What relationship is complete without a sex tape? If you follow the Paris Hilton school of thought, practically everyone’s made a sex tape or two, famous or not. So by that logic, Verne “Mini-Me” Troyer and ex-girlfriend Ranae Shrider are perfectly normal.

Troyer sued TMZ to get his sex tape taken off their website; however a judge ruled they could put it back up because Shrider gave TMZ permission to post the tape – and the camera used to make the video was hers.

Shrider just gave an interview to AVN about their relationship, how she and Troyer met, and how they came to make a sex tape. Here are a few excerpts:

Shrider - who grew up in Kentucky and attended the University of South Florida before moving to Hollywood in July 2007 to pursue an acting career - said she and Troyer met on New Year’s Eve 2007 at a party at the Playboy Mansion. “I was totally not in my element there,” she said. “A friend I was with said, ‘Let’s go over there and meet Mini-Me.’ I was hoping to meet someone like Ian Ziering, but hey.” Shrider said Troyer asked her for her phone number several times, but she said he asked several other girls for theirs, too. She said she eventually gave in and gave him her number, never expecting to hear from him.

“The next day, he called and told me it was his birthday,” she said. “I was like, ‘Um, well, happy birthday.’” Shrider said the relationship progressed through phone calls during Troyer’s three-week stay in England while filming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. When Troyer returned to the U.S. on Jan. 23, Shrider said, the two met up and began a full-fledged relationship.

As for the sex tape, Shrider said, the couple had been dating for several months when they decided to document their intimate moments during a romantic getaway. “Neither of us had ever done anything like that before,” she said. “We thought, ‘Why not?’ We were in a beautiful setting, and we thought it would be something good for our personal use.”

However, Shrider insisted, filming sexual romps was not a normal activity for the couple. A lot of their life was “all about normalcy,” she said. On more than one occasion, they discussed marriage, she added, but the relationship soured in June. They still live together, but they lead separate lives with separate bedrooms and try to be “civil to each other.”

[From AVN]

Ranae of course claims she’s not trying to cash in on her 15 minutes of fame, and says if she were, we would have heard about her “months ago.” Okay… but since she revealed that she gave permission for TMZ to show the sex tape, wouldn’t that indicate that she is trying to become famous? Otherwise, shouldn’t that tape have ended up in a fire?

I find it crazy that she and Verne are still living together. That’s got to be awkward. According to In Touch, they’re staying in separate rooms while waiting out their lease. Something tells me that’ll be a tense few months.

Here’s a video clip of Ranae’s interview with AVN. The video content itself is sorta-SFW, but the ads preceding the video are a little racy. And there are some nude images hanging behind Shrider during the interview. The other content on the page is NSFW.

Here are pictures of Ranae Shrider with Verne Troyer. They appear to be her own private pictures, which I’m assuming she sold to AVN, since they have the rights to them. They are SFW, but the ads on the page are NSFW. Thanks to AVN for the images, where they have many more.

We all know that Verne Troyer (aka Austin Powers’ “Mini-Me”) is suing TMZ.com, Kevin Blatt (the man responsible for Paris Hilton’s sex tape), and a few others for $20 million over the sex tape that Troyer claims was stolen from him and posted online.

A commenter here on our site backed up this claim.

“I think this is so sad! This girl [Troyer’s sex tape partner Ranae Shrider] is a sad little girl from Kentuky [sic] that called me the night the video went missing. [Troyer’s] new manager was badgering this poor girl. She left for work came back and he was there and it was missing. I think its a sick publicity stunt that will ruin what little reputation she has left to ‘make it’ in Hollywood. She really thought she was in love. And now what she thought was real is become dirty and grotesque.”

[From Celebitchy comments]

Oh, please. Call the WAAAAHHHHbulance.

WELL! It turns out that the 39-year-old, 2 foot 8 inch actor’s girlfriend Ranae Shrider signed a declaration filed in federal court stating the tape was created with her video camera and she gave permission to TMZ to air it, thus prompting the judge to allow TMZ to reinstate the post featuring mini-scenes of the tape.

We would post it here but we received a cease and desist order from “his people” stating it’s a violation of his privacy and attached a copy of a temporary restraining order which prohibits us, et al from the exhibition, display or broadcast of any portion of the video on the internet, television, or any other medium. Click here to see it directly.

