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August Ames
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Canadian pornographic actress (1994-2017)
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August Ames, born Mercedes Grabowski on August 23, 1994, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, was a Canadian model and pornographic actor. She worked in the industry from 2013 until 2017. Ames stood 168 cm tall and weighed 52 kg.
She died on December 5, 2017, in Camarillo. The manner of her death was suicide, with asphyxia listed as the cause. Her social media presence included 620,320 followers.
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Film & TV
Acting · Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
August Ames (born August 23, 1994 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, died December 5, 2017) was a Canadian porn star. She was of Polish ancestry and was one-quarter African-American. She was also known as Hailey Edwards. August committed suicide at the tragically young age of 23 on December 5, 2017, by suicide after a social media backlash following a tweet she posted, due to some perceiving the…
Known for
- Cherry Bomb2024
- Dream House2024
- My Hotwife Squirts! 3 — (archive footage)2023
- All Day Long — (archive footage)2022
- Best Babes with Big Butts — (archive footage)2022
- Morning Wood — (archive footage)2022
- Sweet Sting of the Black Widow — (archive footage)2022
- I Prefer All-Girl Quickies — (archive footage)2022
- Lez Go! — (archive footage)2021
- Curved Cougars2021
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1948
- Active to
- 1963
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 16
- Total plays
- 24
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/August+Ames">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission
· 2020 · cited 9,223x
- Methods for detecting carcinogens and mutagens with the salmonella/mammalian-microsome mutagenicity test
· 1975 · cited 6,280x
- Revised methods for the Salmonella mutagenicity test
· 1983 · cited 5,899x
- Dementia prevention, intervention, and care
· 2017 · cited 5,082x
- A Method for Determining the Sedimentation Behavior of Enzymes: Application to Protein Mixtures
· 1961 · cited 4,429x
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Quotes
- “Like every girl in the business, I'm more than just a porn star. I am a fun, loving, normal chick who likes to have fun, likes to live her life, and I don't want the world to burn.”
- “There will always be those haters everywhere you go, so I learned a while ago to appreciate the positive and ignore the negative.”
- “whichever (lady) performer is replacing me tomorrow for @EroticaXNews, you're shooting with a guy who has shot gay porn, just to let cha know. BS is all I can say🤷🏽♀️ Do agents really not care about who they're representing? #ladirect I do my homework for my body🤓✏️🔍”
- “Some days I'll be fine and if I'm not doing anything I'll get these awful flashbacks of my childhood and I get very depressed and I can't get out of bed and cancel my scenes for like a week or two.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Mercedes Grabowski , ( 1994-08-23 ) August 23, 1994, Antigonish, Nova Scotia , Canada
- Died
- December 5, 2017 (2017-12-05) (aged 23) , Camarillo, California , U.S.
- Cause of death
- Suicide by hanging
- Occupation
- Pornographic actress
- Years active
- 2013–2017
- Spouse
- Kevin Moore
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Encyclopedic overview
Mercedes Grabowski (August 23, 1994 – December 5, 2017), known professionally as August Ames, was a Canadian pornographic actress. She appeared in more than 100 films, including a non-pornographic film in 2016, and was nominated for several AVN Awards. With a self-disclosed history of sexual abuse and mental illness, Ames died by suicide in 2017 at the age of 23 after a social media backlash following a tweet she posted, due to some perceiving the tweet as homophobic.
Early life
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