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Labatt's Poster featuring Pamela Anderson 1989

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1989: The beginning of Pamela Anderson's modeling career. After being discovered at a Canadian football game, Pamela became known as 'The Blue Zone Girl', which was just the beginning of her ascent into stardom.

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Pamela Anderson's first cover of Playboy, 1989

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Not long after her Labatt's commercials, Anderson was asked to model for the October 1989 issue's cover of Playboy. Hugh Hefner then asked her to become a playmate, a regular model for the magazine, which skyrocketed her into fame, making history by breaking the world record of most times modeling for the front cover of Playboy. This is the beginning of the hypersexualization of Anderson, something she became the most known for during her career.

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Anderson got her breasts augmented while she was working with Playboy. Post-surgery, Anderson was asked in the majority of her interviews conducted by male journalists whether she had her breasts done. In an interview with Larry King in 2005, Pamela describes it as being 'no secret' that she had work done - her honesty is refreshing in Hollywood where cosmetic surgery is usually considered taboo and shameful.

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Anderson wasn't originally interested in acting in Baywatch, but on the 11th invitation to audition, she auditioned and was cast as CJ, entering the acting realm of Hollywood. Baywatch then became one of the most popular shows in the world at the time, with Anderson becoming an international superstar, most known for her 'sexy' slow-motion running on the beach.

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In her memoir, Love, Pamela, Anderson accuses costar Tim Allen of flashing her on the set of Home Improvement, a show she worked on in 1991. Although Allen denies the incident, Anderson says she has no ill will in telling the story, and just intends to share stories from her past. Her lack of animosity shows her good nature and ability to forgive the past.

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Pamela Anderson Accuses Tim Allen of Flashing Her on Home Improvement Set

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Anderson has a notorious history of dating, with the actress and model being married five times. Her long history of sometimes very short lived relationships gave her a harsh reputation of not making good choices in relationships. The media and fans were very unforgiving and critical of her choices in love.

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Pamela Anderson Canadian Actress

Who is she dating right now?

Pamela Anderson is currently single.

Relationships

Pamela Anderson was previously married to Dan Hayhurst (security) (2020 - 2022), Rick Salomon (2014 - 2015), Kid Rock (2006), Tommy Lee (1995 - 1998) and Jon Peters (2020).

Pamela Anderson has been in relationships with Adil Rami (2017 - 2019), Julian Assange (2015 - 2017), Matt Evers (2012 - 2013), Jon Rose (2011), Jamie Padgett (2009 - 2010), Criss Angel (2007 - 2008), Hans Klok (2007), David Binn (2007), Laurence Hallier (2006 - 2011), Stephen Dorff (2004 - 2005), Christian Monzon (2003 - 2004), Marcus Schenkenberg (2000 - 2001), Kelly Slater (1998 - 2000), David Charvet (1992 - 1994), Scott Baio (1990 - 1993), Mario Van Peebles (1990) and Tyrone Anderson (1982 - 1986).

Pamela Anderson has had an encounter with Bret Michaels (1994).

Pamela Anderson is rumoured to have hooked up with Vladimir Putin (2012), David Spade (2007), Peter Nygård (2007), Usher (2006), Ray J (2006), Mark McGrath (2005), Steve Jones (2004), Fred Durst (2003), Michael Bolton (2001), Arsenio Hall (1995), Slash (1994), Antonio Sabato Jr. (1994), Vince Neil (1993), Dean Cain (1993), Eric Nies (1992), Sylvester Stallone (1989), Johnathon Schaech (1988) and Dan Ilicic (1987).

About

Pamela Anderson is a 56 year old Canadian Actress. Born Pamela Denise Anderson on 1st July, 1967 in Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada, she is famous for Playboy's Playmate of the Month February 1990, CJ Parker on Baywatch. Her zodiac sign is Cancer.

Pamela Anderson has been in 4 on-screen matchups, including Jason New in Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003), David Charvet in Baywatch (1989), David Chokachi in Baywatch (1989) and Tristan MacManus in Dancing with the Stars (2005).

Pamela Anderson is a member of the following lists: American film actors, American television actors and 1967 births.

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Relationship Statistics

Type

Total

Longest

Average

Shortest

Married

5

31 years, 11 months

9 years, 11 months

2 years

Dating

17

5 years

1 year, 7 months

5 months, 3 days

Encounter

1

-

-

-

Rumoured

18

1 month

1 day

-

Total

41

31 years, 11 months

1 year, 10 months

1 month

Details

First Name

Pamela

Middle Name

Denise

Maiden Name

Anderson

Full Name at Birth

Pamela Denise Anderson

Alternative Name

Pammy, Pam, Pam Anderson, Pamela Denise Anderson

Age

56 years

Birthday

1st July, 1967

Birthplace

Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada

Height

5' 6½" (169 cm)

Weight

125lbs (57 kg)

Build

Athletic

Eye Color

Blue

Hair Color

Dyed Blonde

Distinctive Feature

Big boobs, Platinum blonde hair, Sparkling blue eyes

Zodiac Sign

Cancer

Sexuality

Straight

Religion

Atheist

Ethnicity

White

Nationality

Canadian

High School

Highland Secondary School, Comox, Canada (1985)

Occupation Text

Actress, Model, Producer, Activist, Television Personality

Occupation

Actress

Claim to Fame

Playboy's Playmate of the Month February 1990, CJ Parker on Baywatch

Year(s) Active

1989-present

Talent Agency (e.g. Modelling)

ICM Partners, Celebrity Talent International, The Society Management - New York

Brand Endorsement

(1999) TV commercial for alta vista.com, (1996) TV commercial for Pizza Hut, (1997) TV commercial for 'Hi' mobile telephone (Netherlands)., (2001) Print ad for Iceberg, (2001) TV commercial for TNN, (2003) Appeared in an infomercial for the Alexis Vogel System makeup kit, (2006) TV commercial for TV Land (with Barbara Eden), Print ad for VIVA Glam lipstick by MAC (2006), (1996) Australian TV commercial for Uncle Toby's Vita Bricks., (2010) TV commercial for Walkers crisps

