LOS ANGELES—It looks like Pippi Longstocking may be headed to the stockade. Or rather, the actress who played the fictional character back in the 1980s. Tami Erin, who stars in her very own sex tape, acquired by Zero Tolerance earlier this year, was arrested Saturday afternoon after crashing her car into three cars, sending one person to the hospital as a result. Worse, the actress reportedly left the scene, but was tracked down by the police, who conducted a field sobriety test and then arrested the 39-year-old, who they said was "totally out of control ... just out of it."
Erin was 14 years old when she starred in the 1988 movie, The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking. 25 years later, she decided to get behind the release of a homemade sex tape that was eventually titled Tami Erin: The Sex Tape.
AVN reported in October, when Zero Tolerance acquired the video, "Tami Erin appeared on the Dr. Phil Show last Friday, October 11, where he put her on the hot seat, asking if she was behind the release [of the sex tape] as a publicity stunt. She denied the accusation, explaining that her ex-boyfriend had become quite vindictive and was threatening to go public with their private videos. She now feels backed into a corner, and is 'taking charge' of the situation to control the way it comes out."
Columbia Pictures, which distributed the 1988 Pippi Longstocking film, found itself forced to issue C&Ds to porn sites using old images of Erin from the movie to promote the sex tape.
