Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and sex tapes...
“…and I have the sex tape to prove it.”
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS– Accused batterer Ivan Lattimore, the slamball player behind bars on charges of beating up Channel 7 sports reporter Julie Donaldson, says he still loves the former beauty queen – and has the sex tape to prove it.
In an exclusive jailhouse interview yesterday, the locked-up lothario told the Herald that the couple filmed and photographed themselves having sex in Donaldson’s Back Bay digs in the hours before his June birthday celebration allegedly turned violent.
Lattimore, 32, said he and the 30-year-old blond bombshell used the new $320 digital camera he bought for his brother’s wedding. A Sony Cyber Camera and digital memory card have been turned over to Boston Municipal Court.
Donaldson’s attorney Harry Manion has said his investigation found no sex tape. Donaldson, who remains on paid leave from WHDH-TV (Ch. 7), declined comment.
“We were just playing around and it just happened behind the dresser,” Lattimore said of the racy recording. “We started taking pictures of each other. It was an innocent thing.”
Lattimore said he doesn’t want the raunchy footage made public and said the video came to light only because his lawyer asked him how he had spent the entire day.
“There’s no need to put that into the public eye,” Lattimore said. “I do not want to harm this girl’s career. That is much more important to me than even my own freedom. She’s been too good to me for me to put that out there.”
Prosecutors said Lattimore has a history of domestic violence. In one case, court records show, he pushed his hand so hard over a woman’s face in California in 2005 that she thought her neck was going to break. Lattimore said they were making a sex tape.
Lattimore said he doesn’t blame Donaldson for his current circumstances. He also read aloud from several letters he penned to the Herald, his handcuffed hands fumbling with the sheets.
“Julie is truly an amazing person,” he said, quoting from one of the letters. “She is very talented and deserves your respect.”
Lattimore has spent his summer behind bars because two judges determined he was too dangerous to set free on bail while awaiting his Sept. 8 trial. He is charged with assaulting Donaldson and two other women they brought home after a night of drinking.
Donaldson has a restraining order against Lattimore; he said they haven’t spoken in two months.
Lattimore said he helped Donaldson move to Boston and would make her dinner and tape her reports on Channel 7 so she could see how “amazing she did.”
“There were things in our relationship that were challenging for both of us,” he admitted. “We are no different from the rest of the dating world.”
Lattimore – a tall and slender man who can turn on the charm – spoke in a small room at the Nashua Street Jail. A tattoo on his left upper arm bearing his nickname – “Ice” – peeked out from under his white T-shirt.
Lattimore insisted he has never physically harmed Donaldson or any other woman. He said he doesn’t know how Donaldson got her injuries that fateful night.
Lattimore apologized for the “emotional trauma that she’s had to deal with.”
“I know she wants to know if I’m mad at her. I’m not mad at her,” he said.
Lattimore has spent his days in a cramped cell, reflecting on life, reading books and gazing at a photo of him and Donaldson.
Lattimore wants Donaldson to know he will “always love” her.
Courtesy of the Boston Herald
(Naked Circus Note: The headline for this story was taken from the print edition of the newspaper, because it was funnier. Why there is a different headline on the internet version of the tale is a mystery that we have not yet solved.)
