Did Pam & Tommy Win The Penthouse Lawsuit?
Warning! This post contains spoilers for episode 5 of Pam & Tommy.
In the Hulu series Pam & Tommy episode 5, the Lees decide to sue Penthouse, and here's who won in real life. The series follows the real-life story of the release of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape, which was stolen and sold online by their jilted former electrician Rand Gauthier. It stars Lily James and Sebastian Stan as Anderson and Lee, and Seth Rogen as Gauthier, in a series that tries to take a more empathetic look at its subjects, who were often tabloid fodder at the time. Pam & Tommy itself has become the subject of controversy following Pamela Anderson's vocal objection to the retelling of what she considers to be one of the biggest traumas of her life. However, the series does try to highlight how much the media and the law failed to protect Anderson.
Leading up to the Penthouse lawsuit in the series, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee and Baywatch star Pamela Anderson discover that the tape has been stolen from their home and make efforts to recover it. They find that the tape is being sold online, but Lee insists that they will be able to find and get back every copy. When they learn that Bob Guccione, the founder of Penthouse, has a copy of the tape, Lee and his team of lawyers decide that the best course of action is to sue. Anderson, however, worries that a lawsuit will not only draw media attention to the tape but prompt Guccione, who is a big proponent of free speech, to retaliate by printing pictures anyway.
Related: Pam & Tommy: Did Rand Get Caught & Go To Jail For Stealing The Tape?
Turns out that Pamela Anderson was right to think that Penthouse's Bob Guccione would not back down. In the actual lawsuit, the Lees sued not only
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