Bust (inches)

36

Cup Size

DD

Waist (inches)

23

Hips (inches)

34

Clothes Size

4

Shoe Size

8 (US), 39(EU), 6 (UK), 250 (J)

Official Websites

www.pamelaanderson.com, models.com/people/pamela-anderson, www.thesocietymanagement.com/celebrity/10844-pamela-anderson.web, www.facebook.com/pamelaanderson, instagram.com/pamelaanderson, http://www.pamelaanderson.com/, http://www.pamelaandersonfoundation.org/, http://pamelaandersonfoundation.org

Father

Barry Anderson (furnace repairman)

Mother

Carol Anderson (waitress)

Brother

Gerry Anderson

Family Member

Brandon Lee (son), Dylan Lee (son)

Friend

Donna D'Errico (associate in Baywatch)

Pets

Star (Dog - golden retriever) [-2007], Chiquito (Dog - chihuahua that was stolen and never returned)

Favorite Movies

Much Ado About Nothing [1993], Staying Alive [1983]

Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian-American actress, model, television personality, and author. She is best known for her numerous appearances in Playboy magazine and for her work on the television series Home Improvement (1991-1993, 1997), Baywatch (1992-1997), and V.I.P. (1998-2002).

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Dating History

Name

Age

Zodiac

Occupation

Nationality

Name

Gender

Born

Age

Other Parent

Brandon Thomas

Male

5th June, 1996

27 years old
Tommy Lee

Dylan Jagger

Male

29th December, 1997

25 years old
Tommy Lee

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Pam and Tommy getting married on the beach in Cancun, 1995

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Pamela's first husband, Tommy Lee, the drummer for the band Mötley Crüe was very well known for his bad boy image. The pair got married in Cancun 4 days after they met, on the beach in their swimwear. Media coverage was intense due to the shocking and quick nature of the marriage. The two were seen as impulsive and reckless. A whirlwind romance.

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Anderson's first starring movie Barb Wire. The movie was unsuccessful, and Pamela became a scapegoat as to why the movie was not very good. Anderson was not taken seriously as an actress, and was constantly sexualised by Hollywood.

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During the filming of Barb Wire, Anderson finds out she is pregnant with her and Tommy's first child. However, due to her intense working schedule of filming a high-level action movie, Baywatch, and shooting for Playboy, Anderson got sick and suffered a miscarriage. Her honesty is raw and evokes sympathy from audiences.

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Pamela Anderson once revealed she had 'miscarriage & lost child' with Tommy Lee

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PAMELA Anderson once revealed she had a miscarriage and lost her first child with Tommy Lee as the new show Pam & Tommy covers the star's heartbreak. The new Hulu show reenacts the love story b...

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During the refurbishment of their home, a large safe containing many personal items of the couple's is stolen from their home. Inside the safe were multiple home videos of the couple, which included nudity, and the two having sex. The videos are then leaked onto the internet, charging a fee to anyone who wishes to view them, becoming one of the first 'viral videos'. The news hits the tabloids and the video becomes known as the world's most infamous sex tape, hugely damaging Pamela's career and reputation.

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It's funny what being held at gunpoint will do to you. And being held at gunpoint by a megalomaniacal rock star? Well, that doesn't feel very good at all.

Not when the rock star has spent the past three months, the entire spring of 1995, living a fantasy life right in front of you, sipping martinis and passing a joint around at 11a.m. with his new wife, a pert blonde actress who inspires over a billion people around the world to drool each week as she runs across the beach in a tight red bathing suit. Not when you've been laying wires, tearing up the walls and painting again and again, because the light switch the rock star thought he wanted over here he now wants just there.

By the time Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson abruptly fired the handful of the people renovating their Malibu mansion, refusing to pay for work they said was shoddily done, electrician Rand Gauthier was so sick of the celebrity couple's demands that he was ready to simply write off the $20,000 he says they owed him. But when he and a general contractor came back to the couple's mansion on Mulholland Highway to get their tools and Tommy Lee pointed a shotgun at them, saying, "Get the fuck off my property," Gauthier got seriously pissed.

Lee made Gauthier feel small, and Gauthier had spent his entire life feeling small. Here was a guy who, on his 18th birthday, lost his virginity to a Vegas hooker. Here was an L.A. boy through and through, struggling to dissociate himself from his famous father, who starred in the original Bye Bye Birdie on Broadway and was Hymie the Robot on the Sixties sitcom Get Smart. By the Nineties, Gauthier had gleaming, tanned muscles, broad shoulders, an eager, trusting smile and a voice that's equal parts surfer and Ernie from Sesame Street. Most people dismiss him as a doofus, a conspiracy theorist who likes fast, powerful cars and dating porn stars. He even did some scenes himself, and spent his time hanging around an adult-film studio, building sets and chatting up starlets. A studio troll, they called him.

"I was never really that popular with people, " he says. "But I had never been held at gunpoint. It screwed with my head."

Now he wanted revenge. He wanted the drummer to feel vulnerable, to realize that he was just a human being, not an invincible rock god, even if he had sold 20 million records by the age of 32. So Gauthier decided to steal the giant safe he knew was tucked in the garage, the one with all of Lee's guns and Anderson's jewelry, and have a laugh at their expense.

He had no idea that the safe also contained a homemade tape that would promise him dazzling riches and then ruin his life. And instead of taking Lee down a notch, he would help cement the musician's legacy, letting the world know he had one of the biggest dicks in rock & roll.

"I made his career, is what happened," says Gauthier, now a foggy 57-year-old who still works as an electrician and grows marijuana in his garage outside Santa Rosa, California.

But Lee might not see it that way. Two years ago, Gauthier received a Facebook message from a page bearing the name Tommy Lee. All it said was: "Hey you fucking faggot."

