Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe Accused of Sexually Assaulting a Woman in a Helicopter

A lawsuit was filed against Tommy Lee alleging that he sexually assaulted a woman in a helicopter in 2003.

In a civil lawsuit obtained by PEOPLE, the Mötley Crüe drummer, 61, is accused of sexually assaulting a woman (who came forward anonymously as Jane Doe) around February 2003 during a helicopter ride from San Diego to Van Nuys, California, who she claims was “lured under false pretenses by Tommy Lee’s personal helicopter pilot, David Martz” to take.

The plaintiff is now seeking damages for sexual assault, gender-based violence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence, and is demanding a jury trial, according to the lawsuit filed Dec. 15.

Lee’s representatives or his legal team did not respond to PEOPLE’s multiple requests for comment.

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In the filing, the plaintiff claims that Martz invited her on a private flight and that she did not know the musician would also be on the helicopter.

According to the filing, the plaintiff met Martz because she often did business with him as his bank teller, and the two eventually became friends around “late 2001 or early 2002.”

Martz began asking the woman for rides in his helicopter in mid-2002, which she perceived “as a friendly gesture,” according to the complaint, but she was hesitant because she had never ridden in one before. Over lunch in January 2003, they agreed to arrange “a short helicopter trip sometime in February”.

On the day of the tour, the plaintiff claims that lunch plans they had scheduled before the trip were canceled at the last minute. In the lawsuit, he recalls that upon arrival at the hangar where the aircraft was located, Lee was present, and Martz informed the plaintiff “that Lee needed to be taken to Van Nuys and that the trip would not take more than 35 to 40 minutes, and then ordered the plaintiff to jump in into the helicopter.”

Tommy Lee in 2003.

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According to the complaint, Martz and Lee allegedly consumed alcohol, marijuana and cocaine on the plane, and the pilot told the woman to “just relax” when she wasn’t drinking.

After the two men asked the woman to sit in the cockpit with them, and the drummer allegedly encouraged her to “sit on his lap so she wouldn’t miss the view”, she felt “tremendous pressure” to join them and stated that “within from a few minutes” Lee began to “grope and kiss” her.

According to the documents, “the plaintiff tried to pull away from Lee, but he only became stronger” and she claims that Lee began to “penetrate her with his fingers and try to force her to perform oral sex.”

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Throughout the incident, Martz — who died in a plane crash in 2015 — allegedly “just watched, smiling,” and the prosecutor cut off communication with him after the incident.

The event “caused the plaintiff great shock, a lawsuit, humiliation, shame and guilt,” and according to the documents, she claims “Martz and Lee conspired to lure other women … into Martz’s helicopter under the guise of a tour. ”

Lee has a history of legal trouble. During his marriage to Pamela Anderson, he served six months in prison in 1998 on charges of spousal abuse.

The rocker has two sons with his ex-wife – Brandon Thomas Lee (27) and Dylan Jagger Lee (25) – and has been married to influencer/comedian Brittany Furlan since 2019.

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.

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