Editing John Holmes (actor) (section)

== Personal life ==
On August 22, 1965, Holmes married a young nurse named Sharon Ann Gebenini at Fort Ord, California.<ref name=scary/> Their divorce was finalized on October 19, 1984.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPGV-NX4|title=FamilySearch|website=www.familysearch.org|access-date=November 27, 2019|archive-date=February 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220218233759/https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPGV-NX4|url-status=live}}</ref> She died on October 28, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=FamilySearch.org|url=https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KWNB-1ZB/sharon-ann-gebenini-1943-2012|access-date=2021-08-05|website=ancestors.familysearch.org|archive-date=August 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805134630/https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KWNB-1ZB/sharon-ann-gebenini-1943-2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1975, Holmes met Julia St. Vincent on the set of his film, ''Liquid Lips'', which was being produced by her uncle Armand Atamian. Holmes and St. Vincent remained close until the Wonderland murders in 1981. St. Vincent produced the [[Ersatz good|ersatz]] biographical film of Holmes' life, ''Exhausted'' (1981).<ref>''[[Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes]]'' (1998)</ref>

In 1976, Holmes started grooming and sexually abusing a 15 year old girl, Dawn Schiller.<ref>{{cite book|title=Throwaway Teens|author=Schiller, Dawn|date=January 6, 2015 | publisher=APB Speakers |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6zDe-Ke344| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/Y6zDe-Ke344| archive-date=2021-10-30}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Holmes got Dawn addicted to drugs, [[physical abuse|physically]] and [[sexual abuse|sexually abused]] her and trafficked her out to support his own drug addiction. In her memoir, ''The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes'' (2009), Schiller also made the assertion that she and her sister Terry believed Holmes was a [[voyeur]] who looked through their [[bungalow]] windows in [[Glendale, California|Glendale]], as well as strangers' hotel windows at the [[Biltmore hotels|Biltmore]] in [[Palm Springs]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Schiller, Dawn|title=The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes|publisher=Medallion Press|date=2010}}</ref>

In 1982, Holmes met his second wife [[Misty Dawn|Laurie Rose]]; they married in January 1987,<ref name="John Holmes 1989"/> which made Holmes stepfather to Rose's young son.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sugar |first1=Jennifer |last2=Nelson |first2=Jill C. |url=http://www.johnholmesinches.com/ |title=John Holmes, A Life Measured in Inches |publisher=BearManor Media |isbn=978-1-59393-302-9 |date=2008 |access-date=February 23, 2011 |archive-date=February 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224064153/http://www.johnholmesinches.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>