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  • NAME: Linda Lovelace
  • OCCUPATION: Film Actress
  • BIRTH DATE: January 10, 1949
  • DEATH DATE: April 22, 2002
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Denver, Colorado
  • AKA: Linda Boreman
  • AKA: Linda Lovelace
  • Full Name: Linda Susan Boreman

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Linda Lovelace is a pornographic actress who had instant success with the 1972 film Deep Throat.

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Personal Life

While Lovelace was frustrated professionally, she found some personal happiness around this time. She married Larry Marchiano, and he was by her side as she told her story in Ordeal (1980), which provided details about her abusive relationship with Traynor. In the book,

Lovelace said that Traynor kept as a prisoner and that he forced to perform obscene sex acts often by pointing a gun at her as a form of intimidation. He also made her have sex with other men for money, according to her book.

Once the porn industry’s biggest star, Lovelace stood up against pornography, testifying about its dangers before Congress and in other venues. She also shared her hellish experiences in numerous forums, including the book Out of Bondage (1986). But financially she and her young family struggled. Marchiano had been unemployed for a time and had a number of low-paying jobs. Her health also suffered. Lovelace needed a new liver after hers was damaged by hepatitis that she may have contracted from a 1970 blood transfusion, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. She received a transplant in 1987.

In 1990, Lovelace and her family moved to Denver, Colorado. The couple split in 1996, but she stayed in the area and worked locally. She also began appearing at memorabilia shows and received a warm welcome from fans, according to The New York Times. Lovelace died in Denver, Colorado, on April 22, 2002, of injuries sustained in a car accident on April 3 of that year. Her ex-husband and their two children were by her side when she was taken off life support.

Legacy

Today, Lovelace is credited by many as pornography's most famous star, as well as one of the most respected performers in the industry. A film about Lovelace's life and career, entitled Lovelace and starring Amanda Seyfried as the famous porn star, is set to be released in 2013. Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman teamed up for the cinematic project, which is based on the screenplay by Andy Bellin.

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