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On Dec. 5, 2017, the body of 23-year-old porn superstar August Ames was found in a park near Los Angeles. The cause of death was asphyxiation from hanging. A brutally simple narrative quickly...
With a self-disclosed history of sexual abuse and mental illness, Ames died by suicide in 2017 at the age of 23 after a social media backlash following a tweet she posted, due to some perceiving the tweet as homophobic.
Nov 11, 2019 · Some speculated that he killed his wife. Roughly six weeks before her death, Ames filmed a scene in which her Russian co-star was particularly violent, bringing up unwanted memories from her past.
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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...
Dec 7, 2017 · Porn actress August Ames has been found dead at her home in California in a suspected suicide. The Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed her death to The Blast, external. The...
Aug 25, 2021 · Adult film star August Ames was found dead by suicide in December 2017, mere days after she tweeted about not wanting to perform with male porn stars who also do gay porn. Her public refusal to work with “crossover” talent had been met with virulent accusations of homophobia.
August Ames, a Canadian porn star who appeared in over 270 films, died by suicide in December after copping abuse for refusing to shoot a sex scene with a bisexual actor.
