- Made many claims about the adult film industry and her ex-husband/manager Chuck Traynor in her books, including that she was forced to perform legal and illegal sex acts at gunpoint.
- Linda's nickname in high school was "Miss Holy Holy," because she kept her dates at a safe distance.
- In her autobiography "Ordeal" and in the TV program Linda Lovelace (2000), she revealed that she got pregnant when she was 19 and gave birth to a son when she was 20 years old, and that her mother put him up for adoption. It wasn't the first or last time that an unwed teenager would have a baby in her family, since her mother gave birth to her half-sister Barbara Boreman when she was 18, and Linda's daughter Lindsay Marchiano gave birth to a son when she was 17.
- Gerard Damiano, director of Deep Throat (1972), gave Linda Boreman her professional name of "Linda Lovelace". This is because he wanted "LL" initials to represent what he considered the new sex symbol of the 1970s, just as "MM" (Marilyn Monroe) and "BB" (Brigitte Bardot) represented the sex symbols of the '50s.
- Was involved in a bad car accident on April 3, 2002, in Denver, CO, that left her with massive trauma and internal injuries and on life support. She was taken off life support by her family on April 22, 2002, and died shortly after. Her ex-husband Larry Marchiano and two adult children were at the hospital when she died.
- Following the end of their marriage, Chuck Traynor married and helped guide the career of Marilyn Chambers (the 1970s' second most famous adult film star).
- Dressed up as a Southern belle in virgin-white, she arrived at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in a horse-drawn carriage on Oscar night, April 2, 1974. Her attempt to cash in on the publicity generated by the Academy Awards was thwarted when Paul Newman, husband of Best Actress nominee Joanne Woodward, arrived at the same time and attracted the attention of press photographers.
- Was the adult film industry's first star to become a household name, and later became one of that industry's most outspoken critics.
- Mother of Dominic Marchiano and Lindsay Marchiano.
- On January 31, 1974, she was arrested in the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas, NV, for possession of cocaine and amphetamines.
- Second daughter and third child of John J. Boreman (1917-2011).
- Third daughter and fourth child of Dorothy Elizabeth Boreman (1914-1999).
- Profiled in "Adult Movie Superstars - Volume One: Golden Age Photos" by Jack Hunter. (2012)
- Born 6:15 am-EST
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