Porn Valley- “THE Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry” not only exposes realities of the adult movie business, it also lifts the lid on mainstream stars from the real Hollywood.
In the new ReganBooks tome by Legs McNeil and Jennifer Osborne with Peter Pavia, porn star Rhonda Jo Petty recalls that Tony Curtis used to frequent adult film sets and parties. At one bash, “he was smoking cocaine [and] got himself locked in the bathroom, and he’s threatening to commit suicide,” she says. “It took them like two hours to talk him out.”
The book also reports:
Sammy Davis Jr. had sessions with “Deep Throat” star Linda Lovelace. Once Lovelace was performing her trademark trick on Davis while he and her ex-husband, pimp/pornographer Chuck Traynor, were watching a porn film. Davis whispered to her that he wanted to learn her technique.
Former porn star Kristen Steen relates that Warren Beatty once invited her to his hotel room. She was thrilled until she heard what he had in mind – a foursome with her and two other girls. “I was very insulted by that,” Steen says. “I wouldn’t have minded having a party with just him, but not with these two other girls.”
Beatty also allegedly slept with porn star Sharon Mitchell, who notes, “Warren seemed to know a lot about the porn business, [and] he knew a lot about sexually transmitted diseases.”
Traci Lords was famous for her voraciousness. On some porn shoots she’d hook up with the entire crew. Director Humphrey Knipe recalls she bedded “assistants, Realtors, just about everybody.”
Porn star Gloria Leonard says “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” star Robin Leach was a wonderful lover: “He was sensitive – he wasn’t in a rush – and he was very big on foreplay.”
Ron Jeremy once watched porn star Savannah (who later killed herself) get busy with Motley Crue’s Vince Neil. Neil recounts how Savannah once nearly overdosed on drugs during a Hawaiian vacation they took together. “We brought all the pills and coke we could carry with us,” he recalls.
Savannah also once put on an X-rated show in public with Slash from Guns N’ Roses. “She always liked to be in a public place,” Slash recounts. “That’s when she got the horniest.”