Don Johnson, teenage drug-dealing homo?

He was a small-time con artist and gigolo, so it would hardly be a surprise if there were other revelations, OP.

Wasn't he busted buying gay porn?

Oh my God, what turnip truck did you fall off of. He was Sal Mineo's little butt boy way back in the 1960s. Everybody in Hollywood knew it.

The grand total of people in the world who care about Don Johnson's life story is zero

This was in a 2011 thread:

[quote]The Globe caught him buying sex toys at a porn shop and then meeting some guy at a hotel immediately after. Tried to find it online but couldn't.

I remember the story. He bought dildos and gay videos. The tabloid had a copy of the signed credit card receipt. They had someone follow him to the hotel and verify another man was sharing the sleazy motel room.

They were determined to out him but this was long after Miami Vice and he couldn't get himself arrested.

He might have been gay for pay but his subsequent choices and partners would make one believe he loves fucking women. I don't picture Melanie Griffith retuning over and over to fuck a closet homo.

Well, maybe it will as truthful s Pamela Des Barres's groupie book where she states he had the biggest dick she ever saw. Of course, years later Johnson himself said he was like everyone else.

Hey, cunt @R3

Your story, if true, has nothing to do with OP's post, which is about an unpublished book.

If Pamela Des Barres said that, R7, she was lying.

Lucky male lovers. A teen Don Johnson was really hot in a twinky way.

That's not Johnson r9

I doubt he's huge when hard, but you can't tell much from flacid pics.

R8 Hey dick, it's a free country.

I love how guys like R3 say things like that as if they were there in Hollywood in the '60s and good buds with Mineo and Johnson

Yes R3/R13, it's a free country and you're free to make an ass of yourself, posting non sequitur responses.

Johnson and Mineo, Fortune and Men's Eyes.

Yes it is, R11. It's a scene from The Harrad Experiment (1973).

R6 I'd guess he's more of a closet bi. His gay dalliances weren't apparently limited to youthful gay for pay things. The Globe story at R5 was post-Melanie and pre-face lifting so if anyone was paying for sex, it was Don.

He looked great sitting in the audience with Melanie as their daughter hosted SNL.

He was another gay boy who the straight boys emulated for "style." It came just after they all dressed up like Travolta's Urban Cowboy.

R19 What a lovely visual I had. Now I'll go and vomit.

I didn't see the actual show but he looked pretty good again in the ads for his Dallas-type soap with Chace Crawford. (I wonder if ol' Don was able to sweetalk his way into Chace's panties, before the show was canceled.)

Whatever work he's had done, it looked good--unlike poor, freakish Melanie.

"If Pamela Des Barres said that, [R7], she was lying."

Maybe she has hasn't seen very many others.

Donny Johnson and Mickey Vincent were passed around like party favors by the 60' ultra velvet Malibu gay mafia .

r23 I'm sure that they are a lot of men who could back up Des Barrres claim. Where there is smoke, there is fire darlings.

I remember Johnson and his Miami Vice co-star appearing on Donahue and Phil brought up PDB's claim in her book about him being well hung and after the audience stopped laughing, Johnson just smiled and said, "God bless her.".

Similarly, after some purported full frontal nudes of Antonio Banderas were published, wife Melanie went on the defensive, claiming Antonio was hung larger than the cock in the photos.

All of these men wasting their horse sized cocks on Melanie. The mind reels. I might understand it if she looked like her mother 'Tippi' Hendren, but Melanie? Really.

I imagine Melanie was probably very good in bed.

He "dated" Barbra Streisand.

Young Antonio for comparison:

[quote]He "dated" Barbra Streisand.

I'm inclined to believe he's either hung or very good in bed because he did have a gigolo/walker period later in life.

He aldo dated Denise Minnelli Hale, rich bitch stepmother of Liza and social climber extraordinaire. Formerly a whore before bearding for Vincente Minnelli. Dead now of old age.

Good times were had by all.

I think R24 should sit next to me while I ply him with lots of alcohol.

