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We live in an era of celebrity scandals.

Sex sells, especially sex tapes.

After Kim Kardashian's tape exploded onto the scene,

there was a ton of tapes that followed

from a ton of different characters in Hollywood.

Colin Farrell.

Nicole kept the tape, and Colin just assumed

that she would be honorable and not do anything with it.

She starts tossing the idea around.

We're gonna take you to see the tape.

Put a bandana over my head,

and I was thrown in a hatchback of a Honda.

Drugs, paranoid. She's flipping out.

Everything exploded.

Screech had a porn tape that I did not watch.

I was very upset and very disappointed

in my friend Dustin,

and I even asked him, "Why are you doing it?"

He says, "Well, I need to get back out there."

Montana Fishburne.

She was straight up being like,

"I'm doing this to be famous. This worked for Kim,

and now it's gonna work for me."

So, now it's a celebrity sex tape broker

a celebrity sex tape broker.

And I see this nutty guy with guns and all kinds of [bleep].

I'm like, whoa.

Did you find Nicole?

Did you find her?

Look, if you owned this guy,

you're a bit of a creepozoid, right?

Like, this is--this is a little spy camera-y.

I didn't have this. Yeah. Like--

Oh. Oh, wait, I did. I did have this.

Classic MiniDV camera.

Oh-hoo-hoo.

What is a DV?

In the early 2000s, new boundaries were set

around sexuality and the expression of sex.

It's okay to explore sex in art, in entertainment.

It's okay to explore sex in your personal space.

This is a sexy, sneaky little guy.

I can definitely imagine somebody hiding one of these.

This--This is definitely something

you could hide in the nightstand.

More and more people had these kind of cameras,

and people by this point are far more comfortable

with being in front of a camera.

So many people have access to technology, filming themselves,

and they might feel comfortable having sex on camera

when things are going well in their relationship.

Many people in America film themselves having sex.

That's a reality.

There's nothing inherently wrong with doing that.

But in these cases that we're talking about,

these celebrity sex tapes, not everyone was consenting.

There's a lot of coercion happening,

and some of these were private moments

that were never intended to be made public.

Each time you start to film, like, a new film,

you wear--you have special underpants,

like good luck underpants? - I do, darlin'.

- Can you talk about that? - Shamrocks, Yeah, pretty simple.

Colin Farrell is the coolest person on the planet.

Colin Farrell had a sex tape? No, I did not know that.

You mean to say that a handsome A-list actor

has sex with a hot Black chick?

Tell me more. I'm here for it.

I don't know anything about the Colin Farrell sex tape.

Is that a real thing? I like him as an actor.

He's great in "Banshees of Inisherin."

I just don't like you no more.

You do like me.

You dirty boy. You're such a little, dirty, Irish little boy.

In 2003, Colin Farrell

was coming off of a run of middling movies.

In the mid 2000s, Colin Farrell was a bad boy.

A bit of a drinker, bit of a party guy.

Very popular with the ladies.

He has had those eyebrows for ages.

He was just a rough and tumble type,

and I think he sort of reveled in that.

He dated Britney Spears for a hot second.

Kate Beckinsale, other celebrities.

To me at that point, Colin Farrell

was absolutely a sex icon. I was obsessed with him.

-Colin! -Colin!

To your left!

Colin, to your right!

He was incredibly attractive. Yeah.

I am Nicole Narain.

Last name's Narain. N-A-R-A-I-N, and I'm Miss January 2002.

Nicole Narain, one of the most beautiful Black women--

No, let me just rephrase that.

One of the most beautiful women in the business.

Nicole, how are you? Looking beautiful.

Nicole Narain, in the mid aughts--

she was a Playboy Bunny,

and she was also a little bit of an actress.

You could see her in an episode of "Mad TV."

Oh, so you're the guy who wants to clean the Jacuzzi filter.

She had minor roles in "Fear Factor."

Stay right there, please.

And she was on an episode of "Entourage" as well.

- Be right back on track. - Thanks, Vince.

Nicole, bless her heart, came out from Chicago,

was a Playmate.

My name is Candace Smith.

I'm an author, a comedian, and producer.

I'm a lawyer. I'm an actress.

- You got more kids? - My girl! She's...

I'm a [bleep] Renaissance woman.

And I was Nicole Narain's wingwoman.

Flunky, right-hand woman.

Before I met Nicole, I knew who she was.

This beautiful Blasian-- Black-Asian hot creature.

Was just [bleep] drained of any life force in her, you know?

