They weren't necessarily the best, just the most popular. You saw our least popular posts before getting trashed on New Year's Eve. Before you stop caring, here are the 20 most clicked on posts of 2009.

Tonight, E! aired Maxim's Hottest Moments of 2009. Coming in at Number 3: McSteamy vs. Gawker, in the tale of the sex tape that never was. Watch the full segment after the jump.

What a small world! Who would've thought? Marty Singer—the lawyer laying into my boss for a cool mil over the McSteamy Tape—would be taking other big-money cases on behalf of sleazy celebrities? Well, he got to Kate Gosselin!

People are already predicting the results of the McSteamy Lawsuit. I'm taking bets.

Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart filed a federal copyright suit against Gawker Media in California yesterday morning, seeking more than $1 million and an injunction against our publication of this video. Here's the complaint.

Some of you may recall a little tape we ran last month featuring a largely naked romp between Eric Dane, his wife Rebecca Gayheart and beauty-queen-turned-Hollywood-madam Kari Ann Peniche. Today the Danes apparently registered their non-love of it in court.

Megan Fox has super special sexual powers. Avril Lagine's love-life is "komplicayted," or however she spells it. Jon Gosselin is still around. Justin Timberlake's a funny drunk. Babies, rappers, Yokos, McSteamies, and more! Presenting your Rosh Hashana Morning Gossip Roundup.

So goes the beginning of today's Rush & Molloy column. They have three sources claiming that she was, in fact, a hooker and a madam. Who are they, and what're they saying?

Well, it wasn't really a sex tape, per se, but it was sexy. People seemed to be interested in it! Let's look back at the stories everyone was talking about during the week that Kari Ann Peniche's career began and ended.