Reviled by many and celebrated by others, the surviving children of those involved speak about a complicated legacy
, never set out to change the world but did think he was on the right side of history. The former hairdresser used to listen to his female clients discuss how difficult it was to express themselves sexually.
Deep Throat was the first pornographic film embraced by a mainstream audience, drawing fashionable viewers such as Warren Beatty, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson and Jacqueline Onassis. Film-maker John Waters recalled in the 2005 documentary: “Deep Throat was a badge of the new freedom.” The trend was summed up as “porno chic”.
“We didn’t know all the details but I remember one time our father ripped the phone off the wall in the middle of the night. It woke us up and the next day there was the broken little plastic buttons everywhere. It was hard to keep his feelings of anxiety over persecution away from us.” Christar was in her late 20s when she finally caught the film and impressed that it tells the story from a woman’s perspective instead of being solely focused on male pleasure. But above all, she found it funny. “I saw my dad’s humour all over,” she recalls. “That was our dad. He was funny and liked to make people laugh and had a dry sense of humour. That was the takeaway for me. It was a funny film that had sex in it.
Leonardi says via Zoom from Sarasota, Florida: “I don’t think my mother ever had a moment of regret. If she had the opportunity to do it again, she would. She was a member of Mensa; she was a Wall Street trader; she could have done anything with her life.
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