Porn star Sophia Leone’s dying is being investigated as a homicide, in accordance with her modeling company.
The Miami-born grownup movie star, 26, was discovered on March 1 by members of the family inside her dwelling.
The LA-based modeling company, 101 Modeling, that dealt with a few of Leone’s bookings, has posted updates to social media about her sudden dying.
In their a current submit to X, the company mentioned: ‘To be clear, Sophia dying is being investigated as a theft and murder.’
‘We’re going to take time without work social media as a result of that is troublesome. But we do recognize seeing the tales from individuals who knew her. We all agree she was a sweetheart, type, and mild. We all love her.’
Details of the investigation haven’t been launched. DailyMail.com contacted the Albuquerque Police Department for remark.
In their a current submit to X, company mentioned: ‘To be clear, Sophia dying is being investigated as a theft and murder’
Leone had greater than 300,000 followers on Instagram alone the place she posted racy photographs from her glamorous movie shoots.
But, in certainly one of her last posts, she urged them to seek out pleasure on the planet round them in a poignant, and absolutely clothed, final submit on the platform.
‘Go outdoors and simply recognize life a bit additional immediately,’ she wrote.
A Gofundme donation web page has raised greater than $13,000 as of Monday morning, with an authentic objective of $12,000 as devastated buddies and colleagues reacted to her sudden dying.
‘Sophia was a beloved daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, and pal,’ her stepfather Mike Romero wrote on the crowdfunding web page.
‘She had a deep love for all animals, particularly her three pets.
‘She loved touring and all the time discovered methods to make everybody round her smile.
Sophia will likely be deeply missed however her reminiscence will stay on within the hearts of all who liked her.’
The pleasure of the good outside: Sophia Leone in certainly one of her last social media posts
Friends in her native Miami paid their tributes together with Brian Berke, who based AMA Modeling in 2004.
‘At 18 years previous you began with me at AMA and now at 26 I’ve to say goodbye,’ he wrote.
‘I’m speechless and heartbroken. I can not consider what I’m seeing,’ former colleague Gina Valentine added.
Fans of the star have additionally been remembering her on X and posting tributes.
One individual wrote: ‘First we lose Akira Toriyama now we lose Sophia Leone. Life is simply too brief, stunning and tragic. May they relaxation in peace.’
Another added: ‘Is this Sophia Leone information actual??? I really feel sick to my abdomen.’
One grownup creator who supposedly labored with the favored star wrote: ‘Sophia Leone was an ideal member of our trade and she or he’ll be missed.
‘We bumped shoulders right here and there, however I by no means actually obtained the pleasure of getting a friendship along with her, I sincerely hope her household and buddies are in a position to have a peaceable house to course of her loss RIP.’
Her stepfather mentioned was discovered unresponsive in her dwelling by members of the family and that police had been investigating the circumstances of her dying.
The trade has suffered a spate of tragedies in current weeks with the obvious suicide of Kagney Linn Karter final month, and the invention of Jesse Jane, actual title Cindy Taylor, discovered useless at 43 alongside her boyfriend at their dwelling in Oklahoma days earlier.
Meanwhile Emily Willis is in a ‘vegetative coma’ and ‘combating for her life’, her stepfather Michael Willis has revealed.
Willis was rushed from a preferred celeb rehab middle in Malibu on February 5 to a medical facility in Thousand Oaks, California, after authorities obtained a name in regards to the 25-year-old, who was discovered unresponsive.
She had been staying on the facility to obtain therapy for dependancy, though it’s unclear for what precisely and for the way lengthy.
Michael Willis denied claims that she had ‘overdosed,’ saying: ‘Emily was receiving the therapy and assist she wanted on the time of the incident to beat her struggles.
‘Emily stays in a vegetative coma and is combating for her life.’