LOS ANGELES, CA — Celebrity sex tapes are becoming a regular part of the adult entertainment consumer’s viewing diet. Likewise, celebrity sex tape court battles are becoming a regular part of the mainstream entertainment headline reader’s editorial diet.Nicole Narain, Playboy Magazine’s Miss January 2002, is hoping that her celebrity sex tape court battle will result in more than just headline-related publicity for the former glamour model. She’s hoping it will ultimately earn her a cool $3 million.
According to the 31-year-old Indian-American beauty, the $3 million total isn’t optimistic speculation on her part; it’s the promised advance payment to her by Internet Commerce Group of Arizona. TheSmokingGun.com confirms that Nicole’s seven-figure total is part of an October 2005 option agreement.
In order for Narain to cash that impressively large porn chick check, she must first succeed in her courtroom quest for control of the tape, which co-stars the nakedly camera shy 29-year-old Colin Farrell – who is suing his ex-lover in order to keep the contents of the 14-minute amateur video under wraps. In spite of his protests, both personal and professional, moments of the tape are still circulating online.
Narain contends that she never agreed to keep the contents of their video taped love tryst a secret, as Farrell contends, and thus his attempts to keep her from distributing the saucy material should be denied. So far, Farrell’s summer of 2005 lawsuit has kept the legal status of the tape in question. A Los Angeles Supreme Court ruling that Narain’s attorneys must respond to Farrell’s suit will bring the answer one step closer.
Upon learning of the tape’s presence and availability online, Farrell filed suit against Narain and two porn industry professionals, while simultaneously obtaining a court restraining order making it impossible for Narain or Internet Commerce Group to distribute the tape. In March 13, a filing was made by Farrell’s attorneys which included the option agreement, which gives Narain 60-percent of all “net revenues” from the videos distribution, requires her to “diligently pursue her rights” to the tape, and “vigorously defend” against the Farrell lawsuit. In return, Internet Commerce Group promised to pay up to $60,000 worth of Narain’s legal fees and $100,000 whether or not she wins the case.
