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Yahoo
4 days ago
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Tommy Lee's Marriage to Brittany Furlan Ends as The Rocker Struggles With Sobriety and His Bond With Pamela Anderson
Hard-living rocker Tommy Lee's obsession with ex-wife Pamela Anderson and addiction demons derailed his six-year marriage to Brittany Furlan, an insider says. A source says the Mötley Crüe drummer, 62, always looked at Pam, 57, as the 'one who got away,' and Brittany, 38, was fed up. Tommy and the actress/influencer, who met in 2017 and married two years later, separated a few weeks ago. 'He's drinking again, which is not good, but the other big issue was that he's never fully gotten over Pam,' the source says. 'It's caused trouble with every relationship he's had since they broke up.' As readers know, Tommy and the former Baywatch babe were married from 1995 to 1998, during which time they welcomed two sons, Brandon and Dylan, and weathered a sex tape scandal. Ever since, Tommy has had a permanent scar that no other woman could heal, our source says. Still, he swore to Brittany that he had no interest in getting back together with the Last Showgirl star. 'But then whenever he was in a bad mood, he'd say things to stir up jealousy,' says the source. Making things worse, Pam accused Brittany of enabling Tommy's drinking again — the stickman once revealed that he used to drink two gallons of vodka a day but got sober in 2022 — and being a bad influence on him. 'Brittany is really sweet and tried so hard to make friends with Pam, but then Pam accused her of keeping Tommy 'drunk,'' says our source. 'That was such a punch in the gut.' 'Pam tried to make up for it a couple of years ago by saying a bunch of nice things about Brittany in interviews, but the damage was done.' Adds the insider, 'Pam never wanted Tommy back, but she came between him and Brittany just the same and the feeling is she wrecked the relationship.'
News.com.au
26-05-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
Rocker shocked as cigarette prices soar, fuel underworld war in Australia
When Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee stopped by a Southbank 7-Eleven while touring in Melbourne in 2023, he was shocked by price of a packet of Marlboro Gold. The US musician was not used to paying that much — at $62.99 for 25 cigarettes, the cost was at the time among the highest in the world. He took to Instagram to share his receipt for four packets at $251.96 and left no question about his feelings with an accompanying middle finger emoji. Fast forward two years and the cost keeps going up. A photograph of a price board at a Melbourne store over the weekend caused a stir all over again. 'I snapped this pic in Melbourne yesterday,' wrote Sydney-based tourism director Fiona Dalton on LinkedIn. 'It's clearly been a very long time since I made my last purchase but I kid you not — I had to do a double take.' The board showed the cheapest packet of cigarettes cost $34.50 while others nudged the $100 mark. 'This is the cost PER PACKET of cigarettes from a 7/11 convenience store in the city,' Ms Dalton wrote. 'That's $82.99 for a packet of Benson & Hedges. Although I'm not an advocate for the damages of smoking it's worth considering what's happening as a result of these prices. 'No wonder the 'Tobacco Wars' will be the next Underbelly series. No wonder we have a drug epidemic in Australia. No wonder kids are vaping. No wonder the illegal tobacco trade is increasing. No wonder the underworld are killing each other on the streets of Sydney and Melbourne over deals gone wrong. 'This is insane. Has public policy gone too far?' It's a question that has does the rounds in Australia year after year. Australia's cigarette prices are sky-high because the Federal Government applies a tobacco excise to cigarettes. The tax per cigarette is roughly $1.40. It means a packet of cigarettes in Australia, on average, costs more than $AU40 compared to about $AU13 in the United States. In Europe and Japan, the cost of cigarettes is even lower. The tobacco excise is indexed every March and September in line with average weekly ordinary-time earnings. The thinking behind the policy is that higher costs will deter smoking. It's in the interests of public health and aims to keep smokers out of hospital beds. But it also earns the government massive revenue, though that is falling as Aussies turn to the illicit tobacco market. Fei Gao, a Lecturer in Taxation from the University of Sydney and Andrew Terry, a Professor of Business Regulation from the University of Sydney, wrote recently about why the public policy has created a 'diabolical problem for the government'. 'This financial year, the government expects to earn revenue from the tobacco excise of A$7.4 billion. That's down sharply from $12.6 billion in 2022–23, and an earlier peak of $16.3 billion in 2019–20,' they wrote. 'The government expects this downward trend to continue. Australia's heavy tobacco taxation has driven many consumers towards illicit cigarettes. 