The Pam and Tommy sex tape is the most infamous stolen celebrity artifact on the planet, with a wink usually accompanying the word "stolen." It wasn't the first time a video of a famous person fornicating appeared in the public realm, and it certainly wouldn't be the last. But it was a porno that appealed to people who didn't usually watch pornos, a voyeuristic dive into the guileless intimacy between two tabloid darlings: Anderson, perennial Playboy cover model and star of Baywatch, and Lee, the hard-partying drummer from Mötley Crüe.

Starting in the spring of 1996, as information trickled out about what was on the tape, everyone wanted to see it, whether to gawk at the home life of two superstars or condemn the empty-headed, sex-addicted narcissists who presumably leaked it themselves. The couple already had a reputation for carnal and pharmaceutical indulgence, but peeping on their love play offered an entirely new level of dirty, thrilling violation, as we leap-frogged PR flacks, centerfold photographers and even the paparazzi to land squarely in the most private of worlds.

And yet the tape was, without question, physically and illegally taken from Anderson and Lee's home. Recording themselves in the spring and summer of 1995, the couple truly didn't know anyone else was ever going to see this, so their video has none of the self-conscious posturing of reality TV and social media. You will never see a celebrity flash a smile in public that is as genuine as Tommy Lee's after he money-shots all over his wife's chest at her request.

This is not gonzo pornography - it's a 54-minute home video, depicting about eight minutes of the sex Americans are most likely to sanction: white, straight, married and in love.

"It's the greatest tape I have ever seen in my life," Howard Stern said in late 1997. "What's cool about it is that, like, you get to live their lives with them."

But what the Pamela Anderson-Tommy Lee sex tape taught us is that an unassuming individual could acquire a piece of content, offer it up to the Internet and watch it ricochet around the planet. How, exactly, this footage traveled from a locked safe to screens and store shelves worldwide warns of everything that was coming in the next two decades, everything that would shift in technology and culture and celebrity. Before Kim Kardashian, before TMZ, before RedTube, before the Fappening, there was Pam and Tommy.

The tape took two years to go from bootleg to viral, and when it did it made an estimated $77 million in less than 12 months - and that's just on legitimate sales. So how did the person who stole the safe manage to evade the police, the lawyers, the media and the biker gangs, but never see a cent? This is the story of a man who staked his livelihood on a video in the hopes that it would save him. Instead he watched his life fall apart as his greed destroyed nearly every shred of the happiness he'd carved out for his adult self.

Gauthier says he spent the entire summer of 1995 preparing for the heist, driving over to the Lees' house several nights a week to sit and stare, waiting outside until three or four in the morning. Plotting. Stewing. "I took my time," Gauthier recalls. "I cased the joint."

His plan was to throw a white Tibetan yak fur rug over his back and crawl to the garage on his hands and knees in the middle of the night, so the security cameras, which Gauthier himself had installed, would seem to show a dog like the one the couple had. Lee and Anderson lived in a three-story Spanish-style house, with a garage that had been converted into a recording studio on the bottom floor.

Unfamiliar trucks, vans and cars were often parked outside the house, so no one suspected anything. The property was adjacent to state-owned land where the paparazzi would lurk, and the couple sometimes saw boom mics hanging over the fence. At one point Lee was arrested for pointing a sawed-off shotgun at a camera he spied while he and Anderson were kissing in the garden.

Photos went for a high price, as the public was obsessed with the pair, who had married in February after a four-day, Ecstasy-enhanced courtship in Mexico. Lee's previous marriage to the actress Heather Locklear had ended in accusations of domestic violence, infidelity and drug and alcohol abuse. Anderson, with her leather dresses and her notorious double-D breast implants, seemed a better match for a guy who was known for mooning the audience. In April 1995, stolen Polaroids of the couple in bed made their way to the French and Dutch editions of Penthouse and an American skin mag called Screw. Anderson was upset, initially, but as she fatefully told Movieline later that year, "When I saw the first Polaroid, I was like, 'Whoa, baby, we should frame this' . . .In the end, who cares?"

Over the course of their multi-year renovations, the couple cycled through several rounds of contractors and workers they deemed untrustworthy, spending what was, by all accounts, an obscene amount of money building out a hedonist's paradise with heart-shaped glass and iron doors; a pillow room; a koi pond; a 20-foot mural of heaven and hell in the elevator shaft; and a 30-foot swing in the living room, hanging above the white baby grand piano.

"Basically, we made it into a huge adult playground," Lee wrote in his 2004 memoir, Tommyland.

"They were getting three-inch slabs of marble from France and Italy delivered," says Guerin Swing, an interior designer who partied frequently with the Lees that year and worked on some of the house's more artistic touches. (Swing also makes a cameo in the tape, running down a hotel hallway in a bucket hat.) "They spent money like they hated it."

Meanwhile, Gauthier was lying in wait. In early October, Anderson threw Lee a circus-themed party to celebrate his 33rd birthday at a ranch down the road, featuring carnival rides, tigers, sword-swallowers, a death-metal band from Sweden and $5,000 worth of drugs.

About five days before Halloween, Gauthier decided to make his move. The details of what exactly happened on the night of the burglary are sketchy at best, as Gauthier seems intent on painting himself as a strongman daredevil and obfuscating details that could point to potential accomplices. He acknowledges that one other person knew about his plan beforehand but insists he carried out the deed himself.

According to Gauthier, it was 3 a.m., and the Lees were at home, upstairs, asleep. He came in over the fence with the yak fur on his back and a U-Haul dolly trailing behind him. After disabling the security cameras, Gauthier claims to have gone upstairs and walked into the Lees' bedroom.

Next, entering the garage, he says he carefully moved all of the recording equipment in front of the carpeted wall concealing the safe, including what Lee later described as "a huge Neve recording console that weighs hundreds of pounds, as well as a few racks of outboard gear, each of them about six feet tall, awkward. . .and heavy." Then, he tipped the Browning safe, which was six feet by four feet by three feet, onto the dolly, strapped it down, put everything back as he had found it, and wheeled the dolly out onto the driveway, heading downhill toward the street. Suddenly, he says, the metal in the safe triggered the gate, startling Gauthier as the noise of the doors creaking open broke the silence of the pre-dawn hour.

