Celebrity sex tape

A celebrity sex tape is a home video of sex acts, as performed by a celebrity and his or her partner, which finds Internet and/or bootleg distribution and made available to an audience for which it was not intended.

False sex tapes

In addition to the above tapes, there have been several instances of tapes allegedly featuring a celebrity which were later revealed to be false. These include:

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• TLC Host Paige Davis - A video, allegedly made by her and her ex-boyfriend in 1997, surfaced in December 2004. It was later reported that the woman was not Davis.
• In 2002 a sex tape featuring a woman alleged to be Christina Aguilera appeared on the internet. Experts determined that it was not Aguilera, and was merely a lookalike.
• A tape was released that allegedly featured American Pie star Alyson Hannigan nude and performing oral sex on an unidentified man. This turned out to be the adult movie actress Luna Lane.
• A tape has been put out that allegedly shows Miss West Virginia 2003 and TV reporter Allison Williams and her cameraman. This tape is false. Ms Williams is a former Miss West Virginia but she is a law student not a reporter nor is she the woman in the video.

The tape is not false; however, the Ms. Williams who was Miss West Virginia is NOT the woman involved and seen in the video. The woman in the video is, in fact, another Allison Williams, who apparently graduated from East Carolina University, and who worked for several other news outlets before she came to WVEC-TV sometime in 1999. Information is obviously quite sketchy, as WVEC-TV disavowed the Ms. Williams whom they had employed and purged their website of any references to Ms. Williams. One source had been located, however, which shows that while affiliated with WVEC and 'GoHamptonRoads.com' in 1999, she was involved in news content and was also involved with the 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m. morning news broadcast. She also did segments from the Channel 13 News helicopter. It is also possible that this Ms. Williams was also employed by NewsNet 5, a station in Cleveland, Ohio.

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• A pornstar by the name of Leanna Scott made an adult film, looking nearly identical to popular model Tila Nguyen. A rumor started that Tila had made a hardcore porn film earlier in her career. Nguyen publicly announced on her Myspace blog that it was not her in the video.