DJ is no 'mo

r33 that pic is HOT!

More pics from the Sal Mineo play here.

From r37's link:

I worked with an actress in New York City who dated Don Johnson before the run of this play. She told me that she and Don broke up because during the run of the play Don was briefly Sal Mineo's lover. She seemed like she was telling the truth. Don certainly was hot then. Sal too.

Sal also was fucking teen idol Bobby Sherman in the 60's.

I heard Johnson was into being tied up by latino men. So Sal makes sense.

I think Don claimed the dildos he bought were "for a friend"

Gurl....

"Donnie pour me another daiquiri then get your scrawny ass over here."...

Mineo looked incredibly seedy by the time hit 35.

Of course, Antonio had that little bit "extra" "down there."

"He also dated Denise Minnelli Hale, rich bitch stepmother of Liza and social climber extraordinaire."

Is she the stepmother that Liza had evicted after Vincente died?

No, 43. That was Lee Anderson who is dead. Denise Minnelli Hale is alive and very rich living in San Francisco. She is the widow of Prentice Cobb Hale who owned Neiman Marcus among many other department stores

Everybody claims to have been screwing Bobby Sherman. It never happened. At least not gaywise.

Here's a sad thought: Don Johnson was the Zac Efron of his era.

No, because no one knew who Don Johnson was before Miami Vice. Everyone knows Zac Efron, even when he was a teen.

Asshole took my song and ruined it. Sure it was a hit, but he still stole it.

Remember the time he got busted trying to enter Germany with $8 billion? He's a shady character.

From the LA Times

Here's a mystery for Nash Bridges: What was actor Don Johnson doing in a car in Germany last November with a suitcase containing credit notes and other securities that customs officials said were worth $8 billion?

The Los Angeles attorney for the former star of TV's "Nash Bridges" and "Miami Vice" detective shows says Johnson, 53, was simply a producer trying to find film financing in Europe and that the "securities" were actually financial documents related to the deal.

Although German customs officials say they have no evidence that any crime has occurred, attorney Ronald Litz claims recent news reports about the case not only defamed his client but also caused the deal to unravel.

"The poor guy was just trying to get money for a film," Litz said. "The deal was about to close this week and now the investors are afraid he is involved in money-laundering. But the documents weren't his. They were the investors'.

"Unfortunately, with all this publicity, the investors have gotten concerned," Litz added. "He may be losing some millions of dollars -- not billions, thank you. He has suffered humiliation." Litz said they are looking into hiring a lawyer to sue a German tabloid that broke the story.

The events leading up to what has become a public-relations disaster for Johnson began when German customs officials stopped a car near the Swiss border Nov. 6. With Johnson in the car were his personal assistant and an unnamed Swiss financial advisor. Litz said they had been in Zurich for a meeting with unnamed Americans, potential investors in a slate of movies Johnson was to produce.

Litz said Johnson wanted proof the investors were serious.

""The people he met with provided Don with resumes and bank statements that showed they had the ability to perform. So Don takes these documents and gives them to his assistant, who puts them in his suitcase and they proceed to Germany," Litz said.

Elliot Mintz, Johnson's longtime publicist, said the actor was en route to a Daimler-Chrysler plant in Germany to look at the new Mercedes-Benz Maybach luxury automobile. "He's a car buff and wanted to check it out."

German customs officials did not confiscate the documents but made photocopies and returned them. No charges have been filed. German officials did inform U.S. tax and customs authorities about the find.

"At this stage, we're only assessing the documents," Wolfgang Schmitz, a spokesman for the customs office in Cologne, told Bloomberg News. "After that, we'll decide whether we'll start with investigations."

But Joerg Groener, a spokesman for the local Customs Investigation Department in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, told Bloomberg, "There's a reasonable suspicion that Mr. Johnson was working for others. If everything is legal, you don't have to transport documents worth this amount in a car."

Johnson told Reuters on Wednesday, "There is no truth to this story. They have taken a routine incident and blown it up into this money-laundering ring that supposedly I am involved in, and it has caused me unbelievable difficulty.

