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.

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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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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.

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Trinity Loren, Dead At 34, Overdose

Trinity Loren (born Joyce Evelyn McPherson August 21, 1964 in La Jolla, California, USA and died October 25, 199 was a porn star, model, and stripper.

Loren began her adult career as a model in various men’s magazines, gaining attention due to her natural 38E breasts. Loren began her porn career on screen in late-1985, and quickly achieved renown as one of the first starlets of the straight-to-video era of adult films. She retired from pornographic films in the early-1990s, fearing the threat of the AIDS virus.

Loren specialized in oral and anal sex, as well as lesbian scenes. She was also one of the first mainstream adult stars to appear in videos noticeably pregnant and (later) lactating. Before this, many adult films with the pregnancy/milking theme were available only as underground 8mm loops or fringe fetish short films.

Loren shared a short marriage to Barry Woods (who also appeared in adult films under the pseudonym of Shane Hunter), with whom she had a daughter, Tess, born 1990. After the couple’s divorce, Loren moved to Texas, seeking to build a life with her daughter. Unfortunately, Woods and McPherson were fighting over the custody rights of their child; Woods won custody.

Loren moved back to California to be closer to her daughter. She continued to do photo layouts for men’s magazines including Hustler, Gent and D-Cup. During this time, she sought help for clinical depression and drug addiction. As a part of her rehabilitation treatment Loren was working on an autobiography, which was never finished.

In 1998, Loren’s boyfriend, pornographic director Joe Gallant claims that the pair were about to start doing some sex scenes together as a start of Loren’s comeback into the adult industry.

Trinity Loren died on October 25, 1998 due to either an overdose of prescription painkillers, or a brain aneurysm.  She is interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California under her legal name, “Roxanne McPherson”. Gallant started his company, Black Mirror Productions, in part to raise money to support Loren’s daughter.

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Where is Lolo Ferrari? Dead… Intentional Overdose or Murder?

Lolo Ferrari, born Eve Valois (March 4, 1962 – March 5, 2000) was a French dancer and actress billed as “the woman with the largest breasts in the world”, though their size was artificially achieved.

Born in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France, she was raised in the resort town of La Baule in an intellectual but extremely dysfunctional family. When she was a child, her father was relocated causing the move to La Baule. Her mother abused little Eve constantly, saying she was no good and that no man would want her, even going as far to whip Eve after her husband left her and her children. As a teenager, she obtained a few modelling jobs. In 1988, she married Eric Vigne, a man 14 years older.

Encouraged by her husband, Ferrari underwent numerous plastic surgery operations to create a 180-cm (71-inch) silicone-enhanced bust (22 enlargements, a Guinness world record). The Guinness Book of Records says each of her breasts weighed 2.8 kg (6 lb 2 oz) and contained three litres of serum. She had to wear a specially engineered brassiere, and as a result of her many surgeries she suffered from a number of medical afflictions and lived with a heavy regimen of drugs.  Her brassiere measurements have been given by various sources as 58F, 54G, and 54J.

The question of whether Ferrari had the largest surgically enhanced breasts in the world was hotly debated. Adult film stars such as Chelsea Charms, Maxi Mounds and Minka have been reported with even larger surgically enhanced busts, which they gained through the use of string implants. Ferrari remains to this date the woman with the largest bust enhanced with standard silicone implants.

Procedures had by Ferrari were said to have included:

* 6 rhinoplasties
* 4 surgeries on her mouth
* Silicone injections to her forehead
* Silicone injections to both cheeks
* Silicone injections to the mouth
* 10–15 breast augmentations (implants)

Adopting the stage name “Lolo”, from a French slang word for breasts, along with “Ferrari” as a last name, she made a few pornographic films. Use of the Ferrari name (which she justified since it was her maternal grandfather’s name) led to lengthy trademark infringement court battles with the Italian Ferrari automobile company when she tried to market a line of underwear called Ferrari Underwear and a Lolo Ferrari doll. In 1995, she caused a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival with the presentation of the movie Camping Cosmos by Jan Bucquoy and producer Francis De Smet during a boxmatch.
Lolo Ferrari before the poster of Mother Courage and Her Children in the summer of 1995 during the making of the movie Camping Cosmos.  Ferrari used the publicity surrounding her appearance to obtain a regular role on the British Channel 4 television show Eurotrash. Ironically, when Channel 4 broadcast Miss Valois’s obituary, it was transmitted with straight dubbing as a mark of respect. The media hype led to appearances on other European shows and work in cabaret shows doing a song and striptease act. Hoping to launch a pop music career, she recorded two singles, titled “Airbag Generation” and “Set Me Free”, as well as two more singles, a Euro disco cabaret song called “Dance Dance Dance”, and a cover of Thelma Houston’s Euro disco hit, “Don’t Leave Me This Way”. Neither song was given a commercial release. However, Ferrari retained a cult-like following.

