Pamela Anderson settles sex tape case

Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has settled a multi-million dollar court claim over a sex tape she made with an ’80s rocker, her lawyer in Los Angeles has said.

The porn company Internet Entertainment Group agreed to pay the actress and Bret Michaels, lead singer of the band Poison, a seven-figure sum and destroy all copies it acquired of a homemade sex video featuring the couple.

The Seattle-based company previously settled out of court with Anderson over a similar video it distributed showing her having sex with Tommy Lee, the Motley Crue drummer to whom she was then married.

The video became a best seller that continues to spread through the Internet.

Unlike that case, however, the Michaels-Anderson tape was never widely distributed because lawyers for the pair secured a court order blocking the release.

‘‘You’re not going to see this tape distributed now, and you’re probably not going to find copies of it already out there,’’ said David Weeks, Anderson’s lawyer.

Both Anderson, 33, and Michaels, 38, filed $90m (£64m) lawsuits against the Internet company in 1998, claiming the sale of the video violated their privacy.