Now then; Mini-Me has been going around bragging that his “me” isn’t so “mini.” When the Tampa, Florida MJ Morning Show spoke with Ranae, she said:

“This is all I’m going to say: As previously reported on interviews made by him, it is definitely not a tripod.”

[From Stuff.co.nz]

After the radio show host asked Ranae if Troyer is “proportionate for a man of 2ft 8in?” Ranae responded with a resounding “Yes.”

Okay, first, I didn’t need that visual to be supported or denied, thanks for that to both the MJ Morning Show and Ranae. Secondly, I guess we’ll see what “powers” the Austin star has after TMZ Productions, Inc., Sugar DVD, and Kevin Blatt appear in court on July 7th.

Here’s Verne Troyer and Ranae Shrider at the MTV Movie Awards June 1st. Header of Verne at the Palms Place Hotel and Spa Grand Opening in Vegas on May 31st. Photographer: Judy Eddy. Images thanks to WENN.

At first, it seemed like he’d leaked the sex tape himself, but now it looks like “Mini-Me” Verne Troyer prefers to keep his bedroom activities private after all. The actor is seriously pissed at TMZ and is suing the site for posting stills and clips from the tape earlier this week.

Verne Troyer has filed a $20 million lawsuit, claiming TMZ violated his rights by publishing and airing portions of his sex tape.

In the suit, filed today in U.S. District Court in downtown L.A., Troyer claims TMZ violated his privacy rights and infringed on his copyright and trademark by running portions of the tape on TMZ TV and TMZ.com. He also alleges TMZ violated his right of publicity and misappropriated his name and likeness.

Troyer says the tape was stolen and ended up in the hands of Kevin Blatt, the guy who distributed “One Night in Paris.” Blatt is also named as a defendant.

In addition to damages, Troyer wants an injunction prohibiting further dissemination of the video.

Calls to TMZ were not returned.

[From TMZ]

No word yet on who may have stolen the tape. It sounds like Verne might be hanging out with some less-than-trustworthy people these days- and that person knew just where to go with a sex tape. Meanwhile, TMZ might be getting sued, but it’s not stopping them from finding out more about Verne’s co-star in the tape. Apparently she’s a 22-year-old aspiring model from Kentucky who really thought Verne was in love with her. Poor kid.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Verne Troyer and his sex tape co-star are shown at the MTV Movie Awards on 6/1/08. I bet he broke up with her and she’s the one who released the sex tape and all the personal photos to TMZ.

I couldn’t watch it. I could barely even watch the stills. Verne Troyer, who rose to fame for his role as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers movies, is the subject of a recently leaked home porn video. It might not be the creepiest celebrity sex tape ever - Tom Sizemore definitely wins the prize for that one- but it’s still pretty disturbing.

Yes, that’s Mini-Me Verne Troyer in a sex tape shot with his former live-in girlfriend at the couple’s apartment. A third party has snatched up the tape and although no deal has been made, we hear dealer Kevin Blatt, who brokered the deal for Paris’ video, is entertaining a $100k offer from SugarDVD to distribute the nastiness. We would have thought the tape was worth at least ONE BILLION DOLLARS.

[From TMZ]

Verne was recently a guest on Howard Stern’s radio show and reinforced his reputation as a ladies’ man, claiming that he has had sex with Playboy Playmates, and has participated in 3-ways. Perhaps this video was his way of backing up those claims. Or, maybe the release of the tape is supposed to drum up interest in “The Love Guru,” the sagging Mike Myers movie which Verne co-stars in. All I know is, I would never pay to see this. In fact, I might pay someone to make it go away. Forever.

Note by Celebitchy: I watched this, and the segment TMZ has on their website is just Verne and this hirsute-looking woman making out. I also had a gut reaction that urged me not to press play. No offense is meant to little people with that, there’s just something gross about Troyer and I’ve felt that way ever since I saw him on The Surreal Life. The guy peed in the corner one night and greedily pawed Adrienne Curry’s boob’s when she did that human sushi table thing. He just bugs me and I have no interest in seeing him have sex. If you’re intent on seeing this, it’s at TMZ’s website. The clip is SFW.

