From Tommy Lee to Dan Hayhurst: A Look Back at Pamela Anderson's Storied Love Life
After announcing her surprise Christmas 2020 wedding to bodyguard Dan Hayhurst, we're looking back at the actress and activist's history of on-and-off relationships
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Pamela Anderson's Love Life
Surprise! On Jan. 27, 2021, Anderson toldĀ The Daily Mail she'd married bodyguard Dan Hayhurst on Christmas Eve in an intimate ceremony on the grounds of her Canadian home.
"I'm exactly where I need to beāin the arms of a man who truly loves me," Anderson told the outlet.
TheĀ Playboy model said the two had married on "on the property I bought from my grandparents 25 years ago," adding, "This is where my parents were married and they are still together. I feel like I've come full circle."
In September, a source told PEOPLE Anderson was dating Hayhurst after havingĀ "been together for a while."
"She's very happy," the source said. "And they've been together for the entire pandemic. She's super happy and he's been helping her fix up her home on Vancouver Island."
Here, a look back at her history of on-and-off relationships with some of Hollywoodās biggest names.
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Jon Peters
"I walked in and saw this little angel sitting at the bar. It was Pammy. She was like 19. I knew she would be a big star," producer Peters told The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 of how the pair first met at the Playboy mansion in the mid-1980s. "We ended up living together."
He told the outlet that he helped launch her career and proposed at the time, but she turned him down, citing their 22-year age difference.
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Tommy Lee
After knowing each other for just 96 hours, Home Improvement and Baywatch star Anderson and Mötley Crüe rocker Lee eloped on the beach in Mexico in 1995 (her parents had never even heard of him).
He'd previously been married to Heather Locklear; she'd been linked to Baywatch costar David Charvet, TV Superman Dean Cain, MTV veejay Eric Nies, Australian-born surfer Kelly Slater and Sylvester Stallone.
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Tommy Lee
"I don't know if they were in love with each other," witness and local club manager Marcos Corminas told PEOPLE at the time, "but they really liked each other a lot and were having a lot of fun."
Their tumultuous marriage lasted for three years ā during which time they weathered scandals ranging from a leaked sex tape to a domestic dispute that led to Leeās 6-month stint in jail for spousal abuse ā and saw them welcome sons Brandon Thomas Lee, now 24, and Dylan Jagger Lee, now 23, before the pair divorced in 1998.
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Marcus Schenkenberg
Anderson reportedly moved on from Lee with Swedish Calvin Klein model Schenkenberg, to whom she became engaged. However, the two split in 2001.
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Kid Rock
The animal activist and "All Summer Long" rocker began dating in the spring of 2001. They became engaged on April 11, 2002, in the Las Vegas desert, but split the following year. They rekindled their romance in July 2006 when they ran into each other in St. Tropez on a yacht owned by a mutual friend. "It was like weād never been apart," Rock told PEOPLE afterward.
They married in front of famous friends that month ā also aboard a yacht in St. Tropez ā but Anderson filed for divorce that November after reportedly suffering a miscarriage, writing on her blog that the split was "unfortunately impossible."
In 2007, Kid Rock came to blows with fellow Anderson ex Lee at the MTV VMAs, though denied the squabble was about the actress.
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Rick Salomon
Anderson's third marriage was to longtime friend (and Shannen Doherty ex) Salomon, at a Las Vegas hotel in October of 2007. "They are head over heels in love," a source told PEOPLE. But she filed for divorce that December, and while the two appeared to reconcile for a brief time, they were granted an annulment in March 2008, both citing fraud as the reason to end the marriage.
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Tommy Lee, Again
By late 2008, Anderson and Lee were supposedly back together again, with Lee telling Rolling Stone, "We've only given it a try 800 times ā 801, here we go. Pamela and the kids have moved in with me. It's awesome. It's definitely working." Though they never remarried, in 2015, Anderson told PEOPLE, "He was the love of my life. There was Tommy and then there was nobody else."
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Rick Salomon, Again
In January 2014, news broke that Anderson and Salomon had wed a second time, after Anderson told Ellen DeGeneres that she and her ex were "best friends with benefits." Following the wedding, Anderson spoke to E! News, saying, "We're very happy. Our families are very happy and that's all that matters." In July of 2014, though, the actress filed for divorce again, citing irreconcilable differences.
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Julian Assange
In October of 2016, Anderson began paying visits to the WikiLeaks editor-in-chief at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he had claimed political asylum.
"My relationship with Julian ā It's no secret," she wrote on her blog in March 2017. "He is one of my favorite people." She went on to call him sexy and say she loved him for the way he's trying to "free the world by educating it."
At the time, Assange was staying in the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid facing extradition to Sweden over a rape allegation he has long refuted. Assange has said he fears being sent to the U.S. to face espionage charges in relation to WikiLeaks. He is currently in jail in London.
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Jon Peters, Again
The pair reunited in late 2019, and secretly wed in Malibu on Jan. 20, 2020. Less than two weeks later, they announced that they were stepping back to "re-evaluate" what they are looking for in their relationship and in life.
"Life is a journey and love is a process," Anderson told The Hollywood Reporter of their split.
Months later,Ā the actress asserted she and Peters were "never legally married."
"Pamela Anderson was never legally married to Jon Peters," read a statement on the actress' Twitter page, adding that Peters is a "life long family friend."
"No hard feelings - no Marriage, no Divorce...just a bizarre theatrical lunch," the statement said of the relationship.
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By Kate Hogan