as the freewheeling hard-hitting drummer
of motley crew
tommy lee is one of the most notorious
musicians out there
as the band's youngest member his entire
adult life has been shaped by the rock
star lifestyle
for better or for worse here are some of
the dark details from tommy lee's real
life story
tommy lee's sex tape with pamela
anderson is ridiculously famous
and the tale behind the tape is as
interesting as its contents
in 1995 the couple fired several workers
renovating their mansion in malibu this
did not sit well with one electrician
who was already so exhausted with the
couple that he was reportedly ready to
walk away from the twenty thousand
dollars he says they still owed him for
the unfinished work
when the electrician returned to the
house in an attempt to retrieve his
tools he found himself facing a shotgun
wielding lee
ordering him to leave the property this
was the final straw for the working man
who decided to exact revenge by stealing
a safe he knew lee kept in the garage
one successful heist later the
electrician discovered that the safe
contained something far more valuable
than mere jewelry and family
knick-knacks
a 54-minute home video by the most
famous superstar couple of the time
featuring roughly eight minutes of
extremely personal one-on-one footage
in an amusing twist the electrician just
so happened to be a veteran of the adult
film industry
with the help of his contacts the tape
was replicated and
copies began being distributed to the
public for a price
despite the panicked couple's best
efforts to retrieve the tape
the video spread like wildfire by 1997
it was such a cultural staple
that variety actually published a review
in 2007 the mtv video music awards
featured an
unexpected bonus performance when tommy
lee and kid rock
engaged in some quick fisticuffs at the
table of sean diddy combs
since both men had been married to
pamela anderson the motives behind the
animosity seemed obvious but
rock insists the real reason went a
little bit deeper than that
he says the fight was the culmination of
a five-year stretch of personal attacks
and disrespectful actions
that took place during rock's divorce
from anderson rock promised to retaliate
for the long stretch of abuse and he
apparently wasn't playing
reportedly he had already attempted to
track down the drummer and burst through
his hotel room on the previous new
year's eve
but got the wrong room and found himself
facing a terrified family instead
as for lee he insists he had merely been
socializing at the event when rock whom
he insists on calling kid pebble
turned up rejected a hug and punched the
drummer lee insists he was fully intent
on winning the ensuing battle but
security guards dragged him out of the
building
to be fair he did apologize for his role
in the incident
to alicia keyes who was performing at
the time
the death of a child is always a
nightmare but when that child dies at
your house during a kid's birthday party
well that's even more disturbing this
exact scenario played out at tommy lee's
malibu mansion in 2001
when a four-year-old boy attended the
birthday celebrations of the drummer's
eldest son brandon
and was later found floating face down
deceased in the swimming pool
according to reports lee made a 9-1-1
call where he admitted that the child
had been left alone and unsupervised for
a brief period of time
and that the ensuing situation was so
chaotic that he didn't know what to do
though the boy's parents blamed the
drummer for negligence and sued him for
10 million dollars
he was cleared of any responsibility the
jury in the case found that the death
was more the result of a tragic chain of
events
in which the boy's nanny left the party
early to attend a concert
while the babysitter tasked with looking
after him left him unattended
in 1996 tommy lee grew angry at a
cameraman outside the viper room
nightclub in hollywood and threw the
poor guy on the ground
this already unwise move reportedly
turned into an
epic mess when it came out that the
cameraman was jewish
and lee had attacked him while wearing a
visible swastika tattoo on his arm
yes a swastika tattoo lee moved to have
the tattoo covered hoping to avoid it
ever being seen by a jury
he later said that the symbol was quote
a stupid tattoo
obtained several years ago lee had the
tattoo removed and pleaded no contest to
criminal charges of battery
he was sentenced to two years of
probation anger management counseling
and a 17
500 restitution payment to the
photographer
mtv reports that lee later settled a
civil case with a cameraman
and even attempted to make amends by
shaking hands with his victim
though the cameraman's attorney
immediately stepped in to block
the attempt in 1997 tommy lee and nikki
sixx got a little too
carried away during a concert in
greensboro coliseum north carolina
by which we mean they started harassing
a black security guard
and trying to incite an ethnically
motivated riot
reportedly six was the first to start
attacking and throwing slurs at the
guard
but lee soon joined in to pour a drink
on the guard's head
the poor man's extremely bad day at work
further escalated when the ban
encouraged the 2500 people in the crowd
to attack him
fortunately the situation didn't
escalate into a full-blown riot
though a lawsuit does mention that the
crowd pelted the guard and his
colleagues with plastic cups
and that he had to climb on the stage to
escape the audience
six was arrested two years later when
motley crue performed in north carolina
again
and lee promptly turned himself in as
