How did Pam’s wham-bam 12-day ‘marriage’ last so long!
It was the FIFTH time round for both of them — but they swore it was true love. Now, as the Baywatch star’s union to one of Hollywood’s most notorious hellraisers implodes before the ink’s dry, the question is...
PerHAPS the best you can say is that she is wildly optimistic. Certainly it can’t be denied that actress and model Pamela Anderson is endlessly impulsive when it comes to tying the knot.
She married her first husband — rocker Tommy Lee — four days after they first met in 1995. They divorced after a disastrous three-year marriage during which a sex tape was stolen, she contracted Hepatitis C from a shared tattoo needle and he beat her so badly he was imprisoned.
nevertheless, she went on with what you might feel was wilful buoyancy to marry in haste four more times — twice to the same man. One of her two marriages to professional poker player rick Salomon only lasted for two months.
And now the Baywatch bombshell, now 52, has crowned her blink-andyou-miss-it marital record with a 12day marriage to Hollywood superproducer Jon Peters, 74.
It was the fifth marriage for both of them.
They’d married at a friend’s house in Malibu on Monday, January 20. ‘They love each other very much,’ her Pr said, as Pamela released a sweet, slightly blurry, black and white snap of the happy newlyweds on January 25.
A social media post that day, referring to the first time they met in 1989, ran: ‘Jon met Pamela at the Playboy Mansion when he saw her sitting at the bar. All he saw were “teeth and a halo.” ’
He is said to have told her: ‘In 30 years, our age difference won’t mean so much.’
When their wedding was announced on January 21, Jon Peters claimed that he was the man who could finally appreciate Pamela Anderson.
He said: ‘ There are beautiful girls everywhere. I could have my pick, but for 35 years I’ve only wanted Pamela. She makes me wild in a good way.’ He added: ‘ Pamela has never seen her full potential as an artist. She has yet to shine in a real way. There is much more to her than meets the eye, or I wouldn’t love her so much.’
But hold the honeymoon — by February 1, it was all over with some hinting that actually things went wrong a few days before that.
She’s understood to be back on Vancouver Island, living with her parents. So what on earth went wrong this time?
Insiders suggest that the issues revolve around trust, money and the signing of a pre-nuptial agreement.
CERTAINLY she and Peters are separated by more than 22 years — they are also on different planes in terms of wealth. Thanks to a stellar career as a movie producer and studio head, Jon Peters is worth around £150 million.
He has a 300-acre ranch in Santa Barbara, vast condo in Hollywood, and a taste for the works of Henri Matisse.
Despite her fame, Pamela, meanwhile, has a surprisingly modest fortune and her sole big asset seems to be a £3.5 million house in Malibu which she has been renting out for a couple of years, while she lives in a modest home back in her native Canada. Her grown-up sons from her marriage to Tommy Lee are both models and actors and live in Los Angeles.
The lawyers’ fees for four divorces can’t have helped her modest fortunes, but neither has her well-known philanthropic nature: whenever she has big money paydays, generally from reality TV like the German version of Big Brother or French Strictly, she tends to donate straight to the Pamela Anderson Foundation which campaigns for human, animal and environmental rights.
Pamela is also a long-time supporter of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and said that the rape charges against him were trumped up. She has been visiting him since 2016, bringing him vegan meals at the ecuador embassy where he was hiding. She told an interviewer that she loves him but that it has never been a romantic relationship.
‘I feel very close to him,’ she said. She has paid some of his legal bills. She said last summer: ‘It was hard to turn down some of the money I was offered to do these crazy (reality TV) things. especially with my friend in jail as a political prisoner that needs plenty of legal help.’
Historically, Pamela has never been a fan of pre- nuptial agreements, which are designed to try to protect the fortune of the wealthier party from a 50/50 division of assets in the case of a split. Despite her questionable taste in other areas, Pamela does tend to go for wealthy men.
She declined to sign a pre-nup when she got engaged to Kid rock in 2003 (a highly successful rapper turned ‘ swamp rock’ musician from Michigan: real name robert ritchie and said to be worth about £60 million), which led to them splitting up.
When they eventually married in 2006, they were said to have done so without a pre-nup. They split soon afterwards, with Kid rock describing Pamela as a ‘psycho’. It’s not known how they divided the spoils of their brief union — if at all — but a year later, Pamela was wildly, impetuously in love again.
