Cat Chi

In August 2014, porn actress Christy Mack was found crawling naked on the street outside her Las Vegas home with 18 broken bones, severed ear, missing teeth, and a ruptured liver. Her ex-boyfriend, MMA fighter Jon "War Machine" Koppenhaver, had broken in and spent hours beating her and a friend. She was 23. She had been dating him for over a year. He had told her he would kill her if he ever caught her with another man. He caught her with a friend watching a movie. The video below is her testimony from his trial in 2017, under her real name Christine Mackinday. The Las Vegas Review-Journal filmed it. She is calm. She points at Koppenhaver across the courtroom. She describes him beating the male friend unconscious first. Then turning on her. Making her undress. Trying to saw her hair off with a kitchen knife. Punching her until she couldn't see out of her left eye. Telling her he was going to make her ugly so nobody else would want her. He tried to rape her. She told him she had to go to the bathroom first. She jumped from the second floor window and ran naked down the street until a neighbour found her. Her injuries: 18 broken bones, broken nose in two places, fractured rib, ruptured liver, leaking spinal fluid, missing teeth, cuts requiring staples. The ear had to be surgically reattached. She has had multiple reconstructive surgeries since. Koppenhaver fled to Simi Valley, California and was arrested a week later after being recognized at a hotel. The jury took 4 hours to convict him on 29 counts. He was sentenced to life with possibility of parole after 36 years. Christy quit the industry in 2017. She now lives privately, does voice acting, and speaks about domestic violence when asked. She has said the hardest part was not the attack but how many people, including other performers, told her she had provoked him. She survived. Most women in that situation do not. How does an adult man beat a woman like this for hours and tell himself the whole time that she deserved it?