Los Angeles Adult Entertainment: Deep Throat’s Linda Lovelace and the Hollywood twosome
But years later, Lovelace claimed her pornographer husband Charles ‘Chuck’ Traynor had held her at gunpoint, tortured, drugged and beaten her. She also made allegations of gang-rape, forced prostitution and being ordered to have sex with a dog on film. Following two divorces, she died in a car crash in 2002 at the age of 53 without a penny to her name.
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Catharine MacKinnon, Lovelace’s lawyer, is concerned that when depicting the worlds of porn and prostitution, mainstream Hollywood film-makers habitually reach for stereotypes “that have nothing to do with women’s experiences”. Eric Danville, a Lovelace biographer, says he doubts that a Hollywood version of her life will bare all. “It’s a nasty story and it doesn’t have a happy ending,” he says. “But movies without happy endings don’t tend to do well.” ·
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