Randy Savage was recently a subject of the A&E Network’s documentary series on legendary WWE wrestlers. While the others wrestlers featured so far had their flaws and scandals omitted, Savage’s episode came across more like an episode of Dark Side of the Ring. Eric Bischoff, who was interviewed for it, would even say on his podcast that he was embarrassed to have been part of it after watching it.
Not only was it filled with factual errors it also featured shocking allegations made during the documentary by his ex-girlfriend Stephanie Bellars, who managed him under the name Gorgeous George in WCW. She claimed that Savage had cameras hidden installed in her house and that he was a big-time drug user, taking steroids and even ecstasy, plus appeared on Nitro while high.
With Savage no longer here to defend himself, his brother Lanny Poffo, best known for his time in WWE as The Genius, has written an article about the show attempting to preserve his brother’s name. He would say his brother was made to look as bad as Chris Benoit and specifically addressed Stephanie Bellars’ claims of drug use.
In the episode, Stephanie said that she and Randy took ecstasy. I don’t believe my brother ever did any of the stuff she mentioned. Maybe he did, maybe he didn’t, but it was totally inappropriate for her to say those things. She also mentioned that my brother took steroids. No, it wasn’t steroids because that was illegal at the time. It was human growth hormones. That’s how Randy got massively large for the movie Spider-Man.
I notice she keeps going to wrestling reunions and tries to sell merchandise of her and the Macho Man in photographs together. The people that buy them, I don’t think they’re buying them to see her. She’s still trying to squeeze the last penny out of that relationship.Lanny Poffo
Savage and Bellars met while she was dancing at a club, and after hitting it off, he got her involved in the wrestling business as his valet in WCW. He would purchase the name Gorgeous George from fellow WCW wrestler The Maestro for her, and she was trained by the future Molly Holly and Madusa so she could take bumps. This led to her wrestling referee Charles Robinson at WCW Slamboree 1999, but once she broke up with Savage, she departed WCW and lost the use of the Gorgeous George. Since then, her wrestling career would be uneventful with brief runs in both ECW and TNA.
She would end up marrying Paul Caiafa, better known as Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, the Misfits guitarist. However, they would go to divorce in 2013, and with her now retired from the wrestling business, she was running her own business selling pickles and hot sauces as of two years ago.
