Joost van der Westhuizen Sex Tape

Who? South African rugby player.

Real? The tape exists and circulates; van der Westhuizen is probably the man on the tape, though he claims he’s not.

Joost van der Westhuizen was one of the all-time great South African rugby players, making 89 appearances for the national team between 1993 and 2003.

In February 2009, South African tabloids published screencaps from a hidden camera video showing Joost van der Westhuizen and a blonde woman snorting drugs and having sex. The case became local tabloid fodder for months.

The retired rugby star denied being the man on the tape. He speculated that former rugby rivals were behind the smear campaign. Some early reports speculated that the sex tape women was van der Westhuizen’s wife, singer Amor Vittone. Lawsuit threats flew, but no actual lawsuits.

Details gradually emerged. The woman on the tape turned out to be Marilize van Emmenis, who claimed she made the tape in late 2006 after van der Westhuizen aggressively pursued her for nearly a year. Emmenis said the drug they snorted on tape was CAT (methcathinone), and that her jealous boyfriend had conceived the plan to videotape the encounter and blackmail van der Westhuizen.

The scheming boyfriend turned out to be Anthony de Beer, who told tabloids, “Yes, I was the mastermind behind making the video, with the help of a friend or two. The whole idea was to make a few bucks. . . . What actually happened, though, was that people badly assaulted me at the place where my friend and I were supposed to get the money from Joost and we abandoned our plan.” That was in late 2006. He claims he wasn’t involved in the 2009 leak to the tabloids.

Heat has a handy timeline of the Joost van der Westhuizen sex tape affair and the complete hidden camera video in nine streamable segments.