And it's like I feel like when we connected

was right when it was just kind of...

like, you know, maybe the night I met her,

she kind of had a little bit left,

and then it just... and she took me under her wing

into the Hollywood scene, the dark side,

and was kind of this tour guide, telling me things

and exposing certain things

and pushing me in that direction.

And we're hot. You know, everyone wants us everywhere.

We're at the Playboy Mansion

in coordinated lingerie outfits.

In July of 2002, Nicole Narain met Colin Farrell

at a Playboy Mansion party. - ♪ Hey, hey, hey

We'd be up at the Playboy Mansion.

It was amazing. I mean, you had Leonardo DiCaprio.

You had Jim Carrey. You had Jack Nicholson,

You had--I mean, big, big, big stars were up there.

They're talented and incredible and ambitious,

and we're young and beautiful,

and it just-- match made in heaven.

It was fun.

Leonardo bought me toilet paper

so I could pee behind a 7-Eleven.

You know what I'm saying?

Talk about being at a party at the Playmate Mansion.

What's special about a party at the Playmate Mansion?

Do you want the sugar-coated answer or the...

- Both. - ...more candid answer?

Actors just circulated through there.

So, if you're the Playmate of the Month or the Year,

it's like, boom, you know? And so Nicole, for a while,

she was that hot prize party girl.

So, now we're in Hollywood in this scene,

and you're popping a lot of pills.

We're drinking a lot.

You know, it's like [bleep] Hep C everywhere.

It's like nasty, fake tans

and hair extensions laying on the ground,

people [bleep] in the pool.

You know, it becomes this haze of party, nightclub,

Hollywood Hills,

stay up for three days, crash.

And Colin collided, and they're two hot [bleep]. It's exotic.

They both have this, like,

bad girl, bad boy thing going on.

But I feel like they had a real connection.

They only dated for a few months.

They decided to make love on videotape.

The video between Colin and Nicole Narain

was a private video.

They were both aware that the video was being made.

They both participated happily.

The sex tape is hot. I remember wishing it was better quality.

Uh, the creative in me.

I'm like, [bleep]. What the [bleep]?

Who's holding the camera? [bleep], why are you shaking?!

I'm like, the audio. [bleep]! You know what I mean?

It's just like, what the [bleep]?

You know? These two hot [bleep].

What we could have done! You know?

Sex, drugs, rock and roll are fun

maybe for a night, maybe two nights.

But a lifestyle of sex, drugs, and rock and roll

isn't realistic for anyone.

It's not a matter of if you'll be burned out.

It's a matter of when you'll be burned out.

I feel like he genuinely loved Nicole,

but late night parties, Playmates, hookers, after hours,

everybody's in everybody's ear, doing drugs, paranoid.

She's flipping out. Colin's distancing himself from her.

Everything exploded.

And then they broke up.

And I think Nicole kept the tape,

and Colin just assumed

that she would be honorable and not do anything with it.

But my understanding is she needed money,

and she needed money fast.

So, this property that she had, the video,

she made a decision of trying to market it, trying to sell it.

And I feel like it just kind of went in that direction, like,

"If I'm not good enough for you to marry or have a baby with,

then I can at least make some money and do my thing."

I think that was kind of her mentality.

You know, she starts tossing the idea around.

People are talking about it, you know?

She's at the parties in the Hollywood Hills.

Oh, this person from here talked to this person, that person.

It starts expanding.

And I think it's just crazy how [bleep] up

the whole situation got.

They put a bandana on me. And I hear,

"Let me tell you something, young man. You wanna get hurt?"

Nicole and I--we were glued to each other's hip,

drinking a lot.

We're doing a lot of [bleep] blow. There's pills.

I don't even know what the [bleep] that is.

I'm thinking...

I might have to get off of this ride.

I wanted us to go

in a completely different direction.

I contacted a production company.

We shot a pilot for a reality show

with the two of us, with me being her manager.

It could have [bleep] gone somewhere,

but then it just started getting really [bleep] crazy.

Wow.

Now this-- this is still used today.

People are still using these everywhere.

Carl Zeiss lens.

Yeah, there was a lot of sex tapes made

with this particular camera.

Wow. It's just a little bit bigger than your iPhone.

I had a situation arise where I got a call.

It was very cryptic.

And the guy says, "Is this Kevin Blatt? K.B.?"

I'm like, "Yeah."

"The celebrity sex tape broker?"

I'm like, "Yeah, how can I help you?"

"Well, I have an A-list actor with a B-list model."

