John Holmes @ Pornstar Classics
Date of Birth 08/08/1944
Given name John Curtis Estes Birth place Pickaway County, Ohio, USA
Penis size 13 in.
Siblings 2 brothers, 1 sister
John Holmes is the biggest male star to ever have worked in the adult industry. He died of AIDS March 13th, 1988. His filmography comprises as many as 2500 hardcore movies and his career has spanned nearly two decades (from 1969 to 1988). Holmes rose to stardom in the adult industry because of his legendary penis size (13 inches, allegedly). He claimed to have had sex with as many as 3000 women during his career. Even in the nineties Holmes' name is not forgotten: in the P.T. Anderson directed movie BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997) Mark Wahlberg plays a character called Dirk Diggler which is closely modeled after John Holmes. BOOGIE NIGHTS was a critical and financial success and is now widely regarded as a cult movie.
At the height of his career (around 1978) Holmes earned 3000 dollars a day as an actor. Even in his private life, rich men and women paid huge amounts of money to play with him. John had taken up all kinds of drugs (from marijuana to mushrooms and cocaine) in the early seventies. By early 1980 he was sniffing a line of cocaine every 10 to 15 minutes.
John and Laurie married in 1987 in Las Vegas. On May 13th the following year, Holmes died of AIDS in a Los Angeles hospital.