They would marry nine months later, in August of 1965.įacing hard times in 1968 and taking into account his massive penis, Holmes decided to try his hand as a pornographic actor.
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While working as an ambulance driver he met his future first wife, Sharon Gebenini. After receiving an honorable discharge, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked odd jobs. During his three years of enlistment he was stationed in West Germany with the Signal Corps. At the age of 16, with his mother's permission, he left home and joined the U.S. When his mother and stepfather divorced when he was three (he considered the man his father, only finding out later in life he was the product of a fling between his mother and a man named Carl Estes, whom he never met), they moved 25 miles south to Columbus, Ohio. John Curtis Holmes was born on Augin Ashville, Ohio, as the youngest of four children. Thanks to his legendarily long member and sheer amount of films shot during the Golden Age of Porn, he has been posthumously included in the industries most prestigious hall of fames. John Holmes was not only one of the biggest, but one of the first pornographic stars of all time. Cinematographer Bob Vosse in the documentary Wadd: The Life and Times of John C.
"John Holmes was to the adult film industry what Elvis Presley was to rock 'n' roll.