Chuck Traynor

Chuck Traynor
Linda Lovelace and Chuck Traynor, 1972
Born	Charles Everett Traynor (1937-08-21)August 21, 1937 Westchester County, New York, United States
Died	July 22, 2002(2002-07-22) (aged 64) Chatsworth, California, United States
Occupation	Pornographer, entrepreneur, actor
Spouse(s)	Linda Lovelace (1971–1974) divorced Marilyn Chambers (1975–1985) divorced
Parent(s)	Angelo Traynor Theresa Margaret George

Charles Everett "Chuck" Traynor (August 21, 1937 – July 22, 2002) was an American pornographer and investor in various enterprises.

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 performers 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", Linda Boreman 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 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 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.