Linda Lovelace
Birthdate:	January 10, 1949(1949-01-10)
Birth location:	The Bronx, New York, USA
Birth name:	Linda Susan Boreman
Date of death:	April 22, 2002 (aged 53)
Height:	5 ft 8 in (1. Birthday is the name given to the date of the anniversary of a person's birth Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Death is the termination of the biological functions that define living Organisms It refers both to a specific Events 1500 - Portuguese Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Human height varies according to both "nature" and "nurture". A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit Inches redirects here To see the Les Savy Fav album see Inches. 73 m)
Ethnicity:	Caucasian
Alias(es):	Linda Lovelace
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Linda Susan Boreman (January 10, 1949 – April 22, 2002), better known by her stage name, Linda Lovelace, became famous after starring in the 1972 hardcore porn film Deep Throat. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International White People is the second album by Handsome Boy Modeling School. A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1500 - Portuguese Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. A stage name, also called a screen name, is a Pseudonym used by Performers and Entertainers such as Deep Throat is an American Pornographic film released in the summer of 1972, written and directed by Gerard Damiano (listed in the She later became a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement. The term anti-pornography movement is used to describe those who argue that Pornography has a variety of harmful effects such as encouragement of Human trafficking

Deep Throat was notable for beginning a brief fad of porn chic; it was also the inspiration for Bob Woodward's name of his secret Watergate source, W. Mark Felt. The term " porno chic " was first used in the early 1970s to describe the wave of Pornographic movies like Boys in the Sand, Behind the Robert "Bob" Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. The Watergate scandals were a series of Political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the Indictment of several of Nixon's William Mark Felt Sr (born August 17, 1913) is a former agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, who retired in 1973 Boreman later stated that she regretted her pornographic career and was coerced into pornography by her then-husband, Chuck Traynor. Charles "Chuck" E Traynor ( August 21, 1937 - July 22, 2002) was a US-American pornographer

Although she later became an advocate against pornography, Boreman is still famous for her depictions of deep throat fellatio. Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of Sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer Deep throat is a sexual act in Fellatio, in which the whole erect Penis, down to the Testicles or further is taken into the mouth and throat Fellatio, also called fellation, is Oral sex performed upon the Penis. While she continued to use the Lovelace name in books and for other commercial purposes, she stated that she generally preferred to be called Linda Boreman.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Childhood and teenage years 1.2 Pornography career 1.3 Family and friends reaction 1.4 Anti-pornography activism 1.5 Later career and death 1.6 After-death 2 Partial filmography 3 Books 4 References 5 External links

Biography

Childhood and teenage years

Boreman was born in The Bronx, New York City,^[1] the daughter of a policeman and a woman she claimed was strict. The City of New York Her parents were Roman Catholic and Boreman attended Catholic schools, including St. John the Baptist in Yonkers, New York, and Maria Regina High School in Hartsdale, New York. Yonkers is the fourth largest city in the US State of New York (behind Rochester, Buffalo, and New York City) and the largest city in Maria Regina is a four year high school located in Hartsdale NY Hartsdale is a hamlet and a census-designated place (CDP located in the town of Greenburgh, Westchester County New York. In school, she was nicknamed "Miss Holy Holy" because she kept her dates at a safe distance. When Boreman was 16, the family moved to Florida. Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the ^[2] In her autobiography "Ordeal" (1980), she stated that she gave birth to a son when she was 20 years old in 1969, and that her mother put him up for adoption. Adoption is the act of legally placing a child with a Parent or parents other than those to whom they were born Boreman said she believed that the child was being put in foster care until she was ready to care for him, and was heartbroken when she learned she would never see him again. Boreman moved to New York to start a new life in 1970. While there, she was involved in a violent car crash forcing her to undergo a blood transfusion. She moved back to Florida to recover. ^[3]

Pornography career

While in Florida, recovering at her parents' place, Boreman became involved with Chuck Traynor. Charles "Chuck" E Traynor ( August 21, 1937 - July 22, 2002) was a US-American pornographer According to Boreman, Traynor was a violent and controlling man. Boreman said he forced her to move to New York, where he became her manager, pimp, and husband. A pimp (also called fleshmonger) finds and manages clients for Prostitutes and engages them in Prostitution (in Brothels in most cases and

