These are new photos of Rebecca Gayheart, out and about in LA yesterday. As you can see, Fame Pictures has drawn a giant red circle around Rebecca’s belly, so you know there’s a story! I seriously think Fame might have gotten it right on this one, though – that doesn’t look like a little bloat, or just a breeze. That looks like a full-on baby bump, maybe three to four months along. Rebecca and her husband Eric Dane welcomed their daughter Billie last year – March 2010. So Billie is… something like 16 months old. If Rebecca is knocked up, it’s not quite an Irish twin situation. I wonder if she’ll smoke for this pregnancy?

Meanwhile, guess who else is pregnant? Kari Ann Peniche, the beauty queen/drug dealer/madam/hooker who was the third person in Eric and Rebecca’s naked hanging-out non-sex tape. We know Kari Ann is pregnant because her estranged husband went to court to ensure that Kari gets the kid a paternity test, because of all of the dudes she’s been boning while they’ve been married. Wouldn’t it be funny (and sad, but mostly funny) if Eric was the father of Kari Ann’s baby too? Ha!

UPDATE: Life & Style is confirming it:

After weeks of speculation, Life & Style can exclusively reveal that Rebecca Gayheart and Eric Dane are expecting their second child together!

“She’s glowing — and so happy,” a friend tells Life & Style. “They wanted to add another child to their family, and now they’ve got that! They’re in a real good place.”

The former Beverly Hills, 90210 star, 39, and Grey’s Anatomy actor, 38, tied the knot in October 2004 and welcomed their first daughter, Billie Beatrice, in March 2010.

Reps could not be reached for comment.

So… it’s not a definite confirmation from a rep, but I really do think she’s pregnant.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Country singer Mindy McCready is the former roommate of Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart’s naked non-sex tape co-star, Kari Ann Peniche. Rumor had it that McCready was the one who leaked the tape, which she denied through her rep, who said “Her story will be told in due time. There’s a lot more to it than just the tape. She did not leak the tape.”

McCready is now reasserting her claim that she didn’t release the video along with making it clear that she really hates Peniche. She calls her “evil personified,” and in case that wasn’t strong enough McCready adds that Peniche “will hurt anyone she can to make money.” The way McCready phrases it makes it all sound a bit supernatural, as if Peniche has powers beyond us mere mortals. Maybe I’ve just been watching too much “True Blood”:

Mindy McCready apparently doesn’t have very fond memories of her Celebrity Rehab days, considering her roomie was the devil.
At least, that’s what the country singer called model Kari Ann Peniche, who’s now more famous for getting naked with Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart than for any solo success or foible.

“She is evil personified, she is evil in human form. She will hurt anyone she can to make money,” McCready told Access Hollywood in denying Peniche’s accusation that the troubled songbird was the one who leaked the graphic Dane-Gayheart-Peniche tape.

“I did not want to be dragged into all this,” McCready said. “I did not want to be a part of this.”

And neither did Peniche, who exclusively told E! News last week she is “not some swinger person or somebody you can pay to have sex with.”

Certainly good to know. Peniche told us she had no idea the tape was not in safekeeping until she got a call from Dane and his attorney asking, “You know the video we did? Somebody has it, and what to do we have to go to get it back?”

Dane, who was “obviously upset,” called her up and asked her something about McCready, as well, Peniche said.

Shortly after the tape hit the Internet, the swimsuit designer told TMZ.com that McCready vengefully stole her computer hard drive when the ladies were bunking together.

“If I was going to leak it, I would have done that a long time ago,” she told E! News. “If someone else was going to leak it, they would have done it a long time ago…I would never leak this tape.”

And by the way, she added: “There was no sex—he’s married! We were just having fun.”

Meanwhile, Dane and Gayheart opted to get out of town for the weekend. (Wonder why…)

The couple and their dogs drove up to Montecito, Calif., Friday for a stay at the luxurious San Ysidro Ranch. They returned to L.A. on Sunday.

[From E! Online]

That’s interesting that Peniche denies that she’s a prostitute, but doesn’t deny that she worked as a madam. Talk on the leaked tape reveals that Eric and Rebecca asked specifically for Peniche instead of one of her “girls.” The NY Daily News reported over the weekend that three sources were willing to go on the record and confirm that Peniche worked as a madam. McCready told the Daily News that it was true that Peniche ran a prostitution business. “Did she say she’d been a madam? She sure did.”

