape was in the possession of Kari Ann Peniche, not Eric and Rebecca. Kari Ann tells TMZ that the tape was filmed in her apartment, not the Dane-Gayheart household, and Kari Ann also has a theory about how the tape got released. It involves Mindy McCready and a “summit” over possession of the tape:
Kari Ann tells TMZ the video featuring the whacked-out naked trio was shot more than two years ago in her apartment. Kari Ann insists there was absolutely no sex involved — they played dress up and the two women then soaked together in a bathtub as Eric called “action” behind the camera.
Kari Ann says the video was stored on the hard drive of her computer, but stolen by Mindy McCready, who was her roommate after the two completed a stint on the TV show “Celebrity Rehab.” Kari Ann says she got into an argument with McCready over money and believes the singer took her hard drive when she moved out. Kari Ann freaked out about certain personal information about her on the hard drive and filed a stolen property report with the LAPD.
Last month there was a summit between Eric, Rebecca, Kari Ann and Mindy. Their reps hammered out a deal as to who got what on the hard drive. Eric got full rights to the video and everyone assumed that was that … until the tape surfaced on the Internet today.
So a little song, a little dance a little betrayal down your pants.
[From TMZ]
I actually think Kari Ann’s version might be true. Either that or Eric Dane released it for some extra publicity, because he saw what a sex tape did for Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian? Because he knows we all want to see McSteamy wang? If Eric released it, my guess is that he wouldn’t have his lawyer sending out snotty missives. So, most likely, the tape was released by Kari Ann or someone in her orbit, most likely Mindy McCready.
Here is Eric Dane, shirtless in Malibu shooting scenes for Valentine’s Day on 8/6/09. Credit: Fame Pictures
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Eric Dane, Kari Ann Peniche, Lawyers, Rebecca Gayheart, Sex Tapes
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I know when I hang out with my friends or anyone, I am always naked!
Please!
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And this is why you should never let someone film you naked unless you want your mama, God, and everybody else in the free world viewing it.
Hey, maybe they’re nudists – could happen. But who is this Kari Ann lady?
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Well, it’s true. There wasn’t any sex that I could see. Lame as it sounds, it really IS just a naked hang-out tape. But they seem to be having fun, I guess. And nudity isn’t bad. It wasn’t very interesting; that’s my main point. So, um, carry on.
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Kari Ann Peniche was a former Miss Teen United States she’s had a very abusive and violent life starting as a child, teen model, and first boyfriend who was a doctor and ten years older.
The teenqueen was also engaged to Aaron Carter but before that she used to p*rk his big brother Nick, classy lady…because she officially keeps it in the family, LOL
And McSteamy loses credibility about his marriage. After all these years, he still loves sleeping with his wife–as long as she brings somebody else along ?
http://www.elle.com/Entertainment/Men-We-Love/Great-Dane
Oh well…at least he cheates when his wife is around because what’s the point of getting naked together ???
If they didn’t have sex they are more stupid than they look on the tape ? Would you let your husband walk naked in front of your friend ?
That “naked” tape is boring, all they do is talk and look boring and stupid ? Lame people…Zzzzz
Waste of my 13 minutes, hahahaha
The cast of Grey’s A. started as a perfect dream for Shonda Rhimes now one after the other has some kind of a problem…shame, but they are human after all !
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I am sick and tired of celebrities’ sex tapes, orgies and low morals.
They have a terrible void in their lives that must be filled with sex, drugs and perversions of all type.
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Reminds of the whole Tom Arnold/Rosanne Barr/Silva tri-marriage thing that blew up and maid them all look like idiots.
Really even if there is no sex on “that footage” there has to be sex somewhere in the whole get naked with a married couple some thing is going on.
I think they might be swingers, wouldn’t surprise me, celebs have anything given to them that I guess they might have to seek their thrills somewhere.
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And you come to this site why Iris?
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Damn! no real three-some.
Remember those pics of them on a yacht, she was topless, grabbing his junk, and there were people around, including kids.
Maybe with them, its no big deal…unless it gets out of course.
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People are so gross
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This isn’t just a happy tale about a bunch of swingers. This is a successful actor enabling his drug-addicted wife while entertaining himself. He probably would like to leave her but knows she’ll be destroyed, so he just appeases her while exploiting her at the same time.
I no longer have respect for him.
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Aren’t drugs supposed to make people more interesting, these three were sooo boring I could only imagine how boring they are when they aren’t on anything. It’s sad when somebody doesn’t learn from their past aka Gayheart. She killed a nine year old boy because she ran him over all because she couldn’t wait behind the cars that stopped for him while on the phone. So instead of moving on and living a good life so that his death was not in vain she goes on to be a swinger druggie. Ugh with celebs thinkinig they can get away with anything, and ugh to us for letting them.
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from a far he looks kinda yummy not so Mcsteamy anymore those tats are kinda lame
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Odd couple.
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WOW! you people need to get a life, who the hell are you to be judging these people? and no, just because they were naked dosnt mean they had to have sexual intercorse, get a damn life and quit living vicuriously through the lives of celebrities.
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