IT was the crime that made men all over the world wince and turned former club bouncer John Wayne Bobbitt into a household name. On the fateful night of June 23, 1993 — 30 years ago today— he awoke to find his then wife Lorena cutting off his penis with an eight-inch carving knife. Getty - ContributorJohn Wayne Bobbitt, with porn stars Veronica Brazil, Tiffany Lords and Crystal Gold, appeared in adult films with titles such as John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut and John Wayne Bobbitt’s Frankenpenis[/caption] AOn the fateful night of June 23, 1993 John awoke to find his then wife Lorena cutting off his penis with an eight-inch carving knife[/caption] AFP - GettyJohn Wayne Bobbitt giving evidence at his wife Lorena Bobbitt’s malicious wounding trial at which she was found not guilty[/caption] She then left their apartment in Manassas, Virginia and drove away, tossing her husband’s severed appendage out of her car window into a roadside field. Then she stopped, called the police and told them what she had done with it. After an exhaustive search, cops found John’s penis, put it on ice in a Big Bite hot dog box from a nearby 7-Eleven shop and rushed it to a hospital, where it was reattached in an excruciating nine-and-a-half-hour feat of urological and plastic surgery. The eye-watering crime catapulted the warring couple into a tumultuous media storm. But 30 years on, 55-year-old John now leads a somewhat calmer life travelling the US in his Kenworth truck, with his loyal chihuahuas Cupcake and Biscuit for company. He says: “I love my job because you see how beautiful the country is. “My truck is very comfortable. It’s got two beds and a closet — it’s like a little RV (motorhome). “The dogs sleep in the bed in the back and I stop here and there to walk them. I get really tired from driving the truck so I don’t do much in the evening. Adult films “I might watch some TV or see a movie. I do get lonely sometimes. Life would be perfect if I had a girl to ride in the truck with me.” John says he gets plenty of interest from women contacting him on social media. But perhaps not surprisingly, he struggles to trust women. He says: “They like me because I’m handsome and famous and they think I’m wealthy.” Even so, he does reveal he has struck up a long-distance relationship and hopes to start a family one day. He says: “If you haven’t loved, you haven’t lived — and I haven’t met anyone special. “I’ve got a girl in Ireland that calls me all the time and wants to have kids. “We do a lot of video chatting and she is pretty and she’s 18 years younger than me, but she’s a nice girl. “I’d still like to have children with the right woman. “But I feel it’s too risky to get involved with a woman.” Former Marine John’s calmer lifestyle has been a long time coming. After the attack he sought to capitalise on his fame, forming a band, The Severed Parts, to help pay his big legal and medical bills. In the 1990s he appeared in a number of adult films with titles such as John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut and John Wayne Bobbitt’s Frankenpenis. He also became the butt of endless jokes, from US talk-show hosts to newspaper cartoons. A Nasa spacecraft called Titan even got the nickname Bobbitt when a section of the rocket detached during flight. But John seemed happy to join in with the gags. He nicknamed himself Stumpy, autographed steak knives and hosted promotional events in Las Vegas where he entertained women by chopping up sausages and handing them round as canapes. He says: “I understand why people make the jokes because what happened to me was so extraordinary. Women don’t normally cut their husband’s **** off. “But I’m glad the jokes have stopped because what happened to me was not funny. I still feel angry about it, to be honest.” Lorena, 53, was arrested on the night of the attack and her 1994 trial on a charge of malicious wounding became a media circus, with Love Hurts T-shirts and penis-shaped chocolate bars on sale outside the courtroom. During the trial she said she only attacked her husband following prolonged spousal abuse during the four years they had been married. Witnesses testified they had seen bruises on her arms and neck and that she called emergency services repeatedly. It was also claimed that John bragged to friends about forcing his wife to have sex. Lorena alleged that on the night of the attack, he returned home drunk and raped her. She went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, spotted the kitchen knife then became overwhelmed with emotion. The jury found Lorena not guilty due to temporary insanity causing an irresistible impulse to sexually wound. She was freed after a 38-day psychiatric hospital evaluation, and the following year the pair divorced after six years of marriage. Supplied30 years on from the infamous incident, 55-year-old John now leads a calmer life travelling the US in his Kenworth truck, with chihuahuas Cupcake and Biscuit[/caption] Privates on parade – Bobbitt in his Marines uniformSupplied In some circles Lorena gained status as a feminist hero, with more T-shirts celebrating her actions with the slogan A Cut Above and an image of a knife dripping blood. But in a separate trial John was acquitted of rape and assault. He claims that manicurist Lorena, an Ecuadorian immigrant, was using him to chase her American dream and was furious when he said he wanted a divorce. He claims he repeatedly tried to separate from her but his God-fearing mother convinced him not to divorce. He said: “Everything was fine until I got a job as a bouncer at a nightclub across the road from where we lived. Lorena didn’t like it because it involved working around women. “She said she was going to spy on me. The night they opened was our fourth wedding anniversary. “Two women came in and kissed me and gave me their phone numbers, then left. Lorena knew because she was spying on me. When I got home, she wasn’t talking to me and she was mad. “I told myself, ‘I’m done’. I called my friend and said, ‘I’m divorcing my wife and I’m leaving’. When I told Lorena, she started crying. She said, ‘I don’t believe in divorce’. “I stayed the night with a friend at a hotel and when I got home, Lorena asked me where I had been. I was tired so I gave her a three-word answer — the Holiday Inn. “She assumed I had been there with a girl and started plotting. “She got a glass of water, picked up a knife and came back into the bedroom. She was sitting beside me saying, ‘You hurt my feelings, you did it again and again and again’. “That’s what she said right before she attacked me. I was asleep so I only found this out later. Lorena thought that if she cut my penis off, I would kill myself. “She’d been having a conversation with her friend about what they would do if their husbands cheated. “Lorena said, ‘I’d cut his d**k off because it would hurt him more than just killing him’. “They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Since her brush with fame — or notoriety — Lorena has established a foundation dedicated to preventing domestic violence. Last night she declined to comment on her ex-husband’s claims. She said: “I’m doing very well. I didn’t let the incident that happened 30 years ago define who I am.” As for John, he says all is well with his world-famous penis. He was initially warned by medics that it could “turn black and fall off” in the days after its reattachment. But the op was a success and doctors claimed they had been able to restore it to “almost” full function. Even so, the following year he had enlargement surgery, though he had it reversed in 2016 as his partners complained it was too big. He is certainly no stranger to the operating table, suffering recurring bad health, and he said: “I’ve had seven surgeries on my feet and vascular surgery and in 2014 I had neck surgery after a car accident. “It’s fair to say I’ve been unlucky. And I don’t know anyone who has been through so much with their sex organ as I have.” GettyLorena’s trial became a circus, with Love Hurts T-shirts on sale outside the courtroom alongside penis-shaped chocolate bars[/caption]
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