And I said, "Okay, who are we talking about here?"

He said, "I can't say. Can you meet me

at Mel's Drive-in on Sunset in two hours?"

The guy told me he'd be wearing

an orange John Deere hat and a parka.

And when I went there, I showed up.

Like, who are you at, Elmer Fudd?

The guy said, "Hey, just sit tight.

My partner's coming. Order some cheesecake.

He'll be right with us." And I'm like, cheesecake?

I'm lactose-intolerant. Like, I don't eat cheesecake.

And the guy showed up.

He looks at me and he goes, "Look, it's Colin Farrell,

and he's with a Playmate named Nicole Narain."

They go, "We want $1.2 million for it."

And I said, "Wow, that's interesting."

So, he leans over.

He goes, "Listen, we're gonna take you to see the tape."

They put a bandana over my head,

and I was thrown in a hatchback of a Honda

and driven up Sunset Plaza.

It was like this big, old Hollywood house.

And I walked in, they popped this tape in,

and there was Colin Farrell,

and he was naked, and he was smoking a cigarette,

holding a Guinness beer.

And you see the schlong, and you're like, [bleep].

Does he breathe through that thing?

I'm like, "Okay, I'm gonna make a couple calls for you."

I go home. I start making my phone calls,

and the next day I get a call.

And I hear,

"Let me tell you something, young man. You wanna get hurt?"

I go, "Who is this?"

He goes, "This is David Hans Schmidt.

You're trying to-- to step on my turf, bro.

And I got them a deal with that Colin Farrell tape,

and you better back off, or you're gonna get hurt."

And then I Google this guy,

and I see this nutty guy with guns

and all kinds of [bleep]. I'm like, whoa.

I'm like, okay, now I just got threatened.

David Hans Schmidt was a celebrity sex tape broker

based in Phoenix.

David Hans Schmidt was a larger-than-life character.

He was loud. He would talk.

He loved himself.

America, if you want to see O.J. Unveiled, okay,

the real, true O.J. Simpson,

go to OJ--badoj.com, and you'll see it.

He was boastful. He was energetic.

He was just like a magnetic,

sort of black hole personality that sucked everything in.

Joe, coming up next month is a sequel.

O.J. does a sheep. We call it baa-d OJ.com.

All right, we're gonna stop it right there.

And he was contacted by

I don't believe it was actually Nicole Narain directly.

I think it was a friend of hers. I think she said to her friend,

"Can you help me find someone to sell this?"

And that got to David Hans Schmidt.

David Hans Schmidt came up with a bright idea

of selling and distributing the videos on the internet.

My client was a company called Internet Commerce Group,

and the owner of that was a guy named Sal Abbate.

My client was approached by David Hans Schmidt to take

content without a license and put it on a website

and charge money to see it.

He was the guy before there was me,

there was a guy out there who was a celebrity sex tape guy.

But what he did was he had partnered up with Tonya Harding,

Paula Jones, who was embroiled

in this scandal with Bill Clinton at the time.

He had a bunch of what I would call "D-lebrities."

So, now it's a celebrity sex tape broker

versus a celebrity sex tape broker.

He threatened me,

and that's when I picked up the phone,

and I looked up CAA, the agency that represents Farrell,

found his agent, left a message for him.

The next thing you know, I'm on a conference call.

He's calling his agent, manager, lawyers.

There's probably six people on a call.

He was in Miami filming "Miami Vice" at the time.

They get me on the phone, and I basically say,

"Okay, Mr. Farrell, this is the situation.

Do you remember filming the movie 'Daredevil'

out in Los Angeles in this year?"

Says, "Yeah."

"Do you remember linking up with a woman

who was a former Playmate--

Black girl by the name of Nicole Narain?"

And the whole conversation gets quiet,

and then I hear, "Oh, for [bleep] sake.

What the [bleep] do I do now?"

Like, "You're gonna hire this lawyer,

and we're gonna get you protected.

We're gonna make it go away."

And that's how I kind of got into this journey

of working on the other side of the desk.

What that really means is kind of a Hollywood fixer.

I make bad things go away for celebrities

and people that are powerful in this town.

Colin Farrell filed a lawsuit when he found out

that his ex-girlfriend had their sex tape

and was trying to sell it.

Colin Farrell was represented by a very famous lawyer

named Marty Singer.

So, his number one goal was, "Let's keep this under wraps."

He wanted an injunction. He wanted the court to order

that nobody was allowed to see this video.

No one was allowed to distribute it.

