According to TMZ, Shauna admits that she and her boyfriend made a tape earlier this year, but that she hasn't given Vivid the rights to it. Vivid, on the other hand, claims they bought the tape from a third party, and are within their legal right to release it.

Which just leaves one question: how on earth did Shauna Sand make a sex tape this year and not realize that it would be in Vivid's hands within a matter of months? Unless her rage is just a ploy to drum up interest in another doubtless uninteresting celebrity porno...

· Shauna Sand to Block Sex Tape (tmz.com)

Unless, of course, you happen to be into the idea of getting caught on camera. In which case, thanks for the free porn—and keep up the good work! (And, uh, maybe cheat out next time? If you're gonna perform for the camera, you might as well perform for the camera.)

· Sex Romp Caught on Surveillance Camera (youtube.com)

The latest edition in our cavalcade of celebrity sex tapes: Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart, and Kari Ann Peniche (known for "Grey's Anatomy," Noxema commercials, and beauty pageants/sex work respectively) all got together one day, did some drugs, and got naked. And taped themselves. Is it shocking? Not really: in fact, it's rather tame (perhaps even more boring than "Kim Kardashian, Superstar"!).

Will we ever get to a point where we can just admit that this is normal? That it's not shocking to learn that a celebrity made a sex tape...because we've all made a sex tape? Probably not: but we'll keep hope alive. When we're not busy trying to find deep meaning in furiously masturbating to Eric, Rebecca, and Kari's drugged up naked ramblings.

UPDATE: By popular demand: a high(er) quality still of Eric Dane's wang. Click to enlarge:

· Dane's Anatomy: McSteamy, His Wife and a Fallen Beauty Queen's Naked Threesome (gawker.com)

Previously In Celebrity Sex: Gene Simmons Sex Tape, Leighton Meester Sex Tape, Hoopz Sex Tape, Amy Fisher Sex Tape, Paris Hilton Sex Tape

And even if it was Deanna Hummel, there'd be no need to pay for the video—it's all over the internet already (it's even right here, on this page!). So, uh, lesson to wouldbe hoaxers: if you're going to try to sell some fake sex tape, don't just pick one that's on the tubes. Cause the internet will figure it out. Fer serious.

· Being Fucked Backwards (fux.com)
· Deanna Hummel Sex Tape (deannahummel.com)

(And can you then send pix pls?)

· Deanna Hummel Sex Tape Scandal (deannahummel.com)

It all started about a month and a half ago, when a twelve minute long video of "Kappa Girl" (named after her place of employment) made its way onto the internet. The Chinese people were overcome by love (or at least lust-fueled curiosity), rocketing Kappa Girl to fame—fame which only increased as she created a blog to defend herself (and post more sexy pictures). The Kappa store, however, was less than enthralled with their newfound mascot, and chose to fire her from her position; the Chinese police were similarly unimpressed, and threw Kappa Girl in jail when it was determined that she herself was responsible for leaking the video onto the internet (which, remember, is illegal in China).

But wait! There's a silver lining! London-based Harmony Films has taken note of Kappa Girl's plight, and offered the budding starlet her very own contract. Which we're sure she'll jump on... you know, just as soon as she gets out of jail.

And they said no good could come out of a sex tape scandal!

· 'Kappa Girl' fired for sex video (shanghaiist.com)
· 'Kappa Girl' detained by Shanghai police (shanghaiist.com)
· Adult entertainment studio Harmony Films wants to offer 'Kappa Girl' a real job (shanghaiist.com)

Hey, fighting's a high pressure job—and everyone blows off steam in their own way, right? Now if you'll excuse us, we're going to, ahem, blow off some steam of our own. (If you know what we mean.)

· MMA Fighter, Amateur Porn Star? (watchkalibrun.com)
· 有名格闘家《桜井速人のハメ撮り動画が流出！イクのもマッハな桜井速人のハメ撮り (blog.olga.to)

This week, we finally had a chance to find out. On Monday, several prominent blogs (including Fleshbot's distant cousins Gawker and Deadspin) received the following news tip:

As of Sunday Dec. 14, 2008, there were rumors of a sex tape featuring both sexy ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews and the New York Mets' David Wright. The video was thought to have been taken after a Rutgers football game which both attended in October 2007 at a hotel in New Jersey. Both the camera and video were apparently later stolen from Wright's Mercedes soon thereafter, while it was parked in a garage near his home in New York City. Since then the thieves or their surrogates have shipped clips of the escapade to Hollywood porn producers, including Red Light District, the porn production company behind the "One Night In Paris" Paris Hilton video. David Joseph, Red Light's CEO, only offered, "We have seen the tape and we have yet to make any conclusions upon its veracity or whether we are interested in buying it."

When reached late Monday, spokespersons for Andrews, Wright and ESPN have no comment.

For those of you who don't know, Erin Andrews is a minor celebrity in the sports world—an attractive sports reporter with a somewhat rabid fanbase. In other words, the perfect candidate for a sex tape scandal: famous enough to generate interest, but not so big that a rumor could be easily dismissed. It's not too hard to see how someone on deadline (or desperate for a story) might have chosen to ignore some of the fishier aspects of the email (no sources cited, no hard proof of the tape), and run with it, setting the internet ablaze with scandalous whispers about Ms. Andrews.

