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Ursula Cavalcanti

Cancer 9/22/2005 Via Einsiders: Italian adult film actress Ursula Cavalcanti died of cancer just one month after being diagnosed with the disease. Ms. Cavalcanti was very popular in her native country. She also worked in productions by US filmmakers working in Europe. 

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Vanessa Freeman

Vanessa Freeman AKA Afton, Trudy, Petra Trudy Webb Strangled 1/9/07 A HIGH class hooker who boasted a boy band hunk among her string of A-list clients has been found strangled in her bed. The boyfriend of a high-class prostitute was being questioned by police after the Caprice lookalike was found dead in her London flat. Detectives interviewed the partner of 30-year-old Trudy Webb after he attempted suicide. Ms Webb?s body was discovered by police in her flat where she appeared to have been strangled. Clients of the hooker paid up to £2,000 for her services, and some are believed to be household names. The mum of one child who was also a porn star was found in her flat in Wandsworth, south-west London on Tuesday morning. Webb shared the flat with her scaffolder lover Nick Wells. Hours earlier he had leapt from a dual carriageway bridge on to the A27 in Brighton, East Sussex. He escaped with a broken ankle. Webb, who advertised as a lookalike to model Caprice, had been a prostitute for eight years. The blonde set up her own escort agency six years ago. On her website she is described as a beautiful blonde glamour model and adult movie star. Forensic teams combed the ground-floor flat she shared with her lover. The couples landlady said the pair moved in two months ago and seemed very much in love. A neighbour added: Webb's parents Harry and Julie were caring for her ten-year-old daughter Sinead, a pupil at a top boarding school. Mrs Webb, at home in Mundford, Norfolk, said she knew her daughter was an escort but did not know the full extent of her career. Scotland Yard today said officers had found the body after being alerted to search the address by Sussex Police. Police confirmed a 28-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death after he fell from a dualcarriageway bridge. A police spokesman said: We are investigating a suspicious death in Wandsworth on Tuesday 9 January. Police are now waiting of the results of a post-mortem examination. Trudy Webb claimed she serviced an impressive list of punters willing to pay £2,000 a night. The blonde's clients included a superstar singer, a top Premiership football player and boy band member who has legions of young female fans. Her services were very much in demand and, according to fellow prostitutes, wealthy clients would fly her to them at a moment's notice. These included Arab businessmen, rich City boys and top bankers which she all counted as regular customers. She claimed to have slept with more than 1,000 men and women.

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Veronica Blue

Veronica Blue (Bella) aka Veronica Daniels Car accident 6/22/2000 She was a bondage perfomrer.

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Violet Adamson

Violet Adamson aka Violet Addawson born on July 1, 1975 died in Ohio on December 19, 2010 35years old. Died by hanging.

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VIVIEN NEVES

VIVIEN NEVES, the first nude model to appear in the pages of The Times, died on December 29, 2002 after a long battle against multiple sclerosis. She was 54.   Miss Neves, who at the height of her modelling career in the early 1970s was known as The Body, caught pneumonia before Christmas and died in hospital in Guildford, Surrey. She fell ill in the 1970s and was confined to a wheelchair. Her celebrated appearance in a full-page advert in The Times of March 17, 1971, came after the chemicals company Fisons bought all the display advertising space in the paper to promote a range of its products. It caused a furore in the letters page and on television and radio. All copies of the day's editions sold out. Among the inevitable notes received along the lines of "Disgusting!", and "Disgraceful!" one reader's letter captured the spirit of many. James Marchant, of Bletchley, Bucks, wrote: "Sir, . . . I hope this delightful picture has the same effect on The Times's circulation as it does on mine." William (now Lord) Rees-Mogg, the editor who decided to publish the advert, said last night: "Unfortunately I never met Miss Neves, but had I done so I would have thanked her because she was good for Fisons and good for The Times. I knew running the advert would please a large number of our readers. In fact, I happened to be having lunch with the judges at the Old Bailey the next day and they were all entirely in favour."

