Laura Holmes \nVAN NUYS, CA - A VCA Labs documentary in circulation for at least a year has adult star Laura Holmes bristling - enough so that she has sued her former best friend and VCA over the friend's remarks in the film documentary about her late husband, John Holmes.
The friend, Bill Amerson, says in Wadd: The Life and Times of John Holmes that Laurie Holmes once worked as a hooker, hitch-hiking around the block and turning tricks in cars. Earlier this week, the New York Post said Holmes (known also as Misty Dawn) denies ever having worked in prostitution and wants unspecified damages over the film.
Her manager, Gary Frischer, has confirmed the lawsuit. "The most important thing to understand…is that…Bill Amerson accuses and convicts Laurie of committing a crime," he says to AVN's Gene Ross. "In the state of California, you can't do that."
Holmes's attorney, Greg Smith, says the Holmes suit, basically, is "a slam-dunk case".
"(I)t is based on the fact that if you accuse someone of a crime, and prostitution is a crime in California, if you don't have a conviction for that crime, that's slander per se," Smith says. "We don't have to go into the kind of damages or pain and suffering; they're presumed. It's presumed her reputation was injured.
The documentary was shown theatrically throughout the United States. VCA was named in the suit for presenting Amerson's comments "with reckless disregard for the truth," according to the filing.
