Internet hoaxers are piling on the misery for ailing Britney Spears by claiming they have access to an illicit sex video featuring the pop star - and they want to sell it.
The pop superstar's aides acted quickly to get the cyber sale posting removed from the site, insisting it's bogus - and there is no video.
The posting - from an anonymous hoaxer - read: "I have a tape shot of me and Britney Spears and I was wondering if anyone in… LA would know who I could sell it to."
A Britney source says: "Britney was appalled by the news that someone was hawking a phoney video of her having sex with a possible former lover. She knew the video was a sham, but it bothered her greatly."
It has been a bad 2004 for Britney so far - it started off with an ill-advised Las Vegas wedding and continued with a suicide controversy in one of her videos and a cancelled tour following a knee injury.