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ALISON BOSHOFF: Pamela Anderson reveals the theft of her sex tape brought back the pain of being raped aged 12 - as she attacks high-profile drama series Pam & Tommy for 'retraumatising' hePamela Anderson says that the theft of her sex tape recalled the powerlessness and trauma she experienced after being raped aged 12 – and attacks the high-profile drama series, Pam & Tommy, for 'retraumatising' her.
She said of the Emmy and Golden Globe nominated show: 'It gives me nightmares. I didn't sleep last night.'
And the model and actress, 55, added: 'I have no desire to watch it. Never gonna watch it. I never watched the tape, not gonna watch this. Who knows how they're gonna portray it. Nobody really knows what we were going through at that time. They should have had to have my permission.
(Pamela Anderson says the theft of her sex tape triggered memories of feeling powerless after being raped aged 12 – and attacks the drama series, Pam & Tommy, for 'retraumatising' her)
'I texted Tommy the other day and said: 'How do you feel about everything?' and he goes: 'Pamela, just don't let it hurt you as much as it did the first time.'
She went on: 'I blocked that out of my life in order to survive, it was a survival mechanism really, and now that it's all coming up again I feel sick from my whole stomach. My stomach right now feels like it has been punched.
'This feels like when the tape was stolen. Basically you are just a thing owned by the world.'
While on honeymoon in Mexico, the couple shot a 54-minute home video on a Hi8 videotape, mostly just 'goofing about'. It included about eight minutes of sex.
(Pamela and Tommy became the centre of the first celebrity sex tape scandal in the 1990s)
According to a police report filed by the couple in 1995, the tape was in a safe in their home alongside guns - an AK-47, FNC assault rifle, .45-70 caliber rifle and Mossberg stainless steel shotgun plus a Rolex, a gold-and-diamond Cartier watch and the white bikini that Anderson wore to their wedding.
The entire safe was stolen in October 1995 by electrician Rand Gauthier, who had been sacked by the couple and believed that they owed him money.
He was played by comedian Seth Rogen in the film.
Gauthier says he wheeled their 6ft x 3ft x 4ft safe out of their garage strapped to a trolley in the dead of night after bypassing their security system.
He had no idea of its contents until he opened it up, and later recalled thinking: 'We put it in (the video machine) and see what it is, and of course, cha-ching! The dollar signs fly before our eyes. But we're going, this is the kind of thing people will get killed over.'
(Anderson said of the Emmy and Golden Globe nominated show: 'It gives me nightmares. I didn't sleep last night.' Pictured: Lily James and Sebastian Stan in Pam & Tommy)
In March 1996, aware that copies of the VHS were circulating, the couple filed a $10 million civil lawsuit against everyone they thought might have a copy, including Penthouse magazine. Meanwhile the tape was being sold on websites and also broadcast online by internet wunderkind Seth Warshavsky. In November 1997, the couple signed the copyright over to him, after which point Warshavsky's Club Love sold access to the tape. Club Love then struck a deal to make VHS copies of it.
(Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee filed a $10million lawsuit against everyone they thought might have a copy of the sex tape)
(The 55-year-old model said she felt 'completely humiliated' following the leak)
She adds that it brought back feelings of shame and powerlessness which she had experienced when she was raped.
She tells the documentary that when she was 12 she went to a condo owned by a guy who her friend had a crush on. The friend went upstairs with the owner and she was left downstairs with his friend, who was 25. They played Backgammon, and then he told her that she looked as if she needed a massage, and raped her. She told nobody.
She said: 'It was such a really happy time in my life but I didn't realise that everything was about to change'
Pamela, A Love Story, is on Netflix from January 31st.
Pamela Anderson’s Custom Malibu Beach House Sells for Nearly $12 Million
(Pamela Anderson has sold her Malibu home. COMPOSITE: JOEL DANTO)
(It changed hands for $11.8 million. JOEL DANTO FROM THE LUXURY LEVEL)
(The home has an open living area. JOEL DANTO FROM THE LUXURY LEVEL)
(And its design utilizes natural material. JOEL DANTO FROM THE LUXURY LEVEL)
(There are three bedrooms in the main house. JOEL DANTO FROM THE LUXURY LEVEL)
(And there's also a one-bedroom guest house. JOEL DANTO FROM THE LUXURY LEVEL)
(Outside, there's a vegetable garden. JOEL DANTO FROM THE LUXURY LEVEL)
Actress, model and animal rights activist Pamela Anderson has just scooped up close to $12 million on the sale of her contemporary waterfront home in California’s upmarket Malibu.
Set within the super exclusive Malibu Colony—a celebrity-laden enclave with 24-hour guard-gated security—the home changed hands Tuesday for a hair over $11.8 million, listing records show. The property had been on the market with a $14.9 million asking price since spring.
Ms. Anderson, 54, bought the site and its then-home for $1.8 million in 2000. She spent $8 million and put in a decade of work to transform the spread into its current incarnation, Ms. Anderson told The Wall Street Journal when the home listed in March.
/Fitted with walls of glass, the three-bedroom main home has an open living and kitchen area with a slab island and custom cabinetry. A central, floating staircase leads up to the main bedroom suite, which has a fireplace, a sauna and a private balcony with panoramic views.
(Joel Danto from The Luxury Level)
Outside, the home’s platinum-tiled pool is joined by a bar area, outdoor entertaining spaces, plus a vegetable garden and a gated pathway to the lagoon. A one-bedroom guest house is also on the property.
Ref: Pamela Anderson reveals the theft of her sex tape brought back the pain of being raped aged 12 - as she attacks high-profile drama series Pam & Tommy for 'retraumatising' her (dailymail, mansionglobal)
