Ben Affleck Sex Tape
Who? American movie star
Real? Maybe. The tape might have existed, but if so it never circulated.
Rumors about a Ben Affleck sex tape revolve around his notorious visit to a Vancouver strip club on the evening of July 17, 2003.
At the time Ben Affleck was still engaged to Jennifer Lopez. The National Enquirer ran a sensational cover story afterward claiming that Affleck had sex with two different strippers. The Enquirer story is no longer available online, but here’s an Entertainment Weekly summary:
The Enquirer didn’t state that Affleck — famously on the wagon after a rehab stint last year — took drugs or drank alcohol himself, only that booze and drugs were present throughout the evening. The Enquirer did allege, however, that Affleck had ”sex in the private back room” of Brandi’s Exotic Nightclub in Vancouver, where he’d stopped after a night of barhopping and heavy tipping ($50 a round). Fellow partiers reportedly included Tara Reid, Christian Slater, and Slater’s wife, Ryan Haddon. According to the Enquirer, two eyewitnesses said Affleck cheated with another stripper after the party moved on to Slater’s house. The Enquirer says the two have passed polygraph tests and challenged Affleck to take one as well.
One of the strippers later sued the Enquirer, claiming that another stripper had fabricated the whole story for a payday. But stripper Tammy Morris stuck to her story, reveled in the notoriety and posed for Playboy.
The initial 2003 media frenzy included no mention of a sex tape. On December 24, 2008, however, the gossip blog Crazy Days and Nights posted this blind item:
This B list actor and sometime director, now married was once in a highly publicized relationship. While on location in another country the actor found himself in the VIP room of a member’s only gentleman’s club. Rumors swirled about what happened that night and ended up costing his relationship, but the popular guess was second or third base, at best. What really happened was captured on tape by a security camera of the actor, two ladies, and a lot of um let’s say marital aids of all varieties.
When one of the ladies let it ‘slip’ after the encounter that it was all recorded on security camera the actor demanded the tape from the club owner. After several phone calls and exchanges of all sorts the actor left with tape in hand.
But what the actor didn’t know was that the club had made several copies before the actor even knew it existed and he was just one of several actors caught in the same scam at the exclusive anything goes club. The whereabouts of the other tapes are unknown but I’m sure wherever they are, they came at a high price.
On January 1, 2009, Crazy Days and Nights revealed that the blind item was about Ben Affleck.
No Ben Affleck sex tape has ever circulated. No video footage from that night at Brandy’s has ever circulated. That item at Crazy Days and Nights is the only place I’ve ever heard this rumor, so take it with a grain of salt.