Bobbitt JohnWayne

American news figure, famed for having his penis reattached after his wife cut it off and threw it into the field. He married Lorena Gallo on 6/18/1989, Quantico, VA after which he battered and sexually abused her for the following three years. On 6/23/1993, he and a buddy came home drunk about 3:00 AM. He raped his wife and fell into a deep sleep. About 4:30 AM she took a kitchen knife and cut off his penis and fled in her car with the offending member. Bobbitt staggered out of the bedroom and wakened his sleeping buddy who drove him to the hospital, arriving at 5:03 AM. The police immediately began their search and found his penis at 5:55 AM. In a 12-hour operation, doctors sewed it back on. At Lorenas trial on 1/10/1994, she gave a defense of temporary insanity, saying that she had snapped into a psychotic episode after years of abuse. She was declared not guilty on 1/21/1994. Bobbitt became a minor celebrity for his 15 minutes of fame. He made a number of porno film starting in 1994 in an attempt to break into a Hollywood career. In September 1996, he said that he found God at a glitzy Spago restaurant in Las Vegas when he had his feelings hurt by an insult and back in his motel room, began to read the Bible. He was ordained as a minister of the Universal Life Church in December 1996. From 1997 he has worked in a brothel, as a bartender, a tow truck operator and a furniture mover. On 3/23/2002, Bobbitt married Joanna Ferrell, 31, in Los Vegas. Two months later he was charged with battery and domestic violence after allegedly attacking her at their Las Vegas home. She obtained a temporary restraining order against him. He had been scheduled to perform an entertainment boxing bout against Joey Buttafucco on "Celebrity Boxing 2" but FOX replaced him. In June, he was jailed for violating house arrest in Las Vegas. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less