Texas Confidential. Michael Varhola
that, it was a series of compromises.”
Soon after she moved exclusively into pornography, eventually adopting the screen name Georgina Spelvin, a variation on “George Spelvin,” a traditional pseudonym used by stage actors (although she is also variously credited as Shelley Abels, Claudia Clitoris, Tia Von Davis, Dorothy May, Merle Miller, Georgette Spelvin, Ona Tural, and Ruth Raymond).
Spelvin went on to become one of the most-well-known figures in the adult film industry, performing in more than seventy hard-core pornographic films by the time she retired in 1982. She also appeared in and did costume design for a handful of low-budget exploitation films, among them I Spit on Your Corpse (aka, Girls For Rent), and had minor roles in a number of mainstream films, including Police Academy and Police Academy 3: Back in Training, for which she was cast as a prostitute, as well as Bad Blood and Next Year in Jerusalem, and guest starred in a couple of television shows.
During her career as a pornographic actress, Spelvin won at least nine industry awards—including two for Best Actress, four for Best Supporting Actress, and three for pornography halls of fame—and was nominated for at least one other. Ironically, the one for which she was nominated but did not receive was for her role in The Devil in Miss Jones.
After retiring from pornography, Spelvin went into desktop publishing and worked as a designer for the L.A. Times until 2004, when she retired again. Since then, she has appeared in a number of cameo roles, interviews, and music videos, and, in 2008, published an autobiography titled The Devil Made Me Do It.
Texas Porn Stars
FOLLOWING ARE MORE THAN TWO-DOZEN pornographic actors and actresses, most identified by their stage names, who have hailed from Texas. Years of birth (and death if applicable) are provided when known, followed by the communities from which they originally hailed or lived at some point if available.
Sunrise Adams (Pickton)
Krista Allen (1971; Houston, Austin; soft-core)
Candy Barr, nee Juanita Dale Slusher (1935–2005; Edna, Victoria, Dallas)
Jessica Drake (1974; San Antonio)
Katie Gold (Dallas)
Jessie Jane, nee Cindy Taylor (1980; Fort Worth)
Sindee Jennings (1986)
Chloe Jones, nee Melinda Dee Jones (1975–2005; Silsbee, Houston)
Jana Jordan (1986; Houston)
Wendi Knight (1975; Fort Worth)
Adrianna Lynn/Adrenalynn (1985; Allen)
Meggan Mallone (1986; Houston)
Julie Meadows, nee Lydia Lee (1974; Texarkana)
Nina Mercedez (1977; Corpus Christi)
Britt Morgan (1963; Tyler)
Bree Olson, nee Rachel Marie Oberlin (1986; Houston)
Teagan Presley, nee Ashley Ann Erickson (1985; The Woodlands, Houston)
Texas Presley (1981; Austin)
Jesse Santana (1986; Houston)
Georgina Spelvin, nee Michelle Graham (1936; Houston)
Sydnee Steele, nee Amy Jaynes (1968; Dallas)
Shay Sweet, nee Kristy Lynn Castle (1978; Fort Worth)
Taylor Vixen (1983; Dallas)
Honey Wilder (1950; Panhandle region)
Tyla Wynn, nee Nancy Spencer (1982; Lubbock)
Christian XXX (1974; San Antonio)
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Walking Tall in the White House
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON, THIRTY-sixth President of the United States, always seemed proud of his womanizing ways. He had sex, inside and outside the White House, with secretaries, aides, and just about any other woman who would agree.
LBJ was constantly on the lookout for women willing to help satisfy his seemingly insatiable sexual desires.
Lady Bird Johnson, wife of philandering President Lyndon Baines Johnson, was just one of the many women who shared his bed with him.
Johnson was quoted as saying he had “more women by accident than Kennedy did on purpose”—a formidable claim, especially as he certainly lacked JFK’s looks, charm, and sophistication—and enjoyed bragging about his sexual appetites and prowess in true “Texas fashion.”
Despite his promiscuity, LBJ had at least two long-lasting affairs (and a thirty-nine-year marriage, of course).
The first affair lasted nearly three decades, from 1938 until 1965, with a lady named Alice Glass. Alice was the mistress and later the wife of Texas millionaire Charles E. Marsh, publisher of the Austin American-Statesman, who also had newspaper interests across the nation. Lyndon and Alice first met in 1937 at Marsh’s Culpepper, Virginia, estate. Alice was twenty-three years younger than Marsh and found young Johnson quite irresistible.
At one time, Alice believed Lyndon would divorce his wife to marry her, but she realized the affect a divorce would have on Lyndon’s political career, and the couple settled for a long-term, adulterous affair, sometimes meeting at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., sometimes at Marsh’s estate. It is unlikely the affair could be kept secret from Lady Bird Johnson or Charles Marsh, but both seem to have resigned themselves to it.
Johnson had “more women by accident than Kennedy did on purpose.”
Ironically, the liaison ended around 1965 over political disagreement. Alice opposed the Vietnam War and apparently wanted no more to do with its then-commander-in-chief. She even burned Lyndon’s love letters in protest.
In 1948, twenty-three-year-old Madeleine Brown was an advertising buyer for radio in Texas. She met Johnson at a reception hosted by Austin radio station KTBC, which Johnson owned. According to Brown, shortly after another event she and LBJ hooked up at an Austin hotel for a sex session. Afterward, KTBC’s station manager acted as intermediary in setting up sexual encounters for the pair. Lyndon and Madeleine would meet at different hotels in Texas anytime Johnson was there on business or making a campaign visit.
In 1950, Madeleine told Johnson she was pregnant with his child. Steven Brown was born in 1951. However, on the birth certificate Brown listed her estranged husband as the father.
The affair ended in 1969 at the Shamrock Hotel in Houston in a dispute over Steven’s paternity. Steven was more than six feet tall and seemed to resemble Lyndon. Madeleine claimed she tried to persuade LBJ to acknowledge being Steven’s father for more than two hours, but he would not consider the notion because of Lady Bird and his two daughters.
Shortly after LBJ died in 1973, Texas lawyer Jerome T. Ragsdale contacted Brown to say plans had been made to continue to provide for her and Steven. Ragsdale had been providing financial support, including a house, to Madeleine since Steven’s birth.
In 1987, Steven Brown filed suit against Lady Bird Johnson and the LBJ estate for $10.5 million, claiming unjust denial of his inheritance and his name. The lawsuit never made it to trial, however, as it halted when Steven died of lymphatic cancer.
In 1997, Madeleine Brown published an account of her affair with LBJ titled Texas in the Morning: The Love Story of Madeleine Brown and President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
The luxurious Mayflower