John Holmes Fact

1944 John Curtis Estes born 8th August on the kitchen table, Ashville, Pickaway County OH.
1946 Mother marries Edward Holmes.
1948 Attends Milport Chapel Church Sunday School for twelve years.
1956 Deflowered by a 36 year old woman.
1960 Joins the Army at the age of 16, stations at Nuremberg: "The Army was good for me. I can't honestly say that it taught me any morals or sense of responsibility. I had been raised with those qualities. What it taught me was that there was a whole world of sex I had to discover."
1963 Discharged from Army.
1965 In August marries nurse Sharon Gebenini.
1966 Appears uncredited in gay porn movies, sometime in the mid-1960's.
1968 Measures his penis, according to legend and interviews. But by this time he had appeared in porn.
1969 Appears in first credited porno, Body Lust.
1972 In May 1972 Chuck Holmes (later founder of Falcon Entertainment) distributes their first mail order flyer for a selection of gay 8mm films, one of which stars John Holmes.
1972 Arrested for pimping and pandering. Becomes a stoolie to escape the charges.
1973 Private Investigator Johnny Wadd makes his film debut.
1975 "My favorite recipe is Stuffed Veal a la Oscar. Oscar is asparagus with cream sauce on top of a very thick cut of veal that's sliced like a vagina. And you stuff it with stuffing, and you sew it together and bake it. And then when it's ready, you pour this Hollandaise asparagus on top. And it's magnificent." Screw, #329.
1976 Befriends (in a most nonwholesome manner) 16 year old runaway Dawn Schilling, lets her move in with John and his wife.
1981 Arrested for stealing a computer.
1981 Wonderland robbery on 29th June
1981 4th December arrested over Wonderland robbery.
1982 On 20th May John is charged with murder, with regards to Wonderland house.
1982 Wife Sharon divorces John while he's in jail.
1982 16th June acquitted of Wonderland charges.
1982 22th November released from jail after contempt charges (over his silence at trial.)
1983 John Holmes to Al Goldstein at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: "You're gaining weight, Goldstein. You should be on the same diet I'm on, the cocaine diet."
1983 Makes gay porno with Joey Yale, who definitely has AIDS at this time, The Private Pleasures of John C. Holmes.
1986 18th April Joey Yale dies of AIDS.
1986 Tests HIV positive. Continues to fuck like a bunny.
1987 Marries former porn actress and hooker Laurie Rose aka Misty Dawn, at the Little Chapel of the Flower in Las Vegas. John's reaction to a friend: "I think I'm married. I'm all fucked up. I'm not sure, but I've got a ring, Laurie's with me and I think we're married." Laurie's specialty: Anal.
1988 On 13th March John Holmes dead from AIDS.
1997 12th October Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights premieres, roughly based on the life of John Holmes.
1998 Film Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes.