Lorena’s story will serve as the basis for season 2 of Hulu’s “Good American Family.”

Where are Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt now? What happened after the case that shocked the ’90s

Lorena’s story will serve as the basis for season 2 of Hulu’s “Good American Family.”

By Brianna Zigler

August 20, 2026 3:16 p.m. ET

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Lorena Bobbitt in 1994; Lorena Bobbitt in 2019. Credit:

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- The second season of Hulu’s *Good American Family* will focus on the 1993 Lorena Bobbitt case.

- Lorena Bobbitt cut off her husband John Bobbitt’s penis after alleging years of physical and sexual abuse.

- Lorena now works with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault through the Lorena Gallo Foundation.

More than 30 years after Lorena Bobbitt became a tabloid fixture, her story will serve as the basis for season 2 of Hulu’s *Good American Family**.*

While the first season centered on the bizarre true story of Natalia Grace, season 2 will establish the series as an anthology with an all-new case and likely a new cast. Season 2’s official logline reads, “A limited series inspired by the ripped-from-the-headlines story of Lorena and John Bobbitt, a Virginia couple who incited a media circus that treated trauma as entertainment, launched a thousand dirty jokes, and ignited a gender war.”

The Bobbitt case became an international media sensation in 1993, when she severed the penis of her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, with a kitchen knife. She later said she had endured years of physical and sexual abuse and alleged that John raped her shortly before the incident. Lorena was charged with malicious wounding, and her attorneys argued that the abuse had driven her to a state of temporary insanity. She was ultimately found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. John, who had denied her allegations, was acquitted of marital sexual assault.

*Good American Family *isn’t the first time the Bobbitts’ story has gotten the small-screen treatment. Several documentaries about the case have been made, including a 2019 Amazon Prime Video docuseries executive produced by Jordan Peele, as well as the 2020 Lifetime movie *I Was Lorena Bobbitt*, which Lorena executive produced and narrated. This is in addition to a number of podcasts and books.

Prior to the release of *I Was Lorena Bobbitt*, Lorena told *Entertainment Tonight* that she finds value in publicizing her story. “It’s a great way to reach people of all kinds of walks of life,” she said.

So, where is Lorena Bobbitt now? Here’s everything we know about her case, and what both she and John are doing today.

Who is Lorena Bobbitt?

Lorena Bobbitt sits at a table during her trial, Manassas, Virginia, January 1994.

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Born in 1969 in Ecuador, Lorena was raised in Venezuela, immigrating to the United States on a visa after graduating high school. Once in the country, she enrolled at Northern Virginia Community College, per *Vanity Fair.*

Lorena met John Bobbitt, a lance corporal in the Marines, at a dance hall near the U.S. Marine Corps base at Quantico in 1988. “I thought John was very handsome. Blue eyes. A man in a uniform, you know?” Lorena told *Vanity Fair.* “He was almost like a symbol — a Marine, fighting for the country. I believed in this beautiful country. I was swept off my feet. I wanted my American Dream.”

John was similarly taken with her: “Lorena was pretty. She was innocent. She was real, real sweet.”

They married the following year, when Lorena was 20 and John was 22. They later settled in Manassas, Va.

What happened between Lorena and John Bobbitt?

John Wayne Bobbitt testifying in court in Manassass, Virginia, against his estranged wife, Lorena, in 1994.

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On June 23, 1993, Lorena, then 24, cut off John’s penis while he was sleeping in their home. Lorena fled the scene in her car with John’s penis in her hand, eventually flinging it out the window. The severed organ landed in a grassy field across from a 7-Eleven.

According to ABC News, Lorena claimed that John became abusive one month into their marriage, progressing from verbal attacks to physical and sexual abuse. “It was every time he will hit me, he will just try to force me into the sex again,” she said. “It will be in the floor. He just trapped me. I feel trapped.”

During their marriage, local authorities responded to about half a dozen complaints of domestic violence at the couple’s home. After one of those incidents, John was arrested and charged with assault and battery; he then obtained a cross-warrant charging Lorena with assault and battery. One charge was ultimately dismissed, while the other was not prosecuted. Shortly before the 1993 incident, Lorena sought a protective order against her husband but left before completing the process.

Lorena alleged that on the night of June 23, John came home from a night of drinking and sexually assaulted her before falling asleep. She claimed that after the alleged assault, she went into the kitchen for water and instead saw a knife, which she grabbed and used to cut off his penis while he was sleeping.

John denied ever raping Lorena and disputed her account of what happened that night. “Never raped anybody in my life,” he told ABC’s Amy Robach in a 2019 interview on *20/20*. “Everything was done in my sleep. The sexual advances, the talking ... all in a deep sleep.”

He also said he wanted a divorce from her at the time. “I was leaving her for good,” John told *Vanity Fair*. “It was what my mom said — if she couldn’t have me, no one could. And there was the green card, too. That didn’t come to my mind at the time, but it’s obvious. You have to be married to an American citizen for five years to get one, and we’d only been married for four.”

