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Gigs & Bytes: Jane Doe Slaps Stapp
The video, which included a shot of Stapp proclaiming “It’s good to be the king,” recently headlined another news cycle when one of the ladies featured in the action filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit against Stapp and the company trying to make money off the vid.
The video emerged last month when World Wide Red Light District tried to market it and produced an abbreviated clip that has since been distributed throughout the Net.
So far, attorneys for Rock and Stapp have obtained a temporary injunction preventing Red Light from marketing the entire video. As February drew to a close, that appeared to be the end of the story.
But now one of the ladies featured in the shortened clip, identified only as “Jane Doe,” has filed suit against both Stapp and Red Light. In the suit, “Doe” seeks to prevent the sale of the video and asks for unspecified damages, claiming that she has suffered emotional distress due to the unwanted exposure.
The entire lawsuit can be viewed at TheSmokingGun.com.
Why sue Stapp and not Rock? Evidently, the video was Stapp’s personal property and was never meant to be publicly viewed. Stapp claims the video was stolen, while Red Light says it acquired the video legally through a third party.
Plus, Rock went on record just over a week ago, not only saying Stapp was responsible for shooting the video, but was also responsible for losing it. He called Creed’s former lead singer “an idiot” for letting the video get away from him.
But now it looks like Rock has had a change of heart. He recently described the video’s unauthorized release as “perfect timing.”
“I got a record coming up… Maybe I should thank him,” Rock said during an interview.