Update by Celebitchy: Pictures removed by lawyerly request

Six months ago we covered Chyler Leigh of Grey’s Anatomy and her first film role – the film where she kissed her brother. Which shows just how desperate she was to get into show business, although if I had a choice between kissing my brother and kissing, say, Tom Cruise, I’d probably rather kiss my brother. Which is easy to say as I don’t have one.

At any rate, while Chyler was happy enough to kiss her brother and play his love interest in a movie titled Kickboxing Academy, she isn’t desperate enough to have made a sex tape.

It’s sex tape Tuesday. The latest one circulating on the Internet allegedly stars Chyler Leigh from “Grey’s Anatomy.” But here’s the deal: It’s not her.

Reps for the 26-year-old actress tell us she’s had a sprawling tattoo on her back since she was 19 — ain’t no tattoo on the lookalike in the raunchy video. The ringer also has a tongue ring and Chyler doesn’t.

TMZ

My husband is bit disappointed about this sex tape – he says it might be the only one featuring a celebrity who isn’t completely gross. Here, I’m thinking Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, that guy from Creed and Kid Rock, Pamela Anderson or Gene Simmons. Feeling turned on right now?

We’ve got no idea when the tape was made, but I’m still guessing it is a fake. Chyler isn’t terribly distinctive looking, for example she doesn’t have a feature such as Paris’ wonky eye, so I think it’s just a look-alike.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Chyler Leigh is shown with her husband of six years, Nathan West, at the
Santa Monica Red Cross 2008 Red Tie Affair on 3/15/08, and at the American Music Awards on 11/18/07, thanks to WENN.

I can think of few things as truly awkward as having to watch a sex tape with a room of people around me. And frankly, I really don’t want to think about the kind of thing that’s even more awkward than this. The R. Kelly sex trial is finally underway, after six legendarily long years of seemingly impossible delays. Yesterday the jury had to watch the 25 minute sex tape – in front of a packed courtroom – in which a man who is allegedly R. Kelly has sex with a woman who was allegedly 13-years-old at the time. I’m tempted to say they were forced to watch it, as I really can’t imagine anyone being okay with seeing something like this.

Prosecutors played the sex tape at the center of R. Kelly’s child pornography trial in open court Tuesday, just hours after opening statements in which they accused the R&B singer of choreographing and starring in the footage with an underage girl.

The jurors, who had been taking feverish notes during opening statements, sat motionless while the video played. Their eyes were fixed on a 4-by-4-foot monitor just outside the jurors’ box; in the courtroom, the lights were dimmed and blinds drawn across windows.

A grim-looking Kelly, 41, appeared to watch the entire footage intently on a small monitor on the defense table. He occasionally rocked in his chair and rested his chin in his hand. The 27-minute homemade video shows a man having sex with a young female, who is naked for most of the recording except for a necklace with a cross dangling from it.

At the start of the videotape, the man hands the female money and she mouths the words, “Thank you.” She is often blank-faced, impassive. The man speaks to the female in a hushed, monotone voice, and she calls him “Daddy.” Songs from the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys blare from a radio. The female dances - the man out of view. Back in view, he has sex with her. The man walks up to the camera to adjust it a few times, but his face is often obscured.

Prosecutors say the man in the video is Kelly, and that the female is a girl who was as young as 13 when the tape was made between Jan. 1, 1998, and Nov. 1, 2000.

[From the Associated Press]

According to several published reports, courtroom observers were focused just as intently on watching the jurors watch the tape as they were on the tape itself. I cannot imagine having to see something like that, and knowing that everyone was analyzing my expression. One juror was released yesterday after explaining to the judge that she only had 30 hours of vacation time and could not afford to serve. I’d be begging my boss to cut my vacation time if I were in that position.

The defense’s argument is essentially to deny everything. They’re claiming that’s not really R. Kelly on the tape and that the girl on the tape is not the alleged victim. And just to cover their bases, they’re claiming that the alleged victim was not 13 at the time. So just in case people don’t buy that it’s not her, they’re arguing that she’s older than she is. Which is funny, because they’ve been making that argument for six years now, and somehow it’s still up for debate. No one is totally clear how old the alleged victim really is.