Lorena eventually drove to the home of her boss, where the police were called. After Lorena told authorities approximately where she had thrown the severed organ, officers recovered it and transported it to a local hospital, where surgeons successfully reattached it in an operation that lasted about nine and a half hours.

Was Lorena Bobbitt found guilty?

The fifth day of Lorena Bobbitt’s trial.

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Lorena Bobbitt was found not guilty by reason of insanity on Jan. 21, 1994. She had been charged with the felony offense of malicious wounding, which carried a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. During her eight-day, televised trial, Lorena alleged that John had abused her for years, and several witnesses testified that they had seen bruises and swelling on her body.

Though Lorena was found not guilty, she was ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation at a state mental hospital. She was released about five weeks later, after doctors determined that she posed no threat to herself or others, and was ordered to continue treatment on an outpatient basis.

John had also been found not guilty of marital sexual assault more than two months earlier, on Nov. 10, 1993, an offense that carried a potential 20-year prison sentence. John denied raping Lorena, testifying that the two began having consensual sex that night but he fell asleep and did not remember intercourse occurring.

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What happened to John Bobbitt after the trial?

John Wayne Bobbitt testifying in court against Lorena.

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Throughout the mid-‘90s, John continued making press appearances about the incident. He also pursued a career in the adult film industry, describing pornography as “the best way to show my penis worked,” according to *Vanity Fair. *He starred in two adult films, 1994’s *John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut* and 1996’s *Frankenpenis, *and made appearances on *The Howard Stern Show.* He also formed a short-lived band called The Severed Parts.

More than a decade after the trial, John and Lorena Bobbitt appeared together for a 2009 interview with *The Insider*, where John apologized to Lorena, calling himself an “a--hole” while maintaining that he “didn’t rape anybody.”

In the following years, John was arrested multiple times and served jail time in cases involving violence against two women, though he denied the allegations. In 1994, he was convicted twice of domestic battery against his former fiancée, Kristina Elliott.

By 1998, John was working as a greeter at Nevada’s Moonlight Bunny Ranch, a legal brothel. He also made a cameo on WWE’s Monday Night Raw and later briefly joined the Jim Rose Sideshow, where *Vanity Fair* says he participated in its knife-throwing act.

What has Lorena Bobbitt recently said about the incident?

Lorena Bobbitt of ‘Lorena’ attends The IMDb Studio at Acura Festival Village on location at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival - Day 4 on Jan. 28, 2019, in Park City, Utah.

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Ever since the case, Bobbitt has maintained that she experienced domestic violence during her marriage. Speaking with *Vanity Fair,* Lorena was candid about what happened that night. “I didn’t want to teach him a lesson. No, it was survival. Life and death. I was fearing for my life,” she said.

Ahead of the premiere of *I Was Lorena Bobbitt *in 2020*,* Lorena told *Entertainment Tonight*, “Domestic violence doesn’t discriminate. It could happen to anybody.”

“For many years, I kept a low profile and I avoided the attention,” she said. “I felt that it was the right thing to do, to come forward with my story. If I could help at least one person to escape domestic violence then all my pain and suffering that I went through was not in vain.”

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“As a victim and a survivor,” she continued, “it is very important that people know that the most important thing about this story is the domestic violence and sexual assault.”

Where is Lorena Bobbitt now?

Lorena Gallo (formerly Lorena Bobbitt) in 2025, per Instagram.

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In 2018, *TIME* reported that Lorena was still living in Virginia with her longtime partner and their daughter and volunteering at shelters for victims of domestic violence.

In addition to her involvement in media projects like *Lorena* and *I Was Lorena Bobbitt*,* *she is also the founder of the Lorena Gallo Foundation, a nonprofit that provides domestic violence and sexual assault prevention, intervention, and awareness services in Prince William County, Va.

Per her personal Instagram, she continues to do charity work with her foundation and has also shared her interest in dance. She even met Jeff Goldblum in November 2025.

Where is John Bobbitt now?

John Wayne Bobbitt on Wam Bam’s Podcast in 2025.

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In a 2024 interview with *The Sun**,* John revealed that he had undergone multiple operations that ultimately resulted in the amputation of all his toes after he was diagnosed with toxic peripheral polyneuropathy. He claims to have developed the condition after being exposed to contaminated water while stationed at North Carolina’s Camp LeJeune in the late 1980s.

He also claims that the exposure contributed to how he behaved during his marriage to Lorena. “I wasn’t behaving the way I should have,” he said. “Maybe I would have made better decisions if my cognitive functioning wasn’t distorted by the chemicals.”

The condition has caused John to experience nerve damage and osteomyelitis, a bone infection, as well as ulcers that ultimately required skin grafts. Following the amputation of his remaining toes in 2023, he was left walking with a limp and unable to work.

John now resides in Sarasota, Fla. In an October 2025 interview with PEOPLE, he reflected on the incident, saying that Lorena suffered from “deep-seated emotional pain” stemming from “rejection, abandonment, infidelity and neglect.”

“I understand why she did it. I broke her heart. Her heart broke, devastated,” he said.

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