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The Lawful Anecdote of Rand Gauthier, Who Stole and Sold the Sex Tape in Hulu’s Pam and Tommy

When Rand Gauthier (performed by Seth Rogen in Hulu’s Pam & Tommy) shopped the video around Hollywood—a recording he stole from outdated employer (and Mötley Crüe drummer) Tommy Lee’s dwelling, exhibiting Lee and newlywed Pamela Anderson having sex—he wished to assassinate Lee.

As an replace, the opposite perceived to occur. Lee looked unfazed by the leak, which now not simplest boosted his rock important person celeb role nonetheless additionally gave him fodder and publicity for future materials, at the side of a memoir. “I made his career, is what took place,” Gauthier told Rolling Stone almost 20 years later.

At the time of that interview in 2014, Gauthier modified into silent an electrician, and he modified into rising marijuana out of his California garage. He modified into 57.

That account, retold in Pam & Tommy, is valid. Nonetheless while the sequence of events remains largely moral (or a minimal of, in accordance to the accounts from Gauthier, who seemingly exaggerated some crucial functions of the Lee heist), its participants are a miniature bit varied.

As in the Rolling Stone article upon which the series relies mostly, Gauthier—and now not the eponymous duo of Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson—takes heart stage; he is the story’s central resolve, its instigator.

Right here’s the valid account of the one that stole the tape.

Who’s Rand Gauthier?

Seth Rogen as Rand Gauthier.

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In line with the Rolling Stone part cited above, Gauthier grew up in L.A., where his mother modified into a Jehovah’s Gaze. He developed an curiosity in cults and conspiracies.

Before he met Tommy Lee, Gauthier modified into a porn important person—of kinds. He had dated a porn actress in the 1980s and later joined her on digicam the employ of the title “Austin Moore.” Gauthier performed in over 70 adult movies into the ’90s. He even married his costar, divorced, and then began dating more actresses.

Gauthier additionally labored as an electrician, and modified into hired to work on Lee’s dwelling renovation. He labored for three months sooner than he modified into fired.

Lee owed Gauthier $20,000 for the work, nonetheless he modified into bored stiff with Lee and Anderson and trusty wished out. When he and the popular contractor came relief to rep their instruments, the Rolling Stone account says, Lee pointed a shotgun at Gauthier and mentioned, “gather the fuck off my property.”

Gauthier proceeded to scope out the Lee set apart of dwelling, staring at for revenge. He told reporter Amanda Chicago Lewis that he historical a white fur rug to disguise himself as the couple’s canines, and so elude security cameras.

Lewis describes Gauthier:

“Right here modified into a man who, on his 18th birthday, lost his virginity to a Vegas hooker. Right here modified into an L.A. boy through and through, struggling to dissociate himself from his illustrious father, who starred in the recent Bye Bye Birdie on Broadway and modified into Hymie the Robot on the Sixties sitcom Accumulate Tidy. By the Nineties, Gauthier had shining, tanned muscular tissues, abundant shoulders, an enthusiastic, trusting smile and a enlighten that’s equal ingredients surfer and Ernie from Sesame Road. Most folk brush off him as a doofus, a conspiracy theorist who likes rapid, essential autos and dating porn stars. He even did some scenes himself, and spent his time putting around an adult-film studio, constructing sets and chatting up starlets. A studio troll, they known as him.”

Gauthier claims he went up to the couple’s mattress room sooner than stealing the protected. He sawed it begin after he left the property.

Gauthier modified into then working at a porn studio in North Hollywood. He took the tape there first where he and a partner made copies sooner than destroying the recent. They then went out taking a demonstration for a distributor nonetheless had been rebuked multiple times for now not having signed releases from Lee and Anderson.

Sebastian Stan (lawful) as Tommy Lee.

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The two at top got funding from a man with connections to a Fresh York mob family. They would maybe promote on-line and sell and ship the tapes to traders. Gauthier modified into managing shipments while these around him had been selling copies of the tapes themselves for immediate money.

The tapes got out and Gauthier modified into quickly accosted by a biker gang who had been looking down the distributors. (It modified into rumored that Lee historical connections with the Hell’s Angeles to search out Gauthier.)

By now, the tape modified into in all places, and Gauthier modified into so paranoid of retribution he spent over a year in hiding with associates. Masses of net sites had been already selling the tape themselves, and in 1997 Gauthier and his partner had been forced to shut the positioning, silent now not having paid their mob-linked backer. Gauthier ended up working as a collector for the mob to pay relief his fragment of the debt.

Lily James (lawful) as Pamela Anderson.

Lily James (lawful) as Pamela Anderson

Because the tape circulated past all and sundry’s adjust, Gauthier centered on his electrical work and distanced himself from associates who believed he modified into hoarding big profits. He later moved up the wing to gather a long way flung from it all.

When requested about the tape in 2014, he mentioned he generally tells folks he stole it, even when they don’t think him. Of the tape itself, he mentioned, “It modified into elegant. They’re in love and a pair and they’re trusty having stress-free with each and every varied, and I believe that’s big. I’m jealous. I need I had something admire that.”

Where is Rand Gauthier now?

An on-line bio and what appears to be Gauthier’s blog command that he is silent working as an electrician. He’s additionally writing a e-book, which is ready to research “the persona of magic and symbolism in faith.”

Joshua St Clair is an editorial assistant at Men’s Health Journal. 

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