The awarded Best Actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi, poses during a photo session in Paris

In 2006, Ebrahimi became the centre of an Iranian sex tape scandal when a videotape of a woman, claimed to be Ebrahimi, having sex with a man was leaked to the internet and released on DVD. She subsequently became the subject of an official investigation handled by Tehran’s chief prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi. In an interview with The Guardian, Ebrahimi denied being the woman in the film and dismissed it as a fake made by a vengeful former fiancé who used studio techniques to form a montage of incriminating images designed to destroy her career.

June 26, 2022 | 3:10 pm