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M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce drummer Tommy Lee<\/strong> (born Tommy Lee Bass) is accused of a shocking assault during a 2003 helicopter ride across Los Angeles\u2014an incident the alleged victim says she believes is part of a history of the musician\u2019s activities on the aircraft.<\/p>\n According to the lawsuit, which was filed Friday and has been obtained by Rolling Stone<\/a>, a woman using the pseudonym Jane Doe says she met Lee\u2019s private pilot, David Martz, in 2002, when he visited a bank where she worked as a teller. As the pair developed a friendship, Martz would occasionally offer Doe a ride in his helicopter, and in February 2003, she accepted.<\/p>\n But instead of the promised sightseeing trip over San Diego, Martz took her on a 40-minute ride to Los Angeles, with Lee also aboard. \u201cWithin a matter of minutes of being airborne, Martz pulled out alcohol he had stored in the helicopter and began to mix drinks,\u201d the suit (as reported by R.S.) reads, alleging that Lee and Martz also used cocaine and smoked cannabis during the flight. According to the lawsuit, Doe did not partake.<\/p>\n In the suit, Doe claims that she was convinced to join Lee in the cockpit to see the view, but claims that instead, the rocker sexually assaulted her as Martz \u201cmerely watched.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Doe says in the suit that she did not report the alleged incident at the time, as she believed she wouldn\u2019t be taken seriously. But in the intervening years, she\u2019s come to believe that Martz and Lee \u201chad a history of engaging in indecent and illegal conduct on Martz\u2019s helicopter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Martz died in 2015 following a fatal crash in Santa Barbara. At the time of his death, he \u201cwas facing a fourth revocation\u201d of his pilot\u2019s license, the L.A. Times reported<\/a> at the time. He\u2019d previously lost his license for a variety of concerns, most recently because he \u201chad oral sex with an adult film actress while flying a helicopter\u201d in 2009.\u00a0<\/p>\n Instead, Mayhem Touring, Tommy Lee Inc., A Natural High Helicopters and Social Helicopters are named as defendants in the suit, which seeks unspecified damages for \u201csexual assault, gender violence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence.\u201d Vanity Fair has contacted Johnson and Johnson<\/a>, the legal firm that filed the suit, as well as Lee\u2019s attorney. Neither side has responded to a request for comment as of publication time.<\/p>\n This suit is the latest in a decades-long history of claims against Lee. In 1996, he faced battery allegations<\/a> for an altercation outside the infamous L.A. nightclub, the Viper Room, then in 1998, he was jailed after pleading no contest<\/a> to domestic violence allegations brought by then-wife Pamela Anderson<\/strong>. The following year, he turned himself in to officials in North Carolina, where he\u2019d been wanted<\/a> for felony rioting and three misdemeanor charges since 1997.\u00a0<\/p>\n In recent years, however, headlines about Lee have focused more on his social media behavior, such as a 2018 Instagram post in which he criticized Anderson\u2019s parenting style<\/a>, and a 2023 post<\/a>\u2014later deleted\u2014of a rant from conservative network One America News against transgender people. \u201cI\u2019m the gayest motherfucker around,\u201d Lee said in a separate<\/a> post to explain the deletion, saying he posted the anti-trans content because \u201cit got me thinking (and you should too) about this and our world is all going.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n