The defense pointed out to the jury that the man on the sex tape does not have a prominent mole on his back. Supposedly R. Kelly does, and it’s been there since childhood. So everything’s hinging on a lot of denial, confusion, and a mole. Something tells me this is case is going to keep dragging on for a long while.

Here’s R. Kelly at the New York Premiere of ‘Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22′ at IFC theatre on August 8th . Images thanks to WENN.

I know we’ve heard this one before, on multiple occasions and involving at least three different guys. (Not at the same time, just to clarify.) But this week’s National Enquirer, my favorite trashy gossip rag, says that paparazzo Adnan Ghalib indeed has a sex tape he made with Britney, and is just waiting for the most lucrative moment to release it. And they have enough specific details about the date the tape was made, where it was shot, and what it contains that this comes off as plausible:

The source, who talked exclusively to the Enquirer, claims that the videtape was made in a $235-a-night junior suite at the Rosarito Beach Hotel. [during their Mexican vacation in January]

“Word is that the video starts with Britney undressing,” said an insider. “She was wearing some cheap clothes that she bought down there in Rosarito.”

The sex wasn’t “particularly kinky,” says the insider, but Britney allegedly wears a pink wig throughout the video.

“Adnan tells her to take it off at one point, and she says coyly, ‘Take what off? There’s nothing left to take off.’”

According to the insider, Adnan, 35 had no intention of keeping the tape locked away, and someone is willing to pay millions for it.

The insider adds they may be waiting for the perfect time before releasing the tape.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, May 26, 2008]

For Britney’s sake I hope this isn’t true, because if it does exist you known Adnan is trying to get paid for it. They say that the best moment to release the tape may be when Britney is back on top again, if that happens, and when her long-anticipated comeback is in full force.

According to Mike Walker’s column in the same edition of the National Enquirer, Adnan has gone crawling back to his wife after two all-too-public affairs, one with Britney and another with a 20 year-old model who had a boyfriend at the time.

Britney is now on vacation in Costa Rica with her neighbor Mel Gibson and her dad, Jamie. She is also rumored to be pregnant for the third time.

Britney and Adnan are shown on 1/30/08 and 1/28/08, thanks to WENN.

Vivid video is set to release a sex tape supposedly starring late guitar great Jimi Hendrix having sex with two brunettes. The film will be 45 minutes long, but it’s only 11 minutes of sex without audio and the rest is about Hendrix’s career.

The NY Times notes that the film has been out for years and that no one is quite sure it’s actually Hendrix in it, because you only see the guy’s face for a few seconds and his eyes are closed. Vivid claims that it’s really him, though, and say they did research and hired private detectives to verify Hendrix’s identity. No one knows who the two women are in the film.

The film was found among some other rock memorabilia bought at auction in London and was simply labeled “Black Man.” Women who slept with and knew Hendrix don’t all agree that it’s actually him, and fans say that the man in the film wears unfamiliar jewelry:

The DVD includes commentary from two women who met Hendrix and say they believe the tape is real: Pamela Des Barres, the author of “I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie” (1987), and Cynthia Albritton, better known as Cynthia Plaster Caster. Ms. Albritton is known for doing plaster casts of the genitals of rock stars, including Hendrix in 1968. (Mr. Hirsch said both women were paid for their contributions to the video but declined to be more specific.)

“I’m 100 percent sure it’s him,” Ms. Albritton, 61, said in an interview from her home in Chicago. “The facial bone structure is the same. The eyebrows and the mustache are true to the style he was wearing in 1970.”

But Kathy Etchingham, 60, one of Hendrix’s steady girlfriends during the ’60s, said via e-mail after viewing still photos from the film at the request of a reporter: “It is not him. His face is too broad and nose and nostrils too wide for Jimi. Also the hair is too low on the forehead.”

“He would never have allowed anyone to see that,” she said in a telephone interview. “In private he was very shy and would cover up.”

The film has also been dismissed by Hendrix collectors and historians. One expert said that the rings the man in the film is wearing do not resemble any he had seen in years of studying pictures and film of Hendrix. Charles R. Cross, author of the Hendrix biography “Room Full of Mirrors” (Hyperion, 2005), encountered the film during his book research. “It doesn’t add up to Jimi,” he said.

As a fan, he said, he felt the film was “horrible to watch,” as he thinks the man appears to be on drugs or heavily intoxicated. “I don’t want that to be what I think about when I think about Jimi Hendrix,” he said.