'But this is more than just a problem for government coffers accustomed to revenue from the tobacco tax. 'It presents a major challenge for a public health policy that has long relied on increasing tobacco excise duty as its primary tool to reduce smoking. 'If government revenue from tobacco is falling, it isn't because we aren't trying to tax it.' They wrote that 'while legal cigarette prices are prohibitively high for some, illegal alternatives are widely available and significantly cheaper. That's because these unregulated products bypass excise and GST entirely'. 'The estimated value of illicit tobacco entering the Australian market has soared, from $980 million in 2016–17 to more than $6 billion in 2022–23. Of this $6 billion, almost $3 billion entered the market undetected.' The impact is being seen on the streets of Melbourne and Sydney where organised crime syndicates have been burning down rival businesses in what's dubbed the 'big tobacco wars'. Hundreds of shops have been burned down in the last few years. On LinkedIn, many joined the debate about exactly what to do. 'When you can pick up a pack for $15 with the same chemicals,' one person wrote. 'Meanwhile in Spain, I took this photo (of) the Marlboro box. Some were €4.65,' wrote another. Latest estimates by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare suggests 1.8 million Australians smoke daily. A poll of more than 9000 readers carried out last year showed 66 per cent of respondents thought cigarette prices were too high in Australia. Author and economist Jason Murphy summed it up well. 'What we see now in Australia is that a pack of smokes is so expensive that normal people are willing to buy black market cigarettes. And organised crime is willing to supply. 'When a pack costs $12 at the shops, there's not much profit in undercutting the supermarket giants. But when a pack costs $50 at the shops, well. 'Remember that tobacco and paper are very, very cheap to make, transport and sell. They store easily and don't need to be refrigerated or kept food-safe. Anyone who has ever bought cigarettes in Asia knows the fair price of the actual product can be very low. 'So if you can buy a pack of cigarettes for 30 cents wholesale out of Asia and sell it under the counter illegally in Australia for $20, the profits are huge. 'Hence all the firebombing.'
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Corrupt'? ‘Dried out prune'? The savage war between Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump
Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump have more in common than either may care to admit. The pair grew up 40 miles away from each other, separated by the waters between New Jersey and New York. They are septuagenarians (Springsteen is 76 while Trump is 78) whose successes can largely be attributed to their ability to speak to blue-collar America. They are, to many, the quintessential champions of the working man. They also cannot stand each other. After years trading barbs over politics, the pair have, for the past week or so, engaged in their bitterest war of words yet. Springsteen fired the first shot last Wednesday night at Manchester's Co-op Live arena as he kicked off his latest European tour. 'In my home, the America I love, the America I've written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration,' he said on stage. 'Tonight we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!' He added: 'There's some very weird, strange and dangerous sh-t going on out there right now. In America they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. This is happening now.' Trump's America, he went on, was now a place where the richest people in the country were 'taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers'; a country that is 'abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom'. Springsteen was so pleased with his outburst that it is included on the recording of this tour's live album. Trump responded with characteristic magnanimity and grace (and eccentric use of capital letters). 'I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States,' he wrote on social media. 'Never liked him, never liked his music or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he's not a talented guy – just a pushy, obnoxious JERK. 