Chuck Traynor
Charles "Chuck" Everett Traynor (August 21st, 1937 – July 22nd, 2002) was an American pornographer and investor in various enterprises and a minor figure in the early US East Coast pornographic film industry and appeared in a number of short "loops" in the early 1970s, usually with his then-wife, 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 didn't return.
- When out with other people, he would tell her not to speak and she had to ask his permission to use the bathroom.
- The movie Deep Throat made approximately $600 million but Lovelace saw only $1,250 since Traynor kept control of the money.