Rob Lowe appears buff and topless on the cover of the May issue of Vanity Fair magazine, looking like the perfect sex symbol.
But in 1988, Lowe was embroiled in a sex scandal so sordid it almost ended his career for good.
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Lowe was filmed having sex with two women, one of whom was 16. He claimed he didn’t know the girl was underage at the time.
Another part of the same video showed Lowe and a male friend having sex with another young American model in a hotel room in Paris. This portion of the tape was sold as one of the first celebrity sex tapes, destroying Lowe’s public image.
The actor checked himself into rehab for sex addiction and alcoholism soon afterwards, and his career eventually rebounded.
He has since poked fun at his sex tapes on US sketch show Saturday Night Live.
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Now, Lowe is 47, back on top and being marketed as a sexy leading man. In his Vanity Fair interview, he says he as “no regrets” about his troubled past.
“The Brat Pack is timeless,” Lowe told the publication. “We should all be so lucky in our lives to create things that we’re still talking about 25 years later.”
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