Norweigan Actor Sasha Gabor, Dead At 63

Sasha early in his career

Sasha Gabor was born Samuel Guttman on June 6, 1945 in Hungary.  He came to Norway as a refugee in 1954.

Gabor started his pornographic career late in life appearing in Every Woman Has a Fantasy in 1983 at the age of 38.  Gabor quickly became a popular male performer appearing with some of the hottest female stars of the 80’s and even directed a movie late in his career.  He is known for his trademark leading man good looks, and for his resemblance to Sean Connery and Burt Reynolds. He even spoofed the popular mainstream actors in some of his pornographic roles over the years.

Although most of Gabor’s success came in the 80’s he continued to perform until 2001 when he retired and moved from Los Angeles back to Norway.

Gabor was found dead in June 27, 2008 while vacationing in Thailand.  A local doctor determined that his death was related to heart problems.  He had suffered from a heart aliment over the last few years according to sources.  Gabor was 63 years old.  He is survived by his 5 children from 3 different marriages.

Tracy and the Bandit box cover

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Kitty Fox, Dead At 64

Kitty Fox was born on February 26, 1942, in a small rural town in southern Illinois. She went to school there and graduated from high school in 1960. After attending college she met her present and only husband in 1964. They have been married for 40 years. She has one daughter and two granddaughters. They moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1978 and she worked as a beautician until 1983, at which time she became a topless showgirl in a show on the Las Vegas Strip. In 1989 she appeared in a nude photo layout in a men’s magazine. She was asked if she would be interested in being in a porno movie the following year and she jumped at the chance, and debuted in “Nympho Heaven”. She loved having sex in the movies so much that she quickly decided to be a porno actress for as long as men would desire to have her. Kitty and her husband have been “swingers” for 39 years and she figured that she must have had sex with more than 15,000 men during that time. She is a publisher of “Over 50″ Magazine and appears in the magazine in every issue. She also makes about 20 movies a year and has starred in more than 300 adult films. Kitty Fox is one of the most famous mature adult film stars of all time.

Taken from: http://www.fancast.com/people/Kitty-Fox/524256/biography

According to RAME.net, Kitty died in September of 2004 of complications from a stroke. She was 64 years old.

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Miyuki Asou, Gravure Idol Turned Japanese Porn Star Commits Suicide

Mikuki Asou was a stage actress as a teenager, and as a young adult became a gravure idol. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, a gravure idol is a young Japanese model who poses for sexually provocative photo shoots. The models are never nude, but mostly pose in bikinis or scant clothing, in a sexually suggestive manner. Basically it’s softcore porn without nudity, think Barely Legal magazine with clothes on.

Unhappy with the level of success she was achieving as a gravure girl, Asou made the transition into performing hardcore Japanese porn in February of 2008. She believed that she would be a much more popular porn star, and would be in higher demand, having worked previously as a model. She was poorly represented, and was immediately thrust into the dirtier side of Japanese video, filming a gang bang rape scene in only her second appearance.

In Japan ex-gravure girls often become famous stars. Many of Asou’s fans were upset about her decision to do hardcore, as she more-or-less ended her chances of ever being a respectable mainstream star. Apparently the career move and the backlash caused her some shame, and she committed suicide a month after filming her first hardcore scene. Police found her in her bathroom, dead from intentional inhalation of hydrogen sulfide gas. The method of suicide Asou used is a growing practice among young people in Japan. By mixing certain detergents and bathroom cleaners, a chemical reaction occurs which produces the hydrogen sulfide gas which is then inhaled.

Asou was 22 years old at the time of her death.

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Penthouse Pet Paige Summers, A Leathal Dose

Paige Summers (born Nancy Ann Coursey on July 21, 1976 in Lorain, Ohio, USA, died September 22, 2003) was an American adult model. She moved with her family to Morganton, North Carolina and graduated from Freedom High School where her senior superlative was “Barbie Look-Alike”.

She invented the name Paige Summers for her pornographic modeling career. She appeared in several issues of High Society and Cheri magazines in 1995, and was first chosen Penthouse Pet of the Month for August 1996, but her fame came as Penthouse Pet of the Year for 1998 - the first North Carolinian to be so chosen. Kia Motors gave her a Sportage SUV as part of her award, and in exchange for advertising. She claimed to earn half a million dollars a year. Summers appeared on the Howard Stern show, and several Penthouse videos.

Nancy Coursey traveled the world as part of her career, including to India and Australia, but kept in touch with her family, and by 2003 had moved back to live with them in Morganton. She was engaged to be married to local pharmacist and real estate owner Bracey Bobbitt on October 11, 2003. She was found dead in his home on the shore of Lake James, on the morning of September 22 of a drug overdose from a combination of the painkillers codeine and oxycodone.

