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And preparing for competitive bodybuilding takes up all your time.”Īt 24, he won his first regional title at the 1994 National Physique Committee Eastern Seaboard Bodybuilding Championships. For a while, everything ran smoothly. “The movies and personal appearances at clubs enabled me to spend all my time just getting ready for competitions. “That was the beauty of doing porn,” he says. And back then, he was competing in at least three bodybuilding competitions a year. Papaleo was 21 when he made his first film. “When I realized I could make in one day what I’d earn in three months, it was like, ‘Sure, where do I sign?’” he remembers. Through a friend of a friend, he got his first offer to appear in an adult video - from Fox Studios, a gay erotica company that specialized in bodybuilders. If I dated someone, it would be for two or three years.” “I always dated girls,” Papaleo says, remembering his early adulthood. To make money, he unloaded trucks and worked as a personal trainer.
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He graduated from high school in 1988 with the dream of becoming a professional bodybuilder.
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Bodybuilding was something I excelled at that was under my full control,” he remembers. “I developed a strong distrust of being able to count on anybody. Lifting weights allowed him to release pent-up emotions, and it was something he could do alone. In high school, Papaleo joined the wrestling team, but he couldn’t tap into the notion of “team spirit.”Īt 16, he discovered bodybuilding, and results came quickly. Homework wasn’t high on his list of priorities, and he was a loner. Papaleo moved back to his dad’s home near Atlanta, and he carried around a lot of anger. Of course, this was the judgment of an 11 year old.” “If he was going to let that happen, then I’m staying away from him. I didn’t want anything to do with him,” Papaleo remembers. I was pissed off at everybody - everybody in my family for letting it happen. “A lot of people blame God when bad things happen. He faced death and grief at an early age: When Papaleo was 11, his stepfather killed his mother. “But my mom was what you’d call very clinically depressed,” Papaleo, 36, says after finishing a shift as a personal trainer at a suburban Atlanta gym. Although he also lived with his brother and sister, only David and his mother attended a nearby Catholic church.
For the next seven years, David lived in a rural area of Massachusetts with his mother and stepfather. The first four years of Papaleo’s life were spent in suburban Atlanta where his parents raised three kids. Two weeks later, he called and said he wanted to discuss his newfound faith, his sexual identity and a spiritual message for gays and lesbians.
Through a Christian bodybuilding website, I emailed Papaleo and requested an interview. On Internet discussion boards, fans of the porn legend posted messages.
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In January 2006, Papaleo appeared on “The Gravedigger Show,” an Atlanta-based Christian TV program where he renounced the adult video world and said he was heterosexual. Katt, who now goes by his birth name, David Papaleo, had found God. And in 2003, he walked away from the biz. Cocaine and pot made the good times seem happier, but the party train kept crashing. Over the years, steroids and growth hormones augmented his physique. Handsome and talented, he started earning a lot of money.Īnd for what it’s worth, Tom Katt became famous - in the world of erotica. The versatile bodybuilder made at least 15 sex flicks in his first two years. In the mid 1990s, Tom Katt began regularly appearing in gay porn videos.