John Holmes Net Worth

John Holmes's Quotes

• Friends will get you killed.
• [Asked why he stays in the bathroom so long on sets] I don't always hide in the bathroom, sometimes I hide other places. It's just that the bathroom is usually the only room with a lock on the door.
• A happy gardener is one with dirty fingernails, and a happy cook is a fat cook. I never get tired of what I do because I'm a sex fiend. I'm very lusty.
• I don't take drugs. Drugs take me.
• I've never found a girl who could not take it. It's really in the way you do it, though. I've had some women say they've had guys half my size who couldn't get it in. The problem is that most guys don't know how to read a lady and what she really wants. With some, you have to be gentle and romantic and with others you just have to get down and dirty. The secret is you have to get in touch with what they want.

Interesting Facts about John Holmes

1. Boogie Nights (1997) is based on his life.
2. On 6/26/82 he was found not guilty of the infamous Wonderland gang ("Four on the Floor") murders.
3. Diagnosed with AIDS in February 1986.
4. Made about 2,300 full-length hardcore films and videos, including a 3-D thriller and a film about his life story - Exhausted: John C. Holmes, the Real Story (1981).
5. Appeared in 2,274 pornographic films, more than anyone else.
6. Since having lost his virginity at age 12 to a 36-year-old friend of his mothers he is said to have copulated with more that 14,000 women in his life, both on- and off-screen.
7. His mother's maiden name was Barton.
8. Nicknamed himself Johnny "Cash" Holmes during the early years of his porn career because he would only take his payments in cash since he was supposedly swindled out of $100 by a bad check for his very first porn loop.
9. Did not tell the porn industry that he was HIV positive and continued to star in films. Even went so far as to go to Europe to make porno movies because they didn't know he was HIV positive.
10. His Los Angeles quadruple-murder trial in 1982, in which he was acquitted, was the first trial in American Jurisprudence where videotape was introduced as evidence.
11. Is portrayed by Val Kilmer in Wonderland (2003).
12. He would always sing Gordon Lightfoot's song "If You Could Read My Mind" to his girlfriend Dawn Schiller. The song is played in the movie Wonderland (2003) at the end of the film.
13. He often claimed to be a college graduate with majors ranging from physical therapy to political science. The truth was that he never graduated from high school, having dropped out of public school in the ninth grade.
14. He was so successful as a performer in the adult film industry, and was in such high demand, that if it wasn't for his voracious cocaine habit he would have been a millionaire while still in his 30s.
15. Youngest of four children.
16. Served three years in the US Army (1960-63. He was stationed with the Signal Corps in West Germany from ages 16-1, and was honorably discharged.
17. Before his career in porn he worked as a forklift operator in a meat-packing warehouse in Cudahy, CA, from August 1965 to June 1967. He had to quit his job, as the contrast between hot and cold temperatures while driving a forklift in and out of a large walk-in freezer led to severe health problems, including three incidents of lung collapse between seven to nine months during the two years that he worked there.
18. His first stepfather Edward Holmes was an alcoholic who often came home drunk and would vomit on the children. The second, Harold Bowman, was bipolar--what used to be called "manic depressive"--and prone to violent rages that he would take out on John.
19. He devoted much time to environmental causes and often went door to door collecting for the "Save The Whales" Foundation.
20. Ran away from home and joined the army, after an incident where he pushed his violent abusive stepfather down a flight of stairs.