'Springsteen is 'dumb as a rock,' ' Trump added, 'This dried out 'prune' of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that's just 'standard fare.' Then we'll all see how it goes for him!' In a sign that Springsteen has somehow managed to get under his skin, Trump has now posted a mocked-up video showing the President whacking the rocker with a golf ball. Though Springsteen is Trump's current bête noire, the President is hugely unpopular with his fellow rockers. The Canadian-American Neil Young, for instance, has never shied away from expressing his dislike of the President, by calling him 'the worst President in the history of our great country' and musing that he may be banned from entering the US because of his forthright views. Meanwhile, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee shared an open letter to Trump on social media last month in which he described him as a 'f—ing lunatic' and said he was 'clearly so out of your depth you needed scuba gear'. The Boss has criticised Trump almost as soon as he made his way down the golden escalator of Manhattan's Trump Tower and launched his first tilt at the presidency. It did not help that, during his first campaign, Trump would regularly play Springsteen's 1984 hit Born in the USA at rallies. It has been a bugbear of Springsteen's since the song was released that it was co-opted by the Republican party, starting with Ronald Reagan, and that it is seen as a tub-thumping jingoistic anthem, rather than the critique of the Vietnam war and America's subsequent treatment of veterans that he meant it to be. Springsteen has described the song as 'one of my greatest and most misunderstood pieces of music' and was 'a demand for a 'critical' patriotic voice along with pride of birth'. Party politics was seemingly not of interest to Springsteen at the time, as he chose to focus his songwriting instead on what he called 'human politics': the lives of everyday folk such as bus drivers, factory workers and waitresses. In a 1984 interview, he revealed that he had last voted 12 years previously, when Democrat George McGovern failed to defeat Richard Nixon. Though he championed a number of causes — including food banks, Amnesty International and, perhaps peculiarly, the Durham miners — it took until 2004 for Springsteen to get involved in the cut-and-thrust of American elections, when he supported John Kerry in his attempt to eject George W Bush from the White House. Kerry lost. Springsteen went on to stump for Barack Obama in his two successful campaigns, and their bromance was so tight that they even went on to host a podcast series, Renegades, together in 2021. Enter Trump. Like many of his Republican forebears, he tended to ignore (or did not understand) the subversive lyrics of Born in the USA when it was played at campaign stops. The patriotic chorus lyrics are easy to sing at great volume, while the nuanced criticism of government policies are delivered in a much more mumbled way. Springsteen, as ever, did not approve but also chose not to seek legal redress to stop Trump. (Others did, including The Rolling Stones, who sent cease-and-desist letters to the Trump campaign over its repeated use of You Can't Always Get What You Want.) Instead, Springsteen endorsed Hillary Clinton (whom he said would be a 'very, very good president') and performed at one of her campaign rallies in Philadelphia. But while his previous support for Democrats had taken the form of positively making the case for their candidates, Springsteen very publicly went after Trump. 'The republic is under siege by a moron, basically,' he told Rolling Stone in September 2016. 'The whole thing is tragic. Without overstating it, it's a tragedy for our democracy.' On a Norwegian chat show, Springsteen said that the fact Trump was even running for the presidency was 'a great embarrassment if you're an American'. In the weeks before the election he variously described Trump as being 'a flagrant, toxic narcissist' and a 'conman'. He told The Guardian of Trump: 'What you see is a bundle of anxiety, fragility and insecurity… It's the thinnest possible mask of masculinity.' Then, something that was previously unthinkable happened: conservatives at Trump rallies started to boo when the pounding drums and synthesiser refrain of Born In The USA kicked in. The enmity did not go away when Trump triumphed over Clinton. There was outrage when the B Street Band, a Springsteen tribute act, was booked to play one of Trump's inaugural balls in January 2017. So intense was the criticism from fans of the E Street Band that the gig was cancelled. Then, in April, Springsteen sang an anti-Trump anthem called That's What Makes Us Great — a deliberate inversion of his 'Make America Great Again' slogan. 'Don't tell me a lie / And sell it as a fact / I've been down that road before / And I ain't going back,' he sang. 'Don't you brag to me / That you never read a book / I never put my faith / In a con man and his crooks.' During the first Trump presidency, Springsteen used the pulpit of his stage to lash out at policies such as the travel ban on people from Muslim-majority countries and the separation of families at the Mexican border. All the while, Trump uncharacteristically did not rise to the bait, though he did refer to The Boss as he mused on his election victory at a rally in October 2019. 'I didn't need Beyonce [sic] and Jay-Z… and I didn't need little Bruce Springsteen.' Springsteen was, predictably, a vocal supporter of Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential race, and even reworked My Hometown for a Democrat campaign advert. But it is in the last year or so that the gloves have come off. Last May, Trump called Springsteen a 'wacko' before claiming (without any proof) that Springsteen and other liberal stars had secretly voted for him in 2020. He also claimed that the crowds at his rallies were bigger than those at Springsteen's concerts. Springsteen made clear how urgent he thought it was that Kamala Harris defeated Trump last November. 