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Viper

died 24 Dec 2010 at the age of 52 from lung cancer. Stephanie Patricia Green was born Sept. 12, 1959, in Tennessee, She attended Oyster River schools in Durham. She studied ballet in Durham, Portsmouth and New York. She enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and during that time, married a fellow Marine. Stephanie resided for many years in Los Angeles. Returning to Portsmouth, she worked as a hair stylist at Patrix and most recently as a phlebotomist at Portsmouth Regional Hospital. Green was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, but raised in rural New Hampshire. She was interested in theater and ballet while growing up, first dancing with the New Hampshire Ballet Company from 1968 to 1976, then one season with the American Ballet Theater in New York City after graduating high school. In 1978, after being kept on the back lines of the ballet, Green joined the United States Marine Corps, where she served at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and achieved the rank of corporal. After six years, Green was expelled from the Corps for fraternizing with her superior officers,and worked a year in Baltimore as a prostitute and an entertainer at "The Block" nightclub. She got her trademark tattoo from tattoo artist and street gang member Harry Von Groff in Philadelphia, described as "...a snake poised to strike her left nipple, that morphs into a tiger composed of interlaced skulls across her belly, and finally reanimates as a snake snapping at her clitoris." In 1986, Viper moved to Los Angeles to enter pornography, where she met Bill Margold, already an influential pornographic actor, director, and agent. They lived together for five years, and Margold describes her as the love of his life. She made a total of 70 hardcore pornography films, her first film with Tom Byron in White Trash, and her last Erotic Heights. She won the 1990 AVN Award for Best Supporting Actress in Mystery of the Golden Lotus, playing a Nazi spy. She made her only mainstream appearance in the 1988 comedy feature Vice Academy, where she played a porn film director. In August 1989, wanting to get more work, she got breast implants, moving from a 34A to 34DD. Margold believes these caused "implant schizophrenia," driving her to a mental breakdown by September 1990. In May 1991, she left without warning. Her driver's license, social security card and birth certificate were found on a gravestone in Arkansas, and Margold has not seen her since. In his Gear magazine article, author Mark Ebner recounts having spoken with her mother who reported her alive and well at that time.

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Wendy O.Williams

self-inflicted gunshot wound 4/7/98 lead singer of The Plasmatics, appeared in several pornos including Candy Goes to Hollywood, where she shoots eggs out of her vagina, and 800 Fantasy Lane. Both films were released in 1979. A few years later, Wendy O.Williams appeared in Reform School Girls. At age 48, on April 8, 1998, she shot herself in the head outside her home in Connecticut.

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Yumika Hayashi

Yumika Hayashi died 28th June 2005 After a night of drinking celebrating her birthday was found by her mother a few days later in her apartment dead due to choking on her own vomit.

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Zoey Zane

Zoey Zane, who's real name is Emily Sander, is a college student aged 18 years old who led a double life as a Internet Adult Model. She was last seen leaving a bar near Wichita, Kansas with a man she had met at the bar. That man is Israel Mireles, who did not show for work the next evening. Apparently a large quantity of blood was found in his apartment, and the bed sheets were missing. A reward of $3000 is being offered by smutle to anyone who gives information that leads to the capture of Israel Mireles, 24. He is suspect on Zoey Zane's disappearance. A body found thursday in Kansas matches the description of Zoey Zane, but police isn't giving more details on the founding. It's not know to the public on how it was found or the state of the body. Israel Mireles has been captured yesterday, 12/19/2007, in Melchor Muzquiz - Mexico. He is now behind bars on homicide charges, suspect in the death of Emily Sander aka Zoey Zane. Israel Mireles was born in Mexico and was legally in the United States.

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Ai Iijima

Former pornstar Ai Iijima was found dead at her apartment in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward, less than two years after she announced her retirement from show business, police said. Iijima, 36, was found lying in the living room in casual clothes and with no injuries, police said, adding they believe she either died of an illness or committed suicide. An autopsy will be conducted. Her body was found around 3:15 p.m. by an acquaintance who paid a visit to the flat after Iijima had stopped responding to communications from her several days ago. The acquaintance had the resident manager open her flat on the 21st floor of the building. Iijima gained popularity in the 90s as a variety show host and for other roles. Her autobiographical novel "Platonic Sex" published in 2000, became a bestseller and was made into a movie as well as a TV drama. In 2006, she made public that her health was not good due to a kidney disease. She announced her retirement in March last year, saying, "It is impossible to survive in the entertainment industry if I can not find my goal and dream, and cannot keep trying".