She married professional poker player rick Salomon first in 2007 and again in 2014. neither marriage lasted more than a year.
And now this brief fifth marriage. Pamela, today a committed Christian and vegan, worded the end thus: ‘I have been moved by the warm reception to Jon and my union. We would be very grateful for your support as we take some time apart to re- evaluate what we
want from life and from one another.
‘Life is a journey and love is a process. With that universal truth in mind, we have mutually decided to put off the formalisation of our marriage certificate and put our faith in the process.’
It’s a sorry, rather embarrassing end to a most unusual love story. After dating in 1989 they ‘ reconnected’ 30 years later at some point after Christmas 2019.
On the basis of a few happy weeks together, seemingly spent at his palatial pad in Los Angeles, Pamela declared on social media that she felt, at last, unconditionally loved, and that mogul Peters was what she had been looking for all of her life.
She was so sure that she released no fewer than three poems on social media about their great love. Both felt it was ‘kismet’ or destiny.
When they started dating in 1989, she was the 19-year-old, latest superstar launched by Playboy magazine. She’d been spotted in the stands at an ice hockey game in Canada — an ambitious, generously proportioned daughter of a furnace repair man and a waitress.
He was the Hollywood big shot, having been in a relationship with Barbra Streisand, produced A Star is Born and Rain Man, and would go to the Playboy mansion to enjoy its infamous parties.
THEIR ‘svengali’ relationship lasted for years. The two of them were photographed kissing in 2004, not long after her marriage to Tommy Lee ended but before she started seeing Kid Rock.
However, once they had reconnected last year, the fact that this was a man she had known 30 years ago made Pamela believe that their romance was pre-destined.
She wrote, gushingly: ‘Jon is the original bad boy of Hollywood — no one compares — I love him deeply like family. His life used to scare me. So much for a girl like me. Now I’ve seen more of life and realise.
‘He’s been there all along. Never failed me. I’m ready now and he’s ready, too. We understand and respect each other. We love each other without conditions. I’m a lucky woman — proof God has a plan.’
Jon, however, had been a little less lyrical. In a 2017 interview, he said of their 1989 fling: ‘You’ll have to do your research. I can’t even remember any more.’
Weirdly, it seems their entire 12- day marriage seems to have been played out on social media, where its origins and demise are chartered in a series of tweets and posts.
Many professed to be delighted when the couple married on January 20.
‘They belong together’, was the general sentiment — a great Hollywood Romance, they enthused.
It has to be admitted that Peters has an infamous reputation as a womaniser. Other loves include Kim Basinger and Catherine Zeta- Jones, and he has five children.
It is possible that Pamela belatedly woke up to the reality of who she had married. Peters, who started out as a hairdresser in cheap New York salons, frequented by prostitutes, has lived the most colourful life.
HE HAS come through an addiction to painkillers and has a habit of giving interviews after smoking a marijuana joint and with a loaded revolver on the table.
He produced the 1976 and 2018 versions of A Star is Born — the 1976 version starring his then lover Barbra Streisand and making her the hottest property in Hollywood.
At one time he regarded the Hollywood ‘ supermadam’ Madam Alex as a close friend and it is said the services of Heidi Fleiss, another Hollywood ‘madam’, were billed to the film studio he ran.
In an unpublished autobiography from 2009 and subsequently leaked to Deadline magazine, he wrote a hairraising account of the process by which he had persuaded pal Jack Nicholson to play the Joker in Batman.
It was a ‘...drug-fuelled global jaunt’ which had involved turning Claridge’s in London into a facsimile of the Playboy mansion, complete with strippers and coke dealers.
As you might expect, he has a lengthy list of enemies in Hollywood. Steven Spielberg banned him from the set of The Color Purple which his studio was producing, such was his reputation for bombast and conflict.
More recently, British film producer Christopher Nolan banned him from the set of the Superman films. What did Peters care? He took home around £60 million from the films as he has a percentage of the gross.
But there are some deals which fall apart, and Pamela Anderson seems to have swiftly come to the conclusion that this was simply a bad idea.
On the day of their separation she posted on Twitter: ‘What is the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her she did not.’
After five failed marriages, it’s surely time for the penny to drop.