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Tommy Lee (born
Thomas Lee Bass on October 3, 1962) is an
American musician, and founding member of
glam metal band
Mötley Crüe. As well as being the band's long-term
drummer, Lee founded rap-metal band
Methods of Mayhem, and has pursued solo musical projects. He was previously married to actresses
Heather Locklear and
Pamela Anderson, with whom he has two children.
Biography
Early Life and Career
Lee was born in
Athens,
Greece. His mother, Vassiliki "Boula" Papadimitriou, was Miss Greece in 1957, and his father, David Lee Thomas Bass, was a US Army serviceman of
Welsh descent.
He has one younger sister,
Athena Kottak (b. 1964), who is currently married to James Kottak, the drummer for the band, Scorpions and the current drummer of
Kottak. His family moved to
California a year after his birth. Lee received his first
drum when he was four. However he received his first real drum kit when he was a
teenager.