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Johnny Rahm

Johnny Rahm (June 11, 1965 - November 7, 2004) was the stage name of Barry "J.T." Rogers, an American film actor who appeared in gay pornographic movies and magazines. Barry Thomas Rogers, who was known to friends as "J.T.," was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, the son of J.T. and Connie Rogers, and raised in a conservative Baptist home. He attended Gilead Christian Academy, a Christian high school in Macon, Georgia and the fundamentalist Bob Jones University (BJU) in Greenville, South Carolina. Rogers was expelled from the university midway through his senior year when he chose to come out. He had a Celtic cross tattooed above his right biceps, clearly visible in all his pornographic films. Rogers had minor roles in films outside of the gay porn industry. He was an extra in the made-for-tv movie Unconquered, was twice a contestant on The Dating Game (winning once), and appeared on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon as a Jerry Lewis impersonator. In the 1988, Rogers moved to California and worked for more than a decade in the gay pornography industry, often making films for Chi Chi LaRue. He won two Adult Erotic Gay Video Awards: "Best Supporting Actor" in 1993 for the film Body Search (directed by Chi Chi Larue) and in 1995 for All about Steve he also won the AVN Award for "Best Supporting Actor" for the latter film. He also was employed at Drakes Melrose, Pier One Imports, and worked as a barback for the Atlanta club, "The Metro". He moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1999 and tried stand-up comedy, but he struggled financially. After being diagnosed as HIV-positive, he continued to make pornographic films, working with Atlanta-based producer Dick Wadd to make hardcore and bareback sex films. After April 2004 Rogers shared a house with his friend Adam Kahn in midtown Atlanta and sought financial assistance to find a home of his own. Rogers suffered from chronic depression, and lived with both HIV and hepatitis. He committed suicide on 7 November 2004 by hanging himself with wire on the fence of the Atlanta Botanical Garden. A suicide note complained of his frustration at not being able to receive assistance from Social Security. After his death, his cousin Jamey Rousey, who worked with the Atlanta AIDS Partnership Fund, called Rogers "a kind and gentle soul, and as tragic as his death was, I hope he’s found the peace he couldn’t find in life."

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Karen Dior

Karen Dior (February 14, 1967 – August 25, 2004) was an American transgender adult film performer, director, singer. She was best known as a pioneer in popularizing adult films involving transsexual people. Born Geoffrey Gann in Missouri, Dior moved to Los Angeles at the age of 21 and began working in a beauty salon and performing in drag shows in West Hollywood bars. In 1989, she began appearing in bisexual and transsexual adult films. She performed in approximately 120 adult films, most of them under the Dior name. She also performed under the names Geoff Dior, Rick Van, Geoffrey Karen Dior, Geoffrey Gann, and Geoff Gann. In the 1990s, Dior transitioned into mainstream film and television roles. Her first mainstream role was as Loni Anderson's stalker in the 1992 TV movie The Price She Paid. Other mainstream work included guest appearances in on the television series Xena: Warrior Princess, Head Over Heels, and Veronica's Closet. Dior contracted HIV in 1995 and later worked as an AIDS activist. After leaving the adult film industry, Dior worked as writer and released her autobiography, Sleeping Under the Stars, in 2001. That same year, she released an album (under the name Geoffrey Karen Dior) S E X, and was a member of two bands, the Johnny Depp Clones and Goddess. She also earned a Ph.D. in philosophy in religion and became an ordained minister.

