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Pamela Anderson. A $20 million fortune. She walked onto Conan’s stage in a black dress cut so low the audience forgot to breathe. And just months earlier, her stolen sex tape had been watched by millions around the world. One shot on a stadium screen at a football game, and within months she was on the cover of Playboy. Around $25,000 per cover. One 1997 issue alone reportedly paid her $450,000. She did it 14 times, more than any woman in the magazine’s history. In 2016, she posed for Playboy’s very last nude issue, and gave the money to charity. In the video below, she sits down next to Conan O’Brien in New York. The crowd is still cheering. Conan can barely keep his eyes on his notes. She laughs at his jokes, flips her hair, and plays the blonde from Baywatch perfectly. Nobody in that studio would guess what she’s going through. The tapes were private. Home videos she’d filmed with her new husband, Tommy Lee. Someone broke into their home, stole them, and started selling copies. She fought it in court, but couldn’t stop it. And from that moment on, every late-night host in America had the same punchline. She kept smiling anyway. Then came Baywatch. A show broadcast in 150 countries. By season four, she was the highest-paid actress on it, reportedly earning up to $300,000 an episode. Her red swimsuit was on bedroom walls across the planet. She had the fame. She had the money. What she didn’t have was control over her own story. That took 25 years. When Hulu made a series about the stolen tape, she refused to watch it. Instead, she told the story herself: a Netflix documentary, a memoir, a Broadway stage. And then the moment nobody saw coming. Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. She’d gone home to Canada, ready to step away for good. Then a director offered her the lead in a small film called The Last Showgirl. She took it, and at 57, Pamela Anderson earned her first ever Golden Globe nomination. The late-night jokes stopped a long time ago. She’s the one who’s still here. Be honest: did you laugh at those jokes too?