Another Daily News source, author Mark Ebner, revealed that he’s the one who gave the tape to Gawker and added that Peniche was a subcontractor for convicted Hollywood madam Michelle Braun. Were Dane and Gayheart just involved with the wrong sex broker? Is this leaked tape just an instance of someone using celebrities to try and take a Peniche down? Who else did Peniche service and will their names get leaked too? The LAPD confirmed last week that the tape is in their possession but state that they’re not yet sure if there will be a criminal investigation. It sounds like McCready certainly hates Peniche enough to tell the cops about her. Maybe she’s the one who gave them the DVD.

Mindy McCready is shown on 6/7/08. Kari Anne Peniche is shown on 7/15/08. Credit: WENN.com

The alleged sex tape between Eric Dane, 36, Rebecca Gayheart, 38, and former Miss Teen USA/Playboy playmate/Celebrity Rehab contestant Kari Ann Peniche, 25, turned out just to be a bizarre tape in which the three hang out naked and make dumb, drugged out comments. People are mildly interested in Peniche following the video, but considering that it isn’t all that explicit the news has kind of quickly died down and we’ve moved on. I watched the full uncensored version on Fleshbot (site is extremely NSFW or around kids) and as one commenter points out, the most interesting piece seems to be the fact that Eric and Rebecca admit asking specifically for Peniche instead of “one of her girls,” suggesting that she’s working as a madam and that Dane and Gayheart regularly hire women for threesomes.

At 1:47 left on the video on Fleshbot (video counts time remaining, not elapsed) Rebecca says, “you’re so nice. I was so bummed when you said we had to call one of your girls. Remember what I said to you?”

Kari Ann answers, “yeah, and then you’re like ‘will we pay you?’ and I’m like ‘no.’” [note: pay is hard to understand, could be pick]

Rebecca says “I was like ‘no you, you’re normal, you’re funny, you’re smart you’re nice, you’re fun.’ She was like ‘no, no, I don’t do it.’”

This is when Dane chimes in with the line that will haunt him for the remainder of his famous years, “you’re like a good hang.”

“No, she’s a friend,” Rebecca continues.

“That’s what I’m saying,” explains Dane. “I see you on the street tomorrow you’re one of Rebecca’s friends.”

So why would Dane say all that about classifying Kari as a friend unless it was a business relationship? Also – where’s the damn sex in this video, did they do it and turn the camera off, or did nothing happen at all? I’m thinking the camera was off, but maybe nothing happened and that’s why there’s all that talk about the fact that they’re friends and just hanging out.

There’s another scene where Kari is shown on the phone while she’s consulting a credit card and using her laptop. It’s hard to tell what that’s all about, but it looks suspicious. This video was reportedly shot in Kari’s apartment, and as Kaiser speculated – maybe she’s ordering something from J. Crew.

Kari’s mom has talked to both Radar and E! Online about her daughter’s fall from grace. The elder Mrs. Peniche told E! her daughter is “25 years old and she has made some poor choices…. Kari is doing something very different from us, and she’s a grown woman and I have tried, but there’s no way to get her back.” To Radar, she said “She’s a good person but she’s made some poor choices and has obviously been around the wrong people.” One of those wrong people was probably Peniche’s roommate on Celebrity Rehab, singer Mindy McCready, who is said to have stolen the video off a hard drive. Supposedly McCready, Peniche, Dane and Gayheart all made a deal last month to keep the video under wraps, but McCready reneged.

Kari’s manager says she’s “extremely upset over this situation,” but she seems to be recovering well and doesn’t seem to mind the publicity. Kari was out at an event last night and was spotted on a bikini photoshoot yesterday.

Kari Ann Peniche is shown on 8/18/09 in the header and 2/14/08 below. Credit: PRPhotos

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

Sex tape alert! The rumors are true, there is a sex tape out there of Grey’s Anatomy hottie Eric “McSteamy” Dane. And his wife, Rebecca Gayheart. And former Miss Teen USA Kari Ann Peniche. Monday evening Gawker put a short, NSFW “boobs only, no sexin’” four-minute video of Eric, Rebecca and Kari Ann all hanging out naked and maybe doing drugs, it’s a weird video. I actually had problems with the video on Gawker, but You Tube has it up too (also NSFW). Fleshbot (site really, really NSFW) has already announced that they will have the complete sex tape at some point Tuesday morning, and there are some vague promises of McSteamy Wang. Here’s Gawker’s description:

“How did these people end up here?” is the implied question of every sex tape. Especially with the druggy romp Eric Dane (Grey’s Anatomy’s “Dr. McSteamy”) and his wife Rebecca Gayheart filmed with beauty-queen-turned-Hollywood-madam Kari Ann Peniche.

