Lorena Bobbitt is talking to the press 15 years after she made headlines for cutting off her husband’s penis and throwing it into a field. Lorena claimed her then-husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, raped her that night before she went into the kitchen to get a drink of water, spotting the knife and returning to cut off his manhood while he was sleeping. She says he was emotionally and physically abusive to her throughout their four year marriage and forced her to have an abortion against her will. Lorena was found not guilty of the malicious wounding charge due to temporary insanity and was ordered to spend 45 days in a mental health facility for evaluation.
John Wayne Bobbitt was acquitted of a spousal rape charge related to that incident. He went on to star in a couple of adult films, John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut, and Frankenpenis, using his reattached member and attempting to cash in on the notoriety of his case. He had plenty of future problems with the law, including separate convictions for domestic abuse involving both an ex-fiance and his third wife and for stealing $140,000 worth of clothing from a Nevada store. [Details from Wikipedia]
In contrast to her ex-husband, Lorena Bobbitt has stayed out of the spotlight. She’s been working as a real estate broker and now that the market is having so many problems she’s decided to switch fields and will soon earn her hairdresser’s license.
39 year-old Lorena has a fiance who she’s been with for 14 years and a two and a half year-old daughter. She says “My self esteem is a lot better than it was years ago. I grew alot. I learned to cope with this. I have to make a choice.”
Says ex is “wrong” for trying to make money off a tragedy
She says it bothers her that her ex John Wayne did so many TV appearances and starred in adult films and “that kind of did bother me that he was going out and try to make money off a tragedy. That was a tragedy.. if he doesn’t consider it a tragedy then he’s wrong.” She says he needs help and continues to abuse women.
Lorena has a foundation called “Lorena’s red wagon” that aims to prevents domestic abuse. She advises women “don’t ever take the law into your own hands.”
John Wayne Bobbit is shown below at a 2004 domestic disturbance trial in Nevada.
She sounds like she’s gone on and made something of herself. Good for her! After all, she only did what most women yearn to do from time to time. 😆
i applaud her a second time. way to move on and live life and be happy no matter what happens.
john wayne bobbitt is a nasty evil man, and deserved what he got 15 years ago, and dseserves whatever he continues to get now, seeing that he hasn’t changed much. i wonder how much it takes for someone to learn their lesson…
I had a boyfriend in the late 90’s whose last name was Bobbitt. Never thought about clipping him though.
Well, I’m glad that she has gone on & made something of herself & that she has found someone who treats her well.
JWB is a waste of air.
She was a guest on a talk show I booked her for years ago and she was really, really sweet and we she told me about the night of the snipping. That asshat had it coming. Plus her fiance was supportive and nice. I’m glad she’s doing well.
A Dr. Laura moment here folks. She allowed herself to be in this so called abusive relationship. I would have more respect for her if she left her abusive spouse rather than retorting to acts of violence.
Shut up, you stupid moron……
She’s practically a feminist icon. Eddie Murphy’s worst nightmare.
Aside: does anybody else think she looks like a Da Vinci model in the ’93 picture?
Wow, small world. My brother’s wife worked with her a few years back, and while I was visiting out east we all had dinner together. I admit I was a little reluctant to meet her, but I couldn’t have been more surprised. She’s soft spoken and very unassuming. I got the impression she wouldn’t hurt a fly – which just begs the question, how far did that asshole push her before she finally snapped?
Thats really wild, Scott!
I fucking hate it when people say things like “she should have left before. she let this happen” Unless you have been in an abusive relationship you really can’t understand
Mr. T; You obviously have not been in an abusive relationship you wouldn’t have written that if you have. Blame the victim……..
It is hard as hell to get out of an abusive relationship – and though I don’t generally condone physical violence, that little prick had it coming.
Yes it takes two to tango but that doesn’t make it any less wrong for a man to abuse a woman; ie becase she bears some guilt that doesnt make it ok. It takes growth and change to enable someone who does enter such a relationship to be able to leave it– and usually it takes a lightbulb moment — its like hitting rock bottom– to make the person strong enough or willing enough to finally leave. So that means they will be in a bad relationship and crap will indeed happen before they are able to leave. So this was her lightbulb moment… and I guess not his? Abusive relationships run far deeper than just the outward act of abuse. its a deep setting of the mind in both the perp and the victim; and this is not something that changes like you change your opinion on something. It takes a lot of processing and re-structuring to accomplish.
