John T. Bone posts on www.johntbone.com: I read Gene’s site a lot maybe a couple of times a day. I like the fact that he gathers together the news that is pertinent or interesting to our industry, if it wasn’t for him I would have little idea of what was going on outside of my little world.
This morning I was reading the latest guff about Linda Lovelace, www.xxxdeepthroat.com, and Chuck Traynor. Obviously it was written by somebody who knows nothing of the people involved, as most ‘normal’ news is, I wondered why nobody ever asked the people who were around at the time what the real truth was.
I met Chuck Traynor years ago in Las Vegas where he was a major gun dealer. He is a big scary guy with a magnetic personality and at the time had the most beautiful girlfriend a man could wish for. I don’t remember her name but she was the cover girl on Soldier of Fortune magazine many times. As big and scary as Chuck was she wore the pants in that family and Chuck did as he was told, so much for the monster.
As for Linda, I missed her by a couple of years, but she had dated ‘Ernie’ the lighting guy for a long time and he worked for me in the early 80’s. During lunch breaks Ernie used to regale us with stories of her turning up on sets where he was working in a Limo with bags of cocaine and whisking him off to hotels for nights of unbridled sex, sneaking onto sets and having sex with him in closets or bathrooms and many other stories of her pursuing him to the point of obsession. The major stars of the time, John Leslie, Joey Silvera, Ronnie the Hedgehog all worked for me and had been privy to her behavior, they nodded and laughed as they knew the stories were true.
Linda Lovelace like most submissive co-dependant druggy whores constantly turned her life over to her boyfriend of the moment. If she was a ‘prisoner’ she was a ‘prisoner’ by choice and design. Chuck had no respect for her and told her to do outragous things, like fuck dogs at parties just to see the extent of her self loathing, she did everything he asked which further diminished their relationship. She behaved like a stupid whore, he treated her like one, text book co-dependency.
After Chuck she continued in her life style of sex and drugs and porno for years but this is never reported.In later years she sobered up and like so many recovered, alcoholic, druggy whores she could not deal with the truth of her former life so she invented justifications for her excesses.
There are many myths and legends in the history of porn but the industry is still young enough that the folks who were there are still around, if you want to know the truth just ask!