Tommy Lee reveals how much he made as an ESCORT before finding fame

Tommy Lee has opened up about his time working as a male escort in his younger years before finding success with his rock band Motley Crue.

The 63-year-old musician – whose ex-wife is Pamela Anderson –  revealed all about his time accompanying older women on dates during a candid chat on Dax Shepard’s podcast Armchair Expert.

‘We all had moved into an apartment together, and then we [met] this lady who’s the madame,’ he explained about how the opportunity to date older women for money arose.

Lee, whose band was formed in 1981, said the dates ranged from just having dinner to having Sєx.

‘Sometimes [I would] go and just sit and have dinner with them,’ he shared. ‘Just dinner, literally. [The women] just [wanted] company just to dine with. But you know what? I think I was lucky too, because a couple of the older women that I got, they were actually really fun.’

In return, the rock star earned $500 – a steep improvement from the $20/week he and his bandmates received from their manager at the time. 

Tommy Lee has recalled working as an escort before finding success with his rock band Motley Crue

Lee said his dates with older women ranged from just having dinner to having Sєx; pictured in 1997

Lee, who shares sons Brandon, 30, and Dylan, 28, with 59-year-old Anderson, said he went on ‘nine or 10’ dates as an escort.

This isn’t the first time the star has been candid about his former profession.

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He also opened up about it in August 2024 while on Theo Von’s self-тιтled podcast, sharing with listeners that he escorted for ‘about a year or so.’

‘If the lady was, like, an older lady where you’re like, “I hope this is just dinner,” you’re stoked. I’m just gonna have dinner and drinks and entertain her and that’s it, then you’d get stoked when that would happen,’ he recounted.

‘But sometimes, they wanted more, and you’re like, “Oh man.” That part is not fun, because f***ing when you’re not into it is a weird thing.’

After his career took off as the drummer in Motley Crue, Lee tied the knot with Anderson following their chance meeting in 1994. 

Their tumultuous on-off relationship ended for a final time in 2009.

Lee has been married to his fourth wife, 39-year-old comedian Brittany Furlan, since 2019. 

In return, the rock star earned $500 – a steep improvement from the $20/week he and his bandmates received from their manager at the time; L-R Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, and Tommy Lee pictured in 1987

The 63-year-old musician appeared on the latest episode of Dax Shepard’s podcast Armchair Expert, and opened up about the unconventional job

After reaching fame and fortune, Lee married now-ex-wife is Pamela Anderson, pictured left in 2007. He’s now married to Brittany Furlan (R)

Anderson unpacked the details of her relationship with Lee in her 2023 memoir Love, Pamela.

She told the Wall Street Journal at the time: ‘I’m sure it’s going to be annoying to his wife. I’d be annoyed.’

The former pinup divulged in the book that her ‘relationship with Tommy may have been the only time I was ever truly in love’ and declared that she ultimately left him because she ‘had to protect my babies.’

Anderson accused Lee of physically attacking her while she was holding their son Dylan when he was an infant.

Lee served four months of a six-month sentence after pleading no contest to felony spousal battery.

Also in 2023, the blonde bombshell revealed in an interview with Howard Stern that her contact with her ex-husband consisted of ‘just a text here and there.’