"I almost dropped a load in my pants," he says.

To get the safe up onto the back of his truck once he got out to the road, he claims he "leaned the whole dolly and safe against the gate and I get in the dirt and I wedge my legs underneath it and I bench up 500 pounds with my legs. It was hard."

Friends of Gauthier's, however, say he told a different story back in 1995 and 1996. Lee himself wrote in his memoir that whoever robbed them "must have removed the safe with a crane." One source alleges Troy Tompkins, the general contractor who was held at gunpoint with Gauthier, helped plan the heist from the start and was waiting in a pick-up truck. Tompkins' wife at the time, a French woman named Dominique Sardell, had been doing work on Anderson's condo, and was fired along with Gauthier and her husband. Months later, when the Lees finally discovered the safe was missing, Tompkins and Sardell were the first people they suspected, as Tompkins had gushed over Lee's guns, and Sardell had advised Anderson to keep her jewelry in the safe, to protect it. (Neither Tompkins nor Sardell could be reached for comment.)

What happened once the safe left the home, however, is less ambiguous. Gauthier took it to a secure location and spent an hour cutting into the back with a borrowed demolition saw outfitted with a composite diamond carbide blade. Although he denies finding the AK-47, FNC assault rifle, .45-70 caliber rifle and Mossberg stainless steel shotgun mentioned in a later police report, he does acknowledge discovering everything else Pam and Tommy listed as missing, including family photographs, a Rolex, a gold-and-diamond Cartier watch, gold-and-emerald cufflinks, a ruby-and-diamond cross, the white bikini that Anderson wore to their beach wedding, and a Hi8 tape, the kind of cassette that could be inserted into a handheld camcorder.

Gauthier brought the tape back to the North Hollywood porn studio where he worked, and watched it with the studio owner.

"We put it in and see what it is, and of course, cha-ching. The dollar signs fly before our eyes," he says. "But we're going, this is the kind of thing people will get killed over."

In the mid-Nineties, the porn business was booming. Almost every home in America could afford a VCR, and decency laws in Los Angeles had relaxed enough to support a $5 billion dollar industry that churned out hundreds of features a year.

Gauthier first fell in with the San Fernando Valley crowd in the late 1980s, when he was set up on a blind date with porn star Erica Boyer (née Amanda Gantt), a southern girl who made great fried okra and whose father was at one point the Assistant Attorney General of Alabama. The two moved in together after only six weeks, and she convinced a few directors that her new boyfriend had done adult films before so Gauthier, who had stripped in college but had no experience doing porn, could join her on camera.

"Learning to climax on cue was not easy," he says. "They say, 'OK, let's get this over with. Everyone wants to go to lunch,' and of course then the pressure's on."

Over the course of the next decade, under the name Austin Moore, Gauthier performed in at least 75 porn videos, including Big Boob Bikini Bash (1995), Miracle on 69th Street (1992) and Willie Wankers and the Fun Factory (1994).

"I just wish my equipment had been a little larger for the industry," Gauthier says. "A lot of girls wanted me to do anal with them because it wasn't so large."

After a short marriage to Boyer, he dated actresses like Wendy Whoppers, whose massive 34H breasts he says he helped pay for, and Stacey Valentine, with whom he says he once had sex in the parking lot of a Jerry's Famous Deli, as dozens of friends cheered them on.

"I've had a real wild life," he says. "I believe in reincarnation, and this is kind of my vacation life. I have to come back and be really serious next time."

Gauthier grew up in Toluca Lake, across the street from Dick Van Dyke, with divorced parents and no access to pornography. When he was a boy, his mother became a Jehovah's Witness, forcing Gauthier to go door-to-door with her and inspiring his lifelong obsession with religions, secret societies and cults.

He is the kind of person who insists that early rabbis sodomized 12-year-old boys and believes in a mystical connection between the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet, bones in the human skull and years in the solar magnetic cycle (all are 22). On the back of one hand, he has a tattoo of a Freemason symbol; he claims the group once wanted to give him a machine gun and train him as a soldier.

Even though Gauthier now calls Jehovah's Witnesses "mentally deficient," he was happier living with his mother than being around his father, Dick Gautier. Gauthier says the actor was quick to lose his temper and only brought him and his two sisters over to show them off. Once, as kid, Gauthier forgot his dress shoes at his mother's house, and his father made him wear slippers to a fancy dinner.

"I remember he got one of those '10 Best-Dressed Men' awards back in the 1970s, so it was a little uncomfortable, because he looked dapper, and I looked like a schlemiel," he says. As an adult, he changed the spelling of his last name, presumably to get out from his father's shadow. "I don't think my dad really believed in me."

Working in porn gave him the confidence he'd always struggled to achieve growing up. Still, he had to smoke weed to "take my head out of the fact that there were a bunch of dudes watching me, which was kind of grode," and he preferred working off-camera whenever possible.

Porn was a small world back then, and early on Gauthier met Milton "Uncle Miltie" Ingley, an overweight, pipe-smoking cheapskate studio owner who was partial to country music and Chambord.

After Gauthier fixed a few pieces of recording equipment around Ingley's studio, the two became fast friends. The prolific fetish filmmaker Ernest Greene (né Ira Levine), who shot at the studio a handful of times, calls Gauthier "Milton's pet idiot," explaining that Ingley would blame messes he created on Gauthier because, as Greene says, "the guy basically had a lizard brain."

So when Gauthier came to Ingley with the Pam and Tommy tape, Ingley, who died in 2006, took over. First, after making a few copies, they destroyed the original Hi8 cassette, melting the casing and cutting the tape itself into hundreds of little pieces, which they dispersed in a desolate area near Six Flags Magic Mountain. Once they'd disposed of the evidence, the next step was to find a distributor.

"Milton was the king of wheeling and dealing," Gauthier recalls. "He knew how to make a nickel into two dollars. Always schmoozing."

