Tommy Lee News

(1/24/03, 6 p.m. ET) -- Alexus Winston, E! Wild On correspondent and Penthouse model, admitted that she wasn't happy about the pressure Tommy Lee put on her and other models--called Pets--to strip at a Penthouse/Tommy Lee event at New York City's B.B. King's Blues Club Saturday evening (January 18).

Winston told us one of her fellow Pets was very upset regarding Lee's actions at the event. "Now I didn't see this myself because I was walking off stage," Winston noted, "but he grabbed one of our fellow Penthouse Pet's tops and tried to yank on it. He didn't remove it but I think he tried to. Because he was kind of embarrassed that, like, it didn't go the way that it should have went and he was expecting it to go. But I didn't witness... I didn't see any of that. I didn't see it at all." Neither did our reporter at the club.

The former Motley Crue drummer invited Winston and some of the other Penthouse models in attendance onstage to dance to one of his songs. When the girls appeared, he then urged them to show off their assets, to which Winston refused on behalf of herself and the other girls.

"Contractually we're not allowed to do that," Winston said, when asked if Lee and the public may have been disappointed. "That's not what we do. Just because of the contents of our magazine and just because we model nude doesn't mean that we just sit there and get naked at concerts and stuff like that. I mean, that's not really the image we're trying to project. Penthouse, the contents of the magazine, it is what it is, but it's a very professional environment when we shoot our layouts. I've never stripped before--not that I'm against strippers, but I don't do that. If you wanna see me naked, buy our magazine."

She said she tried to talk to Lee about it, but the rocker refused to address the issue.

-- Darren Davis, New York

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