Gene sez: Something doesn’t add up about the Gene Simmons tape.

Valleywag.com posts a letter on its site
www.valleywag.com/359336/gene-simmons-lawyer-confirms-sex-tapes-authenticity

from an attorney claiming the tape was sold in 2003 when the story was put out this week how the tape was shot in Vancouver only last November. A mild discrepancy of four years to be sure, but here’s the story accompanying the letter.

Posted on www.valleywag.com : When GenesSecret.com burst upon the scene on Tuesday, we questioned whether it really featured Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, or just a lookalike.

The revolution of the gossip culture wrought by the Web has transformed the consumption of celebrity lives. Since Paris Hilton went exposed, we’re awash in fake sex-tape videos. But Simmons’s own lawyers have now confirmed that the video on GenesSecret.com is the real deal. The pantsless, T-shirt-wearing man in the video is in fact Simmons, in a cease-and-desist letter they sent to Valleywag.

But the letter itself is informative. In it, Simmons’s lawyers say that the video was filmed by Traci Anna Koval, and that a company Allied Industry bought the rights from her in 2003. Is Koval the woman in the video, referred to as “Elsa” by GenesSecret.com? Unclear.