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Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee newest to face sexual assault accusations — an nameless girl alleges he ‘forcibly groped, kissed, and penetrated her’ throughout a helicopter trip in 2003.
Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee is the most recent musician to face sexual assault accusations after an nameless girl filed a lawsuit in opposition to him, alleging he assaulted her throughout a 2003 helicopter trip.
In keeping with the grievance filed in Los Angeles on Friday by a Jane Doe, Lee allegedly “forcibly groping, kissing, and penetrating her” and “trying to pressure her to carry out oral copulation” throughout a helicopter trip in 2003 to which she was “lured” by the rocker’s private pilot. Representatives for Lee haven’t instantly responded to media requests for remark.
The lady says she met David Martz in 2002 whereas working as a teller at a San Diego financial institution he frequented. After befriending her, Jane Doe says Martz provided to take her for a trip in his helicopter, and finally she took him up on the supply for what she was instructed can be a sightseeing journey. However when Doe arrived on the San Diego airfield, she says Martz instructed her of a last-minute change of plans — Tommy Lee would be part of them, and they might take him to Los Angeles.
“Inside a matter of minutes of being airborne, Martz pulled out alcohol he had saved within the helicopter and started to combine drinks,” writes Doe, who additionally says that each he and Lee have been snorting cocaine and smoking hashish all through the journey.
After Martz instructed her to “simply chill out” when he noticed she wasn’t ingesting, Jane Doe says that she was “ordered” to the cockpit to take a seat on Lee’s lap “to get a greater view.” She says she felt “immense strain,” and agreed to come back up entrance, the place Lee started to grope and kiss her. When she tried to drag away, she alleges that Lee “grew to become extra forceful” and “penetrated her together with his fingers.”
“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,” reads the grievance, which provides that Martz “merely watched,” and stated nothing to her when he dropped off Lee and flew the plaintiff again to San Diego.
After the incident, she says she didn’t communicate with Martz for a number of years other than a short name in 2009.
The plaintiff says she didn’t initially report the incident as a result of she didn’t assume authorities would consider her. Nonetheless, she says within the lawsuit that she feels this wasn’t an remoted incident, and that Martz and Lee “had a historical past of participating in indecent and unlawful conduct on Martz’s helicopter.” Sadly, Martz died in 2015 following an plane accident.
Tommy Lee has had his fair proportion of authorized troubles all through the years, together with an notorious incident in 1998 after he beat his former spouse, Pamela Anderson, whereas she was holding the couple’s two-year-old son. Lee pleaded no contest to the costs in opposition to him and spent six months in jail.