LOS ANGELES — Vivid Entertainment, the world’s leading adult film studio, says it has paid $1-million to acquire rights to a video tape featuring the sexual exploits of raven-haired Hollywood socialite Kim Kardashian and her then boyfriend, hip hop star Ray J.

The company said the DVD titled “Kim Kardashian Superstar” will be released on Wednesday, February 21st and will be in stores by the following Wednesday, February 28th. It will also be available online on February 28th at www.vivid.com or www.kimksuperstar.com and will include additional footage not on the DVD.

Vivid co-chairman Steven Hirsch said the company obtained the video from a third party but did not identify the person or entity. “”We are comfortable that we have the legal right to distribute this video, despite what others may say,”” says Mr. Hirsch.

“I’ve seen the video and it’s really great,”” says Mr. Hirsch. ““It has over 30-minutes of explicit sex that fans of erotica will find very appealing featuring two young and glamorous high profile celebrities. Apparently, the video was shot by Ray J about three years ago when he and Kim were in a relationship. The production is crystal clear and viewers will definitely get their money’s worth. If either Kim or Ray J would like to discuss the video with us we would be happy to do so,”” he added.

The beautiful and curvaceous Ms. Kardashian, 26, was reported to have dated Ray J for about three years. She is a fashion retailer who co-owns the popular store “Dash” in Calabasas with her two sisters Kourtney and Khloe. She is the daughter of the late attorney Robert Kardashian, who defended O.J. Simpson in his murder trial. Her stepfather is 1976 Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner. Often covered by the entertainment and gossip press, Ms. Kardashian frequently attends Hollywood events with her celebrity pals, including best friend, Paris Hilton. Ms. Hilton made headlines a couple of years ago with her own sex tape.

Ray J, 26, began his career as a child actor playing the role of Dorian Long on “Moesha,” the popular UPN-TV series. Over the years his TV credits have included hosting of the BET shows “106 & Park” and “BET Countdown” plus playing the role of D-Mack on the UPN-TV show “One On One.” At age 14 he added singing to his talents. He is a best-selling independent hip-hop artist and his most recent hit is “One Wish” with the Knockout Entertainment label. In addition to Ms. Kardashian, his girlfriends have included Lil’ Kim and Whitney Houston.

 Baltimore, MD — Adult Film star Ron Jeremy has put his name and image on a line of hot sauce products that are being marketed in retail outlets, trade show conventions, online and offline novelty shops.

After starring in 1,800 adult films and then parlaying his adult film fame into a guest starring roles on the reality television series Surreal Life, and his book [which came out today]; Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz.

Other mainstream projects Jeremy has been involved in recently include appearances in film and television projects “Reindeer Games,” “Nash Bridges’” “America’s Most Wanted,” “Homo Erectus” with David Carradine, “Boondock Saints” with Willem Dafoe, John Frankenheimer’s “52 Pick-Up” just to name a few of the many mainstream movie projects, and more than a dozen music videos.

The “Hedgehog” uses his famous mug to sell a products distributed by Sauce2u.Com, a niche manufacturer of hot sauce products that targets consumers who like their hot sauce and the labels they come with a little “spicier” than the average bottle of Tabasco.

Sauce2u.com, which markets mainstream hot sauce products to the Boy Scouts, the Marine Corp., US Army Ranger’s, professional athletes, weddings and conventions and soon to be released a line of Hot Sauce for Dummies® with Wiley Publishing.

“It’s a real nice sauce,” Jeremy says, “adding that it’s not too hot, but just right for the way he likes it.” In addition to getting a cut on sales, Jeremy has played a hand in some of the packing and marketing slogans for the product. Jeremy says that this is the first food product he has endorsed so far in his career. Other endorsements include rolling papers, cigars, pipes, an action figure, T-shirts, and greeting cards.

“I love to eat, so this is perfect,” he said, adding that he will be pleasantly surprised if the product becomes a big hit and ends up in Target, Spencers or some other mainstream retail outlets.

According to Jon Yuspa, President of Sauce2u.Com, pictures of Jeremy on the six and ten-ounce bottles of hot sauce will be part of a series. Jeremy’s faces have been appearing on Sauce2u products since last June.

“Ron will definitely put us a little more in the spotlight,” said Yuspa, who met Jeremy when he did adult guest booking and sponsored the Infinity Broadcasting network.

Yuspa said. “The TripleX side of it is a niche in which we don’t compete with anyone.” Sauce2u is also in talks over similar porn-related marketing deals with representatives from Vivid Entertainment and Dennis Hof’s Moonlight Bunny Ranch.

Appropriate for any occasion, Sauce2u has been producing custom labeled hot sauces for corporations and individual consumers worldwide for over 8 years.

VIENNA, Austria [AP] —  Austrian authorities said Wednesday they have uncovered a major international child pornography ring involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, including hundreds in the United States, who paid to view videos of young children being sexually abused.