'Donald Trump is running to be an American tyrant,' he said in October. 'He does not understand this country, its history, or what it means to be deeply American.' Speaking to The Telegraph in the autumn, Springsteen listed many of the reasons why he felt Trump ought not to win again. 'He's an insurrectionist. You know, he led a coup on the United States government, so there's no way he should be let anywhere near the office of the presidency,' he said. 'Not to mention, he's mentally ill. The whole thing of standing and swaying for 40 minutes at your town hall? I mean, swaying to music, that's my job.' Obviously, Springsteen's warnings did not help propel Harris to the White House and, after his latest outbursts, Trump is in no mood to take criticism from the celebrity-industrial complex. During his tour to the Middle East, he took some time off from being the leader of the free world to send a volley of hate towards his enemies on social media. 'How much did Kamala Harris pay Bruce Springsteen for his poor performance during her campaign for president?' Trump wrote (all in capitals). 'Why did he accept that money if he is such a fan of hers? Isn't that a major and illegal campaign contribution? …And how much went to Oprah, and Bono??? 'IT'S NOT LEGAL! For these unpatriotic 'entertainers,' this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system,' Trump added. Springsteen has appeared unrattled by Trump's abuse, and has his own vocal allies willing to support him. Neil Young, for instance, waded into the row with his own social media posts. 'Bruce and thousands of musicians think you are ruining America,' Young, 79, wrote. 'I am not scared of you. Neither are the rest of us.' Young went on to raise a hitherto-unspoken question about the drama: why does Trump, the most powerful man in the world, care what Bruce Springsteen says about him? 'STOP THINKING ABOUT WHAT ROCKERS ARE SAYING. Think about saving America from the mess you made,' he wrote. 'You are forgetting your real job. You work for us. Wake up Republicans! This guy is out of control. We need a real president!' Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Fox News
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Tommy Lee's wife admits being catfished while living separately from rocker amid marriage troubles
Brittany Furlan is speaking out about her rumored split from Mötley Crüe rocker Tommy Lee. On Saturday, the comedian took to TikTok to release a lengthy video claiming she was catfished online by someone impersonating Falling in Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke. Her video came after TMZ reported that Furlan and Lee, 62, had been living separately. She also accused the real Radke, 41, of going public with the drama after Lee accused him of sleeping with her. People magazine reported the video also came after Radke alleged, in a series of Instagram Stories posts, that the comedian was catfished by someone pretending to be him and Lee, 62, threatened him over the situation. "Obviously, I'm in a hotel right now. I've been going through a really tough time in my marriage, which was none of anyone's f-----g business, but he's made it everyone's business," Furlan said in her TikTok post, referring to Radke. According to the 38-year-old, she previously received messages from someone she believed was Radke at the time. Then the Snapchat user "started trying to seduce me." Furlan claimed she didn't save any of the messages because she "didn't want to be shady" and is "in a vulnerable place." "He says this isn't him. That's fine, whatever. I don't give a f---," said Furlan. She also showed alleged Instagram DMs between herself and Radke before asking him to leave her alone. "It's a catfish, cool. I got catfished. Why are you still harassing me?" said Furlan. "Why are you sending me hundreds of messages? Why are you trolling me? I don't give a f---. I unfollowed you. Leave me alone. That's it." Furlan went on to corroborate Radke's claim that Lee confronted him over the catfish situation. "Basically, I told my husband everything," Furlan explained. "I said, you know, I've been talking to whoever I thought this was on Snapchat — he says it's not him, cool, whatever — 'cause I'm a good person. I mean, I'm not a good person for talking to someone while married. I've been going through a lot in my marriage. No excuse, whatever." "I come clean to my husband. My husband freaks out, messages him. That's how this all started," said Furlan. On May 16, Lee acknowledged the ongoing drama in an Instagram post with a caption that read, "Who's been catfished?" Furlan concluded her video by asking Radke to stop discussing both her marriage and the catfish drama publicly. "You've blown up my whole life