Tattle: Verne Troyer halts distribution of sex tape

FANS OF little-people porn experienced

coitus interruptus

this weekend.

Mini-Me Verne Troyer temporarily stopped the distribution of a sex tape featuring him and a former girlfriend.

The celebrity Web site TMZ posted a G-rated (yet still disturbing) 25-second snippet of the video last week, but pulled the clip down Friday evening after federal judge Philip Gutierrez granted a temporary restraining order requested by Troyer's attorneys.

The ruling also prevents any attempt by a porn distributor from taking orders for the full 50-minute vid, and keeps TMZ from broadcasting any more clips. Troyer's suit also seeks $20 million in damages and the return of all copies of the tape.

Gutierrez wrote that Troyer's motion "demonstrated that he will suffer irreparable harm to his reputation" if the tape is distributed.

Tattle thinks most people would suffer irreparable harm to their reputations - or at least their self-esteem - if their sex tapes were distributed.

Troyer's attorney, Tracy Rane, said she, Troyer and others are "very pleased" by Gutierrez's ruling.

"Mr. Troyer is extremely distraught by the recent exploitation of his private life," Troyer's publicist, Melissa Bergera, said in a statement.

Troyer claims the sex tape was never intended to become public and was stolen from his home some months ago.

Weird how these sex tapes are always "stolen." Are they kept out, clearly marked, on the dining room table?

TMZ reported that the video could fetch $100,000 from a porn distributor and SugarDVD wrote in a statement on its Web site that it hoped to reach a deal with Troyer to distribute all 50 glorious minutes of action. That statement was also removed by late Friday afternoon.

Kevin Blatt, a producer who promoted the infamous fluorescent green sex tape featuring a going-through-the-motions, semi-conscious Paris Hilton, is also named as a defendant. Blatt said he had not been served with the suit yet, but called it "baseless."

Blatt said he never had the tape and only helped try to broker a deal.

See, he was only the middle man. Which in the world of porn tapes is not the worst thing to be.

As for Troyer's chances of long-term success keeping the video under wraps . . . .

"I think distributing the tape is going to be very problematic," said Jack Lerner, a professor at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law.

"Any time you record something that has even a very small bit of original expression in it, that's going to be copyrighted," he said, noting that a videotape would apply.

Actually it's visions of Troyer's original expression that lead us to hope the tape stays under wraps.

* On Friday, Amy Winehouse performed at the Nelson Mandela 90th birthday concert in London, hoping to raise consciousness (without the aid of artificial stimulants).

On Saturday she performed at the Glastonbury music festival and got into a fight.

After taking the stage, Amy climbed down into the pit and scuffled briefly with a reveler.

It was unclear what sparked the altercation but witnesses say a fan tried to grab Winehouse.

* Tattle was so busy reporting on Uma Thurman's stalker we never realized she broke up with that guy who ran hotels.

Now the "Kill Bill" star is set to marry financier Arpad "Arki" Busson, according to a report in the New York Daily News.

The pair apparently began dating last summer after attending a private dinner together in Milan, although we might argue they began dating at the private dinner, it being private and all.

It will be the third marriage for Uma, 38, who has a son and daughter with ex-hubby Ethan Hawke. She was previously married to Gary Oldman. Busson has two sons with supermodel Elle Macpherson.

* We're pleased that teen sister pop stars Aly & AJ (the quite-catchy "Potential Breakup Song") have never appeared in the Tattle column because of any bad behavior on their part. We're not so pleased that their debut here is because they have a stalker. Rex Mettler, 42, of Lancaster, Ohio, obtained contact information for the sisters and also made threats by phone, police detective Nick Snyder said.

Mettler appeared in an Ohio court Friday, a day after his arrest on a felony charge of menacing by stalking. Bond was set at $50,000, and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for July 3.

* Filmmaker Rod Lurie ("The Contender," "Commander in Chief") is leaving the world of politics for whores who charge by the hour.

The Hollywood Reporter says Lurie and Showtime are working on "Hilary Jones," a drama about a woman who works weekdays as an L.A. vice cop and weekends as a Nevada prostitute. Job savings include just one pair of handcuffs.

* So, thanks to a Michael Lohan dalliance a dozen or so years ago, Lindsay Lohan may have an illegitimate sister. Seems kind of fitting since she has barely legitimate parents. *

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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