Jurors Told Hudson Lied to Continue Having Sex

Rock Hudson and his secretary repeatedly lied to the late actor’s homosexual lover, denying Hudson had AIDS so the young man would continue to be available “for what Hudson liked,” the lover’s lawyer told a jury Wednesday.

But a lawyer for Hudson’s estate struck at the credibility of Marc Christian, the actor’s lover, saying if it was true that he and Hudson had anal sex 160 times in a nine-month period, how could Christian have escaped the deadly disease.

“There is no way you can have anal sex 160 times between June, 1984, and February, 1985, and not have AIDS,” lawyer Robert Parker Mills told a 16-member Superior Court jury in closing arguments.

“Either we should clone his (Christian’s) blood, or it just ain’t so,” Mills said. “My belief is he (Christian) didn’t have high-risk sex with Hudson after June, 1984, or before June, 1984, otherwise . . . with sex three or four times a week, he would surely have gotten the disease.”

$14-Million Suit

Christian, 34, a former bartender, filed a $14-million lawsuit in 1985 against Hudson’s estate and his secretary, Mark Miller, alleging that they conspired not to tell Christian that Hudson had been diagnosed with acquired immune deficiency syndrome in June, 1984, putting him at risk of getting the disease.

Hudson died at age 59 Oct. 2, 1985, of complications from the AIDS virus.

Lawyers for Hudson’s estate countersued, alleging that Christian threatened to tell the world about his homosexual relationship with Hudson by publishing love letters the famed actor wrote him.

Closing arguments in the trial before Superior Court Judge Bruce Geernaert are expected to conclude today, with the jury beginning deliberations Friday.

Harold Rhoden, Christian’s lawyer, told the jury that Miller, 55, lied to Christian when he asked Miller if Hudson had AIDS “so Marc Christian would continue to be available for what Hudson liked.”

Christian did not know that he was engaging in high-risk sex with Hudson back in April, 1983, when they began having sex, because AIDS had not yet been identified and all doctors knew was that young, promiscuous homosexual men were dying, Rhoden said.

(AIDS was actually diagnosed in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York in 1981 and was officially named acquired immune deficiency syndrome in July, 1982.)

“Hudson was in his 50s, and he supposedly had only one lover,” Rhoden said. “His symptoms looked a lot like cancer.”

Christian contends that he did not know Hudson had AIDS until there was a public announcement in July, 1985, and that although he has not tested positive for the AIDS virus, he has been afraid of getting it for the past 3 1/2 years.