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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...
- Suicide, Jaxton Wheeler Explains
On December 3, Ames ignited a social media firestorm when...
- Suicide, Jaxton Wheeler Explains
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.
- Kristin Iversen
- 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 alluded to an incident in Las Vegas in his comment, where six weeks before Ames’ death she did a scene with Russian porn star Markus Dupree. Ronson, who was one of the very few people to screen the unreleased scene, said it got rough — and may have triggered deeply negative feelings for Ames.
Jan 1, 2019 · In one particularly harrowing portion of the seven-episode podcast series, Ronson and his producer Lina Misitzis dissect Ames’ final porn scene, which was shot weeks before the flurry of tweets...
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...
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Oct 4, 2019 · In December of 2017 Ames (real name Mercedes Grabowski) tweeted that she had refused to film a scene with a man that had taken part in gay porn. A stream of hate filled abuse online followed,...