[From The NY Times via The Huffington Post]

The “Marilyn Monroe Sex Tape” story came out earlier this month, but was thought to have been a hoax. The story was that a collector bought a silent BJ tape supposedly featuring Marilyn for $1.5 million, but Defamer says that the person who broke the story, memorabilia collector Keya Morgan, is less than believable and his story doesn’t add up. Even if it is true, the tape will never see the light of day.

In this case you can’t really tell whether it’s Hendrix in the video and there’s a lot of controversy over whether it’s him or not. Even if it is, it doesn’t sound like it’s much to watch, and I know I would feel kind of weird seeing it. Maybe it will be a decent seller for Vivid since people are still interested in him and he was renowned for being well endowed.

You can see what Hendrix’s uh, manhood looked like if you’re so inclined. A woman nicknamed “Cynthia Plaster Caster” started making plaster casts of famous musician’s erect penises in 1968. The cast she made of Hendrix’s in February, 1968 was one of her first and she calls it the “Godfather of Whopper Choppers.”

Jimi Hendrix passed in September, 1970 at the age of 27. He choked on his own vomit which contained a lot of red wine, but it is unclear what other drugs he was taking or what preceded his death.

A silent black and white tape of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex with an unknown man has sold for $1.5 million to a NY businessman, according to a report in the NY Post. It’s said to be 15 minutes long and is obviously of Marilyn. She never looks at the camera but the man’s head is not visible, which may suggest that he planted the camera and she didn’t know it was there.

The movie was shot on 15mm film sometime in the 1950s and it first attracted the interest of the FBI in the mid 60s. The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover spent “two weeks futilely trying to prove that Monroe’s sex partner was either John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy, according to declassified agency documents and interviews.”

A NY memorabilia dealer, Keya Morgan, bought the only known copy of the film from the son of the informant who gave it to the FBI over 40 years ago. Morgan is now $1.5 million richer after selling it. Supposedly the guy who bought it doesn’t have any plans to sell or release it to the public:

The feds eventually confiscated the original footage - but not before the informant made a copy of it, which is what was just sold by his son, Morgan said.

There are heavily redacted, declassified FBI documents talking about a “French-type” film.

They state the informant “exhibited [to agents] a motion picture which depicted deceased actress Marilyn Monroe committing a perverted act upon a unknown male,” Morgan said.

The informant was with at least one mobster at the time, the documents state.

According to the documents, “Former baseball star Joseph DiMaggio in the past had offered [the informant] $25,000 for this film, it being the only one in existence, but he refused the offer.

“Source advised that [redacted name of the mole] informed them that he had obtained this film prior to the time Marilyn Monroe had achieved stardom.”

Morgan said he got the deceased informant’s name from the former FBI agent who tipped him off to the flick - and was floored after he found the mole’s son in Washington, DC, and the man retrieved a film canister from a safe-deposit box and spooled it up.

“You see instantly that it’s Marilyn Monroe - she has the famous mole,” Morgan said.

“She’s smiling, she’s very charming, she’s very radiant, but she’s known for being radiant,” he said. “She moves away, and then it [the footage] stops.”

Last month, he brokered its sale, leading the informant’s son to a wealthy New York businessman who wants to keep this unseemly part of Monroe’s past buried.

“He said he’s just going to lock it up,” Morgan said.

“He said, ‘I’m not going to make a Paris Hilton out of her. I’m not going to sell it, out of respect.’ “

[From The NY Post]

This brings up all sorts of questions about who the man was in the film and who actually bought it - like whether it’s just some super rich guy who wanted it for his collection or if he has some connection to Marilyn or the man she was filmed with. Either way, we’ll probably never see it and that’s a good thing. She had enough image problems without a sex tape coming out 45 years after her death.

Marilyn is shown below with her second husband of just 10 months in 1954, Joe DiMaggio. Given the fact that DiMaggio offered so much money for the tape and that he was married to her around the time it was shot, it was possibly him in the film.

Update: Commentor Milo notes that this “lesbian porn video” is most likely artsy porn director Andrew Blake’s “Pinups 2,” which Dita sells on her own website. (link NSFW) Leave it to The Sun to make it out to be something new and scandalous.