Today in pointless victories comes one for former Noxema girl Rebecca Gayheart and her Gray’s Anatomy spouse, Eric Dane.

The two were featured in a widely viewed sex tape most prominently disseminated on Gawker. The clip, a fairly seedy affair that features the pair engaging in a wild night of sex and smokable substances with Keri Ann Peniche, has been floating around the internet ether since August of last year. Although countless people have screencapped, torrented and saved the footage in that year, Gawker has been tied up in court over it since September of last year.

In a statement, a Gawker spokesperson contends that use of the clip was protected, but the legal wrangling had become too large of a pain in the ass:

“Although we are confident that our use of the video on Gawker was protected fair use, because the posts already had been available to our readers for nearly a year, and because we already had won an important decision from the court striking large parts of the plaintiffs’ damages claims, we agreed to remove the posts as part of a global settlement to avoid the burden of further litigation,” Gawker COO Gaby Darbyshire said in a statement.

In exchange for Gawker pulling the material, Gayheart and Dane will drop their $1m lawsuit against the blog network.

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Who would have thought the rapper who out-dirty-mouthed Jay-Z in the seminal 90s hit “Ain’t No *****,” later went to prison for assaulting a nail tech over her tips and who faces more jail time for throwing hair glue at a beauty store employee would end up fellating a man on a fuzzy internet sex tape? Not I, and that track has a permanent place in my iTunes top 25 ever.

Foxy Brown (born Inga Marchand in New York holla!) is the latest celebrity to fall victim to the whole bj-on-a-cameraphone trick, with a short clip making the rounds of Foxy servicing an unidentified man in a less than enthusiastic fashion. The clip is being unimaginatively tagged “Superhead” or “Foxy Brown Superhead” in what I imagine is a reference to Superbad. Wikipedia says Foxy’s got an album coming out later this year, but unlike other strategic leaks, it’s not close to the (as of yet unannounced) release date for Black Roses. And I’d imagine if Foxy was in any way behind this, she’d pick a clip that was more… flattering.

While I can’t say for sure if it’s Foxy, the woman in the clip certainly looks like her. If you want to see for yourself, you can view the short clip here- although, I feel honor bound to mention it is certainly not safe for work .

Foxy Brown in Superhead- is that you, Foxy? is a post from: The Inquisitr

So Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart and dethroned former teen queen Kari Ann Peniche apparently got naked and high and filmed an almost sex tape.

Gawker’s got the video, and explains the basic action contained therein:

In the video (which we edited down from a 12-minute original), we see the apparently inebriated threesome — at one point Gayheart says she needs to lay down because she’s so high — lounging au naturel in the fallen beauty queen’s Studio City apartment, passing around the camera and, for giggles, discussing what their porn names should be. Dane settles on “Tuff Hedemen” (his favorite champion bull rider). Soon the threesome move to the bathroom where the two ladies disrobe and get into a jacuzzi tub while Dane takes over the camera duties.

Boringly, no one has any kind of sex in the video- ostensibly because everyone’s “too high.” Commenters report “drug paraphernalia” on countertops as the camera pans, and at one point Gayheart indicates she has to go “lay down” because of it.

Gawker’s got the milder version of the video, and some interesting background on third party in the video (Gayheart and Dane are married) Kari Ann Peniche, quite juicily involving prostitution and pimping. And Fleshbot’s got the uncensored version, if you can handle no-sex-in-a-bathtub.

UPDATE: Twist alert! Apparently the video was stolen from Kari Ann Peniche during “Celebrity Rehab” by singer Mindy McCready!

Rebecca Gayheart & Eric Dane threesome video hits the web is a post from: The Inquisitr