Elliott Gould

He appeared in an episode of the popular television series Touched By An Angel where he played a concentration camp survivor. Gebenini divorced him while he was in jail in 1982. His career slowed down after a series of critical and commercial flops in the mid to late 70's, but he has remained steadily employed in supporting and character roles in television and movies, including a recurring guest role on Friends. Holmes was incarcerated in connection with the murders, but was later acquitted. Also in 1980, Gould filmed two movies for Walt Disney studios The Last Flight Of Noah's Ark and The Devil And Max Devlin, in this he co-starred with Bill Cosby. Four of the gang's members were later found killed in what is now known as the Wonderland Murders or Four on the Floor (police reference to the crime). He hosted Saturday Night Live six times through the 1980 season premiere, although he has not done so since (in the late 80's he had a cameo role in a sketch about a secret club for people who had hosted 5 or more times). After the robbery, Nash is believed to have suspected Holmes had a part in it, and after getting Holmes to confess to his participation, allegedly exacted revenge against the Wonderland Gang.

Gould joined such distinguished company as Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum when he played legendary shamus Phillip Marlowe in the 1973 film The Long Goodbye. Allegedly in exchange for his life, he told gang leaders about Nash and a very large stash of drugs, money and jewelry Nash had, and helped to set up a robbery. Other notable film roles include Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, A Bridge Too Far, Capricorn One and, The Lady Vanishes. After stealing from a couple of drug runs, Holmes found himself in trouble with the Wonderland Gang. Time magazine put him on its cover in 1970, when he was at the brief height of his long career, calling him a "star for an uptight age.". At the same time, Holmes was closely associated with the Wonderland Gang, frequently selling drugs for them. Elliott Gould (born August 29, 1938), born Elliott Goldstein, was one of the most prominent American film actors in the early '70s, best known for playing Trapper John in the satirical 1970 film M*A*S*H. Holmes had developed a close friendship with drug dealer and nightclub owner Eddie Nash, who supplied Holmes with cocaine, heroin and other drugs he desired.

In 1981, he was arrested for stealing a computer from a car. The money Holmes was earning at the time was not enough to support his drug addiction, and he ventured into crime, selling drugs for gangs, prostituting himself to both men and women, committing credit card fraud and petty theft. He starred at a time when an attractive personality and a certain amount of acting ability were demanded of porn stars. By 1978 Holmes was reputed be earning as much as $3000.00 a day as a porn actor.

In 1973, Holmes' career began to take off with a porn series built around a private eye named Johnny Wadd. Holmes was arrested during this time for pimping and pandering, but avoided prison time by becoming an informant for the LAPD. With the success of 1972's Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones and Behind the Green Door, porn had become chic although it was still illegal. Initially, he did magazine work and the occasional 8mm loop (both straight and gay), keeping his work in porn secret from his wife.

While recovering from the collapsed lung, Holmes frequented a club in Gardena, where he met a man in the bathroom who encouraged him to do pornography. Holmes found work as a forklift driver at a warehouse, but the rigors of driving in and out of a frozen warehouse created severe health problems, causing Holmes' lung to collapse on three separate occasions. For the next two years, Holmes and his wife lived quiet, uneventful lives. They married in 1965.

It was during his stint as an ambulance driver that he met a nurse named Sharon Gebenini. Upon his discharge, Holmes moved to Los Angeles where he worked in a variety of jobs. At 16, with the permission of his mother, Holmes enlisted in the United States Army and spent three years in Germany in the Signal Corps. John Holmes was the youngest of five children.

John's mother, a devout Southern Baptist married Edward Holmes a few years later, and changed John's birthname from Estes to Holmes. Born in Pickaway County, Ohio, John never knew his father, a railroad worker named Carl Estes. In reality, it was somewhere between 9 and 11 inches long (23-28 cm). Some elements of the film Boogie Nights were loosely based on Holmes, who was widely publicized as having a 13½-inch-long (34 cm) penis.

Holmes was particularly active in the period before condoms were customarily used in adult film, and was a user of injectable drugs; he died in 1988 from complications due to AIDS. John Curtis Estes (August 8, 1944–March 13, 1988), better known as John Holmes, was an adult film actor of the 1970s and 1980s and is generally considered to be the greatest male star in the 35 years since cinematic pornography lost its illegal status and became generally available to the public.