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Charles Everett “Chuck” Traynor (August 21, 1937 – July 22, 2002) was an American pornographer. Traynor was 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. He was the production manager during the production of the world-famous 1972 movie Deep Throat. Traynor was married to two actresses from the “Golden Age of Porn”, from 1971 to 1974 to Lovelace (whose real name was Linda Susan Boreman) of Deep Throat fame and from 1975 to 1985 to Behind the Green Door’s Marilyn Chambers, whom he also managed. 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 rape her repeatedly. 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, “When I first dated [Linda] she was so shy, it shocked her to be seen nude by a man… I created Linda Lovelace.” In a Vanity Fair article on Marilyn Chambers, whom Traynor married after Boreman left him, Traynor said he considered himself a country boy in that he could live away from civilization and that 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 as to her allegations. Traynor was portrayed by actor Peter Sarsgaard in the 2013 film Lovelace. Traynor died at age 64 of a heart attack in Chatsworth, California, on July 22, 2002, three months after Lovelace died from massive trauma and internal injuries as a result of a car accident. Lovelace’s sister, Barbara Boreman, later said in an interview in Inside Deep Throat that she was disappointed that Traynor died before she could kill him.