So no, you cant just get up and leave;
…and ummm… how would you feel if you were raped? I dont think youd be very diplomatic to the person who treated you that way as soon as the next day.
hehe, little prick… good one jaundice machine. =D
I APPLAUD YOU LORENA, You are healing and healthy today
LORENA’S ONLY MISTAKE WAS SHOWING THEM WHERE SHE LEFT THE PENIS. HAD HE RAOPED ME I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE DRIVEN OVER IT.
if he had cut say her boob off, I’m sure none of you would be applauding him for moving on… but because it was a man who was ‘tortured’ then it’s ok ’cause it was abuse. Hypocrites. So what if she was abused? she should be rotting in jail for what she did. if it was a man who had done something similar (as in cut a part of a woman’s body off) he’d certainly be in jail. she’s repulsive and deserves no respect or applause
I won a contest when I was in Chicago on business. The contest was to make up a Lorena Bobbitt limerick. Here was mine.
There once was a man named Bobitt;
Whose manhood his wife did rob it;
With a knife she was quick and cut off his d*ck;
and into a field she did lob it.
Thank you.
I have to say I do admire her much more now – but I don’t feel hypocritical because it’s not for the same reason as some others here do. I admire the fact that she recognises that it was a horrible barbaric act and would seem that she would much rather not have gone that far. She learnt her lesson from that night and has done enough to make sure she’ll never be pushed to breaking point again. It seems that the same can’t be said for her ex though.
She could have chose to leave the relationship; she was an adult, not a helpless child. I do not feel sorry for her.
Mutilating someone is never okay.
I agree with “the not mutilating” people comment. Violent retaliation is somewhat of a grey area. I say this because I just got out of an abusive relationship in Dec. of 07 (this past Christmas) I married at 19 and stayed for seven years suffering every type of violence on this green earth. As for leaving, have someone tell you each night they will murder you and bury you in the woods and not tell your family taht you are dead or where you are, then have them throw you against a wall as you tremble at the thought. Have every avenue taken away from you, no car, no phone, hundreds of miles away from family, not allowed to have friends, and when you do get to a pay phone to call police, find out what happens. That’s why people can’t get out of abusive relationships. That, dear friends, is why.
WHY and who cares?
She should have shoved that thing into a grinder.
That would have taken care of his career in “adult movies”.
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To Mr. T: The Dr. Laura Moment should have also included the little tidbit that Laura thinks that if a woman provokes her husband, and he hits her, she asked for it. Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it.
Most women who are in abusive relationships might have had signs prior to things getting serious as to what path it was heading down, but it’s very hard to differentiate the difference between control and concern when someone appears immediately contrite and remorseful after an outburst, whether verbal or otherwise. By the time the abuse becomes physical, the woman’s self-esteem has already been torn down to such a degree that she actually feels as though she deserves it (points back to Dr. Laura), and feels guilty and ashamed, rather than angry and motivated. People who say that “she should have left” or “it’s her fault for staying” only further tear down their self-esteem, and not only hinders the success in these women from leaving their abusers, but also supports the mindset of the abusers themselves.
A woman who commits an act of violence due to the abuse she suffers isn’t doing something right, and MOST of these women recognize that fact, regret it, and will rally behind anti-violence campaigns, such as Lorena did, as opposed to the abusers, whom deny that any abuse ever took place, or, if they admit to it, place the blame solely at the feet of the victims themselves. If you fail to differentiate between the victim who feels remorse for her violent actions, and the abuser who denies any abuse ever occurred, even after more allegations of abuse surface, you’ve chosen, then to encourage more of the negative actions done by both parties.
Spot on daisyfly. Spot on!
To “Comment”: If the woman in question was an Annie Wilkes-esque beast who continually beat and verbally abused her husband, then yes, I would condone his amputating her breast to escape.
Hey hey hey
I’ve married an Ecuardorian woman, 2 years ago. Am I in great danger ?
Wiet, Belgium.
Why are you so quick to side with Lorena Bobbitt? Not to retry the case, but there are also past police reports where John Wayne Bobbitt called the cops to report that Lorena had committed abuse & battery on him.
Also it must be noted that in Dec. 1997, Lorena Bobbitt was arrested for abuse & battery for hitting her OWN MOM during a quarrel over the bills. Yes, she was acquitted in April 1998, mainly because her mom did not want to testify against her, but if Lorena Bobbitt did beat her own mom up, then why do you keep siding with her? Isn’t it evil to beat your own mom up.
