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Sounds like trouble!
By Bernadette Giacomazzo — Written on Mar 24, 2020
The new trend with celebrities is, of course, live-streaming. Whether it be concerts, painting lessons, or even reading Shakespearean sonnets, celebrities are using social media to deliver their goods to the masses at an ever-increasing rate. But Denver Nuggets star Jamal Murray found himself as a trending topic on Twitter when he decided to live-stream something that was a bit more ... intimate. And no, we're not talking about a one-on-one basketball game.
So what do we know about the Jamal Murray sex tape that got accidentally uploaded to Instagram? Let's take a look.
The Jamal Murray sex tape was leaked on Instagram on March 22, 2020.
On March 22, 2020, Murray took to his Instagram to post what seemed to be an intimate recording of himself receiving oral sex from a woman. The recording, which was almost immediately blasted to Murray's more than 480,000 follower, immediately caused him to become a Twitter trending topic within hours after the tape was released. The recording has been deleted from his Instagram account but an intrepid Twitter user managed to grab a copy of it and needless to say, the link is not safe for work.
The video featured his girlfriend, Harper Hempel, who asked fans to 'delete' the video if they had access to it.
Murray's sex tape featured him receiving oral sex from his girlfriend, and fellow athlete, Harper Hempel. She took to her Twitter page — which has subsequently been deleted — to ask fans who had a copy of the tape to "delete it" after it was posted on Instagram.
Prior to the salacious video, Murray's Instagram featured a series of posts that could best be described as "random."
While it's typical for a celebrity to claim that his social media account was "hacked," there's actually some credence to Murray's claim of hacking. Prior to posting the salacious video to his Instagram stories, Murray's Instagram page featured a series of posts that could best be described as "random." You can check out the posts below.
The social media reaction to the Jamal Murray sex tape was swift and hilarious.
Needless to say, it didn't take long for social media's reaction to the Jamal Murray sex tape to come out, and the feedback was swift and hilarious. One user took the time to compliment Hempel for being "hot." Another posted a GIF mimicking Hempel giving oral sex to Murray. And yet another joked that he "forgot how to delete videos."
At first, Murray claimed that he was hacked.
When word about Murray's sex tape was first released, the Denver Nuggets superstar took to his Twitter to claim that he was "hacked." You can check out his tweet below.
But he subsequently tweeted an apology and deleted his Instagram account.
Later, Murray tweeted — and subsequently deleted — an apology on his Twitter account. And, for a brief period, he also deactivated his Instagram account — but as of this writing, he had restored his Instagram account, and his last visible post was dated on March 10, 2020.
Bernadette Giacomazzo is an editor, writer, publicist, and photographer whose work has appeared in Teen Vogue, People, Us Weekly, The Source, XXL, HipHopDX, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, BET.com, and more.