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John Holmes

John Curtis Holmes (August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988) better known as John Holmes or Johnny Wadd (after the lead character in a series of related films), was one of the most prolific male porn stars of all time, appearing in about 2,500 adult loops, stag films, and pornographic feature movies in the 1970s and 1980s. He was best known for his exceptionally large penis, which was heavily promoted as being the longest and thickest in the porn industry, although no definitive measurement of Holmes' actual penis length exists. Near the end of his life, Holmes attracted notoriety for his involvement in the Wonderland murders in 1981, and eventually for his death from complications caused by AIDS. Holmes was the subject of several books, a lengthy essay in Rolling Stone magazine, two feature length documentaries, and was the inspiration for two Hollywood movies, Boogie Nights and Wonderland. Holmes was born as John Curtis Estes in Ashville, Ohio, the youngest of four children to Carl Estes and Mary Barton. He knew very little of his father, an alcoholic railroad worker who abandoned his family when John was an infant. John's mother was a devout Southern Baptist, who regularly attended the Milport Chapel Church along with her children. In 1946, John's mother married Harold Edward Holmes, and changed her children's surname to Holmes. His stepfather was an alcoholic, who would come home inebriated, stumble about the house, and even vomit on the children. Mary Holmes divorced her husband two years later, and moved with her children to Columbus, Ohio, where they lived on welfare for several years. When John was eight, his mother married Harold Bowman. Shortly after, John and his family moved from Columbus and settled in the small town of Pataskala, Ohio. Holmes recalled that Bowman was a good father until his younger half-brother, David, was born, at which point Bowman lost interest in his non-biological children and began neglecting them. By the time John reached adolescence Bowman began beating him, but the teenaged Holmes, who was very large and strong for his age, fought back and knocked Bowman down a flight of stairs. John ran away from home at age 16, and after several days of living on the streets, returned home and informed his mother that if he moved back in he would kill Bowman. With his mother's written permission, Holmes dropped out of his junior year of high school and enlisted in the Army. After advanced training at Fort Gordon, Georgia, he spent three years in West Germany in the Signal Corps. Upon his honorable discharge, Holmes moved to Los Angeles, where he worked in a variety of jobs, including selling goods door-to-door and tending the vats at a Coffee-Nips factory. It was during his stint as an ambulance driver that he met a nurse named Sharon Gebenini in December 1964. They married in April 1965. For the next two years, Holmes and Sharon lived uneventful lives. Holmes found work as a forklift driver at a meat packing warehouse in Cudahy, California. However, repeated exposures to inhaling the sub-freezing air in the large walk-in freezer after being outside inhaling the desert-hot air caused severe health problems, leading to a pneumothorax (lung collapse) of his right lung on three separate occasions between seven to nine months during the two years he worked there. While recovering from his illness, Holmes attended a men's card-playing club in Gardena, California, where one evening a still photographer, standing next to him at a urinal, noticed his extraordinary penis size and encouraged him to do pornography. During the late 1960s, Holmes initially did magazine work and an occasional 8 mm loop, keeping his work in porn a secret from his wife. Determining the number of films he made during the early part of his career is difficult because the ad copy rarely named him. Those that did usually used entirely inconsistent names. For example, one early "Swedish Erotica" brochure from 1973 has five loops featuring Holmes, each with a different name. In the early years of his porn career, Holmes was nicknamed "The Sultan of Smut", a pun on Babe Ruth's nickname, The Sultan of Swat. With the success of Deep Throat (1972), Behind the Green Door (1972), and The Devil in Miss Jones (1973), porn became chic, although its legality was still hotly contested. Holmes was arrested during this time for pimping and pandering, but he avoided prison time by becoming an informant for the LAPD. Using his status as an informer, Holmes systematically had his competition in the porn industry arrested, leaving him as one of the few free porn stars in Los Angeles. In 1971, Holmes' career began to take off with a porn series built around a private investigator named Johnny Wadd most of which were written and directed by Bob Chinn. By 1978, Holmes was reputed to be earning as much as $3,000 a day as a porn actor. He starred at a time when personality could compensate for a lack of other aesthetic characteristics, and a certain amount of acting ability was still demanded of porn stars. While his voice was somewhat higher in pitch than one would expect for a "hard-boiled private dick", most film critics and fans agreed that Holmes did demonstrate enough acting ability to keep the character of "Johnny Wadd" from being merely a banal, one-dimensional parody of Raymond Chandler's creation, the tough and uncompromising private detective Philip Marlowe. By the late 1970s, his use of cocaine was becoming a serious problem. Professionally, it affected his ability to maintain an erection, as