Darkest porn star deaths – drug overdose, ‘homicide probe’ and abuse thriller

Drug overdoses, suicide and “abuse” are among the many tragic causes grownup stars have misplaced their lives.

And heartbreakingly, Sophia Leone is the most recent erotic actress to go away. The 26-year-old was discovered unresponsive in her New Mexico dwelling by relations on March 1.

Police at the moment are investigating her demise as a “dwelling invasion murder“, in keeping with her company 101 Modelling.

Sophia entered the grownup movie business within the mid-2000s after shifting to Los Angeles. She even bagged a lot of AVN (Adult Video News) awards for her work and likewise modelled, making her a family identify.

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Meanwhile, she had a big social media following of 300,000. So understandably, her followers and family members are devastated by the information.

On Instagram, one account wrote: “I hope you knew how much you were loved. This world is so cruel. Thank you for everything”.

Another added: “Rip the baddest you will be missed” A 3rd wrote: “Rest in peace beautiful!!! My condolences to your family and friends. We will find justice for you. You are loved.”

Sadly, Sophia’s case is lower than uncommon because the grownup leisure business has a darkish underbelly. Here are different heartbreaking instances of stars shedding their lives…

Kagney Linn Karter

Fans had been devastated to be taught that Kagney Linn Karter handed away final week.

The erotic movie star misplaced her life on Thursday (February 15) at her dwelling in Parma in Ohio, US, aged simply 36. Officials later confirmed she died of a shotgun wound.

The Evil Angel actress, who had been working within the grownup business because the mid-2000s, took her personal life. Reports declare that regardless of her profitable profession, and bagging a number of AVN Awards, she was fighting psychological well being points.

Friends of the Hot and Mean star have since paid tribute to Karter and arrange a GoFundMe in her honour, which can assist her mom cowl the prices of her memorial.

The web page learn: “Unfortunately, regardless of all of her many spectacular accomplishments and abilities, Kagney struggled with psychological well being points because the years handed by.”

Sophie Anderson

The 36-year-old handed away on November 28, 2023, simply weeks earlier her accomplice Oliver Spedding. The fellow X-rated performer, was additionally discovered lifeless at a Winchester motorway companies lodge in a suspected medicine-related demise.

Following her demise, Sophie’s associates alleged she was abused bodily and mentally by the previous Crystal Palace participant. Her reason behind demise nonetheless unconfirmed although.

“She was scared but she felt she had no escape, that no one would listen to her,” one buddy advised The Sun. “The last time one of us saw her she was skeletal, dishevelled, just emotionally broken. Her death has broken all our hearts.”

Thaina Fields

A porn star who made claims about sexual abuse within the grownup leisure business was later discovered lifeless at her dwelling.

Tributes had been paid to Thaina Fields, whose actual identify was Abigail, after she handed away at her dwelling in Trujillo, Peru, again in January.

Around eight months earlier than, the star, went public and introduced that she had suffered “very strong” sexual abuse when she began her profession within the grownup business.

Thaina, who had a worldwide fan-base, additionally spoke about her struggles with psychological well being. She says she suffered with dysthymia and obsessive-compulsive dysfunction, utilizing remedy and medicine to assist herself cope.

Angela Please

Porn star Angelina Please, 24, was discovered lifeless in her Las Vegas dwelling in March 2022. Police mentioned they didn’t suspect foul play or any suspicious circumstances in her demise.

Neighbour Aspen Brooks, a fellow porn star and buddy of Angelina, has spoken publicly about her devastation.

“I’m at a loss for words,” Brooks tweeted. “Went to go check on my friend after she had been missing, only to find out we lost an amazing person. One of my best friends. My neighbour. The person I would gossip with about everything. She was just 24 years old. RIP baby girl.”

The Clark County Coroner states she died of “acute intoxication by cocaine,” with the way of demise dominated as an accident, however didn’t present additional remark.

According to her mum Stephanie, Angelina revealed she’d been taking ketamine. Her household nervous she’d used a “bad batch” of medication – however imagine different causes for her demise could have additionally come into play.

Dahlia Sky

Adult star Dahlia Sky was tragically discovered lifeless in a automotive in San Fernando Valley, LA, in July 2021 after battling terminal most cancers.

Dahlia, 31, was reportedly affected by despair whereas combating stage 4 breast most cancers and officers mentioned on the time she died from a gunshot wound.

The demise was described as a “potential suicide,” with LAPD detective Dave Peteque telling AVN that suicide was “what the investigation is leaning towards, and there’s no evidence at this time that there’s any foul play.”

Adult movie producer Hans, who labored with Dahlia on her 2020 film Always Dahlia Sky, claimed she had been struggling along with her psychological well being, saying: “During her last year, I spoke to her several times about life. It was not an easy ride for her.

