{"id":114578,"date":"2017-12-07T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T19:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=114578"},"modified":"2017-12-07T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T19:35:38","slug":"porn-star-august-ames-dead-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/porn-star-august-ames-dead-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Porn Star August Ames Dead at 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adult entertainer August Ames has died of apparent suicide&#8212;she was 23-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>Ames was found dead at her home in Camarillo, California. The cause of death was determined to be &#8216;asphyxiation due to hanging,&#8217; the medical examiner said.<\/p>\n<p>Ames committed suicide following successive tweets in which she defended her refusal to perform a pornographic movie with a man who had previously worked in gay porn and sparking an online firestorm.<\/p>\n<p>Friends said she suffered from depression.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">whichever (lady) performer is replacing me tomorrow for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EroticaXNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EroticaXNews<\/a> , you\u2019re shooting with a guy who has shot gay porn, just to let cha know. BS is all I can say????????\u200d\u2640\ufe0f Do agents really not care about who they\u2019re representing? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ladirect?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ladirect<\/a> I do my homework for my body????\u270f\ufe0f????<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 August Ames (@AugustAmesxxx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AugustAmesxxx\/status\/937422512077471744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NOT homophobic. Most girls don\u2019t shoot with guys who have shot gay porn, for safety. That\u2019s just how it is with me. I\u2019m not putting my body at risk, i don\u2019t know what they do in their private lives. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MRKt2GrAU4\">https:\/\/t.co\/MRKt2GrAU4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 August Ames (@AugustAmesxxx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AugustAmesxxx\/status\/937423574301794304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">How am I homophobic if I myself am attracted to women? Not wanting to have sex with gay men is not homophobic; they don\u2019t want to have sex with me either???? so byeeeee<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 August Ames (@AugustAmesxxx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AugustAmesxxx\/status\/937426581403738112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was the kindest person I ever knew and she meant the world to me,\u201d her husband, Kevin Moore, told Adult Video News. \u201cPlease leave this as a private family matter in this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time of her death, she was one of the most popular porn stars on the internet\u2014her videos on\u00a0Pornhub\u00a0alone received more than 415 million views as of December 2017, making her the 9th most popular porn star on the website.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114580\" src=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AmesSuicide-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AmesSuicide-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AmesSuicide-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AmesSuicide-640x480-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AmesSuicide-640x480-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AmesSuicide-640x480-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ames, born Mercedes Grabowski, was a Canadian pornographic actress and model who appeared in almost 290 movies and won two AVN Awards in 2015 and in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adult entertainer August Ames has died of apparent suicide&#8212;she was 23-years-old. Ames was found dead at her home in Camarillo, California. The cause of death was determined to be &#8216;asphyxiation due to hanging,&#8217; the medical examiner said. 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