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"In one theft, we'd lost a big wad of cash and all our jewelry, guns,
and irreplaceable memories," Lee wrote in the book, co-written by
Anthony Bozza. One of those memories: a 54-minute home video
featuring Lee and Anderson, a sex symbol for a generation thanks
to "Baywatch" and Playboy magazine, having about eight minutes
of sex on their honeymoon.

"We did not expect to see one of those memories being sold on TV
a few weeks later," Lee wrote.

What began as a disgruntled electrician stealing a safe turned into

an infamous '90s soap opera of the Playmate and the heavy metal
drummer that spanned far beyond sex and rock 'n' roll. The
Anderson-Lee video made adult websites and distributors an
estimated $77 million in legal sales in its first 12 months, according
to Rolling Stone, and became what many considered to be "the
greatest love story ever sold." In the process, it ignited a
controversial genre of celebrity fascination that has gripped the
media and public for years, with some believing the sex tapes in
the years that followed involving Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian,

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and the headlines they got on late-night television and tabloids,

helped catapult them to a new level of fame in the early 2000s.

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