Verne Troyer, who played Mini-Me in the last two Austin Powers movies, filed a 20 million-dollar federal lawsuit Thursday against TMZ.com for posting portions of a sex tape he made sometime over the last year with his then-girlfriend.

The 39-year-old actor says that TMZ ignored cease-and-desist letters sent both before and after the video showed up on the site.

In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in downtown L.A., Troyer claims TMZ infringed his privacy rights and violated his copyright and trademark by showing parts of the tape on TMZ TV and TMZ.com. He also alleges TMZ transgressed its right of publicity and misused his name and image.

In addition to the gossip provider website, which just posted the footage yesterday, Troyer has also sued One Night in Paris dealer Kevin Blatt. He claims that Blatt, who's known for his celebrity-porn brokering manners, somehow procured the stolen tape and, according to TMZ, is currently entertaining a $100,000 distribution offer from SugarDVD.

The adult-film rental company, which at press time was promoting the newfound existence of a "full-length 50 minute video of Mini-Me in bed with a hot, young, FULL SIZED sexy woman" on its website, was also named as a defendant in the suit.

Troyer, who can currently be seen engaging in audacious little-person humor in "The Love Guru," is pursuing $20 million in damages, as well as attorneys' fees and an order forbidding any further displaying of the video.