is apparent from his performance in the 1980 film Insatiable. To support himself and his drug habit Holmes ventured into crime, selling drugs for gangs, prostituting himself to both men and women, and committing credit card fraud and petty theft. In 1976, he met a 16-year-old girl, named Dawn Schiller, who became his girlfriend. After Holmes fell on hard times, he prostituted both her and himself, as well as beating her in public. In 1981, he began to claim that he had sex with 14,000 women. The number had in fact been invented by Holmes to help salvage his waning image. To substantiate this number, and assuming Holmes' first experience with a woman occurred at 16 as he claimed, then he would have had to have sex with 666 different women a year—1.8 women a day—for the next 21 years. Pornography historian Luke Ford calculated the number of Holmes' sexual partners over the course of his lifetime to be roughly 3,000. His performances included at least one gay feature film, The Private Pleasures of John Holmes, and a handful of gay loops. Holmes developed a close friendship with drug dealer and nightclub owner Eddie Nash. At the same time, Holmes was closely associated with the Wonderland Gang, a group of heroin-addicted cocaine dealers, so called for the location of their hideout: a rowhouse located on Wonderland Avenue in the wooded Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles. Holmes worked for the gang, frequently selling drugs for them. After stealing money during a couple of drug runs, Holmes found himself in trouble with the gang. In June 1981, allegedly in exchange for his life, he told gang leaders about a very large stash of drugs, money and jewelry Nash had in his house. Holmes helped to set up a robbery that was committed on the morning of June 29, 1981. Although Holmes did not participate in the robbery, Nash apparently suspected that Holmes had a part in it. After getting Holmes to confess to his participation, Nash exacted revenge against the Wonderland Gang. In the early hours of July 1, 1981, four of the gang's members were found murdered in their hideout. Holmes was allegedly present during the murders, but it is unclear if he participated in the killings. Holmes was incarcerated in connection with the murders, but released due to lack of evidence. After spending six months on the run with Dawn Schiller, he was arrested in Florida and returned to Los Angeles. Holmes refused to co-operate with the investigation. He was eventually charged with committing all four murders, but was acquitted of all charges except contempt of court. When Holmes resumed work in porn in November 1982, the industry had already begun the transition from film to videotape. Work was still plentiful but less lucrative, and Holmes was no longer the premier male star. His drug use continued, as did the inconsistent performances on set. His inability to maintain an erection was a serious issue, and employers began opting for younger and more attractive talent. In 1983, he met his future girlfriend and wife, Laurie Rose, a.k.a. Misty Dawn, on the set of the film Marathon. She had a reputation as the "queen" of anal intercourse scenes, and was fascinated by the concept of anal sex with Holmes. The two had sex off-set and became a couple. In February 1986, Holmes was diagnosed as HIV positive. According to Laurie Rose, Holmes claimed that he never used needles and was deeply afraid of them. Both his first wife, Sharon, as well as Bill Amerson, separately confirmed later that Holmes could not have contracted HIV from intravenous drug use because Holmes never used needles. During the summer of 1986, unable to find work in America, Holmes traveled to Italy where he filmed his last porno movies, including The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empress, which co-starred the later Italian Parliament member Ilona 'Cicciolina' Staller. His final film was The Devil In Mr. Holmes. He continued to make public appearances at autograph signings, as well as hosting video clips during 1986 and 1987, during which time the gaunt physical appearance resulting from his health problems became increasingly evident. Not wanting to reveal the true nature of his failing health, Holmes claimed to the press that he was suffering from colon cancer. Holmes married Laurie Rose on January 23, 1987 in Las Vegas, confiding to her that he had AIDS. During the last four months of his life, he was essentially bed-ridden, constantly going to hospitals for treatment. John Holmes died from AIDS-related complications (according to his death certificate, cardiorespiratory arrest and encephalitis due to AIDS, associated with lymphadenopathy and esophageal candidiasis) on March 13, 1988 at the age of 43. His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered at sea off the coast of Oxnard, California. Holmes' legacy is infamous. A documentary of his life, Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes, has achieved cult status among some independent film houses in college towns. Some elements of the film Boogie Nights were based on Holmes' life, and the Wonderland murders were the basis of the 2003 movie Wonderland, starring Val Kilmer as Holmes. Los Angeles Times investigative reporter Marika Tur wrote extensively on the Wonderland murder case and believed that Holmes led several 'hit men' to the two story residence where they murdered four people for the armed robbery of reputed drug dealer, Eddie Nash. The only survivor to the killings was Susan Launius, who sustained critical head injuries. After his death, Holmes was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Adult