“This will take a very long time to recover from, if it is even attainable. Dahlia Sky, you stunning soul, you humorous, difficult, and warm-hearted buddy! I’m going to overlook you a lot.”

Joey Ray

American porn star veteran Joey Ray died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in late December 2021, aged 51.

Fellow grownup entertainer Seth Gamble hadn’t spoken with Ray “in a few years, because he was going down a bad path”, however mentioned his longtime buddy had “a heart of gold”, AVN reported.

Gamble admitted that “anybody who knows [Ray] knows that he had some flaws,” including: “I only want to say what I knew about him that was good. He was one of the funniest guys I ever knew—he would have you just p***ing in your pants. He was a creative guy, he loved being in the business, he had a heart of gold.”

In a Facebook video, porn actor and director Dale DaBone, who had additionally misplaced contact with Ray, mentioned: “He’s just one of those guys that always screws up… but I was not expecting this.”

Since Ray began his porn profession in 2000 he had racked up greater than 700 credit within the grownup leisure business. As nicely as starring in motion pictures, he turned a key director for porno movie studio Bang Bros, and for homosexual community BigDaddy.com.

Alicia Rio

Porn star Alicia Rio died on January 17 of 2022 on the age of 55, which was reportedly on account of “complications with Covid” after she was discovered unresponsive at her dwelling.

Alicia was well-known within the grownup movie business after having starred in a whole lot of flicks in the course of the Nineteen Nineties – together with Boderline, Reflections of Rio, and Fantasies of Alicia.

She entered the grownup movie business in 1991 and was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2004.

A relative of the Mexican-born star posted: “We believe it was ultimately a bout with Covid that cut her life shorter than we would have hoped and expected.”

Alicia’s ex-husband Steve Houston advised AVN that Alicia was “loved by everyone” within the grownup movie world, describing her because the business’s “real deal”.

Olivia Nova

Adult movie star Olivia Nova suffered a lonely demise in January 2018 when a urinary tract an infection unfold to her kidneys and turned to sepsis.

The 20-year-old lay lifeless in her bed room for 12 hours earlier than she was found face down and bare from under the waist.

Her room in Las Vegas was strewn with remedy for kidney infections and UTIs and Olivia – actual identify Lexi Forde – had apparently been warned by medical doctors that her “days were limited” except she give up booze.

Devastated by the demise of her boyfriend Nolan in 2017 from a heroin overdose, she is alleged to have turned to booze to manage.

Close buddy Jimmie Romero advised Mirror Online: “She said she wanted to change her lifestyle – she looked in my eyes and said to me, ‘I want to stop and change my life. I have a family that loves me.'”

August Ames

Canadian-born August Ames starred in additional than 290 porn movies earlier than she was discovered hanging in a public park within the early hours of December 5, 2017.

Her shock demise got here simply two days after she was mercilessly trolled for refusing to shoot a porn scene with a “crossover actor” – somebody who has unprotected intercourse with each women and men.

The 23-year-old star – actual identify Mercedes Grabowski – was branded homophobic however hit again, stating she was bisexual herself.

“NOT homophobic. Most girls don’t shoot with guys who have shot gay porn, for safety,” she tweeted.

“That’s just how it is with me. I’m not putting my body at risk, I don’t know what they do in their private lives.”

August had suffered from despair within the months main as much as her demise and took her personal life simply 20 minutes away from the house she shared along with her grownup movie director husband Kevin Moore.

Yuri Love

Mystery surrounded Yurizan Beltran’s demise after she was discovered lifeless in her flat in December 2018, reportedly surrounded by bottles of drugs.

It took the coroner 4 months to search out that Yuri, 31, was killed by bronchopneumonia, or irritation of the lungs, sparked by an overdose of prescription opioid hydrocodone.

Her buddy Nick Melillo claimed she had died in her sleep following a drawn-out battle with medicine.

He advised Newsweek: “It’s very difficult for girls in the adult business to find men who are willing to accept them… That’s why she took drugs here and there.”

“The adult business is rampant with drugs — especially crystal meth, because it’s cheap, and pills.”

Dakota Sky

Porn star Dakota Skye died all of a sudden after taking a cocktail of various medicine in June 2021, with the reason for demise being listed as “acute multidrug intoxication”.

Before her demise, Skye was out and in of rehab and struggled with an habit to fentanyl, an especially highly effective opioid. She was discovered lifeless in a trailer in Los Angeles.

Skye’s aunt, 55-year-old Linda Arden, mentioned that her niece had been “bullied online” by different ladies within the business within the weeks earlier than her demise.

Skye had acquired backlash after she posed topless in entrance of a mural to George Floyd, the person who was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis in May 2020.

Skye’s aunt added: “Lauren was a product of a highly dysfunctional family involving drugs, alcohol, physical, emotional, verbal and sexual abuse.

“She was stalked by demons like nobody will ever perceive except you have lived it.”

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