John Holmes bio
John Curtis Holmes (August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988) better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd (after the lead character in a series of related films), was one of the most prolific male porn stars of all time, appearing in about 2,500 adult loops, stag films, and pornographic feature movies in the 1970s and 1980s. He was best known for his exceptionally large penis, which was heavily promoted as being the longest in the porn industry, although no definitive evidence of Holmes’ actual penis length exists. Near the end of his life, Holmes attracted notoriety for his involvement in the Wonderland murders in 1981, and eventually for his death from complications caused by AIDS. Holmes was the subject of several books, a lengthy essay in Rolling Stone magazine, at least two feature length documentaries, and the inspiration for two Hollywood movies, Boogie Nights and Wonderland.
Holmes was born as John Curtis Estes in Ashville, Ohio, to Carl Estes and Mary Barton. He knew very little of his father, an alcoholic railroad worker who abandoned his family when John was an infant. John’s mother was a devout Southern Baptist, who regularly attended the Milport Chapel Church along with her children.
In 1946, John’s mother married Harold Edward Holmes, and changed her children’s surname to Holmes. His stepfather was an alcoholic, who would come home inebriated, stumble about the house, and even vomit on the children. Mary Holmes divorced her husband two years later, and moved with her children to Columbus, Ohio, where they lived on welfare for several years. When John was eight, his mother remarried to Harold Bowman. Shortly after, John and his family moved from Columbus and settled in Pataskala, Ohio. Holmes recalled that Bowman was a good father until his younger brother was born, at which point Bowman lost interest in his non-biological children and began neglecting them. By the time John reached adolescence, Bowman began beating him, but Holmes, who by now had developed into a large teenager, fought back and knocked Bowman down a flight of stairs. John ran away from home at age 16, and after several days of living on the streets, returned home and informed his mother that if he moved back in he would kill Bowman. With his mother’s written permission, Holmes dropped out of his junior year of high school and enlisted in the Army. After advanced training at Fort Gordon, Georgia, he spent three years in West Germany in the Signal Corps.[2] Upon his honorable discharge, Holmes moved to Los Angeles where he worked in a variety of jobs, including selling goods door to door and tending the vats at a Coffee-Nips factory. It was during his stint as an ambulance driver that he met a nurse named Sharon Gebenini in December 1964. They married in August 1965.
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