Rob Lowe made major changes to his life after his sex tape was leaked in the ’80s — but what has he said about the scandal?

Lowe’s star was on the rise after his roles in Thursday’s Child, The Outsiders, St. Elmo’s Fire and About Last Night. The actor was campaigning for Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election when a sex tape was leaked showing Lowe with two people: 22-year-old Tara Seburt and her 16-year-old friend Lena Jan Parsons.

At the time, the age of consent in Atlanta, where the video was filmed, was 14. Both girls were of legal age to engage in sexual activity, but 18 was the legal age to be involved in recording. Lowe, for his part, maintained that he thought Parsons was 21 because they met at a nightclub before the encounter.

The footage went on to become one of the

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