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Tommy Lee’s Net Worth: How Did Tommy Lee Become Popular?

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Tommy Lee's net worth

Tommy Lee is an American musician and drummer with a net worth of $70 million. Tommy Lee is best known as a founding member of Motley Crüe and its drummer. Six of his twenty studio, compilation, and live albums with Motley Crüe have been certified platinum. In addition to his solo success, he is the founder of the rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem.

Early Years

Tommy Lee was born Thomas Lee Bass on October 3, 1962, in Athens, Greece. His father was a sergeant in the U.S. Army. In 1960, his mother was Miss Greece. He has an older sister whose name is Athena. His family relocated to California when Lee was approximately one year old. At the age of four, Lee received his first pair of drumsticks.

After discovering hard rock and heavy metal, specifically Kiss, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple, he obtained his first authentic drum set as a teenager. Lee was a drummer in his high school marching band until his senior year when he dropped out to pursue his dream of being in a rock band. In the early 1980s, Lee’s first band, Studio 19, performed on the Sunset Strip.

At a Studio 19 show, Lee met future Motley Crüe bandmate, Nikki Sixx. Van Halen and Quiet Riot were two other not-yet-famous bands that performed on the Sunset Strip in the same era.

Tommy Lee's net worth

Personal Life

1984 marked the beginning of Lee’s marriage to Elaine Starchuk. In 1985, they separated.

Lee tied the knot with actress Heather Locklear on May 10, 1986. In 1993, the couple split up. Locklear later wed Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, with whom she shares a daughter, Ava (born in 1997).

Lee was briefly engaged to model Bobbie Brown following his divorce from Locklear.

The wedding took place on February 19, 1995. Four days prior, they had first met. Brandon and Dylan are their two children. In 1998, the couple split up.

Lee served six months in county jail in 1998 after pleading no contest to kicking Pamela Anderson as she held their son Dylan. Lee is accused of assaulting his wife after Anderson allegedly refused to call her parents and ask them not to visit the family’s home. Lee and Anderson briefly reunited in 2001, following Lee’s release from prison. At one point in 2008, Lee and Anderson reconciled and even moved in with their sons, but they broke up for good shortly thereafter.

From 2002 to 2003, Lee was engaged to the former wife of Prince, Mayte Garcia. In September 2007, Lee was ejected from the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony for fighting with Kid Rock. Lee was engaged to the Greek-German singer Sofia Tour from 2014 until 2017.

Lee announced his engagement to his girlfriend, Brittany Furlan, on February 14, 2018. On February 14, 2019, one year later, they were wed.
Tommy Lee's net worth

Motley Crüe

When Tommy Lee met Nikki Sixx, Sixx was looking to form a band that specialized in heavy metal anthems and would be highly theatrical. Sixx knew he had found his drummer after observing Lee perform with Studio 19. Sixx convinced Lee to leave Studio 19, and the two of them began what would become Motley Crüe. Soon after, guitarist Mick Mars joined the new band. Lee suggested Vince Neil, a singer he had known since high school, to complete the new band.

Too Fast For Love, Motley Crüe’s debut album from 1981, was released on the band’s own independent label. In 1982, Elektra Records re-released Too Fast For Love after signing Motley Crüe. Over the course of the following decade, Motley Crüe released a string of successful albums, including Shout at the Devil (1983), Theatre of Pain (1985), Girls, Girls, Girls (1987), and Dr. Feelgood (1993). (1989).

During his drum solos, Lee was known to employ a number of special effects and stunts, including floating his drum kit above the audience. As depicted in the 2019 Netflix film about the band, The Dirt, Tommy Lee and Motley Crüe were notorious for their excessive drug and alcohol consumption as well as their on-stage and off-stage partying.

Other Activities

In 1999, Lee formed the supergroup-style rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem. In the same year that Methods of Mayhem was released, the band embarked on a tour in support of the self-titled album. In 2002, Lee released his debut solo album, Never a Dull Moment. In the same year, Lee’s solo band joined the lineup of the Ozzfest heavy metal music festival.

Lee and the rest of Motley Crüe’s original lineup reunited in 2004 to release the double-CD compilation Red, White & Crüe. Fans were excited about the new album, which went quadruple platinum, and the band launched a massive tour to promote it. The Red, White & Crüe Tour 2005: Better Live Than Dead was the band’s first tour in six years; it consisted of 81 performances.

In the 2005 reality television series Tommy Lee Goes to College, Lee attended classes at the University of Nebraska and played drums in the school’s marching band. Lee released Tommyland, his autobiography, and Tommyland: The Ride, his second solo album, in 2005.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused the postponement of a series of stadium performances by Motley Crüe, Poison, Def Lepard, and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts scheduled for 2020.

 

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How did Tommy Lee Become Popular?

Lee was a constant presence on MTV for the majority of the ’80s and ’90s as a result of Motley Crüe’s string of commercially successful hit albums and visually striking music videos.

Lee has also exercised his creative abilities outside of the band. He has played drums on albums by Rob Zombie, Jack’s Mannequin, and Courtney Love, and was the hired drummer for the album Monuments to an Elegy by the Smashing Pumpkins. Lee also formed the rap-rock band Methods of Mayhem, whose 1999 single “Get Naked” was a moderate success, and has released several solo albums. Never a Dull Moment, his solo debut album from 2002, spawned the rock radio hit “Hold Me Down.”

“When I returned home from Ozzfest in September of 2000, I locked myself in my house and began writing,” he told Ink19 of the first album’s composition. It was more like, “Let’s just write and see where this goes and make this a natural progression.” What you hear is where it went.

Lee has also experimented with television. In 2006, he appeared on the television show Rock Star: Supernova alongside ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted and ex-Guns N‘ Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke. The group chose Lukas Rossi as their vocalist and released an album. Tommy Lee has also appeared on two reality television programs: Tommy Lee Goes to College, which followed his return to school, and Battleground Earth, co-starring rapper Ludacris.

Lee has also made a name for himself offstage (that is, in the tabloids). He was previously wed to the actress Heather Locklear from 1986 to 1993 before marrying Anderson in 1995. Several other famous women, including Bobbi Brown and Prince’s ex-girlfriend Mayte Garcia, were also linked to him. Lee described a portion of his offstage life in his autobiography, Tommyland.

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