Editor's note: This article contains disturbing details of an alleged sexual assault that may be triggering for some people.
Tommy Lee has been sued for an alleged sexual assault that took place on a helicopter in 2003. The plaintiff claims that the Mötley Crüe drummer forced himself into the cabin during a 40-minute trip from San Diego to Van Nuys, California.
In the lawsuit, filed Friday (Dec. 15) in Los Angeles and obtained by Rolling Stone and The explosion, the unnamed woman, who was working as a bank teller in San Diego at the time, said she had struck up a friendship with a pilot named David Martz. He invited her to take a ride in her helicopter and she eventually accepted despite initially doubting him. The day she arrived for the helicopter ride in early 2003, Martz told her that Lee would be joining them.
Once the helicopter was in the air, the woman alleges that both Martz and Lee began drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana and snorting cocaine. She claims that she did not use drugs or alcohol, but that she was pressured to enter the booth and sit on Lee's lap to get a better view of her. The plaintiff then says in the lawsuit that Lee began “groping, kissing and forcibly penetrating her with his fingers, and attempting to force her to perform oral copulation.”
According to the lawsuit, “At one point, Lee penetrated Plaintiff with his fingers while fondling her breasts. Lee then pulled down his pants and attempted to force plaintiff's head toward her genitals. At that time, the plaintiff was crying, but she had nowhere to go; “She was trapped and had little mobility to get out of the cabin.”
She claims Martz “simply watched” the alleged assault before they eventually dropped Lee off in Van Nuys and flew “quietly” back to San Diego.