Taken from: http://www.biographicon.com/view/w3jgq

Star Stowe, A Fallen Star

“Star” Stowe (born Ellen Louise Maligo , March 19, 1956 in Little Rock, Arkansas - died March 16, 1997 in Coral Springs, Florida) was an American model. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its February 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.

She was an acquaintance of Gene Simmons and hung out with him and the rest of KISS. In 1977, she married Peter Maligo and had a son. She eventually divorced her husband.

Stowe moved to Fort Lauderdale in 1986 to find work as an exotic dancer. She fell out of the limelight and into drugs, alcohol and street prostitution in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area. She was found murdered on March 16, 1997. Police belived her killing to be a serial murder.

Taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Stowe

Elisa Bridges, Death Of A Beauty

Elisa Rebeca Bridges (May 24, 1973 - February 7, 2002) was a Houston-raised American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for December 1994, and Playboy’s Video Playmate of the Month for September 1996. She appeared in several video productions from Playboy Home Video from 1996 to 2000.

Bridges died at the luxurious mansion of Edward Nahem, a longtime acquaintance of Hugh Hefner. Nahem found Bridges dead in bed when he came home that evening. The official coroner’s report listed her cause of death as “acute intoxication by the combined effects of heroin, methamphetamine, meperidine and alprazolam”. Playboy stated that Bridges had died of natural causes. This statement was dis-proven by the official medical reports on Bridges’ autopsy.

Taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisa_Bridges

Dorothy Stratten, Murder Of A Playmate

Dorothy was raised in Vancouver, B.C., and it was in Coquitlam that Dorothy Hoogstraten grew up, and, in 1976, entered high school. She was already a beauty– darlingly blue eyed, blonde, voluptuous. An early male admirer, Jeff Staudacher, described her as being “wholesome” and “sexy” at the same time. To earn spending money, Dorothy took a part-time job at a Dairy Queen in Vancouver, and it was there that she met a local promoter, Paul Snider.

Paul was a fanatical “get rich quick” kind of guy. Pushy, sleazy, know-it-all obnoxious - he quickly saw Dorothy’s potential and after boyfriending her, he persuaded her to take some nude photos for him, which he sent to Playboy. She forged her mother’s signature on the model release when she sent her nude pictures to Playboy. A year later she was a Playboy Playmate and living at the mansion in Los Angeles. On Stratten’s Playmate data sheet, she listed her major turnoff as “jealous people.”

Paul followed, with all his schemes always working. Although Dorothy’s career began to flourish, Paul languished. Seeing that he was losing his grip on her, he constantly pressured her to marry. Finally talking her into it during an on-the-whim trip to Vegas in June 1979, but it was over almost as quickly as it began. Snider was obsessed with Dorothy and her career. He forbade her to drink coffee, because it would stain her teeth, and he supposedly poisoned her pet dog because he was jealous of it. It eventually caused their relationship to deteriorate, and by August of 1980 they were separated, pending a divorce.

Posing by Paul’s Car Back In Canada, The Dairy Queen She Worked At, and 1977 Yearbook Photo

Paul had a lot of crazy ideas - he once took to making weight benches, and with the scraps made a bondage bench he was hoping to market. He was inspired when visiting The Pleasure Chest, a sex shop in LA. The Pleasure Chest opted NOT to buy the bench, and it stood in a corner of his bedroom for months and months.

Anyways - Dorothy went to work on the Peter Bogdanovich film THEY ALL LAUGHED. She fell in love with the director and was basically leaving Paul for him. Now to talk to Paul and get rid of him….yeah, right. She didn’t know that Snider hired a private detective to follow Stratten around after she began staying part of the time at Peter Bogdanovich’s Bel Air home.

On the morning of August 14th, 1980, Dorothy agreed to meet Snider at the apartment, and showed up just after noon. She was wearing flats and slacks, carrying a big zippered handbag. She had withdrawn $1000 in cash to give to Snider, and hoped to settle her split from him, once and for all. At 12:30, the private investigator called Paul, and Paul told him that “everything was going fine.”

SNIDER - Almost Like A Bad Caricature of Himself - You Can FEEL His Creepiness From a .jpg

At 5 in the afternoon, the two female occupants of the apartment came home and noticed the two vehicles (Dorothy’s and Paul’s) in the driveway. They saw that Paul’s door was closed, and they heard no sounds. They assumed that Paul and Dorothy wanted privacy. At 6:00 they watched the news, and then went out to eat. At around 7, Dr. Cushner came home and he too decided to give them privacy. At 8, the women returned home. At around 11, the investigator called the Doctor on his private line (no one was answering Snider’s phone, and it was continually ringing), and suggested they take a peek into the room. Boy oh boy did they get a surprise. They called the cops.

