2000s Īfter three years of no reported HIV-issues within the industry, in April 2004, AIM diagnosed Darren James as being HIV-positive. This speculation has been disputed and investigated using Wallice's tests, but it has not been doubted that during this period Wallice infected seven women on the set: Brooke Ashley, Tricia Devereaux, Caroline, Nena Cherry, Jordan McKnight, Barbara Doll, and Kimberly Jade. It was alleged that he had hidden his HIV positive status for two years, with rumors that he accomplished this by using fake blood work through several HIV testing cycles to continue working. On April 30, 1998, he was diagnosed by Adult Industry Medical (AIM) as HIV positive. Marc Wallice, a known IV drug user, tested HIV positive in 1998. He died from AIDS-related complications on March 13, 1988, aged 43. As his health failed, Holmes disingenuously attributed his condition to colon cancer and first confided that he had AIDS in January 1987.
Subsequently, it was revealed that Holmes had consciously chosen not to reveal his HIV status to his producers or co-stars before engaging in unprotected sex for the filming. Holmes, were Adams, Lynn, Karin Schubert, and Marina Hedman. Performers in the other film, The Devil In Mr. Performers in one film, The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empress, were Ilona "Cicciolina" Staller, who later became a member of the Italian parliament, Tracey Adams, Christoph Clark, and Amber Lynn. During the summer of 1986, Holmes, knowing his HIV status, agreed to perform in two pornographic films to be filmed in Italy, without informing the producers of his HIV status. Six months previously, he had tested negative.
In February 1986, Holmes was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Parker died in 1992 from complications of AIDS, aged 40. When Nichols died in 1985, his fellow porn star Ron Jeremy denied that Nichols' death was AIDS-related. Īccording to former pornographic actress Shelley Lubben, a 1980s outbreak of HIV led to the death of 27 porn stars between 19, including Wade Nichols (who died in 1985), John Holmes (1988), Marc Stevens (1989), and Al Parker (1992). Brooke Ashley became HIV positive in 1998 but returned to pornography in 2005 in a film with her boyfriend Eddie Wood, who was also HIV positive.