UPDATE: Former Hilton pal sold tape for $50,000

NOVEMBER 13--Paris Hilton is once again on the receiving end--legally speaking, of course. The airhead heiress has just been sued for slander by her co-star in the explicit sex video that has recently spread like a California wildfire. In a blistering kiss-and-tell complaint filed late yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Rick Salomon alleges that the 22-year-old Hilton, her parents, and her spokesperson have wrongfully accused him of improper--and perhaps criminal--conduct in connection with the filming of the video and the tape's subsequent sale to an Internet porn site. Salomon's lawsuit, a copy of which you'll find below, seeks a minimum of $10 million in damages. Salomon claims the Hilton camp has maligned him in a bid to divert attention from Paris's "sexual promiscuity, drug use." When news of the raunchy video's existence surfaced last week, Hilton's parents issued a statement noting they were "saddened at how low human beings will stoop to exploit their daughter." They added that anyone "involved in this video is guilty of criminal activity and will be reported to the proper authorities and vigorously prosecuted." In addition, flack Siri Garber suggested to reporters that Hilton was loaded when the tape was made three years ago (when the heiress was 19). Garber called Salomon, 33, "vile and disgusting" and said Hilton "is the victim here." In his complaint, Salomon describes Hilton as an "active participant" in the mid-2001 hijinks in his Hollywood Hills home and recounts an episode caught on the 27-minute videotape: "Towards the end of the videotape, Hilton is shown standing alone in a well-lit bathroom slowly scanning the camcorder all over her stomach, breasts and face to make sure that anyone who watched the video would clearly see her breasts in good lighting, as opposed to the less flattering light of the dark bedroom." Can you blame a girl? (9 pages)

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