How A Disgruntled Contractor Made Pamela Anderson And Tommy Lee Infamous

Lee had begun a huge home renovation on his Malibu property when he'd left for Mexico. When he returned, he announced to the contractors that the plans had changed and the place now needed to be transformed from its bachelor pad beginnings (according to "Pam & Tommy").

But as it unfolded in "Pam & Tommy," things didn't get much easier, as Lee continued to request constant changes. This caused great unhappiness among the contractors, who had allegedly not received payment for their work as it had been promised and were, at the time, already owed over $20,000. After a confrontation where Lee fired him without paying him, electrician Rand Gauthier returned to the home to retrieve his tools and was confronted by Lee with a shotgun (via ScreenRant and The Sun). 

That's when Gauthier — who'd installed the home's security system and knew how to disarm it, according to "Pam & Tommy" — decided to get even by stealing the safe he'd seen in the garage. He knew Lee kept jewelry and guns there and hoped those would make up for what he was owed. What he didn't know was that the couple's intimate camcorder tape was also there. `

This would start a you-can't-make-this-up odyssey where Gauthier ended up mixed with the mob and one of the biggest celebrity scandals ever. Not to mention that Gauthier, according to the Ultimate Classic Rock, was a former porn actor with all the "right" connections (per The Sun).

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qL7Up56eZpOkunCDlG1ua2tfnby4ecBmm6Krl6fCr8DLnptmm5%2BjwbOtwq2mq2WdlrGmec%2BapJ6kkWKur7DEq6qopl2Wu6V506ikprFdobKmecinnZqln6rAcA%3D%3D