On the morning of March 5, 2000, the day following her 38th birthday, Ferrari was found dead at her home in Grasse in the Alpes-Maritimes département on the French Riviera, apparently the victim of a self-induced prescription drug overdose. According to statements made by Eric Vigne, her husband, who had found her body, she had been planning her own funeral, and a few days before her death had visited an undertaker and picked out a white coffin, saying she wished to be buried in a pink ballroom gown, with her favourite white teddy bear.[citation needed]

Shortly before her death, Ferrari is said to have expressed interest in having her implants removed. She had also taken a lover, a Monaco police officer. Eric hired and paid for two girls named Audrey and Karine Jablecki to have silicone implants to extremely large sizes, dubbing them The Silicone Girls. They were to be Ferrari’s backup singers, but ultimately replaced her.

Vigne was later arrested owing to new evidence and apparent inconsistencies in his version of the events leading up to her death. For instance, the drugs in her stomach had not begun to enter her bloodstream, and her body showed signs of mechanically induced suffocation. Vigne stated that Ferrari had possibly rolled over while she was sleeping, causing her to be suffocated by her large breasts. This was not likely, however, as Lolo was purported to be a careful sleeper, even when under the influence of the multiple sleeping pills and anti-depressants she took.

Vigne spent more than a year in prison before being released. Ferrari’s mother, Catherine Valois, has been pressuring authorities to officially charge Vigne for the alleged murder. As of August 2007, no legal action has been taken.

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Where is Candy Barr? Dead from Pneumonia at 70

The infamous stripper, burlesque dancer and pornographic actress Candy Barr passed away on December 30, 2005 at the age of 70.

Candy Barr was born Juanita Slusher in the small town of Edna Texas. Her early years were traumatized by the sexual abuse at the hands of her neighbor who was also her babysitter. At the age of 13, Barr ran away from home to Dallas Texas where she landed in a brothel and was virtually a slave.

In 1951, at the age of 16, she appeared in a short underground blue movie called Smart Alec. She claims she was drugged and forced to perform in the pornographic film. Despite being an underground film, it was wildly circulated and many consider Barr to be the first porn star because of it.

In 1953 she married Troy Phillips and had a daughter in 1954. The marriage was actually her second, her first coming at the age of 14. In 1956 Barr shot her husband Phillips who was known to be violent. Phillips was not fatally wounded although Barr was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The charges were later dropped.

While stripping at the Largo Club in L.A. Barr met gangster Mickey Cohen and the two dated. In October of 1957, Barr’s home was raided and the police confiscated close to an ounce of marijuana. She was charged with drug possession and Cohen helped to bail her her out of jail. Cohen also helped Barr go into hiding and set her up in Mexico for a short while in an attempt to avoid sentence.

She was also a know acquaintance of club owner Jack Ruby who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald immediately following the Kennedy assassination. Barr was questioned by the FBI 12 hours after Ruby murdered Oswald.

Barr was arrested and charged with marijuana possession again in 1968 though the charges were later dropped. Barr eventually retired from stripping and settled in Brownwood Texas.

In 1976 at the age of 41 Barr re-appeared in a Oui Magazine pictorial older and out-of-shape. Barr later moved back to her home town of Edna where she lived out her remaining years in quiet retirement mostly wanting to forget her past.

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Where is Jim Mitchell? Dead… From a Sudden Heart Attack

The second half of the legendary porn siblings known as the Mitchell Brothers passed away in July, 2007 at the age of 63 of an apparent heart attack. Jim was buried next to his brother Artie in Antioch California.

Jim and Artie Mitchell otherwise knows as The Mitchell brothers, gained fame in the 70’s by opening the O’Farrell theater in San Francisco and producing porn flicks in the makeshift studio above the theater. The brothers were at the center of the fashionable mainstream porn craze of the 70’s and produced many classic films such as Sodom and Gomorrah, Resurrection of Eve and their most famous movie Behind the Green Door. Behind the Green Door starred the former Ivory Snow girl turned porn star Marilyn Chambers. Their success in the 70’s lead to cocaine and alcohol abuse by both of the brothers, particularly Artie.

Jim dominated the relationship between the two and was considered the real talent of the group. The two often argued and Artie was known to have an explosive temper fueled by alcohol, cocaine and jealousy of his brother.

In 1991 after a heated confrontation, Jim drove to Artie’s house and shot his brother dead. Jim was charged with murder but was later convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter and received a 6 year prison sentence. The lesser conviction came as the jury heard testimony about Artie’s violent temper and the actions that lead up to the shooting.

The duo’s story was recently made into a movie Rated X starring brothers Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. Estevez also directed the picture.

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