film industry. It was accepted posthumously by his godson Sean Amerson, the son of Holmes' career-long manager Bill Amerson, who also delivered the eulogy at Holmes' memorial services. Of the 2,500 porn film appearances John Holmes made in his lifetime, at least 60 to 70 percent of them are one-reel 8 mm loops or stag films. Since the majority of Holmes' loops and stag films have gone into public domain following the collapse of Caballero Control Corporation in 1990, there are efforts underway to locate all surviving 8 mm loops starring Holmes that he made during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s and convert them to DVD for posterity. However, since the life expectancy of most 8 mm films is very brief (due to the nature of the film stock used at that time), it is believed that the majority of Holmes' loops are forever lost. Holmes was close to perhaps four or five women in his private life. With one obvious exception, he was meticulous in keeping his professional and private lives separate. * In August 1965, he married a young nurse named Sharon Gebenini. He remained married to her until their divorce was finalized on January 17, 1983. * In 1975, he met Julia Saint Vincent on the set of his film, Liquid Lips, which was being produced by her uncle, Armand Atamian. Holmes and Saint Vincent stayed close until 1981 and the Wonderland affair. Saint Vincent produced the ersatz biographical film of Holmes' life, Exhausted. * In 1976, he met a 15-year-old girl named Dawn Schiller, who was his girlfriend from 1976 through the Wonderland incident in 1981. She left Holmes in December 1981, when she turned him in to the police in Florida. * In 1985, Holmes met his second wife, Laurie Rose. They married in January 1987. The true number of women (and men) with whom Holmes had sex during his career will never be completely known; his wife Sharon came across a foot locker that was plated in 24k gold leaf, which contained photographic references of his "private work." She burned all of it. Holmes' main asset in the porn business was his exceptionally large penis. No definitive measurement or documentation verifying this exists, leaving its exact size unknown. Holmes was also one of the first uncircumcised actors who became popular in American porn. Veteran porn actress Dorothea "Seka" Patton has stated that Holmes' penis was the biggest in the industry. Holmes' first wife recalled him claiming to be 10 inches (25.4 cm) when he first measured himself. Holmes himself once claimed his penis to be fifteen inches (38.1 cm) long. Holmes' longtime manager, Bill Amerson, said that "I saw John measure himself several times, it was 13 and a half inches" (34.3 cm). A review of Holmes' films over the course of his career shows that most of his early co-stars tended to be short and slender, whereas women with whom he engaged in onscreen sex later in his career were much taller and had proportionately larger bodies; as a result, the size of Holmes' penis appears to fluctuate in his films, relative to the height and mass of his co-stars Another longstanding controversy regards whether Holmes ever achieved a full erection. A popular joke in the 1970s porn industry held that Holmes was incapable of achieving a full erection because the blood flow from his head into his penis would cause him to pass out. Holmes' co-stars have stated that his penis was never particularly hard during intercourse, likening it to "doing it with a big, soft kind of loofah." So celebrated was Holmes' penis size it was used as a marketing tool for films in which he did not appear. Anybody but My Husband had the promotional tag line "Brian Grimes has a dick so big that he gives even John Holmes a run for his money." After his death, the length of Holmes' penis continued to be used to market Holmes-related material. At the premier of the film Wonderland, patrons were given thirteen-and-a-half inch rulers as gag gifts. In 1979, Holmes with his younger half-brother, David Bowman, opened up a locksmith and used furniture store called The Just Looking Emporium in Los Angeles which both managed. But because of Holmes' escalating drug addiction and of the lack of money to operate the store since Holmes was squandering all of his and other people's money to buy cocaine and heroin for himself, the business failed by the end of that very year. Later, after his 1982 murder trial and acquittal, Holmes began a business partnership with his manager Bill Amerson, as they founded and operated a production company titled Penguin Productions, where Holmes could be a triple-threat: writing, directing, and performing. Despite the notoriety and infamy associated with Holmes, he also devoted much time to charities involving the environment. He was known to campaign and collect door-to-door for charities such as Save The Whales. Holmes' career was promoted with a series of outrageous claims that he made over the years (many made up on the spur of the moment by Holmes himself). The most dubious ones include: * Holmes' penis was so big that he had to stop wearing underwear because "I was getting erections and snapping the elastic waist band 4 or 5 times a month." * Holmes had degrees in physical therapy, medicine, and political science from UCLA. Holmes was in fact a high-school dropout who never returned to school; according to Bill Amerson, "the closest John ever got to UCLA was breaking into cars in the school's parking lot." * A teenage Holmes played the role of Eddie Haskell in the TV series Leave it to Beaver. (The character was portrayed by actor Ken Osmond, who bore a resemblance to Holmes.) 

