Tommy Lee Accused of Sexual Assault in New Lawsuit

Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee faces accusations of sexual assault in a brand new lawsuit filed on Friday.

The assault in query allegedly happened throughout a February 2003 helicopter journey from San Diego County to Van Nuys, California, which Lee took with plaintiff Jane Doe (through Rolling Stone). She accused Lee of “forcibly groping, kissing and penetrating her with his fingers, and attempting to force her to perform oral copulation” in the course of the journey.

The lawsuit states that the girl had met and befriended the pilot, David Martz, the earlier yr whereas working on the financial institution he frequented. Martz invited her to experience in his helicopter for a sightseeing journey round San Diego County. When she acquired to the helicopter, nonetheless, Martz knowledgeable her that they might as an alternative be taking Lee to Los Angeles.

According to the criticism, Martz brandished alcohol and commenced mixing drinks as quickly as they hit the skies. He and Lee allegedly drank, smoked marijuana and snorted cocaine all through the flight. Martz then referred to as the girl as much as the cockpit to take a seat on Lee’s lap, to which she reluctantly agreed.

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That’s when Lee allegedly compelled himself upon the girl, groping and kissing her and “[becoming] more forceful” when she tried to withstand. “At one point,” the criticism says, “Lee penetrated plaintiff with his fingers while fondling her breasts. Lee then pulled down his pants and attempted to force plaintiff’s head toward his genitals. By this point, plaintiff was in tears, but she had nowhere to go — she was trapped with little mobility to leave the cockpit.”

Martz “merely watched” as this occurred and flew the girl again to San Diego after dropping Lee in Van Nuys. They fell out of contact and solely spoke as soon as by telephone earlier than Martz died in a airplane crash in 2015. He’d misplaced his pilot’s license 3 times earlier than that — together with as soon as in 2009 after having oral intercourse with an grownup movie actress whereas flying — and was dealing with a fourth revocation on the time of his dying, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The girl claimed Lee’s alleged assault prompted her “great shock, distress, humilitian, shame and guilt.” She initially selected to not report it as a result of she thought it was an remoted incident, however she now believes Martz and Lee “had a history of engaging in indecent and illegal conduct on Martz’s helicopter.”

Tommy Lee’s Previous Abuse Allegations

This is hardly the primary allegation of violence or sexual misconduct levied in opposition to Lee. The drummer went to jail for six months in 1998 after allegedly attacking then-wife Pamela Anderson whereas she was holding their 7-week-old son, Dylan. In Motley Crue’s 2001 autobiography The Dirt, bassist Nikki Sixx claimed that he and Lee “pretty much” raped a girl at a celebration when, in the center of having intercourse along with her, Sixx left the room and had Lee take over for him with out the girl’s data or consent.

Despite these indiscretions, Motley Crue stays enormously standard. They not too long ago accomplished a worldwide stadium tour and have already introduced a number of 2024 pageant appearances. In reality, Lee informed Bill Maher in October that the band not too long ago recorded a music referred to as “Canceled,” acknowledging that they by no means skilled extreme penalties for his or her misbehavior.

“There was this article that was like, ‘How did Motley Crue ever not get canceled?'” Lee stated. “And we were like, ‘Fuck, we’ve got to write a song about that because we didn’t ever get it.’ We snuck in under the whatever threshold, wherever that was, where we got away with fucking murder.”