Porn star August Ames dead aged 23 just days after sparking backlash on social media
The adult entertainment performer - real name Mercedes Grabowski - appears to have taken her own life
Her cause of death was confirmed by the Ventura County Medical Examiner as asphyxiation due to hanging.
Her real name was Mercedes Grabowski.
Her devastated husband Kevin Moore said: “She was the kindest person I ever knew and she meant the world to me.
Friends of the star, who had appeared in more than 270 X-rated movies, told The Blast that August had suffered from long-term depression and may have taken her own life.
Just 48 hours earlier, she had found herself embroiled in a social media row after she said she had reservations about working with a porn star who had previously appeared in gay porn.
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