I have never seen the movie she made, but I do remember an interview she gave during which she claimed she was at Hefner’s mansion when Sammy Davis Jr and his wife were also guests. Sammy wanted her to do her “magic” for him. She said she told Sammy’s wife that she was forced to do this against her will and begged her to intervene but received no help.
She also said if you looked closely at her legs in the film you could see bruises from beatings. She claied her husband/manage forced her to do the movies.
I thought she sounded believable. It seemed she tried to help others and turn her own life around after getting away from that man.
If you know anything about Sammy Davis Jr’s. wife at that time, she was of little interest or use in helping L.L. in that alleged incident.
Altovese Davis was a stumbling drunkard and drug addicted leech. She was selling SD’s personal effects from his house as he lay dying in his bed of throat cancer. She died last year a lonely, broke, confused and messed up shell of an individual. A total waste.
I've read that she was beaten, too. I've also read that at least some of the bruises were the result of a car accident that occurred before the movie. I don't know what the truth is, but I imagine that being in such a movie would be difficult to deal with later in life.
Here is a column written by Joe Bob Briggs about her, written around the time that she died. It mentions Sammy Davis, Jr. http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2002/04/23/Linda-Lovelace-dies-in-car-crash/UPI-54451019598347/ There are no dirty pictures in the article, but some of the subject matter may make it not-safe-for-work. It's difficult to read about such debasement in any event.
As an aside, someone told me that the accident which claimed her life took place on 1-25 just past Monument, Colorado, which is close to my home. I remember when she died, being surprised that she lived so close.