As it turns out, it wasn't Verne Troyer who gave his sex tape to TMZ. It was his girlfriend and the other person in the sex tape, Ranae Shrider.

Shrider signed a declaration filed in federal court in Los Angeles stating the tape was created with her video camera.

This lead the judge to allow TMZ to put the snippets of the tape back up after pulling them last week.

The judge has still barred a porn distributor named in a $20 million lawsuit filed by Troyer from distributing or taking orders for the 50-minute tape.

Troyer starred as Mini Me in two "Austin Powers" movies. His lawsuit alleged the tape was stolen. Ranae's statement says she believes she also owns the tape, but so far has only given permission to TMZ to air it.