A Pamela Lee Tape Again Makes Waves

Pamela Anderson Lee’s continuing overexposure. . . . Maltese abuse allegations dog the skies. . . . A couple of cases are settled, while another refuses to die.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back onto the Internet comes word that there’s another Pamela Anderson Lee sex tape lurking out there. This one is said to be even more graphic than the now notorious honeymoon frolics of the former “Baywatch” actress and her tattooed Motley Crue husband, Tommy Lee.

Once again, it’s the same ol’ Pam, but with a different rocker. This time, Poison’s Bret Michaels is the guy in the video. The 40-minute video also reportedly shows the actress disrobing to New Age music.

Michaels is busy directing a different kind of film with Charlie Sheen. The rocker is also the one suing, claiming invasion of privacy. Michaels said in court papers that he turned down large sums of money for the tape, which he and the actress made for their personal use while they were dating--before she married Lee.

Michaels’ lawyer, Edwin F. McPherson, obtained a court order from U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson, blocking the Internet Entertainment Group from distributing its latest sex tape over the Net as planned Monday. A hearing has been scheduled for Feb. 2.

Pamela and Tommy Lee recently settled a lawsuit over their purloined honeymoon tape with Internet Entertainment and its twentysomething multimillionaire founder, Seth Warshawsky. An investigation continues into that tape’s disappearance from a safe in the couple’s garage.

It was not known how the latest tape came into the group’s possession.

“Pam had a copy. Bret had a copy. Bret still has his copy. That’s all I know,” said attorney McPherson.

The injunction caught Internet Entertainment’s lawyers Stephen T. Owens and Jake Broderick by surprise. “It’s a sneak attack,” said Owens, adding that Internet Entertainment had been corresponding with Michaels’ handlers since Dec. 31. Owens said he will seek to move up the hearing date.

He added that his client went out of his way to be courteous to Michaels in keeping him informed of the group’s plans. “If we’d wanted to post it on the Internet, we could have done it a week ago,” Owens said.

UNFRIENDLY SKIES? As her lawsuit against American Airlines moves toward a recently set Feb. 23 trial date, Beverly Hills matron Marcelle Becker has hired a publicist to handle the court of public opinion.

The suit involves her allegations of manhandling by the crew, which she claims also resulted in the death of her little Maltese, Dom Perignon.

Becker maintains in a lawsuit that airline personnel tied her up with the dog’s leash when she became upset after Dom escaped from his Louis Vuitton carrier while flying first class in July 1995. The dog later died from the stress, she alleges.

Becker’s publicist, Edward Lozzi, said she plans to donate a portion of any jury award to charity. He also said Becker, an active Republican Party fund-raiser, has requested that some of her highly placed friends--including Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.)--look into the situation.

Since the incident, Becker said, “I have not been able to board any airline without feelings of absolute trauma. The fear of the memory of what happened to me is debilitating.”

American Airlines does not comment on matters in litigation.

PEACE AT THE GETTY: The Getty’s curator of drawings has settled his sexual harassment suit against the center. Because the parties agreed not to discuss the terms, there was no immediate response to his allegations that some of the works in Los Angeles’ new cultural showplace might be fakes.

Nicholas J.L. Turner, a former curator at the British Museum, sued after his admitted affair with an underling ended nastily. Attorney Peggy Garrity filed the papers last month in Los Angeles Superior Court, literally on the eve of the Getty’s grand opening gala.

In the suit, Turner contended that his female supervisors refused to hear his complaints about harassment when the woman threatened to ruin him after he ended the affair.

All that the parties would say about the settlement was that Turner is going “on study leave” so he can write Volume 4 of a catalog of the Getty’s European drawings.

KAHN JOB: Lawyer/stand-up comedian Kenneth Kahn settled his Los Angeles Superior Court case after defendants Sony Pictures, Milos Forman and Oliver Stone publicly proclaimed for all to hear that Kahn did contribute to making “The People vs. Larry Flynt.”

Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but the three defendants issued the following joint statement: “Mr. Kahn met with director Milos Forman offering insight and facts into the period in which Mr. Kahn represented Mr. Flynt in federal District Court on a contempt of court decision. In the movie, the part played by actor Ed Norton during the contempt hearing was, in fact, Mr. Kahn in real life.”

Got that?

Kahn claimed in his lawsuit that he had been promised he would be able to play himself in the movie. It didn’t happen. And, Kahn’s suit contended, the film made it seem that attorney Alan Isaacman represented Flynt when the Hustler publisher wore a diaper made out of an American flag when, in fact, Kahn was Flynt’s lawyer during that courtroom spectacle.

It wasn’t Kahn’s only courtroom adventure worthy of the big screen. He also represented Andrew Dalton Lee, the Snowman of “The Falcon and the Snowman,” in the espionage case that became the movie starring Sean Penn.

Other clients have included Ike Turner and, more recently, a mentally ill client who plunged an ice pick into Kahn’s chest in a Torrance courtroom.