"I have had two bank accounts closed. I'm in a new partnership in an investment business and both of those bank accounts were closed today as a result of this story," he said.

Litz noted that the case holding the documents didn't even belong to the actor.

Johnson, whose films include 1996's "Tin Cup" with Kevin Costner, was once married to actress Melanie Griffith. His current wife, with whom he has two young children, is the former Kelley Phleger, a San Francisco debutante and nursery school teacher. They lease a home in Beverly Hills and have a ranch near Aspen, Colo.

R32, Johnson was (is) a compulsive womanizer. I'm sure he's very good in bed, and to a woman, that hasn't anything to do with being hung.

Just started reading this thread. I enjoy the gossip. Lay off OP and any similar others. At least they understand the spirit of DL. The content isn't surprising to me, maybe I've read similar elsewhere.

Still, thanks for contributing, OP.

I think Sherman's first wife made the original claim about Bobby and Mineo. Just saying.

Someone should go fix Sal Mineo's Wikipedia. It says that he never had sexual relations with Don Johnson--like it's an irrefutable fact.

I remember the story from the Globe. But I remember that he was married at the time, to the current wife, because I remember thinking he was either bi or on the DL. There have been some BIs every once in a while about him also doing guys.

I believe it, R53.

There's an excellent book about these folks called The Users.

In the excellent TV movie version, Denise Minnelli Hale was played by Jaclyn Smith--an enormous kindness to Denise as she was ugly IRL, nothing like Jaclyn Smith.

....

Bien sur

R5, I remember that story as well. In fact I remember seeing the tabloid at some magazine stand. They had pics not only of Johnson in the video/sex store, but receipts of the gay videos he bought. Said it was a joke, that he got them for a bachelor party.

Amazing how that kind of stuff can be wiped from the innerwebs.

[quote] I doubt he's huge when hard,

His name is a consistent entry on the "who's hung" lists.

He has the roids

"Mickey Vincent" being Jan-Michael, R24?

A Boy and His Dog…. DJ giving jizz samples. The theater was filled with gay men in San Francisco circa 1975. What a hot piece of Man Meat. You don’t quickly forget something like that.

Wow. That money bust story is scary shady as fuck.

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OP, I have another piece of tectonic news for you. Lucille Ball wasn't a natural redhead.

R66 - OP died in the first wave of COVID, 2 years ago.

R65 Are you like Bart Simpson writing on the chalkboard as a punishment? Why do you always repeat yourself?

He is still handsome at 71. I had a crush on him when he was in Miami Vice and did the tv movie of 'The Long Hot Summer', the way he licked his cigarette was very hot. But he did always gave off a bit of a sleazy vibe.

Thank god this phenomenal 6 yr old thread was bumped - riveting

R70 I like how in this glass half empty world, you are still thankful for the little things!

Sal and Don were in a play were they played two men who had sex.

This does not equal that they had sex.

Although, conversely, they could have.

Loved Don in Knives Out and surprised to hear he's 71. Pretty damn well-preserved for that age.

He must have been quite the opportunist. When he wanted to be a singer he dated Streisand (and did a duet with her where he is surprisingly good.)

He also reconnected with Melanie Griffith when she was at her peak in Working Girl. He is with her presenting Best Supporting Actress that year (to Geena Davis, oops they obviously thought Sigourney would win.) He really had no hit films then or prior to justify him presenting at the Oscars. Just an ex-wife.)

The journalist who did the gay porn expose wrote a book about her career.

“Following a lead that actor Don Johnson had been frequenting pornography shops in San Francisco, Kast, the daughter of missionaries, visited about two dozen adult stores before meeting a clerk willing to talk. After she introduced herself as a reporter, he produced a shoebox with a video tape of Johnson shopping and receipts from his purchases of gay pornography, she wrote in her book.”

Don has no meat. I recall an article I read about Joan River's cosmetic surgeon in Beverly Hills who lost his medical license for unethical practices. His name began with an H.

