Based on a true story, Pam & Tommy presents the relationship of the actress Pamela Anderson (Lily James) and the drummer Tommy Lee (Sebastian Stan), one of the most successful couples in the 90s, and narrates the leak of the couple's intimate video that went viral at the time, showing how it affected the couple's relationship.
Discover this exotic story that generated the plot of the series.
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
Pamela was considered a TV show muse and Tommy was a rocker who crisscrossed the country with a riot band. The two became one of the most classic couples of the 1990s in the United States and starred in a relationship of slaps and public kisses, intensely covered by the gossip press. The actress and the drummer met in 1994 during a New Year's Eve event and got married soon after.
Married, Pamela and Tommy decided to do a major renovation in the musician's mansion and that's where it all started. One of the construction workers, electrician Rand Gauthier, was denied payment by Tommy, who claimed that Gauthier had done the wrong job. Tired of the couple's orders and abuse of authority, the electrician withdrew his payment of US$ 20,000 and quit the job.
In an interview with Rolling Stone in the United States, Gauthier said that when he returned to the mansion to get his tools, he was stopped by Tommy, who ordered him to leave “his property”. With that, the electrician started a plan to not only fetch the tools, but also steal the couple's safe.
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THE THEFT
For months, Gauthier studied the structure of the place, figured out how to disable the cameras and managed to break into the property without being noticed in October 1995. Upon opening the safe, he found several of the couple's belongings, including an unmarked VHS tape. Arriving home, he played the tape and realized that he had in his hands the video that would shake Hollywood.
THE TAPE
On the tape, the couple enjoyed their honeymoon by sharing intimate moments. Gauthier then tried to sell the content to an erotic film company and several other distributors, but they refused for fear of being sued. With that, the electrician decided to turn to a tool that had recently become popular in the US: the internet. He made thousands of copies on VHS, destroyed the original tape to free the evidence, and anonymously began marketing it on a website.
Pamela and Tommy only realized the safe theft in January 1996 and made a police report specifying the items stolen, including the tape - which confirmed the veracity of the video that was circulating on the internet and started true chaos in the press and in life. of the couple.
CONSEQUENCES
Pam and Tommy tried in various ways to stop the dissemination of the copies, suing several institutions and people who had the work, but without success. The video continued to circulate on the internet. Gauthier, in turn, profited little from the tape, as it was online content available for everyone to access, pirate and share. With that, he took the opportunity to exempt himself from authorship, avoiding lawsuits.
After the tape leaked, Pam & Tommy continued together and in 1996 had Brandon, the couple's first child. At the end of the same year, Pamela filed for divorce, but the couple stayed together and in 1997 Pamela gave birth to her second child, Dylan. Already in 1998, Pam and Tommy officially separate.
Pam & Tommy is available on Star +.
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