Vietnamese actress
Hoang Thuy-Linh, 19, is the latest celebrity to be involved in a sex tape scandal.
Hoang Thuy Linh was the star of a Vietnamese TV show called Vang Anh's Diaries. She was until the sex tape made its way to the Internet anyway.
The videotape, recorded on a mobile phone, was of Hoang Thuy Linh having sex with her boyfriend. An "anonymous: poster originally placed a segment of it on YouTube.com. As of this reporting, that initial sex video posting has been removed.
Vang Anh's Diaries was a very popular series about Vietnamese students, and many admired Hoang Thuy Linh. You might even say that some teens idolized her.
This Hoang Thuy Linh sex tape scandal truly is a scandal in a conservative country like Vietnam. The career of Hoang Thuy Linh is pretty much ruined in her home country now, because of the leaked sex tape.
"This is the most scandalous and controversial thing that has ever happened in Vietnam's virtual world," says journalist Hung Nguyen.
The actress could always find a place in the United States, where a sex tape scandal only seems to help a celebrity career.
People who have seen the tape online are posting some not so flattering comments about the tape, and the apparently boring nature of the tape.
There are four students who have been arrested for posting the video to the Internet, according to UPI. Authorities say the believe that the private videotape was stolen off of a computer owned by Hoang Thuy Lihn's boyfriend.