Maryam And Inkyo: A Tragedy

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