In the video (which we edited down from a 12-minute original), we see the apparently inebriated threesome — at one point Gayheart says she needs to lay down because she’s so high — lounging au naturel in the fallen beauty queen’s Studio City apartment, passing around the camera and, for giggles, discussing what their porn names should be. Dane settles on “Tuff Hedemen” (his favorite champion bull rider). Soon the threesome move to the bathroom where the two ladies disrobe and get into a jacuzzi tub while Dane takes over the camera duties.

The line between Hollywood success and failure is razor thin. The acting couple (the married in 2004) may not be at the pinnacle of the Hollywood talent heap, but they’re about as successful as they could have hoped in their teenage years. Oh, and they’re hoping to start a family!

Dane, 36, moved to L.A. in his teens, landing bit parts in early 1990s TV shows like Saved by the Bell and The Wonder Years, palling around the Hollywood club scene (once dated Lara Flynn Boyle!) before winning stardom in Grey’s Anatomy. Gayheart, 38, had her first big break in 1992 as the Noxema Girl, and aside from accidentally killing a teenager crossing the street, she’s made a career of film and TV roles here and there.

Peniche, 25, probably had a similar future in mind when she was crowned Miss Teen USA in 2002, but it wasn’t to be. She was stripped of her crown for posing in Playboy. Peniche tried to leverage the controversy into a career, and knocked around on the Hollywood Z-list for a while. She got engaged to Backstreet Boy Nick Aaron Carter for a minute.

There were a handful of TV and film roles, but lately, a source in Hollywood tells us, she’s ended up working as a madam, working the Hollywood club scene as “Tristan Bailey.” Her m.o.: When horny club dudes would hit on her, she’d tell them she was seeing someone…but, she could hook them up with someone who knew some smokin’ hotties-for-hire. The dudes would then be redirected back to her service, and she’d occasionally turn a trick herself.

Recently she was thrown off Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab (where she was being treated for sex addiction) amidst back-and-forth accusations that she punched out a cameraman, entertained unsavory drug dealer types at the Sun Valley sober house, and stole money and personal belongings from her roommate, country singer Mindy McCready.

As of late July, the Hollywood vice squad got a hold of Peniche’s client list and the above video, which Peniche herself had been showing around to friends. The most damning part segment: Peniche lying topless in bed reading off a credit card into a phone. (Or maybe she’s just ordering out?) Here’s the evidence receipt, with the identities of the cops and the person who turned it over blurred out.

Oh, and a fun fact: This isnt’t the first time Gayheart’s been seen naked and high in a hot tub. This past June, the National Enquirer printed a 2003 photo of her in a bathtub with an unidentified woman and a crack pipe. As Dane comments while his wife gets naked with another woman again, he pays Peniche, who’s facing a criminal investigation while they are not, a back-handed compliment: “You’re, like, a good hang. I see you on the street tomorrow, you’re one of Rebecca’s friends.”

[From Gawker]

I just watched the four-minute version, and I’ve come away with several general impressions. First, Eric Dane is a pimp. He’s lounging around naked with his wife and a Miss Teen USA/maybe-Hollywood-madam, and he’s totally nonchalant about the whole thing, especially considering his wife is filming him. Secondly, Dane seems way more interested in the strange than the wife, if you catch my drift. For her part, Rebecca seems more interested in Miss Teen USA too. When all’s said in done, I think my favorite part is when Eric is filming Rebecca and Kari Ann naked, in the bathtub, and he declares to Kari Ann “You’re, like, a good hang.” Famous last words, dude.

Kari Ann Peniche is shown on 7/15/08. Rebecca Gayheart and Eric Dane are shown on 7/10/09 at LAX. Credit: WENN.com. Rebecca and Eric are also shown at a film festival in Italy on 7/8/09. Credit: Fame Pictures