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    http://networkedblogs.com/LIUE0

    Some of these sound like they'd be fascinating. I read some of Jameson's because an ex bought it. I think she's full of shit for the most part, but it was interesting.

    And the Lovelace memoir is very suspect. Whenever the Born Again types get going about the real reasons they did all that crazy stuff in their past, I don't believe a fucking word of it. There ARE many abusive men in the adult entertainment business, and so many women in the business really are being taken for a ride--but in her case I don't buy it.
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    I can't remember where I read it but another porn star said they believed Lovelace's story was exaggerated because yes she had an abusive husband but she claimed many other people were something they weren't. I've always suspected she was angry because her career was very short lived and was mad. Honestly, she just wasn't that pretty so I can assume that's why her career fizzled (and apparently she was kind of wacky too). I want to see her biography when it comes out.

    Many years ago I saw the tv movie about Shauna Grant and read some articles about her. Her story is such a tragedy.

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    Was she the one someone killed with a baseball bat? Jesus Christ what a way to go. Faster than some other ways, but still...

    Lovelace, I don't know much about it, I had heard it was way overblown. She was at Playboy Mansion parties for chrissakes, did they have a gun to her head there too?
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    No she was the one who killed herself. There's a biography on here available from PBS called Death Of A Porn Queen (I found it on YouTube)and the TV movie is called Shattered Innocence I believe. I did hear of a porn star who was killed by strangling or something at a modeling shoot which was kind of scary.

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    I read the Jenna Jameson one and enjoyed it, even though yes - lots of it seems to be elaborated. Tera Patrick's was just ... so annoying to read. She came across as an idiot ... at least Jenna's was well written.

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    Holy shit look at this list of porn star deaths:

    http://danielrjennings.org/TheAverag...APornStar.html

    I don't buy his 'average life expectancy' of a porn star he gives (37 years), I doubt he used a wide enough range of statistics.

    Still, there's no doubt in my mind that suicide, overdose, DUI deaths & murder are way higher within the ranks of pornstars, and adult industry people in general. A lot of my friends in the business have gone these ways in only 13 years. A lot more than my 'civilian' friends in other vanilla careers.

    Funny, some of those names are familiar from when I used to rent videos in the 90s, I never knew so many offed themselves.

    What a shame about Wendy O Williams, from what I hear she put on quite a show (she was more a musician than a pornstar). Not that it is any less tragic than so many of the others.
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    I was trying to find out who was killed with the baseball bat & found this nasty story--the son of James Mitchell (who shot & killed his own brother Artie after they founded one of the first porn empires) beat his wife to death a couple years ago. He wasn't a porn star or even actively working in the field despite his title and income from the family business, but it was his background.

    http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/...er-2354686.php
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    Default Re: Ten Porn Star Memoirs (quick reviews)

    I remember a story awhile back..can't remember her name, but her room mate killed her w/baseball bat. She was some type of high profile mistress & I think was in the adult industry, not sure if it was porn..
    Also Savannah, so pretty killed herself with a gun in '94


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