His main focus was just keeping this toothpaste

in the tube, keeping the genie in the bottle.

And the interesting thing about the Colin Farrell tape--

my client never bought it.

My client was merely approached by David Hans Schmidt,

because David Hans Schmidt essentially communicated,

"Hey, you have a website. Do you want to buy this tape?"

That was the entirety of what occurred.

And then Colin Farrell sued.

David Hans Schmidt-- he was a hustler.

He was an absolute natural born hustler.

And I don't know if he was any good at it,

to be honest with you. I actually recall flying

out here, um, to L.A. with him.

He wanted to approach

Colin Farrell's lawyers and negotiate.

I remember I took a picture of him.

He had a bowl that he filled with lemons,

and he wrote, like, "Colin and Nicole,"

and he used it as a prop

to go to Colin Farrell's lawyer's office in Century City

and said, "Let's make lemonade. We've got lemons."

And he was just that kind of-- he thought it was funny.

When a new lawsuit's filed, you always meet with a client

and you say, "Okay, what's your strategy?

What do you wanna do? What's your goal?

Do you wanna fight this

and get a lot of media attention out of it?

Do you wanna try to quietly settle?

As it turns out, my client was very happy to fight,

did not wanna settle,

wanted to get some media attention out of it,

because that can be more valuable than the legal fees.

My client was trying to make money and was--

and was trying to do it above board legally.

Nicole Narain was part of the Colin Farrell case as well,

but I didn't represent Nicole Narain.

She was not my client, so she had her own attorney.

Nicole named me as

one of her advisors that was counseling her

and procuring the sex tape.

And the fact that I have a law degree from Northwestern

gave my role in the debacle

a heightened sense from everyone.

So, everyone is looking at it

as though it's this savvy, you know, Northwestern grad

behind the scenes, like the puppet master,

the mastermind, like, "Oh, yeah, I'll tell you what we'll do."

But in reality, it's like...

...I was not of... clear mind and state.

You're talking about, like, a drugged out model and actress

that's doing music video jobs and laying on Nicole's bed

and doing lines of blow that is "giving advice."

♪ Blowing out speakers in your mind ♪

♪ Blowing out speakers in your... ♪

♪ Blowing out speakers in your mind ♪

My boss, Maria Speth, and I flew out to New York with my client,

and we met Colin Farrell at a law firm in a conference room

on Easter Sunday.

During Colin Farrell's deposition,

he, through his lawyer, was trying to make an argument

that this would be so devastating to his career.

But then he was just in some movie where he was playing

a guy that was exactly this kind of guy.

So, does it really hurt your career that much?

Our job was to kind of attack him.

In fact, I remember preparing for it

and going over his Rotten Tomatoes page,

going over all his old movies.

And we were trying to emphasize the point that

the sex tape was not that out of character

for what he was known for.

And we were trying to show that if this video got out there,

it wouldn't be devastating to him.

After a couple of hours of back and forth in this deposition,

I think both sides just said, "Why are we doing this?"

Colin Farrell was a really nice guy.

And I think that was part of him being Irish.

I think that was part of him being just a gentleman.

He was a gentleman.

He emphasized over and over again, this is just private.

This is just not something that he intended the world to see.

And it's pretty hard to look a guy in the eye

and say, "I don't--I don't care that you feel that way."

He had a right to feel that way. It was his privacy.

So, I think we kind of broke Colin Farrell down a little bit,

and I think he kind of broke us down.

Maria Speth and Marty Singer went into a closet--

literally in a closet.

They chatted for about 10 minutes,

and everyone was sort of whispering.

They came back and an agreement was reached to just settle.

And Colin Farrell did yell at me, by the way,

in the middle of the depo,

because outside the building there were a bunch of paparazzi.

And he wanted to know if I had leaked the location

because nobody knew the location of the depo

on Easter Sunday, of all things.

I'm not gonna try and do his Irish accent.

Gingras, did you do it, man?

Yeah. No, no, I did--No. I-I lied to you. Um...

The media wanted to know about this deposition,

wanted to know where it was,

and my client wanted the publicity.

And it was sort of like,

"Hey, well, if we tell you where it is,

can you drop our web address in the story?"

And so, um, I was--I was asked whether that was permitted

to release that information, and there was no court order

or other reason not to release it, so I approved it.

I didn't do it myself, but I approved it.

But Colin Farrell was absolutely sure I did it.

In April of 2006, Nicole Narain and Colin Farrell

actually came to an amicable settlement

and reached a deal in the suit over the video.

