Tattle: Is that Jimi Hendrix on 40-year-old sex tape?

FOR THOSE of you who think classic porn is best, Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape shot in a hotel room close to 40 years ago.

The star is allegedly Jimi Hendrix, so fans may finally get to see if the guitar is an extension of . . . you know.

Vivid said it obtained the footage from a memorabilia collector.

The 11 minutes of sex footage features Hendrix engaging in various acts with two women, according to a statement released by Vivid. The company said it consulted with several experts to authenticate the footage.

And even if no one could confirm the man was actually Hendrix, they could confirm the tape showed sexual acts with two women, and heck, that's good enough.

Unfortunately, there's no Hendrix on the soundtrack. There is, however, commentary from Pamela Des Barres, author of "I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie" and Cynthia Albritton (aka Cynthia Plaster Caster), who made a name for herself by making plaster casts of rock stars' private parts. She reportedly did Hendrix in 1968.

Hey, if she wouldn't recognize him, who would?

Other Hendrix experts are not so sure, and the Hendrix estate has refused to comment.

Viewers, however, are convinced that neither of the women in the film is Ashley Alexandra Dupre.

* Speaking of Ashley, "Girls Gone

Wild" founder Joe Francis released a rare nonsex video yesterday that he said proved that Eliot Spitzer's hooker (but she's really a singer) agreed to be filmed in 2003 for the raunchy GGW series.

The release came one day after Francis and his companies were sued for $10 million by Ashley, who claims she was only 17 at the time and too young to sign a binding contract. Ashley, now 22, also accused Francis of exploiting her image and name on various Internet sites.

In Francis' new release, Ashley appears covered by a terry-cloth towel and gives her name as Amber Arpaio. An unseen questioner asks if she is 18.

"Yes I am," she answers in a strong Southern accent.

"Do you know what 'Girls Gone Wild' is?" the questioner asks.

"Yes I do," she replies with a laugh.

"Can I use this on 'Girls Gone Wild'?" she is asked.

"Of course you can," she answers.

The video also displays a New Jersey driver's license with the Amber Arpaio name and a birth date that would have made her appear to be in her 20s.

OMG! A girl on spring break with a fake ID!

* In unrelated

sex-tape news, lawyers for the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Associated Press are seeking sealed court records and transcripts related to R. Kelly's pornography case with an emergency motion filed in the Illinois Supreme Court.

The 41-year-old R&B singer has pleaded not guilty to charges that he videotaped himself having sex with an underage girl. His trial is scheduled May 9 in Chicago. Maybe.

* And in unrelated rock-god news,

John Lennon's lyrics to "Give Peace a Chance" will be sold at a Christie's auction in July.

When Lennon gave teenager Gail Renard the scribbled lyrics to his "Bed-in" peace anthem back in 1969, he told her to hold on to the piece of paper.

"It will be worth something someday," Lennon predicted.

Indeed. The lyrics are expected to fetch more than $400,000.

Tattbits

* The Hollywood Reporter says Kim

Richards and Ike Eisenmann, the original kid stars of Disney's 1970s "Witch Mountain" movies, will appear in "Race to Witch Mountain," starring The Rock.

Eisenmann will play a sheriff in the film and former Tattle crush Richards (a little boy's heartthrob in "Nanny and the Professor") will play a waitress.

* Tom Wolfe's sex-

filled college novel, "I Am Charlotte Simmons," is coming to the big screen.

The Hollywood Reporter says John Watson ("Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves") is adapting the book and Liz Friedlander ("Take the Lead" and a bunch of high-profile music videos) is attached to direct.

* Sometime the pigs

fly.

Sometime they fly away.

Organizers for the Coachella music festival announced that a gigantic blowup pig (two stories tall and as wide as two school buses), released into the night sky during Roger Waters' headlining set Sunday, was still out there over the California desert- and they want it back.

Have you seen this pig? It's huge, inflatable, and it has lost its way in the California desert.

And soon enough some stoner's going to look up in the sky and declare it a UFO.

The festival is offering a $10,000 reward plus four Coachella tickets for life for the safe return of the pig, according to spokeswoman Marcee Rondan.

As for safety concerns, Rondan speculated, "Because it's inflatable, as it loses air it becomes less and less dangerous."

"People are putting search teams together to find this pig," Rondan said. "But it may float in the night sky, never to be seen again." *

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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