One of the first people Ingley approached was actor and director Ron Jeremy, a friend since the late Seventies, when Ingley used to perform under the name Michael Morrison. Jeremy had recently put out a reality-style porno featuring John Wayne Bobbitt, whose penis was famously surgically reattached after his wife cut it off.

"I got a reality star you're gonna really shit your pants over," Ingley told him.

But Jeremy and his producing partner quickly figured out the tape had been stolen, and that Lee and Anderson hadn't signed a release.

"We passed," Jeremy recalls. "Porn was so strict and scary back in those days. If you're fucking, you better believe you gotta have a release."

Ingley approached a handful of other companies, but no one wanted to take on the risk. According to Gauthier, a wealthy foreigner offered them a million dollars for the tape, but Ingley felt it was worth many times that amount.

Finally he approached Louis "Butchie" Peraino, the son of a capo in one of New York's organized crime families, the Colombos. Back when pornography was illegal nearly everywhere in the United States, the Perainos were the Medicis of the adult world, having financed and distributed the classic 1972 film Deep Throat. By 1995, the younger Peraino ran an adult video business called Arrow Productions and was close friends with many of the biggest players in porn. But even Peraino didn't feel comfortable putting out the Pam and Tommy tape in any official capacity.

Instead, he lent Ingley roughly $50,000 to cover manufacturing and distribution of the tape over the Internet, with the expectation that he would receive interest on the loan and a cut of the sales.

At this point, only 25 million Americans and 40 million people globally had Internet access. Most websites were eyesores, and there was no such thing as streaming video. But the web, with its seemingly anonymous transactions, seemed like the perfect black market to get the tape to consumers.

Now, finally, Ingley and Gauthier thought, they would be rich.

"I was looking at castles in Spain," Gauthier says.

Ingley used about a quarter of the money Peraino had given him to run off thousands of copies and to hire someone to put up a few websites: pamsex.com, pamlee.com and pamsextape.com. The sites didn't have the video itself; they merely gave instructions to send a money order to the New York outpost of a Canadian T-shirt company, which then funneled the money to a bank account in Amsterdam. With VHS copies of Pamela's Hardcore Sex Video going for $59.95, Ingley expected to soon be flush. So with Gauthier managing shipments from Los Angeles, driving around in a white Dodge van knee-deep in video cassettes, Ingley headed to New York to enjoy the rest of Peraino's loan: $500 bottles of champagne, hookers every night, a room at the Plaza and lots of cocaine.

Another Ingley Studios lackey, Steve Fasanella (whose last name has been changed at his request) hadn't been working there very long when this all started; when he saw he wasn't going to be cut in on the action, he ran off his own copies. Soon he was selling them for $175 a pop out of the trunk of his car. (He says he sold nearly 500 copies this way, making about $75,000.) Fasanella advised Gauthier to do the same, to make some cash in case Ingley screwed him over, but Gauthier remained loyal.

By the end of December 1995, when the Sunday edition of London's Daily Mail did a year-in-review issue that covered Anderson and Lee's tabloid antics, the writer mentioned that a video of the two having sex on a yacht was supposedly on sale in Los Angeles.

Two months had passed since the heist. At this point, Anderson and Lee hadn't even noticed yet that the safe was missing.

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Pam & Tommy: The Story of the World's Most Infamous Sex Tape

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Porn, guns, the mob and one very disgruntled electrician: how the superstar couple's most intimate moments went global.

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IEG, Internet Entertainment Group, were selling the infamous Pam and Tommy sex tape on the internet. The stolen property brought into question rights to privacy, and Pamela and Tommy sue IEG for the rights to the video. Unfortunately, they decide to drop the case and sign their rights over, as Pamela fell pregnant and was concerned for the safety of her baby due to the stress of the deposition. The lawsuit was described as humiliating for Pamela, and her reputation was severely damaged.

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1996: Pamela and Tommy are being harassed by paparazzi. The situation escalated and one of the photographers attempts to pepper spray the couple. This damaged their reputations, they were seen as aggressive, and unhinged.

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Pamela Anderson Gets Pepper Sprayed After Attacking Paparazzi With Tommy Lee At The Viper Room

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Pamela Anderson guest starring in Scary Movie 3

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After the IEG scandal, Pamela became a caricature in Hollywood, overly sexualized, and suffered from being typecast as the 'bimbo' character. She wasn't taken seriously as an actress.

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1998: Tommy Lee faces 6 months in Jail for child and spousal abuse

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Tommy became increasingly jealous over Pamela, and one evening in February of 1998, the couple get into a fight, ending in a physical altercation where Tommy kicked Pamela multiple times in the back while she was holding their infant son. She calls 911 and Lee is arrested and charged with child and spousal abuse, spending 6 months in jail. Pamela divorces Lee, bifurcating the papers due to Lee's resistance to sign.

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Anderson joins forces with the non-profit organisation PETA, using her sexuality and image as a bimbo to create humorous activism. She is taking back control in her image, and using it for good.

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Anderson would trade signing autographs for signing petitions she believed in, such as the fight against changing the Queen's Guard's fur caps to fake fur. Her activism is inspiring and building a positive reputation in the media after years of being mistreated.

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Following PETA's unveiling of the world's first faux-bear fur hat, created by luxury faux furrier ECOPEL, actor Pamela Anderson sent a letter to Boris Johnson urging him to replace the bearskin caps worn by the Queen's Guard with the humane alternative.

Anderson pointed out that bears are baited and gunned down in her native Canada, and some are skinned and their fur is sold to make the ceremonial caps. She asked the prime minister - who as Mayor of London made the statement that synthetic fur caps should be used if they would "help save a few bears" - to instruct the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to make the switch to cruelty-free faux fur.

What Does Pamela Anderson's Letter Say Exactly?

In the letter, Anderson notes that it takes the fur of at least one bear to make a single cap, so the switch would save more than just "a few bears".