We just don't know what

the details of that settlement were,

but we do know that it was never

formally placed on DVD or came out on VHS.

I heard through the grapevine that Colin ended up,

I think, paying them a million dollars

to have it not go up on the celebrity website.

But as you know...

...you can't un-ring a bell.

The tape did eventually get out.

My recollection is a website called Dirty Colin,

and they said, you know, "We're about to release this tape.

Sign up here if you wanna buy it" or whatever.

Colin Farrell--that is a very memorable sex tape

because it was the first time I saw one of those online.

I don't know if it was ever pressed on DVD,

but you didn't need the DVD

'cause it was short, and it was to the point.

It's a fun tape, you know?

He's really kind, and he is really enthusiastic.

He was very enthusiastic about the oral pleasure

that he was going to perform on her.

And there's a really famous line from the video,

uh, where he says...

"I could eat that [bleep]

for breakfast, lunch and [bleep] dinner."

And I will never forget that.

I wasn't like a prude, but I, like, wasn't

super, you know, sexually experienced at all.

Like, that was mind-blowing to me.

And I think for that reason,

that tape kind of became this big discussion topic.

It is even now. You can even find columns about it

that women have written where they say

he became a little bit of this symbol

of what sex should be like,

which also goes to show the impact of sex tapes,

that it can go in that direction, too,

where people will take it, not unlike porn, as educational,

which isn't great generally.

What was most surprising to me about this video

was the fact that the woman in the video was a Black woman.

And that was actually very, very shocking to me.

Here I am. I'm a teenage girl.

To see that this celebrity, Colin Farrell,

who I had this huge crush on, would actually, like, deign

to date and, like, be with a Black woman

and not just, like, see her, but also, like, engage in--

in sex with her, was a very, very big deal for me.

Some--well, it only--it only could have been Nicole Narain.

It could have been David Hans Schmidt.

It could have been my client, if he lied about doing it,

He swore under oath that he didn't.

Um, it could have been Colin Farrell's lawyer.

It could have been me, actually.

Now that you think about it, it could have been me.

It wasn't me. I didn't do it.

I swear under oath, I did not release the tape.

No.

Once the settlement had been reached, it kind of seemed like

maybe there wasn't so much bad blood between the two.

Nicole Narain actually gave an interview

to "People" Magazine where she seemed very, like,

tongue in cheek, sort of a wink and a nod towards it.

She said maybe they would make another tape.

Colin Farrell--he did give one interview in 2008

where he doesn't really go into detail or anything,

but he does talk a little bit

about what the experience of the deposition, uh,

to get to the settlement was like.

It seemed like a good idea at the time--two adults having fun.

Ooh, a video camera, you know.

Nothing wrong with that.

No, there wasn't anything wrong with that.

As long as you don't let the tape get into the wrong hands,

Well, that's it, and at the end of the deposition, the man that

was in charge said, "Well, you've learned your lesson,

I hope, Mr. Farrell." And I said, "Absolutely. Next time

I take the tape with me."

Colin Farrell's career continues going, obviously deservedly so.

The man was just nominated for an Oscar.

And even now, when we talk about Colin's tape,

it's mostly positive.

And if we talk about Nicole, we never heard from her again.

She hasn't had a career that proliferated like his.

Did you find Nicole?

Did you find her?

When a white woman does a sex tape, it's--

the--the--the arms of mainstream media--

they open up wide. You're on E! Entertainment.

And I'm not saying that they shouldn't.

I'm just saying, can that be extended

across all color lines?

You know, like, I just- I just hate that,

when a-a-a Black woman does the same thing as a white woman,

it just--a lot of times, it gets deemed... so low class.

Why was this Black woman not able to do what

a Kim Kardashian was able to do?

There is very much a double standard

for Black women in media.

She's doing more and more drugs.

She's distancing herself from me and becoming--

like, she's going farther and farther to the dark side.

And I'm like, what the [bleep] is going on?

As I recall, she was having disruptive relationships

with sexual compulsions

that was beginning to have consequences.

And there was suspicion

of maybe some other substances involved as well.

She's watching her back. She's, like, looking for cars.

She's, like, freaking the [bleep] out, you know?

And then you mix in the drugs, the alcohol,

and it just got to the point where I was like,

"Dude, I can't even [bleep] be around you.

Like, this is some weird-ass [bleep], you know?"

So, I started pulling back.

How bad did your addiction get, Nicole?

I remember after the tape came out,

Nicole did a lot of work on the reality show circuit.

