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    Joey Stefano 1968 - 1994

    Gorgeous. I had no idea he was the same age as me, born the same year. Was his OD ruled accidental?

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    What about Blue Iris...she still on life support?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lisalouver View Post
    Gorgeous. I had no idea he was the same age as me, born the same year. Was his OD ruled accidental?
    Yes and no. He had a notorious love affair with drugs and during the last year or so, during the downward spiral of his life, (not finding work and so forth) discovered he had HIV.

    So, even if he didn't OD on purpose, I would imagine he was "on the fence", becoming more careless and reckless with his own health.


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    welll he was a cutie pie

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    That he was. I feel for him, poor guy.

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    I still wonder about the one who killed himself here in New Orleans I think is name was Chrsitain Fox or something he was going to rehab but didnt want to so he threw himself out of a glass window at a hotel( I always wonder what one ) didint kill himself thats time but I think later he did Fi Fi larue was trying to help him...he was known as a twinki in the indusry.....ick...poor guy...

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    He was definately a jaw-dropper..It's a shame. I'll have to look around for that biography on him.

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    I just looked on Amazon for the book but it's listed as unavailable. I'll have to try another source.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TOBI View Post
    Yes and no. He had a notorious love affair with drugs and during the last year or so, during the downward spiral of his life, (not finding work and so forth) discovered he had HIV.

    So, even if he didn't OD on purpose, I would imagine he was "on the fence", becoming more careless and reckless with his own health.


    Good Lord, what a waste.

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    What about Blue Iris...she still on life support?

    Her myspace says she died on 4/23

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lisamarie View Post
    I still wonder about the one who killed himself here in New Orleans I think is name was Chrsitain Fox or something he was going to rehab but didnt want to so he threw himself out of a glass window at a hotel( I always wonder what one ) didint kill himself thats time but I think later he did Fi Fi larue was trying to help him...he was known as a twinki in the indusry.....ick...poor guy...
    I'm not sure, but I believe Christian had some illness as well? Honestly don't know.


    Joey Stefano (1968 - 1994)


    Hard to look good in this outfit, but he pulls it off. And very well!
    Last edited by TOBI; 05-08-2009 at 04:24 AM.

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    "I just looked on Amazon for the book but it's listed as unavailable. I'll have to try another source."

    Ebay, they have at least one book. And cheap!

    Still haven't read it myself. But maybe, who knows?

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    well well well Joey was the hotness....I love that biker look too that so hot ! Lol!!! So Sad so many are gone so soon!

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    Many thanks, Tobi! I'll check that out.

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    Here is a review of [SIZE=3]Paperback, Wonder Bread and Ecstasy: The Life and Death of Joey Stefano[/SIZE]

    It's long but detailed, the reviewer hit all points. As follows:

    Joey Stefano probably had neither the wish nor the ability to tell his own life story. It definitely lacked any “he finally got it together” happy ending.

    Explicit representations of his “if you’re man enough, come and take me” sexuality were consumed by large audiences on videos made in 1989-90 and in personal appearances around the United States until his death in 1994 from a combination of cocaine, morphine, heroin, and, his favorite drug, Special K (ketamine). Before moving to Hollywood, being discovered, and given his nom de porn, the drug of choice for the high-school-dropout, Philadelphia hustler Nicholas Anthony Iacona, Jr. was angel dust (PCP), so making money to buy downer drugs by renting his body was his established way of life before he appeared in any hardcore videos. That is, the hardcore video industry and its groupies did not (were too late to) introduce the young star to drug abuse or to prostitution.

    Wonder Bread and Ecstasy recounts the short career of an uneducated, inarticulate waif with no sense of how to manage money and no ability to plan long-range, who rocketed to stardom, was almost immediately viewed as “yesterday’s news,” and descended a bit more slowly than he rose, through a thicker haze of drugs, to an early death.

    That the locale is hardcore gay videos is the main difference between this book and shelves of other trashy biographies of movie stars who couldn’t handle success and/or were desired to death by those confusing the screen image with the fragile human being who projects the image. Rita Hayworth observed that men in love with Gilda (her most sirenish screen role) kept waking up with only her. Initially, Nick Iacona was thrilled to have sex with hunks he had lusted after while watching hardcore videos, but, according to Isherwood, he was increasingly unhappy that his sexual partners were expecting Joey Stefano, the premier sex object who was supposed to be as tough and invulnerable as he was lustful.

    In a magazine interview, Stefano alluded to having been abused by his father and in another to having been sexually molested as a child. It is not totally unreasonable to combine these into a claim that his father sexually abused him (a sister’s denial is not compelling reason to dismiss the possibility). And it is plausible that there is some relation between his father’s death and his dropping out of school during the same year (1983, when he was fifteen). Unfortunately, biographer Isherwood does not seem to have asked anyone in Chester, Pennsylvania, what either the senior or the junior Nick Iacona was like in the 1970s and 1980s, or what the quality of the relationship between the two seemed to be. Similarly, Isherwood does not report anything from anyone who knew or had the young Nick in Philadelphia in the middle-1980s.

