Verne Troyer has filed a $20 million lawsuit, claiming TMZ violated his rights by publishing and airing portions of his intimate tape. Although there was some speculation that Troyer had leaked the tape himself, the leaking of the tape hasn’t seem to hurt Ranae Shrider, who is reportedly still living with Troyer.

In the suit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in downtown L.A., Troyer claims TMZ violated his privacy rights and infringed on his copyright and trademark by running portions of the tape on TMZ TV and TMZ. He also alleges TMZ violated his right of publicity and misappropriated his name and likeness.

Troyer says the tape was stolen and ended up in the hands of Kevin Blatt, the guy who distributed "One Night in Paris." Blatt is also named as a defendant.

In addition to damages, Troyer wants an injunction prohibiting further dissemination of the video.

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Verne Troyer, aka Mini-Me, appears in a sex tape shot with his former live-in girlfriend at Verne’s apartment. A third party got possession of the tape, and although no deal has been made, dealer Kevin Blatt, who brokered the deal for Paris Hilton’s video, is entertaining a $100k offer from SugarDVD to distribute the tape.

Click here to see the video on YouTube before it’s taken down.

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