Farrah Abraham Rakes In $100K Royalties From Sex Tape

James Deen Image by Getty Images

By Anne Cohen July 22, 2013

Being a porn star — excuse me, sex tape featuree — pays the big bucks.

According to TMZ, “Teen Mom” star Farrah Abraham, who sold the rights to her sex tape with Jewish porn star James Deen to Vivid Entertainment for a six-figure fee in May, has raked in more than $100,000 in royalties.

$119,576.39 to be exact.

The X-rated flick, titled “Farrah Superstar: Backdoor Teen Mom,” made headlines this spring after Deen spilled the beans that the so-called sex tape was a professionally produced porn film, unwilling to have people believe he and Abraham were romantically involved.

“I told them that I am not a prostitute and I’m not going to go on fake dates with people for the tabloids,” he told Today.com at the time. “If you’re going to make a celebrity sex tape and try to pass it off as an amateur home video, you don’t hire a well-known porn star!”

Abraham was not pleased.

“After seeing James speaking about my personal video as a porn and not even contacting me before running his mouth, I have to say I am very disappointed,” she told Us Weekly.

I wonder if she’s reconsidered…

Anne Cohen was the Forward’s deputy digital media editor. When she’s not looking for the secret Jewish history of Voodoo in New Orleans, or making lists about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she writes for The Assimilator. She graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with an M.S. magazine concentration in 2012.

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