    Without a scintilla of evidence, Isherwood interprets Iacona’s basic motivation as trying to please father surrogates, writing that “surely it’s not too speculative to propose that in courting the attention of a world of gay men, he was seeking to replace the one man whose attention he could no longer hope to gain: his father’s.” It seems to me that this is too speculative, especially in that a biographer might reasonably be expected to have attempted to gather some information about the father’s physical appearance and general demeanor. That the son’s preferred “type” was older, butch men might indicate a quest for a father, but might also derive from longing for an older brother. Fantasies about and longings for both kinds of relationship are common among gay men (and among others). So are crushes on and even (gasp!) sexual relations with older boys. Some investigation might have reduced the need for speculation—or is it projection on Isherwood’s part?

    It was a drag queen Chi Chi LaRue (né Larry Paciotti in Hibbing, Minnesota ) who launched Joey Stefano, loved Nick Iacona, and was still attempting to help keep both afloat the day Nick overdosed instead of showing up for film work. Along with Nick’s relationship with the female porn figure Sharon Kane, this suggests that Nick wanted to be mothered, not fathered—or mothered in addition to being fathered. Or, perhaps, just loved? But Isherwood has filled in the blanks (of which there are many, particularly in the absence of any research on the boyhood and adolescence of the biographical object who died at age 26) with hoary neo-Freudian father absence to explain everything.

    Lack of research and predilection for Freudian clichés are not the only problems in trying to understand Iacona/Stefano. To put it mildly, Nick was not introspective. He did not tell others about his past, present, or future. He did not think he had a future, and a case could be made that he did not think that he had a present or past either. He consumed a lot of dissociative drugs and, at least in Isherwood’s portrait, was largely devoid of personality. Isherwood treats Nick’s generosity as an aspect of his obliviousness, his trustingness and openness as stupidity, and is torn between interpreting his sexual appetite as desperately compulsive attention-seeking or as another means to self-annihilation. Nick was lacking in self-esteem and self-confidence (as he recognized in a 1993 list of his problems that is the only document Nick wrote that Isherwood quotes).

    LaRue says that Nick “never thought he was gorgeous,” although “All I have is my looks and my body” was also on the list of problems, and in a 1991 Gay Video Guide interview, he articulated a recognition that many of those who fantasized about having sex with Joey Stefano (or as Joey Stefano) resented him: “They sometimes envy me, but then they’re intimidated by me. It’s like I’ve become this sort of a ‘thing’ that they want to watch but not touch. And that hurts.”

    Once he knew he was infected with HIV, Stefano acknowledged it and undertook to help others avoid becoming infected. As careless as he was with his own life (sharing needles as well as engaging in unprotected receptive sex) and as uneducated and unintrospective as he was, as Joey Stefano, he bravely took a very clear public stand against a reluctant industry for protected sex in film scenes. He was also among the first porn stars to regularly volunteer for AIDS fund-raisers. Perhaps he was not quite as doltish as Isherwood, who labels him “anticerebral,” represents.

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    Quote Originally Posted by death hag dee View Post
    Her myspace says she died on 4/23
    I think her mySpace is wrong. I don't even think it has her age right unless 69 is just supposed to be a joke. Anyway, I know for sure that as of last week she was still on life support, and I haven't heard anything on Howard about her being taken off. They would definitely report it, they love her.

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    The Post Chronicle says Blue Iris is gone:

    http://www.postchronicle.com/cgi-bin...133&num=224953

    That article is from 4/22, though. Hubs says the plug was actually pulled on Friday-Howard Stern isn't on on Friday but he heard the Howard 100 news team reported it.

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    I know they were talking last week that her husband was trying to get some money and legal stuff set before she was actually dead and that he wanted to talk to one more neurologist before he made such a final decision. I haven't been able to hear Howard all this week. Anyway, it's too bad she's gone. RIP Blue.

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    It would be interesting to know how many porn stars manage to "survive" their careers and blend back into mainstream society. There is one former gay star known to live in my hometown (Portland, OR) who moved all over the country, settling in first one place and then another, but eventually someone would recognize him and he had to move on.

    I don't know why Portland worked for him... perhaps he found an employer who didn't care about his past, or maybe enough time had gone by that people were forgetting who he was.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TOBI View Post
    I'm not sure, but I believe Christian had some illness as well? Honestly don't know.


    Joey Stefano (1968 - 1994)


    Hard to look good in this outfit, but he pulls it off. And very well!

    Looks like the son Barney Fife never talked about...can't help it

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    Thanks, Tobi, for the info. It sounds like something I'd like to read.I wish the guy could've gotten himself together though. He was too young to goout that way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pistolpete View Post
    Looks like the son Barney Fife never talked about...can't help it
    In context Icon ! He is great too see! ! Beautiful Man!

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    beautiful boy....

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    Quote Originally Posted by TIMB1967 View Post
    Thanks, Tobi, for the info. It sounds like something I'd like to read.I wish the guy could've gotten himself together though. He was too young to goout that way.
    Interesting side note. The mother sued the author of the book. She lost in 2001.

