John Holmes was an American actor who made pornographic movies and was in the news for 20 years, from 1967 to 1987. Many people knew that John Holmes was one of the best adult film actors in the world and ever.
It was reported today that porn film star John Holmes, who is thought to have died of AIDS, told a biographer that he didn’t know the people who killed four people in Laurel Canyon in an unsolved mass murder for which he was cleared.
Holmes told the person writing his biography that he was held at gunpoint in the hours before the grisly killings in 1981 and didn’t know who the killers were, according to sources who said they had seen the manuscript.
Holmes died at the Veteran’s Hospital in Sepulveda early on Sunday morning. The hospital didn’t say what caused the death, and the coroner’s office said there wouldn’t be an autopsy because the death didn’t seem strange. Laurie, Holmes’s second wife, said that he died of AIDS-related pneumonia.
Holmes’s wife told the Times that when Holmes was first tested for AIDS in 1985, the results were negative. She said that after a year, he tested positive.
In that year, Holmes made six pornographic movies.
His wife said, “I think AIDS is spreading quickly through the adult entertainment business.”
Before Holmes died, Los Angeles police talked to him again about the killings in Laurel Canyon.
The Times said that Holmes never answered questions during his trial because he either didn’t know how or didn’t want to. But in long interviews with the author of his unpublished biography, Holmes argued against what the police said about him.
Prosecutors said Holmes was at the killings, which they thought were related to drugs, and that he took part in at least one of them.
Holmes said he didn’t know who the killers were when he talked to his biographer.
The source told the Times that John was held at gunpoint at the home of one of the people who has been linked to the Laurel Canyon murders for several hours on the day of the murders, before the killings.
“After being held at gunpoint and then being let go, he went to the house and found the bodies,” the source said.
Attorneys James M. Eisenman and William D. Klibanow, who represent Laurie Holmes and her husband’s estate, told the Times that several publishing houses have been offered a biography, but the attorneys wouldn’t say what it was about.
Prosecutors have said that the people who died in the Laurel Canyon massacre broke into homes and gave stolen items to Holmes. Holmes then gave the stolen items to Eddie Nash, the owner of a nightclub and a convicted drug dealer, in exchange for the drugs he needed.
Prosecutors say that when Nash found out that Holmes had set up a robbery at his house, he had Holmes lead the killers to the house in Laurel Canyon where the victims were beaten to death. A fifth person was badly hurt but made it through.
The jury decided that the prosecutors’ claim was not backed up by enough evidence, so Holmes was found not guilty.
Monday, the police wouldn’t say anything about their recent talks with Holmes. People thought that a new witness in the case was what led to the sickbed questioning.
Holmes spent 111 days in jail in 1982 for being in contempt of court because he wouldn’t name the killers. He said he was afraid for himself and his family if he did, so he finally agreed to go in front of a grand jury. His words have never been shared with the public.