"[It's] outrageous that the caps worn by the Queen's Guard - a British icon - are still made from the fur of bears who are killed in my native Canada. This is especially senseless given that PETA and top luxury faux furrier ECOPEL have created the world's first faux bear fur that looks and feels exactly like the real deal - but doesn't harm a hair on a bear's head."
- Pamela Anderson

Faux Fur Is the Future

ECOPEL - which donated its time and expertise and built custom machinery to produce the animal-friendly material - has offered to provide the MoD with faux bear fur free of charge until 2030.

The faux-fur cap meets all of the MoD's requirements. The material matches the exact length of real bear fur and is easily rendered 100% waterproof. There really is no telling the two apart.

Better for Bears, Better for the Environment

The faux fur is more eco-friendly than real fur, which must be treated with toxic chemicals to prevent it from decomposing.

ECOPEL's replica fur is also made in closed-loop factories, which means all water and chemicals used in its production are recycled.

Our Taxes Fund Cruelty

Over the past seven years alone, the MoD has spent more than £1 million of taxpayers' money on 891 bearskin caps, which are ornamental and serve no military purpose.

Bears hunted for their fur are often shot but not killed immediately. Some bears are shot several times before they die, and some escape only to die slowly from blood loss or starvation.

The Time Is Now

About 20 years after the UK banned fur farming, and with a post-Brexit ban on the importation of fur anticipated, a tried-and-tested alternative to the Queen's Guard's bearskin caps is ready to be rolled out. "It would be unconscionable not to take [this solution] and to continue to allow innocent animals to be killed when a humane alternative exists," concludes Anderson.

Ask the MoD to Stop Using Caps Made From Slaughtered Bears

Join us in taking these two simple steps to help end the MoD's use of the fur of slaughtered bears for the Queen's Guard's caps:

STEP 1: Take to social media.

Please tweet at the prime minister and the MoD and comment on the MoD's Instagram and Facebook.
Struggling with writer's block? Try something like this:
Hey, @BorisJohnson and @DefenceHQ, PETA has provided the MoD with a faux bear fur that is indistinguishable from real fur. Please stop funding the senseless killing of bears and quick-march the new faux fur into service. #MoDGoFurFree

STEP 2: Send Prime Minister Boris Johnson an e-mail.

Use our action alert to send your e-mail now:

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Pamela Anderson Wants the Queen's Guard's Caps to Be Faux Fur

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It would be "unconscionable" for Boris Johnson to allow Canadian black bears to be killed for the Queen's Guard's caps now that a suitable faux fur exists, says Pamela Anderson.

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Anderson agreed to participate in specific media events in exchange for positive activism, for example, she attended a Comedy Central roast and in exchange, they made a large donation to PETA, and showed their ads during the breaks. This is a great example of her using her star image to create positive change and advocate for what she believed in.

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As a little girl, she sent PETA quarters. Today, she's a powerhouse for animal rights and PETA's honorary director.

She's also one of the most recognizable people in the world.

And wherever her work takes her, from the Vienna Opera House (where she protested fur) to Vladivostok (where she helped persuade Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, to free captive orcas), Pamela Anderson asks PETA what she can do there to advocate for animals.

The Animals' Lifeguard

When asked to host a large international music festival in Finland, Pamela made sure that as she landed, her letter to the country's president was released to the media, calling on him to stop 5 million foxes a year from being killed on Finnish fur farms. When Comedy Central asked if it could "roast" her, she agreed to an evening of jokes at her own expense on one condition: The station had to donate to PETA and air its ads during the special. It did.

When she left the Big Brother house in Australia, knowing that reporters were following, she raced to KFC to hold a demonstration. "I'm known for posing for PETA, but I'm really energized by public speaking," she remembers. "Everyone should learn how to use their voice for animals."

She launched her Alfred Hitchcock-inspired vegan ad on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to discuss the negative environmental consequences of the meat and dairy industries. And when she appeared on The View, she called out Colgate-Palmolive for its experiments on animals. The CEO's wife saw the segment and talked to her husband about it, and a week later, he was flying to PETA's headquarters to discuss ending animal tests by his company.

Pamela has always been keenly aware of reporters' preoccupation with everything she does and the platform that gives her. She said as much when she first reached out to PETA in 1997, not through a publicist or manager but in a sweet letter handwritten on lilac stationery.

Pamela and her famed vegetarian figure soon were gracing PETA's first-ever Times Square billboard, urging New Yorkers to "Give Fur the Cold Shoulder." She unveiled it on the Late Show With David Letterman and parlayed her Baywatch fame into a veritable media junket, flying all over the country to promote PETA's ad, even though she was six months pregnant at the time. We knew then that the soft-spoken Canadian with the lilac stationery was a force to be reckoned with.

For more than two decades, animals have been able to count on Pamela to help evacuate them during natural disasters, spend "an incredibly meaningful Thanksgiving" serving vegan meals to homeless people, or turn down modeling offers from companies that aren't cruelty-free. One of the most recent notches in her belt: Prada committed to no longer using fur in its collections after Pamela wrote to the design house on PETA's behalf. Since childhood, she's never stopped offering to do more.

Take Action Now
Like Pamela, seize every opportunity to help animals, from distributing leaflets and writing letters to cruel companies to organizing protests. Join PETA's Action Team at PETA.org/Action.
JOIN PETA'S ACTION TEAM

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PETA Prime: Pamela Anderson: PETA's Weapon of Mass Distraction

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From sending PETA quarters as a young girl to serving as one of our honorary directors, Pamela Anderson has been a force for animals for many years. PETA shares some of her monumental contributions to our work of helping animals.

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Anderson eventually founded her own foundation to further enhance her human, animal, and environmental rights activism. This shows Pamela's true passions and her desire to make change.

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The Pamela Anderson Foundation supports organizations and individuals that stand on the front lines in the protection of human, animal, and environmental rights.

