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Tupac Shakur Sex Tape Sold to Collector

New owner has no plans to show video to the public

December 19, 2011 8:30 AM ET
Tupac Shakur performing in 1990
Tupac Shakur performing in 1990
Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

A sex tape featuring the late rapper Tupac Shakur has been sold to a private collector. The owner of the video, which was filmed in 1991, made a point of keeping the tape out of the hands of porn companies. The private collector apparently has no plans to sell the tape or release it to the public.

According to TMZ, Shakur is seen in the video receiving oral sex from a groupie while rapping and dancing along to one of his own unreleased songs. Shakur, who has a cocktail in one hand and a blunt in the other, also throws an arm around Money B from Digital Underground at one point, with no disruption in the action. The rapper was 25 when he died on September 7, 1996, of gunshot wounds in an attack in Las Vegas.

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