There's been a trend the last few years that's both as infuriating as it is validating: how the world did women wrong. From Britney Spears to Janet Jackson to Evan Rachel Wood, tabloids in the '90s and early 2000s painted famous women in a certain harsh light, as unstable, promiscuous and somehow deserving of the often-terrible abuse they were enduring, not even really behind closed doors.
One of the era's targets was Pamela Anderson. Launched into a modeling career after being discovered in her early 20s at a football game, she became a global celebrity starring as C.J. in the popular action drama series "Baywatch." Though she continued to act and model steadily, media homed in on her ill-fated romances, particularly her first marriage with rocker Tommy Lee. After Lee was arrested and served six months for spousal abuse, that marriage ended. But not before a private sex tape belonging to the couple was stolen and distributed.