on social media," said the former Vine star. "This is embarrassing for me, embarrassing for my husband. This whole f-----g thing is embarrassing. I've been going through struggling with s--- at home. I'm in a f-----g hotel. Like, leave us the f--- alone, bro. Like, if you want people to be obsessed with you, like, I don't know, get another f-----g hobby, dude. This is just some serious narcissist s---. I'm done. Anyone can think of it what they will. All good." Furlan's video was also captioned, "I've had enough. He's been harassing me for two weeks. He's been sent three cease and desists and has not listened. For the final time – Leave me alone Ronnie." Fox News Digital reached out to Lee, Furlan and Radke for comment. Radke has been adamant that it was a catfish, not him, who was messaging Furlan. He claimed that "the only reason" he went public was because Lee "will not stop yelling at me and stuff." "Imagine you grow up looking up to somebody like Tommy Lee, and then all of a sudden out of nowhere he goes, 'You're f-----g my wife,'" said Radke. "And I'm like, 'What? I have no idea what you're talking about.'" Posts by Radke and Furlan indicated that lawyers are involved on both sides. "I have to clear this up for the final time because Brittany seems to keep posting, implying that I'm the catfish," said Radke in one of his videos where he attempts to clear his name. "She thinks I'm obsessed with her, guys," he said. "What a delusional, delusional woman… The truth always prevails." "Guys, I'm not here to attack anymore, but I'm just asking this woman to please stop trying to spin the narrative," said Radke. "I don't care about your infidelity with your husband. That is none of my business. What I don't stand for is you literally trying to make me the bad guy. I have done nothing wrong." WATCH: DAVID CHOKACHI REMEMBERS TOMMY LEE'S JEALOUS RAGE ON SET OF 'BAYWATCH' TMZ previously reported that Furlan and Lee's split was over his alleged drinking. While the couple is no longer living together, they're reportedly still in communication.
Daily Mail
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Pamela Anderson's real feelings on Tommy Lee reunion 'revealed' amid his marital woes
Pamela Anderson reportedly has no desire to rekindle things with her ex-husband Tommy Lee amid his marital woes with Brittany Furlan. Just days after the Mötley Crüe drummer's wife, 38, admitted they were navigating a 'tough time' in their relationship, a source insisted that his former spouse, 57, has 'zero interest in revisiting the past.' The insider went on to tell TMZ that the musician, 62, has 'no shot' with Anderson, whom he shares sons Brandon Thomas, 27, and Dylan Jagger, 26, now. At this time, the Baywatch icon is said to be 'focusing on herself, enjoying being single' and not interested in any of the divorce rumors surrounding Lee and Furlan. has reached out to Anderson's rep, but has not heard back. Lee and Furlan allegedly split after six years of marriage due to the rocker's drinking problem. While sources told TMZ, it was 'unclear' if a divorce filing was in the near future, Lee unfollowed Furlan on Instagram amid their ongoing drama and the content creator has been living in a hotel. In a shocking TikTok video, released on Friday, Furlan revealed she had been the victim of catfishing. The influencer told her fans she had been duped and harassed by someone posing as Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke. 'I told my husband everything,' the former Vine star announced. 'I said, "I've been talking to whoever I thought this was on Snapchat, he says it's not him. Cool, whatever,"' Furlan said. Radke also shared his own insight into the wild catfishing scandal with his 351,000 followers. Radke, who was previously arrested for domestic violence and has struggled with drug addiction, consistently denied that he was the one speaking to Furlan on Snapchat and explained it wasn't his real account - and if it was, he would have had more views and followers. He said he was going to 'clear this up for a final time, because Brittany seems to keep posting implying that I'm the catfish she thinks I'm obsessed with her guys. What a delusional, delusional woman.' Radke declared he's never responded to Furlan's multiple messages, followed her back, or liked any of her pictures. Radke split from wrestler girlfriend Saraya Bevis, formerly known as WWE star Paige, in January 2025. He has since seemingly moved on with musician and model Dana Dentata. Radke said 'the same account' was talking to 'a different girl' and found it 'notable to share.' He shared screenshots of the account talking to another woman and called it 'irrefutable evidence' that it wasn't him. Radke shared messages from the other woman who had been catfished by the fake version of him, who spent $2,000 on plane tickets and got a 'Ronnie is daddy' tattoo on her leg for the man she thought she was speaking to. 'That's the third account of a girl... that all have been catfished by this person,' he told his followers.
