Hotel Hooker/Filmed Female (lost pornographic movies featuring Kelsey Grammer; date unknown)
Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane in the TV show Frasier.
Status: Existence unconfirmed
Tags: NSFW NSFL
This article has been tagged as NSFL due to its implication of a sex crime (involuntary pornography).
Background
Around mid-2003, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) page for Kelsey Grammer (best known for his portrayal of Frasier Crane on the American shows Cheers and Frasier) showed credits for two adult movies, "Hotel Hooker" and "Filmed Female," both of which displayed release dates of "????" (a contemporary IMDb placeholder for unknown dates).
While the films no longer appear anywhere on IMDb -- including on Grammer's actor profile or in search results with adult content allowed -- "Filmed Female" (but not"Hotel Hooker") appears in the two earliest available archived versions of Grammer's IMDb page, dated 2003 and 2004. [1]
Sex tapes
It is possible that one or both of the films is a leaked sex tape. Indeed, 1998 Grammer sued pornographic distributor Internet Entertainment Group (IEG) for distributing such a tape of him without authorization.[2] Moreover, a 1999 article from People Magazine implies that Grammer may have been the director of one -- or possibly two -- "X-rated home videos" co-starring a woman anonymized as "Filmed Female."[3]
Loss/Uncertain existence
Whether either of these two movies ever existed as named is unknown. Given the unlikelihood of Grammer having had an openly-secret pornographic career, however, the titles were likely (but not certainly) meant to serve as placeholders for the sex tapes. Granting this hypothesis, it is less clear why "Hotel Hooker" would have been chosen as a title than why "Filmed Female" would have been.
Moreover, as an independent matter, no sex tape of Kelsey Grammer is known to exist today. Back in 1998, IEG denied possession of one tape; while it confirmed possession of another, it promised not to release it.[4]
References
- ↑ [http://web.archive.org/web/20031209152448/http://www.imdb.com:80/name/nm0001288/ Internet Archive of Kelsey Grammer IMDb page; crawled 03/12/03, retrieved 14/07/19
- ↑ Wikipedia page for Kelsey Grammer: details suit against IEG, other relevant links Retrieved 14/07/19
- ↑ "Report: Kelsey's 'X'-Files," People Magazine, 06/07/99 Retrieved 14/07/19
- ↑ "Report: Kelsey's 'X'-Files," People Magazine, 06/07/99 Retrieved 14/07/19