Tommy Lee Net Worth Estimate:
Tommy Lee net worth is currently estimated as being approximately $70 million dollars USD. The majority of Tommy Lee net worth has come from his successful long time career as a prominent figure in the heavy metal music industry.
Who is Tommy Lee?
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Tommy Lee is the stage name of Thomas Lee Bass, a musician who is best known for being the drummer and a founding member of Mötley Crüe, the famous heavy metal band, as well as for the notorious sex tape of him and his ex wife, Baywatch’s Pamela Anderson, which became the subject of a TV series recently.
In addition to Mötley Crüe, Tommy Lee also has a number of solo projects, in addition to found Methods of Mayhem, a band that blends heavy metal and rap.
Tommy Lee’s Career
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Suite 19, Tommy Lee’s band, was one of the most popular in Los Angeles, California in the late 70s, alongside others like Quiet Riot and Van Halen. Around that time, Tommy Lee became friends with a bassist named Nikki Sixx, who had the band Sister and then London.
Around that time, Tommy Lee dropped his last name and started going by Tommy Lee. He also earned T-bone as a nickname due to his tall height and lean frame.
In 1981, when Nikki Sixx’s band finally broke up, the two of them joined to make a new group with Mick Mars on guitar. As a frontman, they asked Vince Neil, who Tommy Lee knew in high school. Thus Mötley Crüe came into existence.
It wasn’t long before Mötley Crüe began building a devoted core group of fans. They put out their first album, which was called Too Fast For Love, via their own label, Leathür Records, in 1981. It was so successful that it caught the eye of execs at Elektra Records, who signed them on and rereleased the album in 1982.
Over the course of the 80s, Mötley Crüe became one of the biggest heavy metal hard rock bands in the world, thanks to that and their successive albums: Shout at the Devil, Theatre of Pain, Girls Girls Girls, and Dr Feelgood.
Tommy Lee became famous for a number of special tricks he did at concerts while doing his drum solos. One of the most famous was to have the full drum kit spinning and revolving as he was playing it, or having it seem to magically float over the crowd as he kept playing.
Tommy Lee also became notorious for flashing his bare bum to the crowd at practically every show they played. Meanwhile, the band became infamous for their hard partying behavior, including taking lots of drugs such as alcohol, pills, heroin, and cocaine.
Years later, Mötley Crüe reunited in 2004 for a double disc album called Red, White & Crüe and a tour called The Red, White & Crüe Tour 2005: Better Live Than Dead. The album went 4x platinum, and the tour was hugely successful, playing eighty one shows and grossing thirty three million dollars.
Aside from Motley Crüe, Tommy Lee also had a variety of other musical projects. Tommy Lee formed a rap metal band under the name Methods of Mayhem in 1999, which put out an eponymous album and a tour.
Despite leaving Motley Crüe, however, Tommy Lee did collaborate on The Dirt, their autobiography that later became a film.
Tommy Lee has also appeared on many other musical artists’ albums, including Rob Zombie, Nine Inch Nails, and Stuart Hamm. Tommy Lee wrote and recorded a song called “Planet Boom” to the soundtrack of his wife at the time Pamela Anderson’s film Barb Wire in 1996.
Tommy Lee also produced Simon Williams and John Feldmann’s Electric Love Hogs album, and additionally recorded with various Incubus members.
Tommy Lee’s solo debut album, Never a Dull Moment, came out in 2002, and blended electronica and rap with heavy metal. That August, he played the mainstage of Ozzfest. Then in 2006, he, Jason Newsted, and Gilby Clarke joined forces for a new band called Rock Star Supernova with lead singer Lukas Rossi.
In 2005, Tommy Lee wrote an autobiography called Tommyland, along with an accompanying album called Tommyland: The Ride, featuring “Tryin’ to Be Me”, “Hello, Again”, and “Good Times”, the theme song to Tommy Lee Goes to College, his reality TV show. Tommy Lee also did drumming for the band Jack’s Mannequin.
In 2007, Tommy Lee parted ways with Mötley Crüe yet again when the other band members sued Carl Stubner, Tommy Lee’s manager, for forcing him to do the reality shows, which forced Mötley Crüe to have to cancel many stops on their lucrative reunion tour.
Eventually, however, Tommy Lee did rejoin the band for another album, which was called Saints of Los Angeles, and an accompanying tour.
Tommy Lee also joined forces with his Methods of Mayhem partner DJ Aero to DJ as Electro Mayhem. Throughout 2007, the tone played more than sixty DJ gigs throughout the United States, Canada, Central America, and the Bahamas.
Tommy Lee also toured as a DJ in 2009 along with Sharam, who was part of the group Deep Dish.
Tommy Lee joined with Smashing Pumpkins in 2014 for album Monuments to an Elegy, and also that year reunited with Mötley Crüe for their farewell tour.
As far as his reality show, it began in 2004, and as previously mentioned, was called Tommy Lee Goes to College. His next reality show was called Battleground Earth and aired on Planet Green, the Discovery Channel’s eco offshoot channel, in 2008.
In 2019, Tommy Lee acted in an episode of the FOX sitcom The Goldbergs, played a role called Professor Lee. He voice acted in the role of the Devil in a podcast called Halloween in Hell, in the year 2020.
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Tommy Lee: Early Life
Tommy Lee was born in Athens, Greece on the third of October in the year 1962 under the full name Thomas Lee Bass. Tommy Lee’s dad was David Lee Thomas Bass, a United States Army sergeant stationed there. His mom was Vassiliki “Voula” Papadimitriou, who had competed in the Miss Greece pageant in 1957.