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    Joey Stefano (1968-1994)

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    Quote Originally Posted by pistolpete View Post
    Looks like the son Barney Fife never talked about...can't help it
    Ha! He wishes...........

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    Quote Originally Posted by RogerV View Post
    It would be interesting to know how many porn stars manage to "survive" their careers and blend back into mainstream society. There is one former gay star known to live in my hometown (Portland, OR) who moved all over the country, settling in first one place and then another, but eventually someone would recognize him and he had to move on.

    I don't know why Portland worked for him... perhaps he found an employer who didn't care about his past, or maybe enough time had gone by that people were forgetting who he was.
    I read something similar, this was a Subway's employee. Someone recognized him as coming out in a few gay films, acted indignant and reported him.

    The question that got around to Mr. Indignant was; how did you recognize that the employee came out in those type of films? Oops!!!

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    Joey Stefano (1968-1994)


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    so Tobi......did you know him??

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    Sorry to hear the mother lost the lawsuit. It's easy to attack someone when they're not here to defend themselves. He sure was handsome. Hate that that happened to him.

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    Sorry to hear the mother lost the lawsuit. It's easy to attack someone when they're not here to defend themselves. He sure was handsome. Hate that that happened to him.
    Joey was unfortunately a self-destructive personality type who probably would have died young, famous or not. Normally, good looks are an asset, but in his case, it meant someone was usually willing to bail him out or take him in. That translates into him never taking responsibility for his own life and problems.

    I agree that he was one of the hottest performers to ever appear in front of a camera, but sex was the ONLY thing he could do, even though he did it extremely well.

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    Smile

    so Tobi......did you know him??

    Friendly terms, yes! Friends/friends? No.
    Last edited by TOBI; 05-14-2009 at 04:13 AM.

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    Joey Stefano (1968-1994)


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    what was his tatoo??

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    Some people are self-destructive. He sure was a looker though. Sad that he's gone.

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    He kind of looks like a Baldwin Brother. I don't know if that's a good thing or not. I guess it doesn't matter.

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    Howard 100 News reported Blue Iris dead on Monday the 11th, meaning it probably happened anywhere between the 7th and 11th.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lisamarie View Post
    what was his tatoo??

    It was a "shrunken head."

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    I wonder how he treated other people. Was he caring, warm, a sweet guy? A shame he was so lost.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jod6cindy View Post
    I wonder how he treated other people. Was he caring, warm, a sweet guy? A shame he was so lost.
    The handful of times I met him, he was nice. Happy go lucky.

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    Joey Stefano (1968-1994)



    And yes, he does have a resemblance to the Baldwin brothers. I never noticed before. Good eye!

    Here is a better pic with the tattoo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RogerV View Post
    I've made the same observation, and wondered the same thing. I suppose a high rate of drug use makes the problem worse, and auto accidents are probably one of the leading causes of death among young people in general... no figures to back up my theory... just an educated guess.

    The Drugs might be the biggest problem associated with the Industry!They would contribute to depression leading to suicides....the car accidents and other accidents, Aids .....a general lack of self control and loss of good decision making! If the actors could stay away from the drugs they would have a better chance all round! I guess Im blaming drugs for a lot that goes wrong in the Porn Industry but it feels right!

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    I watched an interview of him on Youtube. I've never seen one of his films but he seemed like a nice guy..not too stuck on himself but not unkind...kind of wild as young people can be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TIMB1967 View Post
    I watched an interview of him on Youtube. I've never seen one of his films but he seemed like a nice guy..not too stuck on himself but not unkind...kind of wild as young people can be.
    He was nice I agree, but just got in way over his head.

    Joey Stefano (1968-1994)

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    I'm glad Tobi that you can let people know firsthand the kind of person he was. It's easy for people to judge others from a distance. Thanks for attesting to his character. I went to findagrave.com to post some "virtual flowers" but that feature has been turned off for his profile. I guess people were leaving some not-so-nice messages. Can't even leave a personal note to the man now..That's how people can be I guess. By the way, your pictures of him are awesome. Thanks!

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    anywhere you can see that b/w interview he did supposed to be one of his last in completion?

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    I'm not sure how much of that interview is available. I saw a clip of it on Youtube. You might try a search there. There was more than one clip but I only saw one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TIMB1967 View Post
    I'm glad Tobi that you can let people know firsthand the kind of person he was. It's easy for people to judge others from a distance. Thanks for attesting to his character. I went to findagrave.com to post some "virtual flowers" but that feature has been turned off for his profile. I guess people were leaving some not-so-nice messages. Can't even leave a personal note to the man now..That's how people can be I guess. By the way, your pictures of him are awesome. Thanks!
    Thanks for the compliment!! In a very small way, this is a form of catharsis for me.

    As for the findagrave; yes people were acting stupid. Everyone is bold under the form of anonymity.

    Joey Stefano (1968-1994)

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    The black and white video? Joey was under something while doing that video. It gets more obvious during its run. (That, and the fact that he's naked is why you only see that one clip).

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    Thanks, Tobi, for letting us know a little about him firsthand. At least you'll have the memory of him..Your pictures of him are amazing.

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