Boreman was soon the star in a number of hardcore "stag" short features, including a bestiality film in 1971 called Dog Fucker or Dogarama. Zoophilia, from the Greek ζῷον ( zṓion, "animal" and φιλία ( philia, "friendship" or "love" is a Paraphilia She later denied doing this, only to have several of the 8 mm "loops" become available to prove otherwise. ^[4][5]

In 1972, Boreman starred in Deep Throat, perhaps the most financially successful pornographic movie in history. Pornographic films are Motion pictures with the purpose of promoting sexual arousal in the viewer often featuring depictions of sexual activity In Deep Throat all her pubic hair was shaved off and she engaged in anal sex — neither was common in pornographic films of the early-1970s. Pubic hair is Hair in the frontal Genital area the crotch, and sometimes at the top of the inside of the legs these areas form the pubic region Anal sex most often refers to the sex act involving insertion of the Penis into the Rectum.

After the success of Deep Throat Boreman appeared in only two subsequent films, including an R-rated sequel to Deep Throat entitled Deep Throat Part II which flopped (she maintained in her book Ordeal that her later porn films used leftover footage from Deep Throat). She also appeared in Playboy, Bachelor, and Esquire between 1973 and 1974. Playboy is an American Men's magazine, founded in Chicago Illinois, by Hugh Hefner and his associates which has grown into Playboy Esquire is a Men's magazine by the Hearst Corporation with a strong literary tradition Boreman attempted to break into stage and mainstream films but found it difficult to overcome the stigma of her pornographic career.

In January 1974, Boreman was arrested for possession of cocaine and amphetamines. Cocaine ( benzoylmethyl ecgonine) is a Crystalline Tropane Alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the Coca plant Amphetamine, and related drugs such as Methamphetamine are a group of drugs that act by increasing levels of Norepinephrine, Serotonin, and Dopamine Also that year, Boreman published two pro-pornography biographies. In her later suit to divorce Traynor, she claimed that Traynor had forced her into pornography at gunpoint and that in Deep Throat itself, bruises from his beatings can be seen on her legs. Traynor would go on to marry and guide the career of Marilyn Chambers, another major porn star. Marilyn Chambers (born Marilyn Ann Briggs, April 22, 1952, in Providence Rhode Island, U Boreman claimed in her 1980 autobiography Ordeal that the couple's relationship was plagued by violence, rape, forced prostitution and private pornography. Rape, also referred to as Sexual assault, is an Assault by a person involving Sexual intercourse with or Sexual penetration of another person Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money. Some of the assertions made in her book have been challenged, but others have been verified by witnesses. Marilyn Chambers was Chuck Traynor's protégé after Boreman, and Traynor himself told Vanity Fair magazine (Marilyn Chambers' interview, with Chambers on the cover) that he thought nothing of slapping his woman if she said something he did not like. Vanity Fair is an American magazine of Culture, Fashion, and Politics published by Condé Nast Publications. Linda stated that:

When in response to his suggestions I let him know I would not become involved in prostitution in any way and told him I intended to leave, [Traynor] beat me up physically and the constant mental abuse began. I literally became a prisoner, I was not allowed out his sight, not even to use the bathroom, where he watched me through a hole in the door. He slept on top of me at night, he listened to my telephone calls with a . 45 automatic eight shot pointed at me. I was beaten physically and suffered mental abuse each and every day thereafter. He undermined my ties with other people and forced me to marry him on advice from his lawyer. My initiation into prostitution was a gang rape by five men, arranged by Mr. Traynor. It was the turning point in my life. He threatened to shoot me with the pistol if I didn't go through with it. I had never experienced anal sex before and it ripped me apart. They treated me like an inflatable plastic doll, picking me up and moving me here and there. They spread my legs this way and that, shoving their things at me and into me, they were playing musical chairs with parts of my body. I have never been so frightened and disgraced and humiliated in my life. I felt like garbage. I engaged in sex acts for pornography against my will to avoid being killed. . . The lives of my family were threatened.

[This quotation is copied from Catharine A. MacKinnon, Are Women Human (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA 2006).

On the second commentator's track of the DVD of the documentary Inside Deep Throat, "Deep Throat 2" co-star Andrea True said that Chuck Traynor was a sadist and was disliked by the Deep Throat 2 cast. Inside Deep Throat is a 2005 documentary about the 1972 Pornographic film Deep Throat and its effects on American society Andrea True (born July 26, 1943, Nashville, Tennessee) is a former Adult film star who was also a Singer Similarly, a Deep Throat staff member who roomed next door to Boreman and Traynor during the filming of Deep Throat said that Traynor beat Boreman viciously after hours and sexually tortured her into obeying him in public.