His nurses testified in open court that among other transgressions the doctor pulled back the sheet covering Johnson during surgery and said to the nurses "can you believe Melanie Griffith settles for that?".

Why did he go after such young women? 14-year-olds? 18-year-olds!

r5 This is accurate. I remember it. I dont remember the specifics of what he bought, but they did follow him into a sex shop and did get a copy of the receipt.

Johnson was also caught at some point in the last 15 years smuggling hundreds of millions in bonds across international lines in Europe. He claimed it was a big misunderstanding.

He's probably a hypersexual bisexual and we know he's a coke and alcohol addict.

He was hot hot hot, but i dont think he would be and good in the boudoir

[Quote]Johnson was also caught at some point in the last 15 years smuggling hundreds of millions in bonds across international lines in Europe.

Wot? What lines, Rose!

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Donn Johnson also did full frontal nudity in the film The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970). It has never been released on DVD or Blu Ray which I suspect has to do with music rights issues.

Good little film if you can track down a copy.

Bruno Kirby also did full-frontal in "The Harrad Experiment." He was quite cute back then.

Don Johnson never had a big cock. In fact during a court case against a bev hills cosmetic surgeon (Dr. H something) nurses testified the Doc acted inappropriately including pulling back the sheet to mock Johnson's tiny meat while he was under the knife.

Old thread, but he was photographed after buying a load (ha!) of daddy cop gay porn. I still have that issue of the Globe or whatever it was.

I don't know if it's true or not. I've read Pamela Des Barres autobiography a few times and she never said he was abusive. However she was absolutely nuts over him, and probably wouldn't have told that. She was devastated when he was with Melanie Griffith. He probably did suck a few dicks and take a few dicks to get famous. He has an ego, like a lot of famous people, and probably could be abusive.

For a "homo" as the op so ineloquently put it, Don Johnson sure has a fuck load of kids.

A slutty bisexual man who married women, had kids and presented himself straight. He's lucky social media wasn't around back then. No way could he have hidden his bisexual past if so. The pics of him with Sal Mineo and hanging out in gay circles in Hollywood.

I can only imagine how much poontang he and Philip Michael Thomas plowed through on the set of MIAMI VICE…Thomas was a dog too.

[quote]If Pamela Des Barres said that, [R7], she was lying.

His cock is flaccid there. You must be a frau who doesn’t understand the male anatomy.

Oh, great, another thread where DL proclaims someone is gay or bi because they list for them. It’s like reading the ramblings of a teenage girl.

PERSONALITIES By Chuck ConconiOctober 11, 1989 Don Johnson may be thrilled about his new baby, but not about what his kid sister is saying. Jamie Skylar, his 37-year-old sibling, has previously accused her brother of homosexuality and drug dealing. Now, according to the New York Daily News, she is writing an "expose'" about him and their dirt-poor childhood with two half brothers and their violent, adulterous parents. Skylar, a freelance songwriter who said her brother stopped talking to her two years ago, has hired a literary agent to shop her book idea in New York and is trying to entice publishers by saying she will write that Johnson physically abused her during their youth. She says the book is a form of therapy to set the record straight and to reach out to Johnson. It does seem an odd way to seek a reconciliation with a sibling. A Johnson spokesman said Skylar has been talking about an expose' for a couple of years and "occasionally notifies the media of her intentions." The spokesman, Elliot Mintz, added, "Occasionally she surfaces and makes these accusations. And that's it. Our response is no response."

His own words.

[quote] When he wanted to be a singer he dated Streisand (and did a duet with her where he is surprisingly good.)

Don's voice sounded flat as hell, IMO, in his duet with Babs.

This was half a CENTURY ago. Who the fuck cares. Don was sex on a stick. Be thankful he put it on display.

He looked great in Django Unchained too. I could hardly believe it was him.

Allegedly, he kept trying to bed Chace Crawford when tbey were co-stars.

I would have tried the same.

Donnie and Mike (Jan Michael) Vincent were the pass around boy toys in the Colony in the early 60's.

