Man Claims He Had Sex With Hudson’s Ex-Lover

Attorneys for Rock Hudson’s estate, seeking to overturn the recent $21.75-million jury award to the actor’s ex-lover Marc Christian, have made public a sworn statement from a Laguna Niguel man who claims that Christian had sex with him 6 weeks after Hudson’s death in 1985.

The allegation by Gunther Albert Fraulob, a personal physical trainer, estate attorneys contend, calls into question Christian’s credibility and also raises the question of whether Christian has engaged in deceitful conduct.

In the court document filed Monday, Fraulob states that he first met Christian at a memorial service for Hudson, who died Oct. 2, 1985, of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Before the two had sex, he said, Christian assured him that “he was safe, he was fine and he was healthy.”

Christian, who has shown no medical signs of AIDS, won the massive award for allegedly having suffered emotional trauma because Hudson and his private secretary concealed the fact that the popular actor was suffering from the fatal disease.

During the novel trial that concluded in mid-February, Christian testified that he has remained celibate since Hudson’s death because of his continuing fear that he may have contracted the AIDS-related virus from Hudson.

Direct Contradiction

Fraulob’s statement, which was immediately labeled as false by Christian’s attorney, was filed as part of a lengthy defense motion requesting that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bruce R. Geernaert grant a new trial.

In the motion, the estate’s lawyers argue that Fraulob’s newly discovered allegations are highly material because they constitute the first evidence “directly contradicting (Christian’s) testimony on the critical issue of fear.”

The motion, on which a hearing has been set for April 7, also cites allegations of juror misconduct and of technical errors by Geernaert during the 5-week trial.

In a telephone interview Monday afternoon, Fraulob said he came forward because “Marc Christian is lying, and he’s doing it for one obvious reason--to make money.”

Fraulob, 32, said he did not disclose his alleged relationship with Christian during the trial because “I didn’t want to drag my name through the mud . . . (and) I didn’t think my involvement would help the case in any way.”

Fraulob described himself as a platonic friend of Hudson for 1 1/2 years before the star’s death.

“I don’t believe (Christian) has AIDS because he told me that,” Fraulob said in the interview. “But I’m sure that if everything was proven different, then I was exposed to it . . . and then I’d have fear of it.”

In that case, Fraulob said, “I’m sure I’d take him to court to sue him for exposing me to the virus.”

And at that point, Fraulob added, he could in turn conceivably be held legally responsible by his own sexual partners.

Christian could not be reached for comment Monday. But his attorney, Harold Rhoden, said that Christian “categorically denies that there is any truth in this, other than the fact that Fraulob did talk to Marc Christian at the time of the wake, or the following day.”

“From what I’ve been told and believe,” Rhoden added, “Marc Christian never even shook the guy’s hand. . . . He didn’t meet with him on or about Nov. 15, 1985, or at any other time or any other place for any activity.”

Meanwhile, Robert Parker Mills, an attorney for the Hudson estate, said he was “satisfied with the truthfulness” of Fraulob’s allegations and challenged Christian “to take a lie detector test. . . .”

Fraulob said he met Hudson in early 1984 while working as a waiter in a Long Beach hotel restaurant and that Hudson, with whom he never had sex, later accompanied him to Hawaii. Hudson, Fraulob said, once told him that he had tried to kick Christian out of his house but that Christian would not leave and planned to expose him as being gay.