Tommy Lee sued for allegedly sexually assaulting lady in helicopter
Tommy Lee is being sued for the alleged sexual assault of a girl in a helicopter.
A lady recognized solely as Jane Doe claims within the swimsuit that the Mötley Crüe drummer assaulted her in 2003, having lured her to his private helicopter “below false pretences”. She went on a 40-minute journey from San Diego to Van Nuys with Lee’s private helicopter pilot earlier than Lee joined them once they landed.
She goes on to allege that the 2 males “consumed a number of alcoholic drinks, smoked marijuana, and snorted cocaine” earlier than Lee “then proceeded to sexually assault [her] by forcibly groping, kissing, penetrating her along with his fingers, and making an attempt to drive her to carry out oral copulation.”
Because of the alleged assault, Doe says she has suffered extreme emotional, bodily, and psychological misery.
The girl claims she befriended Lee’s pilot, David Martz, whereas working in a financial institution in San Diego and he later provided her a visit within the helicopter. After she accepted, nonetheless, he unexpectedly modified his plan and flew to Van Nuys. After they landed, Lee approached the helicopter.
She provides that minutes after takeoff, she claimed the lads started consuming and doing medicine, after which Lee requested her to take a seat on his lap to get a greater view from the cockpit and he or she “acquiesced”.
Following this, the girl alleges that Lee started “groping and kissing” her as she tried pulling away. He then supposedly grew to become “forceful” and tried to drive her head in direction of his genitals. She was had minimal mobility and identified she was unable to go away the cockpit.
The sufferer claims to be struggling “shock, misery, humiliation, disgrace, and guilt” with “everlasting” emotional misery and ache.
“These emotions, coupled with the celebrity of Lee and the local weather of the music trade on the time (through which rock-n-roll star like Lee thrived and gained even additional movie star from salacious and hedonistic conduct) led her to consider that nothing would come from reporting Lee and Martz’s conduct to native police authorities,” the lawsuit reads.
The girl suggests she will not be the one alleged sufferer and believes Lee and Martz used the guise of a tour to “lure different ladies” right into a state of affairs the place they may commit sexual assault. Martz was killed in a airplane crash in August 2015.
She is searching for an unspecified quantity in damages.
NME has reached out to the band’s representatives for remark.
In the meantime, Lee shared his shock after paying £132 for 4 packs of cigarettes in Australia whereas on tour with Mötley Crüe.