Atasha Chizaah Jefferson is an American reality TV personality and social media influencer. She is better known by her professional name, Tommie Lee. Lee, a New Jersey native, worked as a concert organizer before becoming well-known and successful as a cast member of VH1’s “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta.” from 2003, she has been incarcerated multiple times due to her chaotic life from childhood. Her crimes have included theft, violence, shoplifting, identity theft, forgery, and disorderly behavior. While incarcerated, she even gave birth to her oldest daughter. In the first season of “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta,” Lee made his first appearance in a cameo. She joined the main cast the following season after joining as a supporting cast member in season five. She currently wants to launch a career in rap. 2017 saw the release of her debut single, “Payback.”
Career of Tommie Lee
Lee was a concert organizer before she made her breakthrough as a reality TV star. She made her television debut in 2012 as a guest at Rasheeda’s listening party during the premiere season of “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta.” She made a comeback four years later in the “Of Kings and Queens” season five premiere in a supporting role. She had a tense connection with Joseline Hernandez in addition to her rivalry with Tiarra Becca; reportedly, things got so bad that Lee attempted to run Hernandez over with a car.
Lee was promoted to the show’s main cast in season six. The season followed the introduction of her wine label, Le’Don. But Lee has long struggled with drinking, which ultimately made things more challenging. She continued to drink excessively in front of the cameras in season seven, which damaged her connection with her family and put her future as a rapper in jeopardy.
In 2018, Lee appeared on the main series of “Love & Hip Hop” (New York). She has also been in “Leave It to Stevie,” another reality show on VH1. She released her debut rap song, “Payback,” in January 2017.
Disputes and Scandals
After pushing her daughter’s head into a school locker in October 2018, Lee was taken into custody on charges of first-degree child cruelty, simple battery, and aggravated assault. She was then had to release herself from police custody by posting a $27,000 bond. But she was jailed again for stalking the youngster just twenty-four hours later.
Personal & Family Life
On June 19, 1984, Tommie Lee was born in New Jersey. Samantha is the name of her mother. She has two sisters, Versace and Rajaysha, and two brothers, Tahaan and Reggie. Lee and her mother have an extremely difficult connection. Even though it has been made clear throughout the episode that they are in love, there are moments when they are openly nasty toward one another. Lee ran away from her house as a teenager. After that, her mother called the juvenile police, which led to the younger woman being arrested. According to Lee, her incarceration changed every aspect of her life. Additionally, her connection with her sister Versace is complex. It is said that they haven’t spoken to one another in years. Lee eventually relocated to Atlanta, Georgia.
Lee experienced a variety of problems as a child. She has been arrested multiple times for charges including disorderly conduct, identity fraud, forgery, shoplifting, theft, and violence since 2003. She’d even taken over a bus once.
When she got pregnant with her first kid, she was still in her teens, and the child was born while she was in jail. Samaria was her name given by Lee. She later disclosed that she had to urinate on herself to catch the attention of the jail officials, who were not very interested in her at the time of her delivery. She was very hesitant to share any of Samaria’s photos on social media and she never disclosed the name of Samaria’s father. Later on, though, Lee did post some images of her daughter on Instagram. She went on to have another daughter in the following years, naming her Havalli.
William Cortez Robinson, better known as rapper Scrapp Deleon, and Lee were once romantically involved. One of “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta’s” main plots is around the relationships between Lee, Deleon, and his son’s mother Tiarra Becca. Since then, they have split up, and in 2016 Deleon admitted to trafficking in marijuana and was given a five-year prison sentence. It was announced that he had been freed from prison in September 2018.
Various reports state that Lee is currently seeing fashion designer and model Ian Connor. Similar to Lee, Connor faces numerous legal challenges, including accusations of rape from twenty-one separate women.
Net worth of Tommie Lee
The estimated net worth of Tommie Lee is about $4 million.