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Artist's Ex-Lover Sues over Sex Tape

LONDON - The latest celebrity sex tape contains 15 minutes of seriously intense hard-core action between British artist Billy Conklin and former Playmate-turned-artist Missy Wiggins, punctuated by dialogue like: “Where’s the zoom on this?” But like his predecessors in the genre, Conklin’s career is not likely to be harmed at all. In fact, it could even get bigger. It seems what we expect from our celebrities is radically different from what we expect from, say, our politicians. Or ourselves

“It makes him more interesting,” says Christina Speaks, curator for Conklin's next show at Detroit's Museum of New Art. “It gets his name out there. Now, if you or I had our own sex tape released, we’d be in deep crap.”

“It becomes just another medium in which these celebrity artists work,” Speaks added.

And so, it would appear that Billy Conklin has little to worry about, despite the shockingly racy nature of his video romp with ex-girlfriend Missy Wiggins, who is now trying to sue Conklin for trying to put it on public display (a trial date was set last week in her lawsuit against him, but is unlikely to interrupt its first screening at Detroit's Museum of New Art.)

“It’s possible that more people will look at his sex tape than his art,” says Wiggins' lawyer, Liz Klobinkski. “And maybe that’s a good thing."

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pairing the art of former lovers Missy Wiggins & Billy Conklin for the first time in a public exhibition
Missy Wiggin / Billy Conklin
Kurator: Christina Speaks