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Controversial Support of Julian Assange 

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Controversial Support of Julian Assange 

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Her friendship with Julian Assange and her support of him during his WikiLeaks hacking scandal was considered controversial. She outwardly expressed support despite how it could effect her reputation

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Pamela Anderson, 55, defended her friendship with WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange and said he was a 'truth seeker' and considered him a 'journalist'

Assange faces 175 years in prison for spying charges in the US after he published classified documents involving the US military between 2010 and 2011

'I felt like my connection to Julian was the human one,' she said. 'We had a close connection and he even said that I was the only person he's ever trusted'

Pamela Anderson defended her friendship with WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange, calling him a 'truth seeker' and 'brave.'

The actress, 55, met Assange in 2014 through fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, who recently passed away at the age of 81.

In her bombshell memoir 'Love, Pamela,' which was released today, she admitted to having 'frisky nights' with Assange while he was holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy. She also would regularly visit him at the London embassy where Assange had sought political asylum to avoid extradition to the US.

Assange faces 175 years in prison for spying charges in the US after he published thousands of classified documents involving the US military between 2010 and 2011.

When asked by Interview Magazine if she thought of Assange as a reporter, she replied: 'I believe he's a journalist. So do the people that I'm close to - Srećko Horvat, [Slavoj] Žižek, Yanis Varoufakis, Noam Chomsky.'

'I felt like my connection to Julian was the human one,' she continued. 'We had a close connection and he even said that I was the only person he's ever trusted.

'I think it's been proven that he hasn't put anybody in harm's way. His job was to publish what came to him without any bias. His intention was to expose all that information so everyone could make a choice instead of just watching CNN or Fox News.'

In her earlier book, Raw, she included a poem with Assange's name in it - although the pair had not met at the time. She said she added his name in because he is a 'radical thinker, a truth seeker, and an authentic and brave person.'

'So his name just came up,' she told the magazine.

The Baywatch star is now focusing her activism on press freedom as she recalled 'getting a lot of attention for very superficial things' in her career.

'I was like: "What can I share to make this attention more meaningful?" That's where it started, my activism career,' she told the magazine. 'I was learning about animal experimentation, so I helped create animal welfare laws where there were none. I was speaking to world leaders all of a sudden. I was talking to people that most people couldn't get access to.

'Also, I had Hugh Hefner. He was a great proponent of free speech and freedom of the press and human rights. It just all morphed together.'

In August 2014, Westwood introduced the pair as Pamela sought advice from him about her nascent animal charity.

Speaking to the Mail On Sunday shortly after the meeting, the fashion designer explained the meeting of minds.

'I was supposed to take Pamela Anderson to see Julian in the embassy but she got the date wrong, so she went on her own the day after me.

'She told me afterwards that they got on very well.

'Julian was just brilliant... Pamela's trying to help people with her new trust and he gave her some ideas on how to do that.'

The pair became close friends which lead to speculation they might be in a romantic relationship.

However, in 2018 she dispelled rumors they were romantically involved.

The bombshell also recalled Assange's mother telling her to stop posting 'sexy pictures' to be 'taken more seriously as an activist.'

'And I thought: "What have we been fighting for?" Why can't we be sexy and smart?' she told Interview Magazine. 'Why can't I be a nun and a showgirl?'

The mother-of-two also spoke candidly about being judged for her sexy appearance in the carpool line at her children's school, saying: 'I really wanted to be a mother and I wanted to be there for them. Getting the kids out to school, I'd catch my reflection and go: "Oh my god, I've got glitter and mascara down my cheeks and people are judging me." But I'm judging their cars with peanut butter sandwiches stuck on the floor. We were all a mess.'

Now, the Canadian has recluse herself to her native country and has ditched the make-up and glam for a 'little ranch with my dogs.'

'I don't wear makeup. I just wake up and throw on a slip and my rain boots and walk through the field and get into the ocean. I feel like I've just gone right back to the little girl that lived here before,' she said.

'Sometimes I say I have regrets and sometimes I don't. I'm just happy my kids turned out great and, like I said, I'm not looking for respect or to be taken seriously. I just hope to inspire people that have gone through traumatic times to try to make lemonade out of lemons. That's a great expression.'

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Pamela Anderson defends unlikely friendship with Julian Assange

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Pamela Anderson, 55, defended her friendship with WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange and said he was a 'truth seeker' and considered him a 'journalist.'

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Pamela states in her Netflix Documentary Pamela, A Love Story, that her lack of a traditional relationship and multiple short-lived marriages are a place of guilt for her. In many interviews, she is poked fun at for her love life, and has a reputation because of it.

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Anderson and Lee first eloped in Cancun, Mexico, in February 1995. They famously tied the knot after knowing each other for only 96 hours. The couple welcomed their first son, Brandon, in June 1996, followed by their second son, Dylan, in December 1997.

Their relationship faltered in 1998 when the Mötley Crüe drummer assaulted the "Baywatch" actor. He was arrested and sentenced to six months in jail for spousal battery. Anderson filed for divorce that year.

Over a decade later, they gave their relationship a second shot. "Pamela and the kids have moved in with me," Lee told "Rolling Stone" of their rekindling. "It's awesome, man. It's definitely working. You can tell on the kids' faces - they're happy when we're together." They eventually split again in 2010.

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Everyone Pamela Anderson Has Married, From Tommy Lee to Dan Hayhurst

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Pamela Anderson has been married in several high-profile relationships, from Tommy Lee in 1995 to Dan Hayhurst in 2020. See her full wedding history here.

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Disney create a series about Pam and Tommy's infamous sex tape, and how it impacted the digital world. It features a storyline of the man who stole the tape. Lee approved the show, while Anderson strongly disapproved, as she felt the show was exploitative, and possible victimised the man who stole the tapes. The show reignited attention surrounding the tape, with many sympathising with Pamela, and how badly she was mistreated.

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Pamela Anderson as Roxie in Broadway's Chicago

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After a long acting hiatus, Pamela books Chicago on Broadway for 8 weeks at age 54. She is very well received in the role, and enjoyed the revival of her career.

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Anderson teamed with Netflix, creating a tell-all documentary of her life and career, produced by her son. She states in the documentary that she doesn't see herself as a victim, but more a survivor of crazy situations that she ends up in.

