Tommy Lee was videotaped attacking a cameraman as he and wife Pamela Anderson Lee were leaving a Sunset Strip nightclub, authorities said.
Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Jim Hellmold said the attack came at 2 a.m. Sunday as the couple were leaving the Viper Room."The (cameraman) alleges he was assaulted by Tommy Lee. (Lee) alleges he was pushing a camera away," Hellmold said of the Motley Crue drummer.
"The camera was apparently filming his wife."
The cameraman was identified as Henry Trappler, 30, and works for Paparazzi TV, one of the leading suppliers of celebrity videotape. He suffered a broken pelvis and was being treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center under an assumed name, said E.L. Woody, Paparazzi TV spokesman.
Trapper filed a misdemeanor battery report against Lee.
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