Back in February, we posted a photo of a dark-haired young man with a sweep of hair and a slightly guarded look, and we gave you only two clues. His actress mom was “a real Baybe,” and his dad was a rock star. More than 2,500 of you clicked through to see whether you had guessed right. That face belongs to Dylan Jagger Lee, the younger son of Pamela Anderson and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee.
Dylan is 28 now, and the shaggy dark hair and lanky frame that made you think of his father are only part of his story. He and his big brother Brandon grew up in a family the 1990s tabloids never left alone, and both have found their own way into fashion, music and Hollywood. This summer, one of them took the biggest step of all, and his mother has admitted it caught her completely off guard.
How Did A ‘Baywatch’ Star And A Mötley Crüe Drummer End Up Raising Two Boys?
Before most of America knew her name, Pamela Anderson was Lisa, the original Tool Time girl handing Tim Allen his tools on Home Improvement from 1991 to 1993. She left the job to run in slow motion as C.J. Parker on Baywatch, where she spent five seasons from 1992 to 1997, and if you watched back then, you remember the red swimsuit before you remember a single plot. (Our ‘Baywatch’ cast then and now shows where the rest of the lifeguards ended up.)
She married Tommy Lee on a beach in Cancún in February 1995, and the boys came fast. Brandon Thomas Lee was born in Malibu on June 5, 1996, and Dylan Jagger Lee followed on December 29, 1997, according to both TODAY and InStyle. The marriage ended in 1998, and the parents later settled on joint custody. Anderson, who turned 59 on July 1, has never pretended those years were easy. “Brandon and Dylan are true miracles, considering their gene pool,” she wrote in her memoir, and she has said simply that “they saved me.”
Both boys were sent to boarding school in Canada, far from the paparazzi who trailed their parents around Los Angeles. When they came back, they came back with plans of their own, and Dylan was the first to step in front of a camera on purpose.
What Did Dylan Do With That Famous Face?
His first big job was the kind most models wait years for. In 2016, at 18, Dylan walked for Saint Laurent, and he later signed with EWG Management and worked with labels including Coach and Hugo Boss, according to TODAY and InStyle. In February of that year he turned up at the Saint Laurent show at the Hollywood Palladium with his mother and brother, all three of them in black and white, looking like a family that had decided to get into fashion together.
Music pulled harder, though, which won’t surprise anyone who grew up with “Dr. Feelgood” on the car radio. Dylan spent five years in the synth-pop duo Midnight Kids before leaving in 2021, saying he was “moving in a different musical direction that feels more true to me,” as Dancing Astronaut reported. He then started Motel 7 with his friend Anton Khabbaz and released the single “Are We There Yet.”
The best part of that story is how his famous father found out. “He didn’t even know I was in a band until four days ago,” Dylan told WWD in 2021. “He was pretty pissed when he figured it out. He was, like, ‘Dude, what the f**k? You didn’t tell me you were singing and s**t, that’s so dope.'” Tommy Lee, who turned 64 on October 3, spent this summer back behind the drum kit on Mötley Crüe’s Return of the Carnival of Sins tour, so the son of a rock star is still very much the son of a working one.
Dylan’s quiet streak runs in one direction, and his older brother runs in the other.
Where Did Big Brother Brandon Land?
Brandon, who turned 30 in June, made his film debut in 2017 with a part in the big-screen Baywatch, a nice wink at his mother’s old beach. He went on to Sierra Burgess Is a Loser and the reality series The Hills: New Beginnings, and he launched a golf-wear line called Swingers Club in 2021. His real calling turned out to be behind the camera. Brandon produced the 2023 Netflix documentary Pamela, a Love Story, which earned him an Emmy nomination, and he was also a producer on The Last Showgirl, the 2024 film that brought her a Golden Globe nomination.
“I would say she is a protector, a voice for people and things that don’t have a voice,” Brandon has said of his mom. The three of them now run a family company, And-Her-Sons Productions, and their first announced project is a TV series reboot of her 1996 cult film Barb Wire, with Brandon and Dylan producing alongside her, according to People and Far Out Magazine. Both sons also turned up on her cooking and gardening shows, where she helped them fix up the Los Angeles house they bought together. (We first introduced you to Brandon and Dylan back in 2024.)
Brandon’s personal life caught up with his career this fall. He proposed to Katarina Demetriades, a model and New York University philosophy student, on August 29 during a trip to Indonesia, and the couple announced it with a simple “meet my fiancé 8.29.2026,” according to Hello! and People. Their mother answered in the comments. “I’m so happy for you angels. You are a beautiful match,” she wrote, adding, “Now the adventure begins. May the force be with you.” Hello! reports the couple plans to marry in late 2027, but by then Brandon will not be the first of the brothers to say “I do.”
The Summer Pamela Anderson Became A Mother-In-Law
Dylan got there first. He proposed to his longtime girlfriend, interior designer Paula Bruss, in Saint-Tropez in July 2024, and this summer the couple went back to the same corner of the French Riviera and married at a private villa in Les Parcs, as Vogue and Hello! both reported. Paula wore a gown by Oscar de la Renta, and Pamela, as mother of the groom, chose a custom mustard brocade dress with a small cape from the same house.
Dylan made one special request for the day, and it was about his mother’s hair. “Mom, can you be blonde for my wedding?” he asked her, as Anderson recalled on Today in February. The woman who had let her famous platinum grow out went back to the color, and she told People that “it feels good.”
Nothing prepared her for the wedding itself. “It’s so emotional,” Anderson told People afterward, saying the feeling “kind of catches you off guard.” Dylan and Paula had been together for nine years, and yet the moment still landed hard. “Dylan is not mine anymore,” she said. “He and Paula belong together.”
Today Anderson lives a slower life in her restored family home on Vancouver Island, and later this month she heads to Italy to accept a lifetime achievement award at the Torino Film Festival. She has already told People what she hopes comes next for her boys, and it has nothing to do with movies. Becoming a grandmother is “in the plan,” she said. “I can’t wait to be a grandma.”
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