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At the beginning of this year, Anderson released her memoir, recounting stories of her life, and the abuse she suffered in Hollywood. She recounts her facts with no ill-will towards anyone, simply stating things in a factual way. Audiences can see the raw and honest Pamela.

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After the death of her makeup artist Alexis Vogel in 2019, Anderson stated that her perspective on beauty had changed, and she no longer feels like wearing makeup. This look is refreshing in today's age of beauty standards and is admirable to young fans, and such a change from her early career.

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She's a bare-faced bombshell.

Pamela Anderson, 56, sported a stunning, makeup-free look Thursday at the Isabel Marant Spring/Summer 2024 womenswear fashion collection presentation as part of Paris fashion week.

Anderson wore her long, blond hair loose, letting it cascade over her shoulders, as her natural, blemish-free skin shined.

She flashed a smile at the cameras while showing off her fresh look, which also featured thinner, early-aughts style eyebrows.

The "Baywatch" star wore a modest cut, sleeveless, and textured bright yellow midi dress.

The chic garment featured draping on the shoulders and at the midsection.

The Post reached out to Anderson's rep for comment.

At Paris fashion week, which runs through Tuesday, the Canadian-born model opted for low-key looks, including minimal makeup.

Anderson donned conservative makeup Wednesday at the Row's spring 2024 show, pairing the look with a dark-colored, pinstriped matching suit set.

Anderson's lips were tinted pink, and she sported a peachy blush on her cheeks.

She brought a pop of color and fun with her nails, which were varnished in a bright, cherry red.

Anderson isn't the only star wearing notable looks at Paris fashion week.

Kylie Jenner, 26, hit Schiaparelli's show Thursday in a shimmering, beaded keyhole gown, which featured a plunging V-neck line and perfectly hugged her curves.

"The Kardashians" star wore her hair in waves and accessorized her stunning look with a pair of gorgeous gold statement earrings and nude pumps.

Kim Cattrall, 67, also showed off her signature sexiness while attending the Balmain presentation Wednesday.

The "Sex and the City" actress was suited up in a glossy black croc-embossed skirt suit, complete with large gold buttons and a revealing neckline.

And at the Saint Laurent show Tuesday, Demi Moore, 60, turned heads when she accidentally flashed a nipple while fixing her hair.

She made waves in a sheer, black off-the-shoulder dress with long sleeves.

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Pamela Anderson stuns while makeup-free at Paris fashion week

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Pamela Anderson, 56, sported a stunning, makeup-free look Thursday at the Isabel Marant Spring/Summer 2024 womenswear fashion collection presentation as part of Paris fashion week.

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"Acts as a concise introduction to the study of both contemporary and historical stardom and celebrity. Collecting together in one source companion an easily accessible range of readings surrounding stardom and celebrity culture, this book is a worthwhile addition to any library." - Kerry Gough, Birmingham City University "Absolutely wonderful.

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An engaging introduction to the key terms, concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of celebrity, exploring the impacts of celebrity culture on the modern media and examining the influence that celebrity has on the way people place themselves in the modern world.

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An engaging introduction to the key terms, concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of celebrity, exploring the impacts of celebrity culture on the modern media and examining the influence that celebrity has on the way people place themselves in the modern world.

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In the past stars have been studied as cogs in a mass entertainment industry selling desires and ideologies. But since the 1970s, new approaches have reopened debate, as film and cultural studies try to account for the active role of the star in producing meanings, pleasures, and identites for a diversity of audiences. Stardom brings together for the first time some of the major writing of the last decade which seeks to understand the phemomenon of stars and stardom. Gathered under four headings - The System, Stars and Society, Performers and Signs, Desire and Politics - these essays represent a range of approaches drawn from film history, sociolgy, textual analysis, audience research, psychoanalysis, and cultural politics. They raise important issues about the politics of representation and the cultural limitations and possibilities of stars.

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In the past stars have been studied as cogs in a mass entertainment industry selling desires and ideologies. But since the 1970s, new approaches have reopened debate, as film and cultural studies try to account for the active role of the star in producing meanings, pleasures, and identites for a diversity of audiences.

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An outstanding achievement... Graeme Turner writes with power and persuasion, and brilliantly explores what it is about celebrity today that should concern us all
- Sean Redmond, Deakin University

A key touchstone for celebrity studies. Turner thoughtfully illuminates the variety of production and consumption practices through which celebrity circulates today, whilst remaining sensitive to the complexity of power relations in play. An essential read for students and scholars in the field
- Sue Holmes, University of East Anglia

Cements Turner s status as the most important figure in celebrity studies... Turner s gaze fixes on developments in digital, social and global mediascapes, drawing media and celebrity studies into complex critical, political and cultural debates in his indomitable style"
- James Bennett, Royal Holloway, University of London

An extraordinary synthesis of research and theory... Understanding Celebrity remains the go-to text of celebrity studies"
- Joshua Gamsom, University of San Francisco

Where does the production of celebrity end and its consumption begin?

Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and reality TV allow us a previously unimagined engagement with the manufactured 'persona' of celebrity. Understanding Celebrity has become the go-to text for understanding the connection between the production and consumption of this 'persona'. The long-awaited second edition assesses the changing nature of this pivotal relationship in celebrity studies.

The book:

Explains how social media is key in establishing an online presence for celebrities Critically analyses the changing nature of fan culture within the online environment Delves into a richer and more detailed account of the history of celebrity Examines in greater depth the increased role of reality TV Incorporates recent contributions from feminist scholars to the field

Enriched with new examples drawn from popular culture, this is a contemporary and incisive look at celebrity studies.

Understanding Celebrity is not only an essential text, but a stimulating read for students studying celebrity and popular culture across media studies, cultural studies and sociology.

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An outstanding achievement... Graeme Turner writes with power and persuasion, and brilliantly explores what it is about celebrity today that should concern us all - Sean Redmond, Deakin University A key touchstone for celebrity studies. Turner thoughtfully illuminates the variety of production and consumption practices through which celebrity circulates today, whilst remaining sensitive to the complexity of power relations in play.