well the drummer was charged with
assault and inciting a riot with ethnic
animosity
but he was able to avoid the racial
aspects of the case by pleading no
contest to simple assault
for which he was sentenced to an
18-month probation the inevitable civil
lawsuit by the guard was eventually
settled
the three-year marriage of tommy lee and
pamela anderson is one of the most
colorful celebrity relationships out
there
they got married in early 1995 after a
whirlwind romance but things took a turn
for the worse after the blissful
honeymoon period
arguments escalated into violence with
anderson describing incidents in which
lee attacked her while she was holding
their infant child
finally one brawl inspired anderson to
call the police and file for divorce
the drummer ended up pleading no contest
to a felony count of injury to a spouse
he served four months of a six-month
sentence and was ordered to seek anger
management counseling perform community
service
and donate five thousand dollars to a
women's shelter
he also had to avoid alcohol and drugs
and stay at least 100 yards away from
anderson
however in 2000 the musician violated
his probation
and spent a further five days in jail as
a result
motley cruz members have obviously been
known to indulge in substance abuse but
their favorite vices all vary
for his part lee insists he's not the
deviant alcohol abuser people have
called him
but some of the people closest to him
seem to disagree
his son brandon has reportedly called
him an alcoholic
and that's not even the worst thing his
loved ones have said about the subject
ex-wife pamela anderson called lee out
on his alcoholism in 2018 by publishing
a post titled
alcoholism is the devil on her website
anderson says the text is the first time
she publicly discusses lee's troubles
with alcohol
and it paints a fairly hopeless picture
of the drummer and his drinking habit
though she does point out that lee is a
talented individual
she also calls the drummer a textbook
quote narcissist
sociopath two two new babies
tommy comes third now instead of first
i'm a new father
i don't know how to deal with that still
perhaps the harshest words in her
writing are these
nobody understands the lifetime of
disappointment this man has brought our
family
consistently the center of sadness drama
and confusion
jealous of his son's talent and beauty
from the day they were born
he is sick a generous way to describe
tommy lee's relationship with his family
would be to say it's dysfunctional
in 2018 his oldest son straight up
punched him out
the details are just as hazy as you'd
expect from a fistfight involving a
motley crew member
but reportedly it's agreed by both lee
and his fiancee that lee's son brandon
who was living with his father at the
time stormed their bedroom and knocked
tommy out
cold after a brief argument according to
brandon the situation was triggered when
his father posted unpleasant comments
about his mother on social media
the son also insinuates that his
father's excessive alcohol use was a
factor in the fight
and the reason he was living part-time
in the premises was to help lee with his
substance abuse troubles and
organize an intervention regardless of
the intentions
tommy lee was adamant on making his son
pay for the punch
and wanted to press charges for what
must have been an uncomfortably long
time before finally deciding to drop it
in early 2019 motley crue star was
revitalized thanks to the film
adaptation of their infamous
autobiography the dirt
all the attention has also warranted a
second glance at the book's many sordid
stories
one of which has raised some serious
questions
in the book bassist nikki sixx appears
to confess to a straight up sexual
assault he and tommy lee once committed
at a party
according to the book six approached lee
at the party and explained to the
drummer that he was in the middle of an
intimate moment in a nearby closet
with a woman waiting for his return the
men agreed that lee would sneak in the
closet with six so they could switch
places without telling the woman without
her consent
lee subbed in to have sex with a woman
while six stood behind him playing along
as six tells it this woman later called
him to tell him that she had been
sexually assaulted by a stranger
while trying to hitchhike home for the
party when six heard this he says
it occurred to him that for all intents
and purposes he and lee had sexually
assaulted her too
unsurprisingly six backtracked on the
disgusting story once it began getting
some attention
and now says he doesn't remember these
events and that he may have completely
made up the story as part of his
drug-addled interviews for the book
lee on the other hand appears to have
stayed very quiet about the incident
entirely
tommy lee is known for the extravagant
drum solos he often performs while
strapped in complex mechanical
contraptions
one of his most famous tricks is the
drum roller coaster
which comes in a couple of flavors a
circular coaster that has lee's drum
platform circle 360 degrees
and a large crucify rig that carries him
high above the audience
lee is fiercely protective of his stunts
to the point where he publicly called
out rapper travis scott for using
similar rigs on his tour in 2018
even threatening legal action over
twitter however
scott's legal team quickly pointed out
that lee didn't invent the concept of
concert roller coasters
and the actual creator of the rigs in
question had granted scott full
permission to use them
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