A week after a sex video featuring Fred Durst hit the Internet, a video the Limp Bizkit singer said was never meant for public consumption and was probably hacked out of his computer, Durst filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against Websites posting the video and stills from the video.
The defendants, according to a March 2 filing in Los Angeles federal court, named as defendants captaincum.com, slightlystoopid.com, and several sites attached to the Gawker Media blog portal.
Durst's manager, Peter Katsis, said in a declaration attached to the filing that he was contacted in December by an unnamed adult video company claiming to have access to the Durst tape, in which the Limp Bizkit singer is shown having sex with a former girlfriend.
Katsis's declaration also said he rejected the company's offer to sell the video and share its proceeds, a rejection he said he repeated when meeting an intermediary who made the offer again.
He also said he knew of the video and thought, as did Durst, that it was stored securely on the singer's computer, but that on February 25 he learned—from the same third-party intermediary—that Durst's computer was hacked and stills from the video had already hit the Internet.
Last week, Durst's representatives told reporters he believed his computer was broken into by the same people who had earlier hacked into Paris Hilton's cell phone. The U.S. Secret Service is believed to be investigating both the Hilton and Durst break-ins as possibly connected events.