I don't want this to dictate, really, my life or who I am,

but I really feel like I am a beautiful disaster.

Nicole Narain was a young woman who, um, was concerned

that her behaviors were getting out of control.

She was my patient.

At the time, she was relatively quiet,

sort of lovely, like a lovely person.

I had heard there was a sex tape.

I don't remember her even talking about it

in her sessions, frankly.

But I remember her feeling exploited.

I remember she was concerned about that,

that she had a certain amount of shame.

She would talk about shame

in some of the choices she had made.

That [bleep] got shut down so quickly,

and you never heard of her again.

Nicole disappeared,

and I was always gravely concerned about that.

I said, "Nicole, you know what?

You got this much money in the safe.

Like, you could just go back home to Chicago.

You could do this, this, and this."

But you gotta think about it. Like, how do you do that?

How do you go from that to...

regular life?

You know? So, now I become a bank teller back home,

and everyone sees me when I walk in and the shame?

I'd rather just be in the darkness and disappear.

Did you find Nicole?

Did you find her?

If--If Nicole was watching this,

what I would wanna say is,

[bleep] from the past doesn't have to weigh you down

until the day you die.

It's up to you to say, "[bleep] the world"

and--and build it back up. You know what I mean?

That's what I would tell Nicole.

I think what was interesting

about this particular tape with Colin Farrell

was that it really did magnify his brand.

But there was a point in time where sex tapes

just became a little ridiculous.

So, when social media started blowing up,

and it was able to help these videos travel

and, um, become trending topics,

a lot of that had to do with the cringe factor.

If it's something that stands out as a little bit odd,

that's what you're gonna pull at,

and that's what you're gonna talk about.

Screech had a sex tape?

First of all, who the [bleep]...

asked Dustin Diamond for a sex tape?

Yeah, the Dustin Diamond tape was shopped to me originally.

I thought it was grotesque.

My name is Lizette Santiago.

I am an actor, voiceover actor, host, performer all around,

and I was a dear friend of Dustin Diamond.

Dustin Diamond was a well-known actor

who was on a TV show for a very long time

called "Saved by the Bell."

And Dustin was on that show for many, many years.

He was on that show even when it was a pilot.

He was also the most, for me personally,

relatable character--

the dork that, like, hangs out with the cool dudes.

And so you can be a dork

and still be, like, popular with that.

Okay, so when do we start?

Well, tonight, but it has to be at my place.

I'm not allowed out after "Alf."

He never wanted me to call him "Screech," ever.

I did it one time, and he was like,

"Don't ever call me Screech again." I was like, "Why?"

He's like, "Because my friends don't call me Screech.

They can call me Screech. You can't."

And I said, "Okay, well, Dustin's too long.

Can I call you Dust?"

Dustin, for a while,

wanted to try and separate himself from his character.

And each attempt he made at fame

did make him more of a "joke."

He did a lot of work on a lot of sleazy reality shows.

I'm not a little pipsqueak like most people would expect.

I mean, on TV, I'm only that big.

Dustin wanted to move on. He wanted to try something else

other than living the life of Screech

from "Saved by the Bell."

He wanted to do stand-up comedy, and he wanted to do movies.

But I don't think anybody else took him seriously.

How many people came out tonight

specifically to relive some old "Saved by the Bell" memories?

You guys are gonna be really [bleep] disappointed.

It's tough for people who grew up as child stars.

They'll take a lot of, um, aim at whatever they can hang on to.

Trying to make it in stand-up, it was just another thing

that kind of made him a little bit of a sad story.

And people hadn't been talking about Dustin Diamond for years,

and all of a sudden, he made sex tape of his own.

Yeah. Joke's on you, Jack.

- Nobody's gonna touch this. - People were very disturbed.

That wasn't a joke. I'm like, that close

from tackling my own grandma. It's embarrassing,

is what it is. - Like, my friend Dustin?

There was a point where he had some problems paying,

you know, his mortgage.

He was trying to make money to save his house

'cause he was on the cusp of losing it.

He started selling T-shirts

that said, "Save Screech's House,"

which only concerned the fans that he did have,

and, again, made his behavior increasingly questionable.

There was an instance when Dustin

had stabbed someone outside of a bar,

and he was arrested for that.

He had to always be safe,

because the--the truth of the matter is

people would sometimes try to attack him or try to insult him.

All right, tell me about the porn video.

You told Oprah that the porn video is one--

one of your biggest regrets.

So, while Dustin, um, reveals to Oprah

that he thought that he could maybe, um, cash out

by making his own tape.

