Rob Lowe, on the scandalous sex video he starred in with a teenage girl: "The problem is that I did not make money"
The Hollywood heartthrob was sued in the case and reached an out-of-court settlement with the young woman's parents. He now gave details of what happened and how it affected her career since 1989
Many years before sex tape leaks were the order of the day and Kim Kardashian proved that with a little business sense they could be used to their own advantage, actor Rob Lowe's Hollywood career was about to come to an end. It ended before he turned 25 when a video of him having sex with two young men, a 16-year-old and a 22-year-old, was released in a hotel room in Atlanta, Georgia.
After several years of success as one of the most coveted actors in 1989, when he was 24 years old, he experienced one of the most complicated moments of his personal and professional life.
A year before, the actor had recorded a homemade porn movie having sex with two young men he had met in a nightclub. They both agreed to record themselves doing a threesome. When Lowe got into the shower, they stole $ 200 from him and escaped with the video that a year later would end up being made public.
In addition, in the tape there was another sexual scene that the movie star had previously recorded with a friend and another woman in a hotel room in Paris.
The actor was in Atlanta to campaign for Michael Dukakis, then a Democratic presidential nominee who would end up losing to George H.W. Bush.
Although the age of consent in that state was set at 14 years, the law dictated that only those over 18 could appear in a recording of that nature and consequently the interpreter faced a civil lawsuit filed by the mother of the adolescent in issue that was resolved through an out-of-court settlement.
As the minor's parents brought Lowe to trial, the two videos ended up being leaked. As a result of the scandal, his film career came to a halt, and Lowe later returned to TV, with the hit political drama The West Wing in 1999.
Currently, there is only one thing that Lowe regrets in that sense, and it has nothing to do with his being so naive as to record himself in such a compromising situation: what he really regrets is that he did not know how to make any money. from that video.
"The problem was that I did not earn any money like everyone else. I was too stupid," he was sincere in an interview with the SiriusXM station, in what seems a clear reference to the XXX videos of Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton, among others celebrities.
Lowe started his career in the early 80s and was soon considered one of the actors of the moment thanks to titles such as The Outsiders, St. Elmo's Fire or Youngblood. "It is not a great recipe for success to give an 18-year-old man fame, money, drugs and hope that something does not go wrong," said the 55-year-old actor during the interview.
Deep down, the interpreter believes that facing public scorn was the only way for him to renounce a lifestyle marked by drugs and alcohol.
“It was one of the reasons I decided to be sober. I woke up one day and said, 'What am I going to do with my life?' ”He recalls. "And 29 years have already passed. I honestly believe that it was the best thing that could happen to me. I stopped using. And that was the only reason why I ended up getting married. I have been with my wife for almost three decades and we have two wonderful children," he said. the actor, who has been married to Sheryl Berkoff since 1991.
The actor of the television comedy Parks & Recreation (2009-2015) presents these days a new live program with which he will tour the entire US talking about the two memoirs he has written so far, the best-sellers "Stories I Only Tell My Friends ”and“ Love Life ”. On those live shows, he talks about some of the experiences that shaped his life, including critical moments like the one on the sex tape.
