Gene Simmons Sex Tape

Who? Rock star, bassist/singer in KISS.

Real? The tape is real and circulates widely.

Gene Simmons boasts of having slept with more than a thousand women, so it’s not too surprising that a sex tape would emerge at some point. The eight-minute video clip appeared in February 2008 on a fly-by-night website called GenesSecret.com, showing Simmons fucking a buxom blonde wearing a bustiere in a hotel room. Simmons claimed that the video was shot without his knowledge or consent, and his lawyers sent out the usual barrage of cease-and-desist letters.

The Gene Simmons sex tape consists of a continuous eight-minute shot, from a stationary wide-angle camera set-up, filmed in grainy black-and-white. In other words, it looks like surveillance footage from a tiny hidden camera in the hotel room, which supports Simmons’s claim to have been unaware of the filming. They run through a series of positions over eight minutes, and the tape cuts off as they get dressed.

The blonde on the tape was originally identified as an Australian marketing rep named Elsa. Later she was identified as a nurse and celebrity hanger-on named Traci Anna Koval. Simmons’s lawyers confirmed the latter name in their takedown letters:

The video in question was surreptitiously filmed without Mr. Simmons’ knowledge by a woman named Traci Anna Koval. To the extent that Ms. Koval ever claimed to have any interest in the video, which is both disputed and inconceivable, given its surreptitious filming, such rights were acquired by our client Allied Industry in 2003, pursuant to a written assignment and release agreement in which Ms. Koval assigned all of her interest in the video to Allied Industry, including the copyright, represented and warranted that no additional copies would be exploited or distributed and expressly consented to injunctive relief.

Koval insisted that she played no role in the tape’s 2008 leak, and she hilariously whined that her other celebrity friends were mad at her.

“I’m the victim. I didn’t try to capitalise on this situation.

“I’ve lost longtime friends like Michael Bay and Crispin Glover.

“I was at one of Ja Rule’s houses in Southern California, just chilling with him and his friends, and he freaked out about the Gene Simmons sex tape.

“He kicked me out of the house.”

Oh my god, that is sooo totally unfair.