My buddy said, "Where's a Screech sex tape?

You got to be worth at least a million."

And I thought, yeah.

Yeah, maybe.

When I heard about the sex tape, I like, everybody else,

found out when it came out, and I was embarrassed.

He never told me about it.

He never told me he was creating it.

He never asked my advice, and I know why.

Because if he probably would have brought that up to me,

I would have been like, "No, you're not doing that.

Are you stupid? No, come on!"

The sex tape is titled "Screeched--Saved by the Smell."

Terrible title.

There were two unidentified women in the tape with him.

It was a little grainy. It was a little discolored.

You couldn't quite tell what was going on at every moment.

And then I would say that the other part of it

that was such big news for everybody

was that it featured quite a large penis.

I--We talked about it. You know, I asked him.

I was like, "So..." And he said, "Oh, there was this guy.

Don't worry, though. It's all, you know, it's all fake."

I was like, "Yeah, but everyone's talking

about your, you know, thing, and they know that it's big."

And I even asked him, "Why are you doing this?"

He says, "Well, I need to get back out there.

I want people to see this side of me."

He wanted attention,

but he also wanted to be back on the map again.

What if that had made $3 million?

Bye. That's my show.

- Did it make $3 million? - It did not make $3 million.

- It didn't? - No.

Yeah. Joke's on you, Jack. Yeah, no one's--

no one's trying to see Screech get laid like that.

Nobody's gonna touch this.

Of course there was a sex act in it--the Dirty Sanchez,

which is the only thing that the media was able

to garner out of that thing that was worth anything.

The Dustin Diamond thing

was about as big a flop as you could want.

I don't think that video made 50 bucks.

Dustin Diamond did eventually reveal to Oprah,

of all people, that it was a prosthetic penis that he used.

I thought, you know, I could totally fake this.

I could get a stuntperson to take my place.

It's my face, but nothing else.

He wasn't actually nude in the sex tape.

So, you know, so it was not much of a sex tape in the end.

That makes it even worse.

It's like, "Uh, I'm not in it, but [bleep] you."

I didn't really do anything, so it's--I can wander free.

He made this sex tape,

and I don't think it quite worked out.

He really wasn't ever anything more than a joke.

Do you know who I am? Do you have any idea who I am?

You're like, "I have no idea who that guy is."

He said to me--he's like, "You know, Lizette,

I wish I had your life."

And I was like, "What, are you kidding me, Dustin?

You--You were on a show since you were a kid.

You--you had this money. You had this. You have fame."

And he's like, "Yeah, but if I can start my life over again,

I would start fresh."

Dustin Diamond was hospitalized

three weeks ago in Florida.

Dustin Diamond passed away in February 2021 from lung cancer.

When he did die, it wasn't like,

um, if an esteemed celebrity passes away,

and all these memorials come out,

and these beautiful obits.

It wasn't that. A lot of it was really negative.

He--He really was struggling very clearly,

and he died because he had what's called anosognosia,

where you block what's happening.

You don't see what's going on as a result of what you're doing.

I mean, just the fact that he allowed

a tumor to grow that huge

tells you how not connected he was to his reality.

And it's more evidence of how people look

at somebody like that and turn them into a cartoon figure

and not a human being who is suffering.

When you are involved in a scandal like this,

it can become your legacy,

and I think that's really unfortunate because

while a lot of us would like to just remember him as Screech,

some of us remember him in a whole other way,

and I don't think he would have wanted that.

He was so good about being good to strangers

and other people and to his friends. Amazing.

Dustin didn't want to h--

Dustin didn't wanna have his tombstone

because he was afraid that people were gonna go

and, like, graffiti it up

and--and spit on him and ridicule him...

and do all this stuff.

It's the saddest thing to feel that way, you know?

It's the saddest thing because if people

really knew who he was...

if they really knew his--his heart and his soul,

and if he accepted it-- his heart and his soul,

things would be so much different,

and if people would have given him a chance

to be someone different.

That's the problem with Hollywood sometimes,

and it's sad that the world kind of made him out

to look like something I didn't know.

There was an explosion of sex tapes in our culture

after Kim Kardashian.

I definitely think that there were people

who wanted to follow Kim

by doing a sex tape just to become famous.

In 2010, we had Montana Fishburne.

She's the daughter of Lawrence Fishburne.

Oh, my God. So, this is a weird one.

