“Bad boys came after me”: Pamela Anderson’s complete dating history

Romance sparked twice for Pamela and film producer, Jon. While the exact year they dated in the 80s is unclear, Pamela was 19 when they met at the Playboy mansion. 

“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,” John told The Hollywood Reporter in 2017.

“We ended up living together.”

When Jon proposed in the 1980s, Pamela turned him down due to their 22-year age gap. But this wasn’t the last we’d hear of Pamela and Jon. However, there are a lot of contradicting reports about their second go at love. 

Reports claimed they reconnected in 2019, and wed in January 2020 for an incredible 12 days before splitting. 

Speaking on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, Pamela claimed: “I was never married to Jon Peters” and that he called her son and offered $20 million if he could convince Pamela to marry him. 

“We had lunch and then he had a bunch of flowers there and he had everybody, all the family was there — I’ve known his daughters — and it was just a funny moment,” Pamela admitted. “But I never married Jon. It was never a marriage, but we were just laughing about that.”

However, Jon allegedly wrote in an email to Page Six that Pamela wanted to get married and he had paid off her debts. 

“Needless to say that when she texted me that she wanted to get married, it was kind of a dream come true — even though I was engaged to someone else and the lady was moving in,” he said. “I dropped everything for Pam.”

“She had almost US$200,000 (approx. $298,000) in bills and no way to pay it, so I paid it and this is the thanks I get. There’s no fool like an old fool.”

After meeting at the Playboy mansion, Pamela and the Happy Days star dated for about three years. During a romantic moment together, Scott almost proposed. 

“Don’t ever take a shower with a woman, because you’ll probably end up proposing to her,” he said in 2007. “There was a lot of soap, and I was making a speech, but my entire being was going, ‘What are you doing? Shut up!’ But I didn’t stop.”

It was a rock n roll era for the ages. However, Pamela’s relationship with the Poison frontman was short-lived after Bret’s alleged monogamy issues. 

Despite their on-and-off again nature, Pamela described professional surfer Kelly Slater as her first “big love.” 

“Kelly and I dated all the time. Between lots of boyfriends and lots of girlfriends for him, too, but it wasn’t just me,” she admitted in her 2023 documentary Pamela, a Love Story. “He definitely was a heartbreaker. He was a free spirit.”

But their relationship is considerably messy, because Pamela married Tommy Lee while she was still dating Kelly.  

“I was dating Kelly Slater at the time, and I was supposed to go see him in Florida and meet his family. My first phone call was to him to tell him I was married. He’s like, ‘What?!’ That was horrible.’”

Perhaps one of Pamela’s most tumultuous love stories was with Motley Crue drummer, Tommy Lee. 

The pair met on New Year’s Eve 1994 when Pamela sent a shot of Goldschläger to him at a club. “I pushed my way into [her] booth, slid over her girlfriends’ laps and forced myself a space right next to her. Then I grabbed her face and just licked the side of it, from chin to temple,” Tommy recalled in his memoir Tommyland. 

In February 1995, the pair reunited in Cancun when Tommy asked for Pamela’s hand in marriage. In classic Pamela fashion, she said ‘I do’ in a white bikini on the beach. 

During their three years of marriage, they welcomed sons: Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee. 

Pamela filed for divorce initially in 1996 before the couple got back together. But she filed once again in February 1998, citing irreconcilable differences hours after he charged with spousal and child abuse, as per People. 

In May 1998, Tommy was sentenced to six months in jail following charges of spousal abuse, as per Los Angeles Times. “Pamela and I were fighting all the time,” Tommy confessed in his 2001 memoir, The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band. 

Following this, Tommy and Pamela had an on-and-off relationship. They rekindled their relationship in 2008 before reportedly splitting in 2009 despite a few passionate kisses in public. 

“There was Tommy and then there was nobody else,” Pamela confessed to People in 2015. “He was the love of my life.”

“There’s a connection there that will always be. We’re good friends, we’re getting better at co-parenting our kids. He’s such a supporter of mine and I’m really happy we’re on such great terms.”

Pamela dated Swedish model Marcus Schenkenberg for under a year. The pair were even engaged, but didn’t actually make it to the altar. 

Musician Kid Rock and Pamela began dating in 2001, engaged in April 2002, and split in 2003. However, their romance rekindled when they reunited in 2006 in St. Tropez on a mutual friend’s yacht. 

Kid, who said it was like they’d “never been apart”, wed Pamela that same month. She filed for divorce in November.

Pamela married Rick Salomon, a professional poker player, in October 2007 in Las Vegas. The Baywatch star filed for divorce that December, with their marriage annulled in March 2008, citing fraud.

However in 2014, they wed a second time before Pamela filed for divorce again a year later. 

Pamela and French soccer player Adil Rami dated for roughly two years. It was quite the dramatic split. 

Confirming their split, Pamela took to Instagram to accuse Rami of living a double life and cheating. Rami subsequently denied the allegations. 

Pamela’s fifth marriage was to builder Dan Hayhurst, who met while he was renovating her home. 

“I’m exactly where I need to be — in the arms of a man who truly loves me,” Pamela told Daily Mail in January 2012. However, this mentality changed following their divorce when Pamela told The Sunday Times that the marriage was “stupid.” 

Adding their marriage, “was worse than any of them. And I realized, ‘Oh my God, I’m caught up in this whole thing, what am I doing?’ It just struck me, this is another disaster. … I was paying for everything, cooking, cleaning for everybody. And so I just got out of it as soon as I could.”