A steamy sex video made by actor Colin Farrell and a Playboy playmate surfaced on the Internet today despite a court injunction blocking its release.
A website carrying the video featuring the Irish actor Farrell and his then-girlfriend,
Nicole Narain, Playboy magazine's Miss January 2002 spread like wildfire on the Internet after being picked up by other websites, including defamer and idontlikeyouinthatway, which also posted what it claimed are video stills of Farrell and Narain purportedly engaged in sex acts.
In releasing the video, the website reportedly stated: "Colin tried to stop us from showing you this. Well, here it is anyways," according to idontlikeyouinthatway. By late this afternoon, the website carrying the video was unavailable for viewing.
Farrell's publicist released the following statement today: "A website attempting to distribute an unauthorized tape of Colin Farrell was shut down today. Mr. Farrell will take legal action against anyone who tries to distribute this tape." There was no immediate comment from Farrell's attorney.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge had issued a restraining order in July, temporarily blocking the public release of the video that was made about two years ago after Farrell's attorneys filed suit. David Hans Schmidt, the Phoenix agent and celebrity porn broker who was among the defendants in Farrell's suit, denied today that neither he nor any other defendants had anything to do with the unauthorized release of the tape.
Farrell, currently starring in "The New World," was also in the news recently when it was announced that he had checked into a treatment center suffering from exhaustion and dependency on prescription medication. The medication was reportedly prescribed to the actor after a back injury.