Pamela awarded $1.5m over sex video
Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and her ex-husband Tommy Lee have won almost $1.5m from an Internet porn company that sold a video of the couple having sex.
A Los Angeles court ordered Internet Entertainment Group to pay the celebrities the profits from sales of the film.
District judge Dean Pregerson said in a written ruling released yesterday that the company should also pay court costs and legal fees to Anderson and rocker Lee.
The notorious 1996 video of their honeymoon antics, which was said to have been stolen from their home by workmen, became one of the world’s best selling sex films.
The court threw out a 1998 ruling that the couple had lost the right to try to ban publication of the video as they had spoken explicitly about it to the media.
Seattle-based IEG sold thousands of copies of the videotape over the web, at £10 each.
Judge Pregerson ordered the company to pay all of the money it made from the film to its stars.
The couple, who have since divorced, started legal action in 1998 seeking damages for invasion of privacy and copyright breaches.
