Linda Lovelace

American pornographic actress who became famous for her performance in the 1972 hardcore film Deep Throat. Although the film was an enormous success, Boreman later alleged that her abusive husband, Chuck Traynor, had threatened and coerced her into participation and that the film is in fact a film of her rape. In her autobiography Ordeal, she described what went on behind the scenes. She later became a born-again Christian and a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement.

She wrote two autobiographies, Ordeal and Out of Bondage. She states that she was threatened and forced at gun-point to act in porno films, traded in prostitution and subjected to degradation. The famous movie, made by her husband Chuck Traynor, made $600 million and she made nothing.

The daughter of a New York traffic cop, she was married to Traynor (who later married Marilyn Chambers) for two years, during which time she was hypnotized, raped, sold, threatened, beaten and prostituted in a master/slave relationship. In 1971 she was forced to have sex with five guys in Miami, the beginning of her humiliation that reached a peak with enforced sex with a dog in 1973.

Linda married construction worker Larry Marchiano in 1976 and they lived simply in a Long Island apartment, making do when work was scarce. They had two kids, Dominic in 1976 and Lindsay, 1980. After her books sold, Linda travelled the lecture circuit with fees of $1,500 to tell her story to college students, religious groups and community gatherings.

In September 1986, Linda entered a New York hospital to have a double radical mastectomy due to the hardened silicone lumps from years of injections while she was with Traynor. The surgery was postponed, as she was informed in November that she needed a liver transplant. Doctors traced her liver malfunction to blood transfusions she received after a 1970 auto accident. The donor apparently had a hepatitis virus.