Pamela Anderson Reflects on Being Hired as Playmate for Donald Trump's Birthday Party

Pamela Anderson was once paid to attend a birthday party for President Donald Trump.

The actress, model, and author, who stars in Gia Coppola-directed drama The Last Showgirl, was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week and briefly spoke about being hired for the party, which she believes was in 2005. The occasion would've marked Trump's 59th birthday.

“When you’re a Playmate, they give you $500 a day to pretty much go anywhere," Anderson said around the eight-minute mark of the video below. "So I was hired, I think, at that time for a birthday party."

"Wow, how sad that he has to hire people to come to his birthday party," Kimmel joked.

Anderson previously discussed the gig with The Hollywood Reporter in 2018. "I think it was his birthday," she told the publication. "I was hired to be there. We all were paid like $500 a day. He was with a wife—I don’t know which one—but he was nothing special."

Also attending the event was Trump's third and current wife, Melania Trump, whom he married in 2005, while the twice-impeached president was previously married to Ivana Trump from 1977 to 1990 and Marla Maples from 1993 to 1999.

In 2019, Anderson shared pictures from Trump's birthday, following an open letter to the president about the pardoning of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was released in 2024.