In the book The Other Hollywood, by Legs McNeil, witnesses, including Gerard Damiano, the film's director, confirm that Traynor beat Boreman behind closed doors, but they also question her credibility. Roderick Edward "Legs" McNeil (b 1956 in Cheshire Connecticut) is the co-founder and a writer for Punk Magazine. Adult film actress Gloria Leonard is quoted as saying about Boreman, "This was a woman who never took responsibility for her own [. Gloria Leonard (born August 28, 1940 in The Bronx, New York) is a former pornographic actress who became the publisher of a men's . . ] choices - but instead blamed everything that happened to her in her life on porn. "

Eric Danville, a journalist who has covered the porn industry for nearly 20 years and who wrote The Complete Linda Lovelace in 2001, said Boreman never changed her version of events that had occurred 30 years earlier with Traynor. When Danville pitched his book proposal to Boreman, he wrote that she was overcome with emotion and happy that he had uncovered that the bestiality film, which she had initially denied making, was subsequently proven to not have featured her at all. In The Other Hollywood, Eric Edwards, Boreman's co-star in the bestiality films, disputes this claim.

Boreman maintained that she received no money for appearing in Deep Throat, and that the $1,250 for her appearance was taken by Traynor. In 1979 Boreman retained Victor Yannacone, a controversial attorney more frequently associated with environmental lawsuits, to sue for a portion of the several hundred million dollars the film had earned. The suit was dismissed without trial by the Nassau County Supreme Court in Mineola, New York and was never appealed.

In 1974, Boreman married Larry Marchiano and they had two children, Dominic in 1977 and Lindsey in 1980. As quoted in The Other Hollywood, Boreman painted an unflattering portrait of Marchiano, claiming that he drank to excess, verbally abused her children, and was violent with her. The couple divorced in 1996.

Family and friends reaction

Boreman's immediate family was said to have been outraged that she was involved in porn. But her sister, Barbara Boreman, suggested in one of Boreman's biographies that the family later forgave and supported her.

Anti-pornography activism

With the publication of Ordeal in 1980, Boreman joined the feminist anti-pornography movement At a press conference announcing Ordeal, she leveled many accusations against Traynor in public for the first time. Feminism is a discourse that involves various movements theories, and Philosophies which are concerned with the issue of Gender difference, advocate The term anti-pornography movement is used to describe those who argue that Pornography has a variety of harmful effects such as encouragement of Human trafficking She was joined by supporters Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, Gloria Steinem, and members of Women Against Pornography. Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26 1946 &ndash April 9 2005 was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of Pornography, which she believed Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American feminist, Scholar, Lawyer, Teacher and Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist icon Journalist and women's rights advocate She spoke out against pornography, stating that she had been abused and coerced. She spoke before feminist groups, at colleges, and before government hearings on pornography.

There was controversy over her allegations, and her objections to the pornography industry as a whole. Pornographer and writer Hart Williams coined the term “Linda Syndrome” to refer to women who leave pornography and repudiate their past career by condemning the industry. The Linda Syndrome is a phrase used largely within the Pornography community to describe Adult film stars who allegedly seek acceptance in Society by repudiating

In 1986, Boreman published Out of Bondage, another memoir focusing on her life after 1974. She testified before the 1986 Attorney General's Commission on Pornography in New York City, stating that “When you see the movie Deep Throat, you are watching me being raped. The City of New York It is a crime that movie is still showing; there was a gun to my head the entire time. ” Following Boreman's testimony for the Meese Commission, Boreman gave lectures on college campuses and elsewhere, decrying what she described as callous and exploitative practices in the pornography industry.

In The Other Hollywood, Boreman said she felt "used" by the anti-pornography movement. "Between Andrea Dworkin and Kitty MacKinnon, they've written so many books, and they mention my name and all that, but financially they've never helped me out. [. . . ] They made a few bucks off me, just like everybody else. "

Later career and death

Boreman contracted hepatitis from the blood transfusion in 1970 as a result of the car accident. Hepatitis (plural hepatitides) implies injury to the Liver characterized by the presence of Inflammatory cells in the tissue of In 1987, this required her to undergo a liver transplant. ^[6] In 1996, Boreman divorced Larry Marchiano. In 2000, she was featured on the E! Entertainment Network's E! True Hollywood Story. E! Entertainment Television (or simply E!) is an American Cable television and Direct broadcast satellite network E! True Hollywood Story is a TV documentary series on the E! Entertainment Television cable and DBS channel that deals with famous In 2001, Boreman did a pictorial, as Linda Lovelace, for the magazine Leg Show. Leg Show is an Adult magazine published in the United States which specializes in photographs of women's legs She contended that she did not object to this because "there's nothing wrong with looking sexy as long as it's done with taste. " Subsequently, Hustler named her the "Asshole of the Month" for March 2001. Hustler is a monthly pornographic Magazine aimed at heterosexual men and published in the United States.

