Finally, the question has been answered. After months of did he, didn't he, he couldn't possibly have... Joost van der Westhuizen has come clean about his involvement in the sex tape scandal that broke earlier this year.

A sex tape hasn't always signalled the end of the celebrity-in-question's career, although locally we don't have the same celebrity culture that they do in the States. So for a local hero — and a family man, nogal — to be implicated in a sex tape scandal isn't merely a publicity ride... it has the potential for personal disaster.

We take a look at some of the biggest celebrity sex tape scandals and now we stick our own 'Proudly South African' label over a tape marked 'Joost'.

Rob Lowe
In 1988, emerging young actor Rob Lowe starred in several films… and a highly scandalous sex tape. The video was divided into two parts - the first showed Lowe at a hotel with two young women (one who was just sixteen). The second part showed another threesome, which has the dubious honour of being the first ever commercially distributed celebrity sex tape. After Rob's image took a severe nose-dive, he checked into rehab for sex addiction and starred making some smart career choices, like his role in 'The West Wing'.

Pamela Anderson
One of the first cases of a celebrity sex video going viral on the Internet was 'Baywatch' babe Pamela Anderson's sex video with her then-husband Tommy Lee. The couple, who got married after knowing each other for a whopping 96 hours, made the steamy video on their honeymoon. The tape was then nicked from their home and publicly released by the video distribution company Internet Entertainment Group.

The courts awarded Anderson and Lee $1.5 million plus attorney fees… not as damages, but for their share of the profits. The company then started selling couples of the stolen tape across the United States.

After this tape made its appearance, a second tape involving Pam and musician Bret Michaels was brought to the surface. The tape, which was made before the Tommy Lee tape, appeared on the net as a 60 second clip. Frames of this video also appeared in Penthouse in 1998. Although the tape was successfully blocked by Michaels, a four-minute version is still available on the Internet.

You're gonna go Google it now, aren't ya?

Paris Hilton
The woman that made celebrity sex tapes a quick way to get famous. Paris Hilton. The 2003 film depicted Paris and her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon having sex, and was filmed in night-vision. The film was made public by Salomon shortly before Paris' TV show 'The Simple Life' debuted. The result? A media sensation and huge interest in 'The Simple Life'. Paris rocketed to stardom for… well, nothing in particular. Except an impressive talent for marketing herself.

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