John Wayne Bobbitt was right on some points & why do you side with a woman who allegedly hits her own during a quarrel over the bills?
Yes, John Bobbitt has had his run ins with the law incl. domestic violence for which he served time in 1994, but why wasn’t Lorena Bobbitt’s 1997 arrest for abuse&battery where Lorena Bobbitt hit her OWN MOM was mentioned?
As far as Lorena’s marital rape accusation, before the June 1993 “beheading” incident, John & Lorena Bobbitt were separated for almost a year & he had lived in New York. The marital rape accusation was a he said she said case. John Bobbitt said that he did not harm nor did he threaten harm his wife as far as sex. John Bobbitt’s version was that he told Lorena in the days preceding the beheading incident was that if she didn’t have sex with him, then he would return to New York & Lorena not wanting him to leave had sex with him. This is not rape if his account is to be believed. Lorena Bobbitt 1st told the cops that she cut off his penis because he raped her & because of years of abuse, but she then told them that she cut off his penis because he did not give her an orgasm! Furthermore, the E.R. Dr. who examined Lorena Bobbitt on June 1993 said that her conduct was inconsistent with that of a rape victim & he found no proof of rape. John Bobbitt should not have been tried for rape in 1993 (for which he was acquitted) but he was mainly because of the publicity which surrounded his case. The jury who acquitted him of the rape charge said that there was insufficient proof.
Yes, John Bobbitt had abused Lorena Bobbitt in the past with the 1990 case of abuse&battery for which he pleaded to. John Bobbitt has also been to jail such as in 1994 for hitting a former girlfriend during a quarrel, yet most people haven’t tried to excuse John Bobbitt’s deeds based on the trauma of getting his penis cut off. As far as the June 1993 case, the jury didn’t judge it based on the series of events leading up to the beheading but rather based on what John Bobbitt had done in the past.
Also as noted, John Bobbitt had also called the cops in the past to report that Lorena Bobbitt had hit him during quarrels & Lorena Bobbitt had a bad temper. Though irrelevant, Lorena Bobbitt had also embezzled money from her employer & Lorena Bobbitt even stole money from John Bobbitt’s friends who earned less money than Lorena Bobbitt did as a hair stylist. That’s right, Lorena Bobbitt stole money from people who made less than she did. In the Bobbitt household, the domestic violence was mutual-both the husband & the wife hit eachother.
As noted, Lorena Bobbitt was arrested in December 1997 for misdemeanor abuse&battery for hitting her mom during a quarrel over money, for which she was acquitted in April 1998, mainly because her mom did not cooperate with the prosecutors during trial & did not want to testify against her daughter. Yes, reasonable doubts were raised because Lorena Bobbitt’s mom did not want her convicted & thus, she wasn’t going to help the prosecutor’s case-the prosecutor admitted that it’s hard to get a conviction when the victim won’t cooperate, but still, it proves that on some points John Bobbitt was right. John Bobbitt was right about Lorena Bobbitt having a violent temper & Lorena Bobbitt’s 1997 arrest for abuse & battery for hitting her own mom shows that he was credible on some points.
What’s sad is that even as Lorena Bobbitt was being arraigned in December 1997 on the abuse&battery charge for hitting her own mom, a girl asked Lorena Bobbitt for her autograph. I’m not here to say John Bobbitt was a nice man, but Lorena Bobbitt beats her own mom up & it’s sad that this website left that fact out.
Published: Monday, December 8, 1997
The Virginia woman found not guilty by reason of insanity after she cut off her husband’s penis has been charged with attacking her mother, the police said today.
Lorena Gallo, 28, who was married to John Wayne Bobbitt in 1993 when the incident took place, now lives with her parents. She is free on $750 bail.
Neighbors told the police that Ms. Gallo’s mother, Elvia Gallo, 49, was watching television on Friday when her daughter started punching her, Lieut. Tim Rudy said today. Ms. Gallo was arrested later at a friend’s house, he said.
Her mother suffered minor injuries, including an abrasion around the eyes and scratches, the police said.
Ms. Gallo is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday, Lieutenant Rudy said. If convicted, she would face a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $2,500 fine. Ms. Gallo could not be reached for comment.
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