Pam and Tommy’s Key Players: Where Are They Now? Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee and More
usmagazine.comStranger than fiction. Pam & Tommy is a fictionalized version of a real-life scandal that engulfed Pamela Anderson and then-husband Tommy Lee in the 1990s, but the truth behind the series is full of unbelievable twists and turns.The story began in early 1995 when the Mötley Crüe drummer and the Baywatch star tied the knot after knowing each other for 96 hours.
Shortly after their wedding, the duo took a vacation to Lake Mead, located on the border of Arizona and Nevada. During the trip, the couple recorded a sex tape for their personal use.“We weren’t trying to make a porno, just to document our vacation,” Lee said later. “We watched it once when we returned home, then put it in our safe, a 500-pound monstrosity, hidden underneath a carpet in my studio control room in the garage.”That might have been the end of it, if not for an electrician named Rand Gauthier.
After the newlyweds returned home to California, they hired builders to renovate their house in Malibu. Lee was unhappy with the results and fired the workers, which didn’t sit well with Gauthier.
He spent the rest of 1995 planning his revenge.While the Methods of Mayhem frontman and his wife were away in November 1995, Gauthier broke into their house and removed the safe, which contained guns, jewelry and a mysterious VHS tape.“We put it in and see what it is, and of course, cha-ching,” Gauthier told Rolling Stone in 2014. “The dollar signs fly before our eyes.
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