Attention starved millionaire Donald Trump has reached a new low in his quest for ultimate exposure by "leaking" a celebrity sex tape featuring himself.
Observers say Trump's move is meant to capitalize on the popularity of other celebrity sex tapes, such as the one Paris Hilton released in 2004. Although some predicted that scandal would be the end of her career, the publicity boost actually took Hilton's brand to new heights.
Faced with declining ratings for his NBC reality show The Apprentice and an increasingly ridiculed career as a political commentator, Trump apparently thought a sex tape would propel him back into the limelight.
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So far, however, news outlets are refusing to cooperate as expected. All major news organizations - including the bottom-feeding TMZ - are refusing to report on the story out of fear of encouraging similar tapes from others.
"Normally this is the kind of thing I'd be all over," explains Harvey Levin, TMZ's editor and co-founder, "But if we cover the Donald Trump sex tape and help his career, I shudder to think which aging, fading celebrity would be next in line. Christopher Lloyd? Rick Moranis? Daniel Stern? That guy who played Carlton on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?"
"Its a Pandora's Box we don't want to open. I don't want to have to look my children in the eye and say I helped the Honey I Shrunk My Spunk sex tape happen. I just couldn't live with that."
Although difficult to find, he 11-minute video is circulating on several popular torrent sites. It shows Trump in his natural sexual environment - masturbating on a plush queen-sized bed to nude pictures of himself holding a banana and wearing a $50,000 watch.
