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Ronson's careful not to paint Ames's husband as the bad guy, though some people close to Ames described him as overbearing—a bully in his own right—especially as far as Ames's...
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On December 3, Ames ignited a social media firestorm when...
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- A Story of 'Cyber-Bullying' Reveals Far More
- The Real August Emerges
- Valley of Tears
August is the subject of a new audiobook, The Last Days of August. It's an investigation by journalist Jon Ronson and producer Lina Misitzis, combining two of Ronson's previous interests — internet pile-ons, the subject of his book, So You've Been Publicly Shamed, and the tech takeover of the porn industry, which he explores in The Butterfly Effect...
August Ames was 23 when she died on December 5, 2017. She had appeared in around 270 sex scenes. She was also, according to old interviews, a "military brat", a "dork" who loved to shop at Target, and a victim of family child sex abuse who wound up in a group home. Her husband was much older, as is the case with many couples in the industry. The dy...
Between August's death and the 35th annual Adult Entertainment Expo and Adult Video News Awards a little over a month later, three more young female porn stars died. August had complained of a pervading loneliness, something echoed by Ronson's other interviewees. "There's a great quote from [the actor] Stephen Mangan: 'In Hollywood they kill you wi...
Aug 25, 2021 · Ronson, on his podcast also alleges that Ames suffered abuse as a child and speculates that her husband, Kevin Moore, may have been an overbearing bully himself.
Jan 31, 2019 · In the days that followed her suicide, Ames's husband, Kevin Moore, who also works in the porn industry, doubled-down on the rhetoric that social media bullying was what led to Ames' death.
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Mar 4, 2019 · Ronson was asked to look into the case by Ames’ husband Kevin Moore, who issued a statement in January 2018 saying that “bullying took her life” and naming people within the industry he said...
Jan 1, 2019 · The podcasters also took a deep dive into Ames’ (real name Mercedes Grabowski) troubled childhood, cross-examined her husband, porn producer Kevin Moore, and broke down the decline in Ames’...
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A month later, writer and podcaster Ronson approached Ames' husband – pornography producer Kevin Moore – and asked to tell the story of how cyberbullying had killed his wife. Ames' death...
