Paris Hilton Seeks to Halt Sex Video
Fri Nov 7, 8:09 AM ET

LOS ANGELES - Paris Hilton is steaming mad over a steamy sex video that may soon go public, her spokeswoman said.

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The homemade video reportedly features the socialite, reality show star and heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune having sex with Rick Solomon, who went on to marry former "Charmed" actress Shannen Doherty (news) in 2002.

Although Hilton knew the video was being made, her representatives said, leaking the video was "horrendous and in such bad taste."

"It's very obvious that whoever did this is doing it to hurt her," Hilton's spokeswoman, Siri Garber, told The Associated Press on Thursday. "The Hilton family lawyers are getting involved as of now."

The recording was made three years ago while Solomon and Hilton, then 19, were dating, Garber said.

"It was for themselves," Garber added. "Not everybody indulges in that, but couples do it sometimes and it's just for themselves, for fun. She never intended for it to be seen by anybody other than the two of them."

Hilton is one of the stars of Fox's new reality series "The Simple Life," set to debut Dec. 2, in which the pampered party girl leaves the urban social scene to live in a rural, working-class environment.

The video has reportedly been distributed to some gossip columnists by an unidentified person, and a Seattle-based porn site operator who possesses the tape told Us Weekly magazine he plans to post it on the Internet.

Hilton's lawyers are threatening legal action against anyone who distributes the tape or fails to destroy their copy of it. They are also trying to determine whether Solomon, 33, was involved in releasing the tape.

Paris Hilton's Steamy Home Movie
Thu Nov 6, 4:30 PM ET

By Lia Haberman

Paris Hilton, star of Fox's upcoming riches-to-rags reality

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series Simple Life, is no stranger to slumming it.

But an amateur skin flick may be more than the hotel heiress bargained for.

Reports have surfaced of a steamy sex video, featuring 22-year-old Hilton, which could soon be available on the Internet ala Tommy and Pamela's infamous romp. The tape has supposedly been sent to several gossip columnists.

Shot about three years ago, the tape features the then barely legal celebutante getting X-rated with Shannen Doherty's on-again, off-again husband, 33-year-old Rick Solomon.

According to sources quoted in the New York Post who have seen the footage, Hilton "keeps staring into the camera and trying to show her best side. She knows she is being taped, and [Solomon] keeps trying to get her into sex positions that are better for taping, if you know what I mean."

However, the viewing public may never get to see Hilton's come-hither stares. Her parents have threatened legal action against anyone who releases the tape.

"The Hilton family is greatly saddened at how low human beings will stoop to exploit their daughter Paris, who is sweet-natured, for their own self-promotion as well as profit motives," read a statement released last Wednesday.

"Paris is working very hard on her career. The release of a private tape between a younger girl and her older boyfriend is more than upsetting...Anyone in any way involved in this video is guilty of criminal activity and will be...vigorously prosecuted."

(Earlier this year, when rumors of the tape first surfaced, Hilton denied its existence, telling New York magazine that Solomon was "a complete liar and scumbag.")