The 14-minute tape, allegedly shot in Narain’s Los Angeles home, features the couple performing various sex acts. Celebrity sex tape publicist Kevin “KB” Blatt told XBiz that Farrell was definitely aware he was being taped.
Blatt, who was directly involved in the marketing of the Paris Hilton sex tape, was one of the first to be approached by a third-party holder of the Farrell tape. The meeting took place earlier this week at a Mel’s Diner, although the tape only has Narain’s release signature, which Blatt claims will make it very difficult to sell.
So far the adult industry’s biggest players like Vivid, Red Light District and Larry Flynt have declined the $1.2 million asking price, Blatt told XBiz, and based on recent legal battles over other sex tapes and explicit photos being released without consent, like the Cameron Diaz sex photos that are seeing their day in court, the tape might never see the light of cyberspace.
Blatt said that the holders of the tape claim to be the rightful owners, although they were interested in making it look as though the tape was stolen from Narain’s home prior to its release over the Internet.
“The Farrell camp is dumbfounded right now,” Blatt said. “But they are definitely on this and they know who has the tape and that it’s being shopped around.”
Blatt speculated that similar to the high-powered attorneys who managed to pull the Diaz photos off the Internet, Farrell’s legal team is on the brink of issuing “a stern warning” to the current holders of the tape.
“They are definitely hoping it never hits the web,” Blatt said. “But without Colin’s signature, it probably never will, and if it does, these types of celebrity attorneys are pretty tough. They will turn your life upside down if they want to. If they want to get you, they will.”
Marking the one-year anniversary since the Diaz photos hit the web, the criminal trial against John Rutter, the man who originally shot the photos of Diaz in a mock S&M sex romp with another woman, began Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
The photo shoot in question took place in 1992 when the star was an unknown model. Nearly a decade later, Rutter threatened to go public with the photos, but offered to sell them back to Diaz for several million dollars.
A dispute over whether Diaz’s consent form was legal or forged resulted in charges against Rutter of forgery, grand theft and perjury. He faces up to five years in prison.
Diaz is expected to testify in the case.
