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Pamela Anderson<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s sex tape with\u00a0Tommy Lee<\/a><\/strong> cost her a lot\u2014and put her under a lot of scrutiny.<\/p>\n But neither she nor the M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce<\/strong>\u00a0drummer ever saw a major payday from it.\u00a0The upcoming docuseries Secrets of Celebrity Sex Tapes<\/a><\/em>, premiering Sept. 8 at 10 p.m., revisits the 1997 scandal, featuring insight from Nicole Eggert<\/strong>, Traci Bingham<\/strong> and more. One hot topic stemming from the controversy? Whether the pair themselves profited from sales of the footage.<\/p>\n “I know firsthand that Pam and Tommy made not one dime off that video,” Cort St. George<\/strong> says in the series. “They didn’t demand any money. I know that they turned down money.”<\/p>\n Anderson and Lee had filmed themselves having sex during their 1995 honeymoon, months before it was stolen from their Los Angeles home. However, it wasn\u2019t until 1997 that now-defunct Internet Entertainment Group, who had obtained the video, began selling copies online.<\/p>\n The former couple\u2014who divorced in 1998\u2014filed a copyright lawsuit and won their case on appeal in 2002, with the judge granting the Baywatch<\/em> alum and the musician $740,000 apiece in a default judgment against IEG, whose reps never showed up in court to defend the company, per Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pamela Anderson\u2019s sex tape with\u00a0Tommy Lee cost her a lot\u2014and put her under a lot of scrutiny. But neither she nor the M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce\u00a0drummer ever saw a major payday from it.\u00a0The upcoming docuseries Secrets of Celebrity Sex Tapes, premiering Sept. 8 at 10 p.m., revisits the 1997 scandal, featuring insight from Nicole Eggert, Traci Bingham […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2006981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pamela-Anderson-Tommy-Lee-Made-This-Much-From-Sex-Tape.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}