But you're forgetting the man's best option: get lots of money from the movie star and get a smaller amount from the press.
Edit: Ah, not lump-sum payment. I can see how that would work then.
I'm assuming that the movie star is at least reasonably smart. The first thing that comes to mind is periodic payments that decrease over time, with the value hovering just above what magazines are willing to pay + bragging rights, since people are less impressed with a 10 year old sex tape than a brand new one.
Eventually the payments would be stopped when either the man has more to lose from releasing the tape than staying quiet (eg, he's settled down and married now) or the movie star values money more than the loss of prestige from a scandal (eg, anoth...
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