Fleshbot: passings

Remembering Paul Raymond

Dashiell Bennett — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:37:54 EST

Any death is sad, particularly when the person who died was described in nearly all of his obituaries as the "porn king of Soho." But it wasn't until we starting reading deeper into those obituaries that we realized just how much Parl Raymond had impacted our own lives. The owner of London's raciest nightclubs and publisher of eight of the UK's top ten adult magazines, Raymond revolutionized smut in Britain, doing it dirtier than Hugh Hefner ever dreamed and in an arguably much tougher legal enviornment — and earning a personal worth of an estimated $1 billion in the process. (He also founded the magazine Club, which was pretty much the nastiest thing we'd ever seen when our innocent young eyes first caught a glimpse of it all those many years ago). Sleazy and shady in the best possible ways, we're really going to miss the guy ... and we didn't even know it.

· Paul Raymond: The Times Obituary (timesonline.co.uk)
· Paul Raymond (publisher) (Wikipedia)
· Club Online (clubonline.com)

Maryam And Inkyo: A Tragedy

Gram Ponante — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:32:17 EDT

People who see porn as a multi-billion-dollar cautionary tale need look no further than the sad story of husband and wife Inkyo Volt Hwang (aka Chico or Wanker Wang) and Maryam Irene Haley (aka Haley Paige). Hwang was a website owner and director of extreme porn videos, and Paige was a performer who appeared in the gamut of what porn has to offer, from gangbangs to "couples-friendly" films.

Hwang was arrested on suspicion of pistol-whipping Haley in June, they were married at the beginning of August in Las Vegas, she was dead at month's end, and he was found dead in September.

Hwang, 38, had served time in prison before. For two years in the late 90's Hwang was in Chico State Prison on two felony counts of sexual battery and assault with a deadly weapon, charges nearly identical to those that landed him in jail in June. When running a previous incarnation of the site lukeford.com (sold several years ago by its namesake, who now writes on lukeisback.com), Hwang was at the forefront of a"shocking" porn website content that mixed gallows humor with extreme sex, often forcing his overweight "minion" to sit on reluctant starlets.

Toxicology reports on both deaths have not been released, but Haley's father said that Hwang was in the room with Haley during her overdose, which occurred on August 21. She had said in the months immediately prior to her death that she had left porn and was planning to go back to school. Hwang was found September 29 in a motel in Morgan Hill, CA, south of San Jose.

Many who knew Haley said she was too sweet and too vulnerable to be in porn. Born in Mexico, she claimed that she was molested by an uncle and raped by gang members before moving to San Diego with her family at 12. Seven years later, she was working at a Blockbuster when she answered a nude modeling ad. She later appeared in more than 300 scenes. She was 25 at her death.

On porn message board ADT, Hwang wrote this of Haley in March: "I think we're attracted to each other simply because we have the exact opposite personalities. She's sweet and quiet. I happen to be aggressive and loud. I guess opposites do attract."

· Porn And Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Haley (lukeisback.com)
· Revealing "Bastardly" thread (bastardly.com)
· Pictures from "The Da Vinci Load" (gramponante.com)
· Haley Paige on IAFD (iafd.com)

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Previously: RIP Haley Paige, Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

RIP Haley Paige

Fleshbot — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:49:45 EDT

Sad news from the porn world this week as AVN confirms the death of popular starlet Haley Paige back in August under what might best be described as mysterious circumstances. Paige starred in over 300 productions during her five year career in the adult industry, including memorable appearances in "Joanna Angel's Guide", Digital Playground's "Jack's Teen America 4" and Frank Castle's "The New Neighbors". She was 26 years old.

· "Haley Paige, 1981-2007" (avn.com)
· Haley Paige Videography (iafd.com - thanks Brad; see also Haley Paige @ WIkipedia)