Cops arrived at 12:30am. They found Dorothy lying across the end of a low waterbed. Get this: she had black ants crawling all over her. Wild, eh? They found a bullet hole from a 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun (that Snider had bought from and ad in a local newspaper) on her cheek, blood on the walls and curtains, and she was missing the tip of her left index finger.

Marriage License and Tombstone - Same Shape

No one knows for sure what transpired during their meeting, but blonde hair was found in Snider’s fists. The only scenario that makes sense, was that Dorothy was sitting on a corner of the bed when Snider put the gun up to her cheek. She tried to shield her face with her left hand, thus destroying her left index finger when Snider pulled the trigger. A half an hour later, Snider turned the gun on himself, and fell on top of the shotgun. Kinda makes you wonder what he did for 30 minutes. No wait, I don’t want to know. There were bloody handprints on Dorothy’s buttocks. Oh yeah, Paul had ants crawling all over him too.

Near Dorothy, was the “love seat.” According to police, it was set in a position for “possible rear entry intercourse.” There was evidence that the seat had been used, and she had been fastened to it with medical tape.

Murder Scene - 10881 W. Clarkson - Los Angeles, California

Bogdanovich married Stratten’s younger sister, Louise, who was born in 1968, a year after Bogdanovich’s own daughter. The couple divorced in 2001.

Taken from: http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/archive/oldnews/stratten.htm

Italian Porn Star Lolly Pop Found Dead

The Italian porn star known simply by the name Lolly Pop, was born Mary Besesti Federica in 1969. She also went by the name Federica Gori. She had a very brief adult career, only appearing in two adult films back in 2000, both anal flicks directed by Rocco Siffredi. Federica was also known for being the TV mascot for the Italian football (soccer) club Fiorentina.

On February 7, 2008, Federica’s mother was concerned because she had not heard from her daughter in some time. She entered her daughter’s house in Rome and found Federica in bed, already deceased and surrounded by her four dogs. An autopsy was performed and the results will be given to the mother after about 60 days. According to the doctor it appeared that Federica died of some sort of natural cause, possibly a heart attack. She was 37 years old.

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Lea De Mae, Former Olympic Hopeful Dead At 27

Andrea Absolonová (December 26, 1976 – December 9, 2004), better known by the pseudonym Lea De Mae, was a Czech adult model and pornographic actress.

Born December 26, 1976 in Czechoslovakia, she was a member of the Czech high diving national team and injured her spine in an accident when training for the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, diving from the 10m platform. Some time after her injury, Lea did her best to recover, and qualified again for the Sydney Olympics in 2000. However her problems persisted, so she retired from high diving. She was later persuaded by a photographer to pose nude, thus turning eventually to the adult film industry.

Lea de Mae appeared in over 80 adult films. She first showed up on American screens in a series of features for Private Studio where her stunning looks were well received.

Lea de Mae ended up returning to Europe after the time she spent in US. She then started to film more adult films in her native land but after a brief period of time she returned to the States.

Lea De Mae along with colleagues Silvia Saint, Daniella Rush and Monica Sweetheart (known as “The Dream Team”) led the home contingent in the early days of the Czech adult movie/modeling world. She was nominated for the 2004 AVN Award for Foreign Female Performer of the Year.

Lea was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer in July 2004. During Lea’s battle for life, fans from around the world and fellow porn actors supported a medical fund that had been set up for her in Prague, but she succumbed to the disease on December 9, 2004 at the age of 27, 17 days shy of her 28th birthday.

Taken from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_De_Mae

Kathy Harcourt … A Mysterious End

Kathy Harcourt was a little known porn actress who appeared in a handful of films in the early 80’s. Her biography is scarce at best. IAFD does not list her date of birth, date of death, or place of birth. Because she was only active in the industry for a couple of years, and was not exactly a fan favorite, very little is known about her.

According to RAME.net, Harcourt did die sometime in the mid 80’s. Her body was allegedly found floating the East River; the cause of death was determined to be a gunshot wound to the head. The gun was actually found upstream leading some to believe that that the wound was self inflicted. Because the gun had been in the water for nearly a day no fingerprints could be lifted. It is also rumored that Harcourt was deeply in debt to a drug dealer who might have murdered her and thrown the gun into the river after the murder took place. To this day the case is unsolved.

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