Pamela Anderson Lee's continuing overexposure. . . . Maltese abuse allegations dog the skies. . . . A couple of cases are settled, while another refuses to die.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back onto the Internet comes word that there's another Pamela Anderson Lee sex tape lurking out there. This one is said to be even more graphic than the now notorious honeymoon frolics of the former "Baywatch" actress and her tattooed Motley Crue husband, Tommy Lee.
Once again, it's the same ol' Pam, but with a different rocker. This time, Poison's Bret Michaels is the guy in the video. The 40-minute video also reportedly shows the actress disrobing to New Age music.
Michaels is busy directing a different kind of film with Charlie Sheen. The rocker is also the one suing, claiming invasion of privacy. Michaels said in court papers that he turned down large sums of money for the tape, which he and the actress made for their personal use while they were dating--before she married Lee.
Michaels' lawyer, Edwin F. McPherson, obtained a court order from U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson, blocking the Internet Entertainment Group from distributing its latest sex tape over the Net as planned Monday. A hearing has been scheduled for Feb. 2.
Pamela and Tommy Lee recently settled a lawsuit over their purloined honeymoon tape with Internet Entertainment and its twentysomething multimillionaire founder, Seth Warshawsky. An investigation continues into that tape's disappearance from a safe in the couple's garage.
It was not known how the latest tape came into the group's possession.
"Pam had a copy. Bret had a copy. Bret still has his copy. That's all I know," said attorney McPherson.
The injunction caught Internet Entertainment's lawyers Stephen T. Owens and Jake Broderick by surprise. "It's a sneak attack," said Owens, adding that Internet Entertainment had been corresponding with Michaels' handlers since Dec. 31. Owens said he will seek to move up the hearing date.
He added that his client went out of his way to be courteous to Michaels in keeping him informed of the group's plans. "If we'd wanted to post it on the Internet, we could have done it a week ago," Owens said.
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