On April 3, 2002, Boreman lost control of her car, which rolled twice. Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. She suffered massive trauma and internal injuries. Treatment of physical trauma is described here and in First aid. On April 22, 2002 she was taken off life support and died in Denver, Colorado, aged 53. Events 1500 - Portuguese Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Life support, in the medical field refers to a set of therapies for preserving a patient's life when essential body systems are not functioning sufficiently to sustain life unaided The City and County of Denver (pronounced /ˈdɛnvɚ/ is the Capital and the most populous city of Colorado, in the United States The State of Colorado ( or chiefly by nonresidents) is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. Her ex-husband, Larry Marchiano, and their two adult children Dominic and Lindsay were at the hospital when she died. She is interred at Parker Cemetery in Parker, Colorado.

Despite the fact that Deep Throat was possibly the most profitable pornographic film ever made, Lovelace died poor. Boreman stated that Traynor took the $1250 she was paid to appear in the Deep Throat. The film is said to have cost $25,000 to make. Some sources estimate the film made between $100 million and $600 million worldwide.

After-death

Boreman was the subject of a 2005 documentary, Inside Deep Throat. Inside Deep Throat is a 2005 documentary about the 1972 Pornographic film Deep Throat and its effects on American society A film about her life, called Lovelace, starring Courtney Love, was said to be in production in 2005. Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9 1964 is an American Rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress ^[7] However, it appears that the production was never finalized.

In September 2007, MTV News reported that Anna Faris was rushing to get a feature on Linda Lovelace in production before the Screen Writers Guild strike. MTV News is the news division of MTV, the first and most popular Music Television network in the U Anna Kay Faris (born November 29 1976 is an American actress best known for her lead role as Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie films The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions The Writers Guild of America East (WGAE representing Entitled Inferno, Faris claimed that she and first-time director Matthew Wilder were beginning production on the movie, with Faris playing Lovelace. Matthew Wilder (born Matthew Weiner January 24 1953, in New York City) is an American Musician best known for his 1983 Top 5 ^[8]

Partial filmography

• Deep Throat (1972)
• The Confessions of Linda Lovelace (1974)
• The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974) uncredited guest
• Linda Lovelace for President (1975)
• Deep Throat Part II (1974) as Nurse Lovelace
• Linda Lovelace: The E! True Hollywood Story (2000)
• Inside Deep Throat (2005) archive footage

Books

Boreman has been the subject of five authorized biographies:

• Inside Linda Lovelace (1974) ISBN 0-902826-11-5
• The Intimate Diary of Linda Lovelace (1974) ISBN 0-523-00394-3
• Ordeal (1980) ISBN 0-517-42791-5
• Out of Bondage (1986) ISBN 0-425-10650-0
• The Complete Linda Lovelace (2001) ISBN 0-9705502-0-0

Other books:

• Jack Stevenson (ed): Fleshpot - Cinema's Sexual Myth Makers & Taboo Breakers (Headpress, England 2000): Features an interview with her. Deep Throat is an American Pornographic film released in the summer of 1972, written and directed by Gerard Damiano (listed in the "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Inside Deep Throat is a 2005 documentary about the 1972 Pornographic film Deep Throat and its effects on American society
• Nicolas Barbano: Verdens 25 hotteste pornostjerner (Rosinante, Denmark 1999) ISBN 87-7357-961-0: Features a chapter on her.

References

External links

• The Complete Linda Lovelace. (Archived at Wayback Machine, February 2, 2006. The Wayback machine originally referred to a fictional machine from a segment of the Cartoon The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show used to transport Mr )
• Linda Lovelace (1949–2002), Arlindo-Correia. com. – Collection of Linda Lovelace obituaries and other articles.
• "Linda Lovelace", Lukeisback. com.
• "Linda Lovelace", Rotten. com.
• Linda Lovelace Memorial at Find A Grave

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