Tommy Lee grew up with them and later a younger sister called Athena, who similarly grew up to be a drummer as well. When Tommy Lee was 2, his family returned to the States, ending up in the state of California.
When Tommy Lee was only 4 years old, he was given his first set of drum sticks as a gift. When Tommy Lee was a teen, he finally got his first full drum kit.
Tommy Lee became so obsessed with music that he didn’t even complete high school, dropping out to pursue his music career, beginning with joined Suite 19, a Los Angeles club band.
Tommy Lee’s main musical influences at the time were Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Sweet, AC/DC, Kiss, and Cheap Trick. The drummers that Tommy Lee most looked up to and tried to emulate were John Bonham, Terry Bozzio, Alex Van Halen, and Tommy Aldridge.
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Tommy Lee’s Personal Life and Family
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Tommy Lee has had 4 wives. The first was Elaine Starchuck. The second was the famous actress Heather Locklear, who he married in 1986 and divorced 7 years later in 1993. It was later covered in The Dirt, a Netflix film on Mötley Crüe.
The third was Pamela Anderson, a former Playboy Playmate, model, and actress, who Tommy Lee married 4 days after meeting in early 1995. They only stayed together for 3 years, but in that time had two sons together: Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee.
They briefly got back together but, in 2001, broke up again. They similarly reunited in 2008 but again only briefly.
Tommy Lee was engaged to Prince’s ex wife Mayte Garcia between 2002 and 2003. Tommy Lee was engaged to Sofia Toufa between 2014 and 2017. In 2019, Tommy Lee married his then girlfriend Brittany Furlan, and they’re still together as of this date.
Tommy Lee and his ex wife Pamela Anderson are most notorious for their famous sex tape which was stolen from them and leaked to the internet in 1995 by Rand Gauthier, a former porn star who had been working on their house, according to Tommy Lee’s claims.
Pamela Anderson sued Internet Entertainment Group, the company that had distributed it, and the result was a confidential settlement that resulted in IEG only providing the tape to paid subscribers.
The story of the tape and the battles around it became a TV series for Hulu in 2022 called Pam & Tommy starring Sebastian Stan and Lily James as Tommy Lee and Pam, respectively.
In 1997, Tommy Lee was arrested for allegedly instigating a riot at a Greensboro Coliseum concert that involved racial comments directed at an African American security guard.
In 1998, Tommy Lee got a six month jail sentence as a result of physically abusing Pamela. That same year, he was sued for exposing a swastika arm tattoo during a trial against him for having allegedly battered a Jewish photographer in 1996.
In 2000, he served 5 days for drinking alcohol, which constituted a probation violation.
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Tommy Lee’s Social Media Influence
Tommy Lee has a large social media presence, with accounts on most of the major platforms. Through these avenues, Tommy Lee manages to connect with his fans and stay a presence in their lives, which in turn helps Tommy Lee net worth as well.
Tommy Lee has an official public verified Facebook account. Tommy Lee’s official public verified Facebook account handle is @tommyleetv. On this popular social media platform, Tommy Lee has 1.2 million followers.
Tommy Lee uses his official public verified Facebook account to post career updates, photos of himself and his loved ones, links to merchandise, and so on and so forth. This way, Tommy Lee helps connect with his fans, which in turn helps boost Tommy Lee net worth.
Tommy Lee has an official public verified Twitter account. Tommy Lee’s official public verified Twitter account handle from which he tweets is @MrTommyLand.
On this popular social media platform, Tommy Lee has over six hundred and seventy three thousand followers as of the present time. Tommy Lee is himself following five hundred and fifty five people in return currently.
Tommy Lee uses his official public verified Twitter account to post his thoughts and observations, career updates, links to merchandise, and so on and so forth. This way, Tommy Lee connects with his fans. This in turn helps Tommy Lee net worth continue to grow.
Tommy Lee has an official public verified Instagram account. Tommy Lee’s official public verified Instagram account handle is simply @tommylee, all lower case letters.
On this popular social media platform, Tommy Lee has nearly one and a half million followers as of the present time. Tommy Lee is himself currently following six hundred and forty three people in return.
Tommy Lee uses his official public verified Instagram account to post photos of himself, career updates, links to merchandise, and so on and so forth. This way, Tommy Lee connects with his fans. This in turn helps Tommy Lee net worth continue to grow.
Tommy Lee does not have an official public verified LinkedIn business account. Should the situation ever change and Tommy Lee decide to sign up for one in the future, we will be sure to update this page with that information.
Our goal is to keep our readers informed of all of the latest news about Tommy Lee net worth, life, and career.
TikTok
Tommy Lee has an official public verified TikTok account. Tommy Lee’s official public verified TikTok account handle is simply @tommylee, all lower case letters, as with Instagram.
On this popular social media platform, Tommy Lee has one million followers and nearly eleven million likes as of the present time. Tommy Lee is himself currently following seventy five people in return.
Tommy Lee uses his official public verified Instagram account to post fun videos in order to connect with his fans. This in turn helps Tommy Lee net worth continue to build.
Tommy Lee’s Net Worth & Bio Summary
| Name | Tommy Lee |
| Real Name | Thomas Lee Bass |
| Age | 60 |
| Place of Birth | Athens, Greece |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Net Worth Estimate | $70 Million |