Traci Anna Koval, who appeared on video having sex with Kiss frontman Gene Simmons, has said that she was the real victim in the scandal. Simmons has previously claimed that he had no knowledge of the tape, which appeared on the internet in February, being filmed and accused Koval of being the person who leaked it to adult website Avn.com, saying that he had been "blackmailed" and "extorted" before it went online.
However, Koval says in a new interview with, er, Hustler, that she is the one who has been wronged. Not only did she sign the rights to the video away in 2003, she says its appearance has caused her to lose a number of celebrity friends. She said: "I'm the victim. I didn't try to capitalise on this situation... I've lost long-time friends like Michael Bay and Crispin Glover. I was at one of Ja Rule's houses in Southern California, just chilling with him and his friends, and he freaked out about the Gene Simmons sex tape. He kicked me out of the house".