Posted on Fri, Apr. 21, 2006

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Newsmakers | Suit over Stapp-Kid Rock sex tape tossed

By Tirdad Derakhshani

Inquirer Staff Writer

The anonymous woman who is suing a vid distributor for invasion of privacy over the '99 Scott Stapp-Kid Rock sex tape - in which she insists she played the starring role among a gaggle of other so-called strippers (sure she's disgusted by the blue film, but it's only fair that we recognize her marquee status) - is going home empty-handed.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Gerald Hubbart ruled that Jane Doe cannot go ahead with the suit if she insists on remaining anonymous. (But, still, we recognize her essential Boldfaceness.) Her attorney said Doe, who says she's been deeply stigmatized (in an anonymous way), was promised that the tape would be kept private.

Overflowing with rock

The Pacific Indemnity Co. has become the third insurer in three years to sueLenny Kravitz for his overflowing talent, um, toilet. The Smoking Gun reports that the downstairs nabe in Len's Manhattan penthouse says that nabe's $2.87 mil flat sustained a cascade of damages in August '04 as a result of the retro-rocker's exuberant commode. The latest suit seeks $457,339.11 in damages and joins the two other pending suits - springing from the same leak - which seek $333,849 and $9,387, respectively, for a total of about $800,000.

Support group

Pretty Woman Julia Roberts got a lot of celeb support for her Broadway debut at Wednesday night's opening of Three Days of Rain. Oprah Winfrey, James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Dave Matthews and Diane Sawyer showed up to swaddle her in their collective love-force. Their efforts were not wasted: Sure, snobster critics have, um, rained on Julia's parade ("Her voice is strangled, abrupt and often hard to hear," the Gray Lady said), but tix were sold and hundreds of fans showed up. What's important is that Julia got her chance to experience Broadway. It's what our celebs get to experience that enriches us all.

Temporal insights

Tinseltown magnate Michael Douglas has weighed in on la condition humaine: We shall all falter, fade away, fall down.

"When you have a younger bride, you've got to be careful that you recognize the realities of how old you are, and that you are not pretending to be anything other than that," the 61-year-old Falling Down star, who's married to 36-year-old Catherine Zeta-Jones, told London's Evening Standard. And he paid his Basic Instinct costar Sharon Stone the ultimate compliment for her much-ridiculed performance in the sequel: "I haven't seen it."

First Church of Jane

Speaking to WHYY's Marty Moss-Coane, Jane Fonda discussed yesterday her devotion to Christianity and her admiration for the "progressive feminist Christian community."

"Feeling the presence of the sacred within me - it's very important," Fonda said, adding that she's "not a regular churchgoer... . I haven't found a church for me. I carry it around with me."

Around the tabs

The New York Daily News says Jessica Simpson pulled out of a Vanity Fair interview because the mag stipulated that she discuss her breakup with boy-bander Nick Lachey.Of course, he's already dished his haunting heart-pourings to Rolling Stone, about how the unreal made-for-reality-show newlyweds have become formerly-weds. (MTV should pay me for that follow-up reality-show idea.)

In a disturbing TMI report, the News says best-selling author of Confessions of a Super Vixen Karrine Steffans says that of all the lovers she's consumed - including Usher, P. Diddy, Vin Diesel, Shaquille O'Neal and Ja Rule - Bill Maher's "explosive and amazing" politically incorrect bedroom moves win, hands down. Or up.

Does waferish former Jack Nicholson play-pal Lara Flynn Boyle have arthritis? The New York Post says the 36-year-young thesp "allegedly told [unnamed] pals in L.A." she's using homeopathics for the pain.

And why did sour-graping American Idol loser Bo Bice (I'm way too rock for that wussy show, he's said) allegedly throw a punch at ex-New York Giants star Glenn Parker, who had told him he's a fan? The Post doesn't know. Bo's reps have not commented.

Aces down

Tween girlie-girls across the nation were in mourning yesterday. Ace Young, whose preternatural cuteness is so densely packed with sunny prettiness it's actually painful to look at him, was voted off American Idol. Face it: The 25-year-old Denver boy who declared, "I love kids - they're the future," was too pretty for his time.

Whole lotta 'Love'

Big Love, HBO's Sunday-night Utah polygamy drama following The Sopranos, has been picked up for a second season. The show, starring Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, Ginnifer Goodwin, and the always creepy Harry Dean Stanton, starts filming again in August.

Madonna, the destroyer

"I hope Madonna chokes on a crumpet." That's how one music fan reacted on a message board to news that Madge will descend upon the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival April 29-30. Some alterna-fans are upset that the Mystical Mom and her fans will co-opt, devour, mutilate and ravage the alterna-fest in Indio, Calif., which features indie-scene heroes Franz Ferdinand, Massive Attack, Paul Oakenfold, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.