Prudence won out in this case, however—and a short few minutes after the first email was sent, our journalist friends received a second one:

Just dropping a line to let you know that the folks over at [4chan] are making up a fake story about Erin Andrews having a sex tape with David Wright. Naturally, I do not wish to see my Princess' name defamed like that. ... Anyhow, they are making a fake torrent, rapidshare vid, yahoo questions, google analytics or some such nerdy brouhaha... the whole shabang

Yes indeed, the angry internerds had struck again, leaving a trail of clues around the web, hoping to ensnare eager searchers trying to break a story (or at least catch a glimpse of Erin Andrews getting her sex on). This is the most important part about sex tape hoaxes: we want to believe, and so we grab on to the barest shred of evidence—that picture that looks kind of like Kristen Davis naked, the girl who is maybe Ashley Dupre—and run with it.

In this case, however, there were a few loose threads that made the the whole mess all too easy to unravel. That David Joseph quote? A nice touch, given that Red Light District is known for marketing celebrity sex tapes—but a quick phone call to his office revealed that the whole thing was little more than smoke and mirrors. As he told former Fleshbot editor Dashiell Bennett:

I have absolutely no idea what that is about. I don't even know who those people are. I suppose it's flattering that they would use my name, since we're know for celebrity stuff, but I don't like people using my name in a lie.

Nice try, scammers—and better luck next time. And to all of you out there, hoping for a honest to goodness celebrity sex tape? Just remember—when those actually happen, you'll find the clip on Fleshbot.

· The Anatomy Of An Internet Rumor (deadspin.com)

Kid Rock: We're pretty sure there was only one reason why the Kid Rock/Scott Stapp sex tape was ever released: to prove (to someone, we don't know who) that these two a) have (or at least had) groupies and b) have received oral sex. We're pretty sure we didn't need to know either of those things — but hey, that's the world of celeb sex tapes for you.

Joanie "Chyna" Laurer: Female pro-wrestlers don't get nearly enough attention in the press—though we're not really sure that the kind of attention that Chyna's sex tape generated was really appreciated by her fellow female wrestlers (can you say "inch-long and thick-as-a-pinkie clitoris with a corona resembling the head of a penis"?).

Amy Fisher: Given that Amy Fisher's biggest claim to fame was shooting someone in the face, it is, perhaps, a little odd that she followed that up with her very own sex tape. Then again, Amy's criminal career was spawned by an affair she had with the much older Buttafuoco. When she was a teenager. And seriously, how hot does "Long Island Lolita: Caught On Tape" sound? (Related, but vastly less hot: the Joey Buttafuoco sex tape.)

Verne Troyer: Next up in our list of unlikely pornstars is Verne Troyer (better known as "Mini-Me."). Though Troyer didn't take too kindly to his time in the spotlight, we feel the release of his sex tape was actually a bit of a public service. Firstly, it taught us all that, no matter how different you may look, there's always someone out there who'll be willing to love you (and commit it to tape!). Secondly, it gave us all a very, very detailed lesson in how not to kiss.

Gene Simmons: And speaking of KISSing (ha!): you can't spell sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll without sex. And no one knows that better than KISS front man Gene Simmons, whose all too brief career in adult entertainment we were more than happy to analyze.

Dustin Diamond: If you'd told us, as kids, that Screech of "Saved by the Bell" fame would one day be the star of his very own sex tape, we probably would have run screaming from the room (well, after having you explain what, exactly, a "sex tape" was). That reaction wouldn't have been so far off: Dustin Diamond's last ditch effort to reclaim the spotlight was pathetic at best—but at the same time, isn't the whole pathetic grasp at fame thing the whole point of a self-released sex tape? (Oh, and also: Dirty Sanchez.)

Jenna Lewis: Screech wasn't the first "celebrity" to cash in on a "stolen" sex tape: that honor goes to Jenna Lewis, better known as Jenna from "Survivor," who raked in over $70,000 (and extended her fifteen minutes of fame) with her very own sex tape.

Kim Kardashian: And then, of course, there was Kim Kardashian's romp with R&B star Ray J. We never really figured out why Kim was supposed to be a celebrity, but at least she managed to make it with someone with at least a little bit of cred. And, for that matter, Kardashian managed to rake in a decent amount of money, too (much as she denied that she had had any part in the tape's public launch).

Colin Farrell and Nicole Narain: Given that Colin Farrell and former Playboy Playmate are two people we'd actually want to see get it on (as opposed to, well, many of the people who made this list), we were largely convinced that their rumored sex tape had to be a hoax. Yet somehow, it wasn't! See, sometimes the powers that be really do listen to our prayers.

Paris Hilton: Paris's tape hits the top of our list not so much for its quality (it's shot in night vision, for one thing, and Paris was never much of performer) but instead for its cultural significance. Before her flirtation with amateur porn, Paris was just a D-list party girl and hotel chain heiress; post-"One Night in Paris," she was a full-fledged C-list celebutante with her very own reality show. Using a sex tape to eke out a modicum of fame and launch oneself into the spotlight? Brilliant. (Oh, and there's also the matter of Paris's sexploits hitting the newswires the same day that Fleshbot launched—five years ago today! So maybe we're a little sentimental? It happens.)

Bonus Scandal! Dita Von Teese: Lovely Dita didn't so much make a "sex tape" as star in some arty lesbian fetish porn—but hey, the video was hot enough (and the scandal hyped up enough), that we had to include it somewhere. It also wins points for generating one of the best headlines ever seen: "Dita Von Teese had sex with a shoe." She sure did.

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· Real Or Fake?: Nude Photos Of Obama's Mother (nerve.com)

No one connected with the actor said "It'll only have to sell, like, 20 copies to beat 'Hollywood Homicide'." (Well, maybe Defamer might have.) If the tape exists, our money is that it will be called "Member 2." Most shocking of all is they have libraries in English hotels?
· "Red Light District Offers $500,000 for Josh Hartnett Sex Vid (AVN.com)