So, Montana Fishburne decided she wanted to do a sex tape,

and unlike having a Ray J shoot it,

she decided to do it commercially

and have Vivid shoot it,

where she got paid a lot of money and made the movie,

and it was well shot. It was really well done.

Porn. I always wanted to do porn since I was in high school.

The tape is reportedly set

to be released in August

and differs from previous sex tapes

in that Fishburne is not claiming

her tape to be stolen and leaked.

In the case of Montana Fishburne,

she was straight up being like,

"I'm doing this to be famous. This worked for Kim,

and now it's gonna work for me."

Well, I don't think it was commercially successful

because the story around Kim Kardashian was it's stolen.

This, they didn't really have a story

that she was in defiance of her parents.

She was a mainstream actor's daughter, not well-known.

She thought that she could parlay sex tape fame

into, you know, a mainstream career,

and that is just not what was going to happen

for a Black woman, unfortunately.

And I think that because there was also nothing else

that she was known for but being her father's daughter,

so it was all about, this must be shameful for him.

He must be embarrassed. Where did he go wrong as a parent?

You know, it wasn't about her being a woman

who had the right to make these choices and who was old enough

to consent to say, "I'd like to do pornography,"

and it really backfired for Montana.

Tila Tequila had a big one come out, 2011.

Guys, come on, please. Who's the Super Bowl for you?

Celebrity obsessions?

The funny thing about the Tila Tequila tape

is she had that dating show on MTV.

It was a guilty pleasure. I actually kind of liked it.

I remember thinking, she'd be perfect for a sex tape.

I remember thinking that. She's perfect for a sex tape.

And then sure enough, it happened.

I had a tape with her and a gentleman named Francis Ten,

who was her boyfriend for many, many years.

It was playful.

It was nice. It was them on vacation once again,

and homeboy had what Colin Farrell had in his pants.

Like, he was really working with some stuff,

and, uh, we approached Tila's people.

They were defiantly trying to say,

"No, we don't want any part of this.

We don't give our permission."

I took it to Steve Hirsch over at Vivid,

and this started a whole war between me and Steven.

I showed him this tape.

I said, "This is the greatest sex tape I've ever seen.

Look how playful it is. Look how great it is."

And he goes, "I like it. I don't know.

I'll give her $10,000."

I said, "Are you out of your [bleep] mind?

This is Tila Tequila. She's the biggest person on MySpace."

MySpace, by the way, kids, was a thing back in the day.

I end up meeting a Penthouse Pet,

and I'm visiting with her

and her girlfriend who's another Penthouse Pet,

and we're all hanging out in this hotel room.

We're having a great time. We're partying,

and one Penthouse Pet says to me,

"So, what are you working on, K.B.?

Anything good with sex tapes?"

I go, "Yeah, I got something great."

She goes, "Well, as long as it's not Tila Tequila, I'm okay."

And I look at her and go, "What did you just say?"

She said, "I just did a 3-way lesbian tape

with this girl and this girl and Tila."

And I'm like, okay, now I'm figuring it out.

If I would've released this hetero tape,

that would sell 10 times as much

than a 3-way lesbian tape with Tila.

So, that's why they wanted to shut it down.

Next thing you know, Vivid comes along,

and they put out the tape.

You want to play that game? We were friends for a long time.

I referred you this, referred you that.

We'll play that game.

So, it kind of started an all out, uh...

I won't say war. You know, it's business.

Yeah, celebrities mad cheap nowadays, you know?

It's not easy being a celebrity,

but it's easy to become a celebrity.

Our celebrities are constantly trying to figure out

"How do I stay relevant?"

And so sometimes people get really bad advice

about things that they should do

to stay in the minds of the public.

You're outselling Kim Kardashian.

- Oh. - Yeah. You made servers crash.

Farrah Abraham is kind of a complex character.

She is a former reality star.

Can you turn your body towards me, please?

I don't know if fame was what she needed,

but it certainly had an effect on her.

You love this! You laugh!

The animal that reality TV made is my daughter.

Seems there's probably a lot of pressure on girls

to behave a certain way to stay relevant.

I get a call from Farrah.

I go, "Hey, what's up?" She said, "Hey, Dad.

I'm gonna give you a heads up."

"I did a sex tape."

What do you think of the title, Farrah?

The title's not something I'm for,

but I'm not used to that industry.

The wizard was revealed behind the curtain.

It was like, "Oh, yeah, this is all fake."

Okay, so, you know, you have celebrity sex tape, okay.

- Well, who's the celebrity? - I am.

I consider the death of the celebrity sex tape

happened when Farrah Abraham put out her product.