What Happened To Rand Gauthier From The Pam & Tommy Scandal?

Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, more popularly known collectively as "Pam and Tommy," had a love story like no other. To say that they had a whirlwind romance would be an understatement, with the two marrying a few weeks after their initial meeting.

Per Entertainment Tonight, the "Baywatch" star and the Mötley Crüe drummer met at a New Year's Eve party in 1994, and come February 1995, they got together in Cancún and tied the knot days after hanging out properly for the first time. "Tommy and I started out having a very intense, fun, crazy relationship because we were two kids," Anderson told Interview Magazine in 1998. "We were madly in love. It wasn't like drugs or alcohol or anything like that. We were both just really passionate about life." But their little love bubble popped when they returned to Los Angeles, and reality hit. "It was like we had gone from the total-freedom paradise of Cancún to this hellish prison of Hollywood Babylon," Lee wrote in his band's biography, "The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band."

It was 1998 when their life was truly upended. A home video the couple had recorded in the early months of their relationship spread like wildfire without their consent, with Rolling Stone reporting that it had clinched $77 million in sales in the first 12 months of release. The story has changed over the years, but the culprit was said to be an electrician named Rand Gauthier, who had worked on Anderson and Lee's shared home years back.

Rand Gauthier never had plans on doing Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson wrong, until an incident triggered him to exact revenge on Lee. Gauthier was initially hired by the couple to help renovate their Malibu home, but per Rolling Stone, he was fired due to botching the job, with the musician refusing to pay him $20,000 for services rendered. He was set on letting it all go, but Lee allegedly pointed a gun at him and his co-worker when they returned to the property to retrieve their things. "Get the *** off my property," Lee apparently said.

It was then that Gauthier concocted a plan to steal from the rockstar. Seeing as he was already familiar with the couple's home, he was able to gain access to their safe, which reportedly included jewelry, luxury watches, firearms, and of course, the infamous Pam and Tommy sex tape. Gauthier then collaborated with other people to sell it, knowing that he basically struck gold with his discovery.

And while he technically admitted to committing a crime, Gauthier never went to prison, nor received any serious legal repercussions. He had been stiffed off profits from the tape, sure, but for the most part, he got out of the whole thing unscathed. Per Decider, he's currently residing in Santa Rosa, California, where he's growing marijuana. He also has a website that says that he's a "writer and a researcher with the goal of developing polyacrylamide gels for new purposes."

In his Rolling Stone interview, Rand Gauthier was quite specific in recounting how he pulled off the heist in Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson's home. But in 2022, when the Hulu series "Pam and Tommy" hit the airwaves, he walked back on his statements and claimed that he was barely involved with the theft at all.

Speaking with The Sun, he said: "After the sex tape was stolen, I told a capo (boss) with the Gambino crime family, 'Everyone thinks this is me, I don't want it on my shoulders.'" The mafia leader apparently wanted him to be the fall guy, and he was "made an offer I couldn't refuse." He noted that he had "nothing to do with stealing the sex tape and I didn't make one cent from it."

Funnily enough, he told Rolling Stone that he likes taking credit for the theft, even though no one believes he pulled it off. He even looks back at Lee and Anderson fondly. "It was cute. They're in love and a couple and they're just having fun with each other, and I think that's great," he said. "I'm jealous. I wish I had something like that."