Even after he married the SFO heiress wasn't Donnie paped leaving an XXX bookstore with a bag of dildoes and gay porn?

It's no surprise pass-around Don hooked up with Melanie Griffith. She was a pass-around nympette in her teens.

Every white guy wanted to be him in my class of 85

What was Tippi Hedren thinking about when she let a 22 year old Don date her 14 year old daughter? Call me a prissy pot if you want, but that’s OUT THERE.

Jan-Michael Vincent ended up losing a leg, maybe even an eye. He looked horrible and broke towards the end.

Don Johnson and Streisand had a thing for a hot minute in the late 1980s.

“Streisand's attraction to Johnson goes beyond his rugged good looks and his ability to make her laugh. “Like me, he's often misinterpreted and called tough and difficult—and it's not true. That is one of our common bonds,” she explains. “And when I'm with Don I can enjoy my celebrity because I don't have to apologize to the man I'm with for getting all the attention. Don gets as much attention as I do.

“There is nothing as satisfying as a good personal relationship; certainly work isn't. I like men. I like sharing my life with a male counterpart. And it is going very well.

“Will it last? How do I know? All I know is this moment. Would I marry again? Yes. But don't ask if I would marry him. I don't know.”

But while she isn't certain of the future with Johnson, Streisand's loyalty to those closest to her was demonstrated when she agreed to make a cameo appearance in an episode of Miami Vice. The series has been suffering from flagging ratings, and there are rumors that Johnson may not return next season.”

R102 She was always more interested in her llamas than in Melanie.

In the pre-Internet days of the late1980s, the big dicks were rumored to be Willem Defoe and Don Johnson. Liam Neeson joined a few years later. I was always a bit skeptical about Don Johnson and that rumor seems to have been debunked.

How are these threads from 2015 getting bumped? I thought a change was made to the site that prevented that from happening?

Weren't we all?

As a teenager, I dated a guy that looked and acted just like DJ in the late 80’s in Boston. He kept warning me off, knowing I didn’t have enough experience doing anal and he was extremely well hung.

We finally did it and he got angry because he was right!

It was a perfect cock, though.

R107 - only threads that died in 2015 were locked. If a 2015 thread picked up posts in the years after 2015, it was not locked.

I thought the rumor was that Don hoped Barbra would cast him in The Prince of Tides but she did not.

[quote] As a teenager, I dated a guy that looked and acted just like DJ in the late 80’s in Boston. He kept warning me off, knowing I didn’t have enough experience doing anal and he was extremely well hung.

[quote] We finally did it and he got angry because he was right!

He should have Donkey Punched you in the back of the head, for being a moron.

Was Don going to be cast as Lowenstein's son before Jason Gould got the part??

I clock Barbra as a size queen. If Don is Princess Tinymeat, Barbra would enjoy the celebrity and beauty of him but would never marry him.

Does her ex Jon Peters have a big one?

Having size meat was a prerequisite for 1970s hair salon entrepreneurs.

Don't know anything about Jan Michael Vincent, but Donnie lived in Kansas until 1969.

[quote] I clock Barbra as a size queen. If Don is Princess Tinymeat, Barbra would enjoy the celebrity and beauty of him but would never marry him.

Why do you think she's still married to James Brolin?

The Brolin men are notoriously hung. Both James and Josh.

Barbra went through loads of men, but she stuck with James.

That should tell you something.

Didn't he lose his virginity at 11 to his babysitter?

I thought that was Anthony Kiedis

From Don's gay porn shopping list:

Funny how a dozen or more people in this thread mention the story of where he was caught w/gay porn (and the receipts) like it's fresh news.

No one reads the entire thread anymore. Or even half of it.

I was just buying those Cop Daddy videos as a gag gift!

R90, his own sister said he was gay or bi and he was caught buying dildos and gay porn

I think he wa gorgeous and given the chance back in the late 80’s would’ve fucked the living daylights out of him!

Sexuality is a spectrum.