Get out your check books….

from www.foxnews.com – Shauna Sand was a playmate once upon a time and managed to extend her fifteen minutes with a marriage and divorce to 80’s soap star Lorenzo Lamas. The bottle blond then made a sex tape with her new French beau which “miraculously” ended up in the laps of the leading adult entertainment company, Vivid.

Oh, but clearly Ms. Sand has an extra sense of self-importance and not much clue as to how the media world works – or the fact that nobody really knows who she even is.

“Shauna is only doing paid interviews and appearances,” her rep said.

Okay, we’ve stopped laughing now. But speaking of the tantalizing tape however, Vivid was due to release the racy “Shauna Sand Exposed” on Monday but put a temporary hold on it while its lawyers and a handwriting expert counter a “cease and desist” letter sent by Ms. Sand’s attorney.

“The video is private property and was not created or intended for sale or public distribution,” Sand’s attorney warned, demanding that the studio “produce any legitimate, written proof of Vivid’s asserted rights” to distribute it and denying that Sand ever signed a release or waiver.

However Steven Hirsch, co-chairman of Vivid-Entertainment, dismissed the claims and said that the distribution would be delayed for about one week while a handwriting expert verifies that the signature on a release form granting rights to the video is demonstrated to be authentic.