Sandra Bullock: No Nazi Sextape

As Hollywood denials go, it's pretty emphatic.

"There is no sex tape," Sandra Bullock, 45, told People magazine. Before adding, a little ominously, "There never has been one and there never will be one." Did you hear that Jesse? Did you hear that everyone?

Bullock was responding to the rumor that videotaped evidence exists of her participating in a wildly degenerate sex act with soon-to-be-ex husband Jesse James, a shotgun, some poop and various pieces of Nazi memorabillia.

While the rumor is completely unsubstantiated - and frankly, ridiculous - the Nazi stuff caused Bullock to break her silence and issue a denial, said Gawker.

"That's the part she's afraid we'll believe," said the gossip site.

Where do these rumors come from? Can you guess? Muckraking journalists of course! In this case it was Ian Halperin, the "investigative reporter" who claims he predicted Michael Jackson's death. Of course he also predicted that Brad and Angelina were breaking up. One out of two isn't bad.

So far so predictable. What made yesterday's rumor such a humdinger was that naughty old echo chamber the web. To paraphrase John Ford , given the choice between posting the truth or the legend, the web always picks the legend. The reason? More clicks! Or as Michael Wolf at Vanity Fair put it yesterday so much better than I ever could:

"The Internet exaggerates everything--it's a vulgar, loud-mouthed, garrulous, entertaining but boorish friend."

Is this one friend we should be keeping at arms length?

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Comments

[Andrea Torres]

11:17 PM on 04/07/2010

Halperin wasn't wrong about jackson - nothing surprises me anymore with these people.

[Anieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

05:21 PM on 04/07/2010

and its unfair to blame it on the internet, after all Vanity Fair and several other selfclaimed "respectable" media outlets have no problem to publish crap and lies, as long as they are related to people they dont like.

[CarmenCameron]

04:35 PM on 04/07/2010

There aren't many personalities that I can admit to being devoted tro but Sandra Bullock is definitely one of them. My heart goes out to her each time I see ANY exploitation of her pain.

And even if the tape story is true, WHATEVER two married people do behind closed doors is NOBODY's business but their own. But should one spouse try to use it as leverage against the other, then we should all - in our own best interest - just join together in *d a m n i n g* them!

[KellyRyan]

11:47 AM on 04/07/2010

Media ... stir controversy in hopes of gaining both a reaction and a reply. It worked.

[LiamReznik]

11:45 AM on 04/07/2010

I'm getting tired of this "bad boy" talk. What makes someone a "bad boy" is always stupid crap like tattoos and a fascination with motorcycles. He was even on Martha Stewart's show baking almond tarts at one point. If Jesse had no other sides to him, had nothing else to offer, Sandra probably wouldn't have married him or speak so lovingly about him throughout their marriage.
There are different sides to everybody.

[BannedFromCommenting]

02:42 PM on 04/07/2010

yeah the other side was a cheating louse.

[andiannj]

10:33 PM on 04/07/2010

She probably thought he grew out of that bad boy phase or learned a lesson from his past behavior. He's 40 now, but still acts like a 16 yr old adolescent with out of control hormones. I doubt he'll learn anything from this whole mess either. He'll probably continue on his path of being used up by trashy women until he eventually loses everything. A fool is someone that doesn't learn from their mistakes.

You can tell by looking at him though that the lifestyle is taking it's toll. He's 5 yrs younger than Sandra, but he looks like he's 10 yrs older than her.

[gulopartisan]

11:15 AM on 04/07/2010

It's extremely difficult to believe that Bullock didn't know who Jesse James was. If we are judged by our friends, getting judged by our spouses should be no surprise. Personally, I think Bullock knew she was getting a bad boy, and that's what she thought she wanted. Be careful what you wish for.

[BannedFromCommenting]

02:45 PM on 04/07/2010

your type of comment has been rehashed a million times...

I was judged on my friends when younger, everyone labeled me a pothead, boozer, tramp.

Guess what none of it was true! I didnt even drink really until I was 30.

So, I have had friends who had tattoos, mohawks, dozens of piercings, and guess what? They didnt do drugs, they didnt hang out with porn industry workers or prostitutes or strip clubs.

And maybe the woman is so NON JUDGEMENTAL unlike you, that she did not just label him for the company he kept.

[andiannj]

10:55 PM on 04/07/2010

Actually her first instincts were correct ...

"I assumed he was a homophobic chauvinist, a bigot who kills people," she says. "And later I felt saddened by my assumptions because I wondered how many times I had written off people who truly were real."
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20011651,00.html

[gulopartisan]

10:16 AM on 05/08/2010

Maybe you're right. And how did that work out for her?

[andiannj]

10:40 PM on 04/07/2010

The BTK serial killer had been married for 30+ years, had two grown kids, president of the local Lutheran church, boy scout leader ... etc. His family, neighbors, employers had no clue. It's very possible to be fooled by somebody.

[Chuckie Corra]

10:34 AM on 04/07/2010

Just let the people be. They will figure out their disputes on their own. We don't need another Tiger Woods-like story clogging up the news cycle for another 2 grueling months

[t cobb]

11:35 AM on 04/07/2010

thank God someone said it. You'd think these ppl were elected official the way everyone is up in arms. let Sandra and Elin have some peace.

stop dragging this out for the ratings

[gayleg]

10:27 AM on 04/07/2010

That's disgusting.

Leave Sandra alone!

[BannedFromCommenting]

02:46 PM on 04/07/2010

Did you actually READ the article? I think thats what he is trying to say.

[sfcalle]

10:22 AM on 04/07/2010

No, you don't have to keep the internet at arm's length. You just have to stop reading trash. Before the internet trash could be found at the newspaper stand. What did people have to do if they did not want to be exposed to trash on the news stand? Pass It Up! You can't cut yourself off from all the great things about the internet because some people choose to put information on it that we'd rather not read. Grow up and stop reading trash. Its obvious when you see or read it. Stay away from it. All this stuff about these two are really tired and they're feeding into it. Sandra should go take a vacation, spend time with her family and friends, or do some volunteer work and Jesse should go hang out with his Inked Bimbos. Move on. People get divorced everyday and life goes on. Move on. The rest of the world has some major issues to deal with (i.e. state budgets, the workers who died in the mine accident this week, the latest natural disasters like the haiti earthquake, and the list goes on and on. Who cares about a stupid break up? I know I don't. Every couple is not meant to last a life time. People grow and change. Move on!!!

[JuJuBean]

10:18 AM on 04/07/2010

I honestly don't think the sex tape exists -- the whole thing was just too outrageous -- but one has to wonder how much Sandra knew about Jesse's Nazi thing before she married him. For me, finding out a guy I was dating had a thing for Nazis would be a total deal-breaker but either it wasn't for her or she really never knew. It's not outside the realm of possibility that he kept it from her; his buddies have already come to his defense and you know they'd lie for him. If she didn't know, and all of this just exploded in her face because he had the tremendous bad judgment to get involved with a waste of a carbon-based life form like Michelle McGee, then I feel really, really bad for Sandra. If she knew he had a thing for Nazis and she married him anyway...maybe not so much.

[BannedFromCommenting]

02:48 PM on 04/07/2010

My sister was with a guy who had nazi memorabilia but he was not a Nazi sympathizer at all, what he did was have a passion for World War II history. So he had flags from many regimes of that time.

And its not hard to hide Nazi stuff.. not like he had a bunch of nazi tattoos.

[abliss2379]

04:48 PM on 04/07/2010

Honestly, Nazi is not something I would think to screen for, its unacceptability seems so obvious.