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Lisa De Leeuw

Lisa De Leeuw was an American pornographic actress, and allegedly one of the few to have died of AIDS. She appeared in almost 200 films and was inducted into both the X-Rated Critics' Organization Hall of Fame and the AVN Hall of Fame. Her large natural bust, freckles, red mane and pubic hair made her a star during the Golden Age of Porn. She made the transition to videos by becoming one of the first "Vivid Girls." Headpress 25 (2003) noted that DeLeeuw died of complications from AIDS on November 11, 1993. But in the book Skinflicks: The Inside Story of the X-Rated Video Industry (2000), writer and porn producer David Jennings, describing the stigma and rumors surrounding AIDS in the porn community in the late 1980s and early 1990s, wrote, "Reputed to be dead of AIDS, Lisa DeLeeuw and Brandy Alexandre, now out of the industry, proclaimed themselves alive and healthy."

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Wade Nichols

Wade Nichols (aka Dennis Parker), October 28, 1946 – January 28, 1985) was an American actor and singer who started his acting career in pornographic movies. His first feature film role was probably in the 1975 gay adult film Boynapped! He appeared mostly in straight porn films shot in New York such as Barbara Broadcast, Jail Bait, Summer of Laura, Punk Rock, Marishino Cherries, and Teenage Pajama Party. In 1979, using the name Dennis Parker, he recorded a disco album on Casablanca Records titled Like an Eagle. The album was produced by Village People creator / producer Jacques Morali. The title track was released as a single, and appears on the 1994 box set The Casablanca Records Story. Also under the name Dennis Parker, he was known for playing Police Chief Derek Mallory on the soap opera The Edge of Night.

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Al Parker

Al Parker (born Andrew "Drew" Okun 25 June 1952, Natick, Massachusetts - died 17 August 1992, San Francisco, California) was a gay American pornographic actor (porn star), producer, and director. He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 40. After arriving in California, Parker was employed by Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion West as a butler. Parker's career in gay film started when he was "discovered" by Rip Colt, founder of Colt Studios. It was Colt who gave him the name "Al Parker" Parker began his film making career when he was signed by Brentwood Studios. He made 12-15 minute loop films shot on 8 mm film reels. He has the distinction of appearing as one of the crowd on the original Woodstock movie poster. Parker was a producer, director and actor. Surge Studios started making larger budget "theme" features and not just the "film loops." Many of the films were shot out of Parker's home in Hermosa Beach, California. Surge Studios was one of the first studios to mandate safe sex practices when AIDS appeared. Parker is the subject of Roger Edmonson's biography Clone: The Life and Legacy of Al Parker Gay Superstar. Parker's remains were cremated and a memorial service was held at his private residence.

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Joey Stefano

Joey Stefano, the stage name of Nicholas Anthony Iacona, Jr. (January 1, 1968 - November 26, 1994) was an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay adult films. Joey Stefano grew up in the Philadelphia area (Chester, Pennsylvania). His father died when he was 15. After several years of prostitution and hard-core drug use in New York City, Stefano moved to Los Angeles and quickly became a star in gay pornography. In addition to his good looks, his persona as a "hungry bottom" (sexually submissive but verbally demanding) contributed to his popularity. His image and success caught the attention of Madonna, who used him as a model in her 1992 book Sex. During his lifetime, he was the subject of rumors (some of them spread by himself)[citation needed] regarding his relationships with prominent entertainment industry figures who were known to be gay. At a May 1990 dinner and interview with Jess Cagle (Entertainment Weekly) and Rick X (Manhattan Cable TV's The Closet Case Show), Stefano discussed an alleged series of "dates" with David Geffen, who at one point implored Stefano to quit using drugs. After the videotaped interview appeared on Rick X's show, OutWeek Magazine "outed" Geffen, who went on to announce his homosexuality at an AIDS fundraiser. He was HIV positive. According to a subsequent biography Stefano died of an overdose of cocaine, morphine, heroin, and ketamine at age 26 in the shower of a motel on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. His body was taken back to Pennsylvania where he was buried next to his father. Stefano's life is chronicled in the book, "Wonder Bread and Ecstacy: The Life and Death of Joey Stefano" by Charles Isherwood, Alyson Publications, 1996. His life is also the subject of a one-man-play, "Homme Fatale: The Fast Life and Slow Death of Joey Stefano", by Australian playwright Barry Lowe.