Pam and Tommy’s Key Players: Where Are They Now? Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee and More

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Pam and Tommy's Key Players: Where Are They Now? Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee and More

Stranger 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. [jwplayer Ye9ULhOJ-zhNYySv2] 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. But we’re going, this is the kind of thing people will get killed over.” After noticing the safe was missing in January 1996, Lee and Anderson filed a police report, but by that point it was too late. Gauthier worked with Milton "Uncle Miltie" Ingley to distribute the tape, which quickly became available via bootleg copies. The Barb Wire actress and the musician filed a $10 million lawsuit to halt distribution of the video, but the suit was later dropped — after thousands of people had already seen it. Lee and Anderson, who share sons Brandon and Dylan, divorced in 1998. Nearly 20 years later, Anderson claimed that she'd "never seen" the tape. “I made not one dollar," she said during a 2015 appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. "It was stolen property. We made a deal to stop all the shenanigans." In February 2022, Hulu released the limited series Pam & Tommy, starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan in the title roles. The Downton Abbey alum claimed she tried to contact Anderson before playing her, but the activist never took her calls. “I was really hopeful that she would be involved. I wish it had been different,” James told Net-a-Porter’s Porter in January 2022. “My sole intention was to take care of the story and to play Pamela authentically.” Keep scrolling to see what Pam & Tommy's major players have been up to since the scandal: [podcast_block]

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Pam and Tommy's Key Players: Where Are They Now? Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee and More

Stranger 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. [jwplayer Ye9ULhOJ-zhNYySv2] 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. But we’re going, this is the kind of thing people will get killed over.” After noticing the safe was missing in January 1996, Lee and Anderson filed a police report, but by that point it was too late. Gauthier worked with Milton "Uncle Miltie" Ingley to distribute the tape, which quickly became available via bootleg copies. The Barb Wire actress and the musician filed a $10 million lawsuit to halt distribution of the video, but the suit was later dropped — after thousands of people had already seen it. Lee and Anderson, who share sons Brandon and Dylan, divorced in 1998. Nearly 20 years later, Anderson claimed that she'd "never seen" the tape. “I made not one dollar," she said during a 2015 appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. "It was stolen property. We made a deal to stop all the shenanigans." In February 2022, Hulu released the limited series Pam & Tommy, starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan in the title roles. The Downton Abbey alum claimed she tried to contact Anderson before playing her, but the activist never took her calls. “I was really hopeful that she would be involved. I wish it had been different,” James told Net-a-Porter’s Porter in January 2022. “My sole intention was to take care of the story and to play Pamela authentically.” Keep scrolling to see what Pam & Tommy's major players have been up to since the scandal: [podcast_block]

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Pamela Anderson

After leaving Baywatch in 1997, Anderson went on to star in movies including Borat, Blonde and Blonder and Superhero Movie. She also reprised her role as C.J. Parker in the 2017 big-screen adaptation of Baywatch. In 2010, she competed on season 10 of Dancing With the Stars. Anderson and Lee's eldest son, Brandon, starred on The Hills: New Beginnings from 2019 to 2021.

After splitting from Lee the first time, Anderson married Kid Rock in July 2006. The duo called it quits later that year after four months of marriage.

Nearly one year later, Anderson married Rick Salomon in Las Vegas in October 2007. The couple separated one month later and had their marriage annulled in February 2008.

After splitting from Salomon, Anderson briefly rekindled her romance with Lee, but they later called it quits for good. In January 2014, the model confirmed that she had remarried Salomon, but they divorced one year later.

Anderson wed her fourth husband, Jon Peters, in January 2020, though she later claimed they were never legally married. (Us Weekly also confirmed this at the time.) The former duo split after just 12 days of marriage.

Later in 2020, the Unity star married Dan Hayhurst, whom she met at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. In January 2022, Us confirmed that the twosome were "taking time apart."

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Tommy Lee

Lee has continued touring off and on with Mötley Crüe, who were the subject of the 2019 biopic The Dirt (based on the band's autobiography of the same name). In 1999, he formed the rap metal group Methods of Mayhem during a hiatus from Mötley Crüe. He has since released three solo albums and an autobiography titled Tommyland. In 2004, he appeared in a short-lived reality show titled Tommy Lee Goes to College.

Before meeting Anderson, Lee was married to Elaine Starchuk from 1984 to 1985 and to Heather Locklear from 1986 to 1993. In February 2019, he married comedian Brittany Furlan.

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Rand Gauthier

Gauthier (portrayed by Seth Rogen, as seen here) participated in a lengthy 2014 Rolling Stone story about the scandal, in which he claimed that he pulled off the safe heist by himself. He still works as an electrician and restores motorcycles and sports cars in his spare time.

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Milton 'Uncle Miltie' Ingley

Ingley partnered with Gauthier to distribute the stolen sex tape. Played by Nick Offerman in Pam & Tommy, Ingley fled to the Netherlands in 1997 to avoid a confrontation with Louie "Butchie" Peraino, who gave him funding to distribute the video. He remained in Europe until Peraino's death in 1999. Ingley died at age 60 in December 2006.

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Erica Gauthier

Played by Taylor Schilling in Pam & Tommy, Erica was briefly wed to Rand Gauthier. After retiring from the adult film industry in the early 2000s, she died at age 53 in a car accident in December 2009.

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Hugh Hefner

Years before she met Lee, Anderson landed the cover spot on the October 1989 issue of Playboy. The Canada native credited the magazine's founder, Hugh Hefner, with jumpstarting her career. The media mogul died at age 91 in September 2017.

"Outside of my family. You were the most important person in my life," Anderson wrote via Instagram after Hefner's death. "Everything anyone loves about me is because you understood me. Accepted me and encouraged me to be myself. Love like no one else. Live recklessly With unfiltered abandon. You said the magazine was about a girl like me. That I embody the spirit you fantasized about. I was the one. You said.”

Hefner made headlines again in January 2022 with the release of Secrets of Playboy, an A&E docuseries featuring interviews with some of his former employees and ex-girlfriends.

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Seth Warshavsky

Warshavsky was head of the Internet Entertainment Group, the company responsible for distributing the sex tape online after Ingley started selling physical copies of the video. A judge eventually granted Lee and Anderson a $1.5 million judgment against IEG, but by that point, the tape had already been widely distributed. Warshavsky has since moved to Thailand, where he works in telecommunications.