A brand new lawsuit claims Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee sexually assaulted a lady within the cockpit of a helicopter after she was “lured” onto the chopper by the musician’s personal pilot.
Within the grievance filed Friday in Los Angeles, the Jane Doe plaintiff accuses Lee of “forcibly groping, kissing and penetrating her along with his fingers, and trying to pressure her to carry out oral copulation” through the 40-minute journey from San Diego County to Van Nuys, California, in February 2003.
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The brand new lawsuit, obtained by Rolling Stone, states the lady met the pilot, recognized as David Martz, round early 2002 when he patronized the San Diego financial institution the place she was working as a teller. The 2 struck up a friendship and would often meet for lunch at a restaurant known as Casa Machado, the submitting claims. Martz invited the lady to trip in his helicopter, however she was hesitant at first as a result of she had by no means ridden in a single earlier than, the lawsuit states. Finally, the lady agreed, and in early 2003, she met Martz at an airfield for what she thought can be a sightseeing journey round San Diego County, she says. Upon arrival, the lady claims she was informed there was a last-minute change of plans and he or she and Martz can be flying Lee as much as Los Angeles as a substitute.
“Inside a matter of minutes of being airborne, Martz pulled out alcohol he had saved within the helicopter and started to combine drinks,” the grievance alleges. The girl says Martz handed her a drink that she didn’t eat. She claims Martz and Lee drank, smoked marijuana, and snorted cocaine through the flight. At one level, Martz requested her by means of the helicopter’s headphone system why she was not ingesting and acknowledged that she ought to ‘simply calm down,’” the lawsuit alleges.
The girl claims Martz ultimately ordered her as much as the cockpit to sit down on Lee’s lap to get one of the best view. Feeling “immense stress,” she acquiesced, the submitting states. Nearly instantly, Lee started groping and kissing her, she claims, and when she tried to tug away, “he solely turned extra forceful.”
“At one level, Lee penetrated plaintiff along with his fingers whereas fondling her breasts. Lee then pulled down his pants and tried to pressure plaintiff’s head towards his genitals. By this level, plaintiff was in tears, however she had nowhere to go — she was trapped with little mobility to go away the cockpit,” the lawsuit alleges. The girl claims Martz “merely watched” the alleged assault and mentioned nothing to her as they flew again to San Diego after dropping Lee in Van Nuys.
The plaintiff says she had no contact with Martz for a number of years however spoke to him by cellphone in June 2009 when he known as to catch up. The dialog was very brief, after which Martz died in a Cessna accident in August 2015, the submitting states.
The girl says the alleged assault triggered her “nice shock, misery, humiliation, disgrace and guilt,” and that she didn’t report it as a result of she believed it was an remoted occasion and that police wouldn’t take her severely. She now believes Martz and Lee “had a historical past of partaking in indecent and unlawful conduct on Martz’s helicopter,” the lawsuit says.
The grievance, filed by legal professionals Neville Johnson, Douglas Johnson, and Melissa Eubanks, alleges sexual assault, gender violence , intentional infliction of emotional misery and negligence. Along with Lee, it names Mayhem Touring, Tommy Lee Inc., A Pure Excessive Helicopters and Social Helicopters as defendants. The girl is looking for previous, current, and future damages, together with however not restricted to medical bills, lack of earnings, and lack of earnings capability.
Makes an attempt to achieve a consultant for Lee weren’t instantly profitable Friday night.
The brand new lawsuit isn’t the primary occasion of Martz going through allegations of flying underneath the affect. The Related Press reported in 2009 that the pilot was detained on suspicion of DUI after he allegedly flew too near a police helicopter and didn’t observe instructions given to him by the Van Nuys Airport flight tower. He was launched with out arrest after a sobriety take a look at was inconclusive.
After Martz died in 2015, the Los Angeles Occasions reported that he’d lost his pilot’s license three times in the past, with one of many revocations ensuing from allegations he had oral intercourse with an grownup movie star whereas flying a helicopter. The pilot was charged with reckless operation of an plane in 2006 after he landed a helicopter on a public avenue within the Hollywood Hills to choose up Lee for a 9 Inch Nails live performance, The Occasions reported.
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