Meanwhile, copies of the tapes have slipped out of Atlanta and are in wide circulation around the country. Fulton County authorities say they are still investigating the events and that they may file criminal charges. One of the tapes is evidence in a civil suit recently filed in Georgia’s Fulton County by the mother of the 16-year-old, and Lowe’s attorneys have since countered with an answer charging the woman with extortion. The “Lowe tapes” are the two sex videos-one of two men and one woman, the other of two women and one man-that allegedly were made by Lowe during an encounter with a 16-year-old girl and a young woman in Atlanta during last summer’s Democratic National Convention.
In Hollywood, private film parties have been a tradition since the earliest days of the business, but seldom have people gathered to watch anything as fuzzy as the images of the “Rob Lowe tapes” currently in wide circulation on the bar and party circuit. We were making more money than we ever dreamed existed and there was no reason to believe it would ever stop. So we did-and why not? We were in love with life. In those days the public wanted us to live like kings and queens.
