Celebutante Paris directed sex tape, court told

REALITY TV star Paris Hilton directed and helped shoot the notorious sex video starring her and an ex-boyfriend that has surfaced on internet porn sites, according to documents filed for a Los Angeles court hearing yesterday.

The documents were filed by Marvad Corp. asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by Hilton’s ex- boyfriend, Rick Salomon, on the basis that Hilton, star of the reality TV show The Simple Life, also held rights to the video.

Salomon, 35, claims Marvad violated his copyright by distributing clips of the video on its website.

The lawsuit, filed in November in US District Court in Los Angeles, also accuses Salomon’s ex-roommate, Don Thrasher, of stealing, copying and selling the tape to Marvad without Salomon’s permission.

Thrasher has said that Salomon agreed to sell the tape, and received half of the $50,000 proceeds.

About a week ago, Salomon posted the 38-minute video on his own website.

US District Judge Dean Pregerson heard arguments on Monday and said he would rule at a later date on Marvad’s motion to dismiss Salomon’s lawsuit.

In court papers, Marvad’s lawyers argued that the case should be thrown out because Salomon was not the sole copyright holder as he apparently had claimed.

“The video depicts Ms Hilton participating fully in the creation of the video.”

The 22-year-old socialite physically controlled and directed the camera, the motion said.