Adult movie star August Ames has died aged 23, her husband has confirmed. August, who was born in Canada, passed away in Camarillo, California, on Tuesday morning from suicide.
Her cause of death was confirmed by the Ventura County Medical Examiner as asphyxiation due to hanging. Her real name was Mercedes Grabowski. Her devastated husband Kevin Moore said: “She was the kindest person I ever knew and she meant the world to me. “Please leave this as a private family matter in this difficult time.”
“She was the kindest person I ever knew and she meant the world to me,” her husband said. Friends of the star, who had appeared in more than 270 X-rated movies, told The Blast that August had suffered from long-term depression and may have taken her own life.
Just 48 hours earlier, she had found herself embroiled in a social media row after she said she had reservations about working with a porn star who had previously appeared in gay porn.
On December 3 she wrote: “Whichever (lady) performer is replacing me tomorrow… you’re shooting with a guy who has shot gay porn, just to let cha know. BS is all I can say Do agents really not care about who they’re representing?”
Porn star August Ames’ brother blames online trolls for her suicide: ‘I have nothing but hate for people who drove her to this’ Friends of the star said she had suffered from long-term depression.
When a Twitter user wrote to her saying, “So you’re homophobic?” she replied: “NOT homophobic. Most girls don’t shoot with guys who have shot gay porn, for safety. “That’s just how it is with me. I’m not putting my body at risk, i don’t know what they do in their private lives.”
August Ames 1994 – 2017 August Ames dead aged 23. A day later she replied to another Twitter user saying she wasn’t going to apologize for her previous tweets.
Her career kicked off in 2013 and she became one of the most popular porn stars on the internet. This December, her videos on Porn Hub had amassed more than 425 million views, making her the 9th most popular star on the site.
In a furious Facebook post, August’s distraught brother James Grabowski blasted the ‘trolls’ who had harangued his sister with abusive messages after she refused to take part in the EroticaX shoot.
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“Bullying is not a joke,” he said in the since-deleted post. “It took my sister’s life and I can’t get her back. This pain I feel cause people couldn’t keep their opinions to themselves is unbearable, although I have nothing but hate for each and everyone of you people who drove her to this i still do not wish this pain on you. “This has forever changed me and who I am as a person,” he went on.
“I guess I can’t hide from the rumours and the messages won’t stop. Adult movie star August Ames has died aged 23, her husband has confirmed. August, who was born in Canada, passed away in Camarillo, California, on Tuesday morning from suicide.
