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 befell throughout a February 2003 helicopter journey from San Diego County to Van Nuys, California, which Lee took with plaintiff Jane Doe (by way of Rolling Stone). She accused Lee of “forcibly groping, kissing and penetrating her together with his fingers, and trying to pressure her to carry out oral copulation” in the course of the journey.

The lawsuit states that the girl had met and befriended the pilot, David Martz, the earlier 12 months whereas working on the financial institution he frequented. Martz invited her to journey in his helicopter for a sightseeing journey round San Diego County. When she acquired to the helicopter, nevertheless, Martz knowledgeable her that they might as an alternative be taking Lee to Los Angeles.

Based on the criticism, Martz brandished alcohol and started 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 lady as much as the cockpit to take a seat on Lee’s lap, to which she reluctantly agreed.

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That is when Lee allegedly pressured himself upon the lady, groping and kissing her and “[becoming] extra forceful” when she tried to withstand. “At one level,” the criticism says, “Lee penetrated plaintiff together with his fingers whereas fondling her breasts. Lee then pulled down his pants and tried to pressure plaintiff’s head towards his genitals. By this level, plaintiff was in tears, however she had nowhere to go — she was trapped with little mobility to go away 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 cellphone earlier than Martz died in a aircraft 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 going through a fourth revocation on the time of his loss of life, the Los Angeles Instances reported.

The girl claimed Lee’s alleged assault brought on her “nice shock, misery, humilitian, disgrace 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 historical past of participating in indecent and unlawful conduct on Martz’s helicopter.”

Tommy Lee’s Earlier Abuse Allegations

That 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 Grime, bassist Nikki Sixx claimed that he and Lee “just about” raped a girl at a celebration when, in the course of having intercourse along with her, Sixx left the room and had Lee take over for him with out the lady’s data or consent.

Regardless of these indiscretions, Motley Crue stays enormously common. They lately accomplished a worldwide stadium tour and have already introduced a number of 2024 competition appearances. In reality, Lee advised Invoice Maher in October that the band lately recorded a music referred to as “Canceled,” acknowledging that they by no means skilled extreme penalties for his or her misbehavior.

“There was this text that was like, ‘How did Motley Crue ever not get canceled?'” Lee mentioned. “And we have been like, ‘Fuck, we have to put in writing a music about that as a result of we did not ever get it.’ We snuck in beneath the no matter threshold, wherever that was, the place we acquired away with fucking homicide.”