Pamela Andersons Legendary Romantic History: The Marriages, the Divorces and Her Fascinating Friendships
Pamela Anderson's Legendary Romantic History: The Marriages, the Divorces and Her Fascinating Friendships
From Pamela Anderson's marriage to Tommy Lee that produced two kids and an infamous sex tape to her recent "I do" with husband No. 4 (not 5, she insists), the search for lasting love is real.
By NATALIE FINN 30 JAN, 2021 10:00 PMTAGS
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Pamela Anderson has a simple explanation for her tendency to fall hard and fast.
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"I'm a romantic," she told The New York Times last May, a few months after her reported marriage to producer Jon Peters ended less than two weeks into happily ever after. "I think I'm an easy target. And I think people just live in fear. I don't know what all that was about, but I think fear really played a lot into it."
The thrice-divorced star of Baywatch and V.I.P. also insisted she hadn't actually married the man, who's 22 years her senior.
"It was just kind of a little moment," she said. "A moment that came and went, but there was no wedding, there was no marriage, there was no anything. It's like it never even happened." She added with a laugh, "That sounds bizarre. But that's it." (Moreover, she said there was "nothing physical" and they were just friends.)
Besides, by then she may have already moved on to her next shot at the real thing.
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A day after Anderson announced that she was leaving social media ("try not to be seduced by wasted time...Thats what THEY want," she advised), E! News confirmed that the 53-year-old mother of two tied the knot with her bodyguard Dan Hayhurst on Christmas Eve at home in her native Canada.
"I'm exactly where I need to be—in the arms of a man who truly loves me," the newlywed told the Daily Mail, which broke the news.
Another pandemic love story for the history books, a source having told People in September that Anderson was "very happy" with Hayhurst and he'd been helping her fix up the Vancouver Island home she purchased from her grandparents 25 years ago.
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"This is where my parents were married and they are still together," she told the Mail. "I feel like I've come full circle."
And what a 360-degree journey its been.
While Anderson unquestionably made a name for herself with her bombshell looks that landed her on a record 13 Playboy covers, her storied slow-run on Baywatch, her animal rights activism and decades of being a pop culture touchstone, her love life has persistently been front and center along with her other achievements (which include two novels featuring the thinly veiled heroine Star Wood Leigh). Even her growing interest in international politics over the past decade couldn't come without rumors that she was dating a couple of notorious figures overseas.
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"My aunt used to say, 'One man can't do it all. One for sex, one for conversation, one for entertainment," she told Piers Morgan in a 2018 interview, shrugging off any stigma of the serial dater (or serial bride, for that matter).
Judging by the gentlemen she's chosen to keep company with over the years, it certainly seems as if she's had all of the above bases covered, some of them possibly even serving all three categories all at once.
So while we wish Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hayhurst well, here's a trip down Anderson's own lovers lane, from where she started to where she has ended up:
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Scott Baio
The Happy Days star was linked to a slew of models and actresses in his heartthrob heyday—a pattern that was examined more closely in his reality series Scott Baio Is 45... and Single—and he dated Pamela Anderson right after she was named Playboy's Playmate of the Month for February 1990. They met at the Playboy Mansion, in fact, and Anderson's first-ever acting credit is a guest spot on Charles in Charge.
"I once told somebody I thought there was just one hard, fast rule in Hollywood—and that was if you were blonde, first you date Scott Baio and then you marry Tommy Lee," Charles in Charge co-star Willie Ames quipped in a 2008 A&E Biography episode on Baio.
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Bret Michaels
But first, a little Poison. Anderson's first major romance with a rocker was in the 1993-1994 realm when she met Michaels—and he really tried to get in good with the whole family.
"One of her mom's favorite bands was the Beach Boys, so I called up John Stamos, who played drums occasionally for the band," he told Blender in 2009. "I said, 'John, can you put the mom on the side of the stage?' So he does—they even let her go out and sing with the Beach Boys. The next day, Pamela goes, 'My mom really doesn't like you very much.' I'm thinking, 'What the f--k?' The mom really didn't like the rocker thing or the way I looked—Pamela had never dated a rocker before. I think that played a big part in the relationship."
If Pam's mom only knew how thorny that rose could get...
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Jon Peters
Anderson briefly lived with the prolific producer of films such as Caddyshack, The Color Purple and A Star Is Born in the 1990s and they remained close friends.
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Tommy Lee
Sure enough, some years after dating Baio, the Baywatch star married Motley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee on Feb. 16, 1995. We'd delve into their courtship, but they only met at a Beverly Hills club four days before saying "I do" on the beach in Cancun, the bride in a white bikini. Their love story was so much of a whirlwind, the groom's previous paramour learned it was over for good when she heard about his nuptials on the news. Anderson had "TOMMY" inked on her ring finger upon their return to L.A.
The highlights of their passionate but destructive three-year marriage, which was Lee's third, are easily their two sons, Brandon Thomas Lee, born June 5, 1996, and Dylan Jagger Lee, born Dec. 29, 1997. Lowlights include Lee's arrest for spousal battery and subsequent six-month jail sentence and Anderson's 2002 revelation that she had contracted hepatitis C from sharing tattoo needles with her husband. (In 2015, she said they were both free of the disease after undergoing treatment.)
"I picked her up many times from her lawyer's office and flew her up with her kids and hid her out in Aspen for a month because the guy was beating her up," Peters recalled to The Hollywood Reporter in 2018, referring to her tumultuous time with Lee. "But she made it through. She raised the kids. She's got money. She's got a career."
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And, of course, there was the infamous sex tape, recorded early in their union on a houseboat during an excursion to Lake Mead, that was stolen from their Malibu home and leaked into the world, prompting prudish calls for Baywatch's cancellation but at the same time attracting its biggest-ever audience.
"We filmed everything… we were naked all the time," Anderson recalled on Piers Morgan's Life Stories in 2018. In the 2001 Motley Crüe biography The Dirt, Lee lamented, "Pamela and I got busy having kids so quickly that we never gave ourselves a chance to build a solid relationship. I asked her much later, 'Why didn't we work on our relationship more?' 'We couldn't,' she replied. 'I was pregnant the whole time.'"
Not to mention tangled up in litigation, the couple filing a $10 million lawsuit in 1996 to stop others profiting from distribution of the tape, which they had stashed in a safe and didn't even know was missing until the previous Christmas. But, hard copies of the home movie having already penetrated the public sphere to such a degree and Penthouse having reported on all the details, they eventually signed the copyright over in 1997.
They continued to see each other after she filed for divorce in 1998, their physical attraction never being the issue. They talked of remarrying, but by 2000 had settled into seeing (and getting engaged to) other people.
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Kelly Slater
In The Dirt, Lee recalled finding out while he was in jail that Anderson was dating her old Baywatch co-star Kelly Slater, who was part of the cast from 1992 to 1993.
"I learned a lot," the world champion surfer demurely reflected to Metro News in 2011. "I don't have any ill feelings toward her. I wish her well. Hey, we had an amazing time together."
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Marcus Schenkenberg
After splitting up with Lee (again), Anderson dated the Calvin Klein model for the last half of 2000, reportedly after swooning seeing him rescue a bird who had fallen into a Monaco toilet. They shot an ad campaign for Iceberg clothing and he guest-starred on her show V.I.P. before they called it quits.
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