The children were under the age of 14 and screams could be heard, said Harald Gremel, an Austrian police expert on Internet crime who headed the investigation.

Interior Minister Guenther Platter said the FBI was investigating about 600 of the suspects in the United States. German authorities were following leads on another 400 people, France was looking into about 100 others, and at least 23 suspects were Austrians, he said.

Platter said videos downloaded from the Internet and seized by Austria’s Federal Criminal Investigations Bureau included images that showed “the worst kind of child sexual abuse.”

Gremel said “girls could be seen being raped, and you could also hear screams.” Although officials initially said the children ranged in ages from “0 to 14,” Gremel later said no infants were seen in the videos.

No Austrian suspects were yet in custody, authorities said, adding that they shared their information with law enforcement in other countries in hopes that suspects could be investigated and charged. Gremel said he could not provide details about investigations outside Austria, but noted that cooperation with Russian authorities had intensified over the past two weeks.

The investigation began in July when a man working for a Vienna-based Internet file hosting service approached authorities at the Interior Ministry to say he noticed the pornographic material during a routine check, Gremel said.

The man blocked access to the videos while recording the I.P. addresses of people who continued to try to download the material, and gave the details to authorities. Neither the man nor the Vienna company were identified, and police said neither was implicated in the case.

Within a 24-hour period, investigators recorded more than 8,000 hits from 2,361 computer I.P. addresses in 77 countries ranging from Algeria to South Africa, Gremel told reporters.

The videos were posted on a Russian Web site, and users had to pay $89 to access the material, Gremel said.

He said investigators believed the videos, which included images of girls and boys up to age 14, were made in Eastern Europe and uploaded to the site from somewhere in Britain.

Germany had the largest single number of suspects in Europe, Gremel said.

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - For most women, the choice between sex and a new wardrobe is simple — they go for the clothes.

Women on average say they would be willing to give up sex for 15 months for a closet full of new apparel, with 2 percent ready to abstain from sex for three years in exchange for new duds, according to a new survey of about 1,000 women in 10 U.S. cities.

Sixty-one percent of women polled said it would be worse to lose their favorite article of clothing than give up sex for a month.

“Some people say clothes make the man, but the right clothes can even replace him,” fashion designer, stylist and TV personality Carson Kressley from the reality TV show “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” said in a statement accompanying the poll.

The study also suggested that clothes often wear better than relationships.

The average woman between 18 and 54 years of age has hung on to her favorite article of clothing for 12 and a half years, a year longer than she’s held on to her longest relationship.

Almost three-quarters of respondents, or 70 percent, also said they believed in love at first sight when it came to finding the perfect article of clothing, while only 54 percent of women were as confident in spotting the right man.

Nearly half of the women, or 48 percent, taking part in the survey by consumer products giant Unilever said their favorite article of clothing was more reliable than their man in giving them confidence and making them feel sexy.

 LOS ANGELES [xfanz.com] — The only thing missing from Ron Jeremy’s autobiography is a crab.

“I’m known for my practical jokes,” the adult superstar told XFANZ about his autobiography, The Hardest Working Man in Show Business, which he co-wrote with Eric Spitznagel.

In this case, Jeremy was having a seafood dinner with actress Phoebe Dollar, who couldn’t bear to watch the live crabs in the restaurant’s tank be taken to their deaths.

“She really had a thing for animals,” Jeremy said. “She saw this one crab that looked so frightened, and she tells the waiter, ‘I want that crab,’ and she took the crab with her, all the way to the beach to put it in the water.”

Unfortunately for Dollar, she managed to drop her cell phone in the water at the same time as the crab — neither of which she saw again. Needless to say, any time she and Jeremy go out to dinner, Jeremy has the restaurant manager tell Dollar she has an incoming phone call from a Mr. Crab.

Another story missing from Jeremy’s new autobiography is his series of ongoing debates with Craig Gross, head of XXXChurch.com, an online ministry that opposes adult entertainment.

Despite their professional disagreements, Jeremy said the XXXChurch people are “great guys.”

“I really get along with them,” he said. “In real life we’re friends, even after we face off against each other in front of 5,000 college kids.”

Jeremy also said that when it comes to a certain breed of female adult star, he and Gross agree.

“If a girl has come from a bad upbringing and an abusive home, she shouldn’t be in the business,” Jeremy said. “If she’s in it for bad reasons — if she’s in it for lots of drugs, and she’s willing to do certain kinds of sex acts and scenes — stuff I really don’t like — to get money for more drugs, she should go to XXXChurch.”

But enough about what the autobiography doesn’t include — let’s talk love.

In case you ever wondered if super-lothario Jeremy could fall in love, wonder no more. One of the first stories in the book recounts Jeremy’s first love — a short redhead named Mandy. Jeremy dated her as a teenager but hasn’t seen her since.

“I’d love to see her again,” he said. “No, that’d be nice, really, but I just don’t know where to find her.”