The man who helped turn Paris Hilton into a sex tape star is now hoping to do the same for pint-sized funnyman Verne Troyer.
Footage from a sex video featuring the Austin Powers star and a former girlfriend has appeared online yesterday after a third party got hold of the tape, which was shot in the apartment Troyer shared with his ex.
Website Tmz.com, which has obtained an extract from the video, claims sex tape dealer Kevin Blatt, who brokered the deal for Hilton's One Night In Paris romp, is in negotiations to distribute the footage.
Then today, 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.
TMZ still hasn't pulled the clip!!
It's still seen at the website here.
I don't know who wants to see the full
Here is Troyer's ex-girlfriend Ranae Shrider who is in the sex video.
She is a 22-year-old aspiring model. (it's claimeed)
