Relationship With Linda Lovelace
In a 1980 article in Ms. Magazine, "The Real Linda Lovelace", Gloria Steinem discussed Traynor and Lovelace's relationship. Steinem stated that "the myth that Lovelace loved to be sexually used and humiliated was created by her husband", and that he kept her as his prisoner. Lovelace claimed that Traynor forced her into prostitution by threatening her with a gun, repeatedly beat her, forced her to make pornography and allowed men to repeatedly rape her. Lovelace tried to escape from Traynor three times before she was successful. She said that during Deep Throat one can see visible scars and bruises left on her legs from a beating by Traynor. According to Steinem, Traynor once stated that, "When I first dated she was so shy, it shocked her to be seen nude by a man...I created Linda Lovelace".
In 1979 Lovelace underwent a polygraph examination in which she repeated allegations she made against Traynor. During the session the test results supported the following allegations:
- In 1971 Traynor forced Lovelace to have sex with five men for money in the Coral Gables Holiday Inn. He pointed a gun at Lovelace and threatened to kill her if she refused.
- During her relationship with Traynor, Lovelace feared for her life if she tried to leave him.
- He would hypnotize her.
- He asked her to help him run the prostitution business, and when she refused he hit her. He used to beat her occasionally, which seemed to sexually excite him. He beat her the night before their wedding, and during the filming of Deep Throat.
- After she left him, Traynor threatened to shoot her sister's son if she did not return.
- When out with other people, he would tell her not to speak, and she had to ask his permission to go to the toilet.
- He kept the $1,200 she made from the film Deep Throat.
In a Vanity Fair article on Marilyn Chambers, whom Traynor married after Boreman left him, Traynor said he considered himself a country boy where he could live away from civilization and if his woman said something he didn't like, he thought nothing of hitting her for it.
Boreman's allegations against Traynor have been disputed since she alleged them. But in the second commentary on the DVD of "Inside Deep Throat," one member of the production crew of "Deep Throat" backed up Boreman's allegation of a brutal beating that she claimed left bruises that are visible in the film. The man said his motel room was next to Boreman's and Traynor's and emphatically said that Traynor beat Boreman viciously at night. Marilyn Chambers later claimed that Linda's allegations "hurt Chuck," but Deep Throat, Part 2 actress Andrea True said that most people did not like Chuck Traynor and sided with Boreman's allegations.
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