After Eric Dane’s death earlier this month from ALS, an old sex tape has reared its ugly head and it’s infuriating his friends.

In 2009, an intimate video of him, his wife Rebecca Gayheart and another woman made headlines. The tape quickly made the rounds and dominated headlines, but now, a source tells Rob Shuter’s Naughty or Nice Substack that there are rumors of “viewing parties.”

“This is not a tribute. It’s exploitation,” a longtime friend of the former Grey’s Anatomy star told the outlet on Monday, March 2. “Eric owned his past. That doesn’t mean the world gets to feast on it after he’s gone.”

Dane had previously spoken about the sex tape in past interviews.

“We’ve all made mistakes,” he told People in 2014. “My one regret is that I got the person I love most wrapped up in all that: Rebecca.”

When Glamour asked Dane if he considered the tape a “mistake” in 2019, his perception had changed.

“Looking back now, was it a mistake? Absolutely not,” he said at the time. “Three consenting adults, one of them being my wife? I wasn’t doing anything wrong. We were just three people taking a bath.”

However, another close friend of Dane’s said that he was “more than just a sex tape,” even as rumors of there being more unreleased footage from that time in his life swirl.

“Anything else was never meant for public consumption,” a third family friend told Naughty But Nice. “Private means private. Period.”