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The Tragic Stories Behind Your Favourite Porn Stars

As Mia Khalifa swats off hate, we look at porn stars who’ve sadly not stood the test of time...

Our newsfeeds have been been pounded with stories of Mia Khalifa, Pornhub's most popular star, being sent death threats. She's responded in as lip-bitingly sassy fashion as we could hope, though our minds wander to those less fortunate than Mizz Khalifa.

Screech, stung by a bizarrely named porno who's now facing stabbing charges, and Lolo Ferrari, the woman with the biggest boobs in the world - we raise a glass to you as our computers buffer.

Screech From Saved By The Bell AKA Dustin Diamond

Dustin Diamond clung onto ‘being Screech’ for as much time as he was allowed. From the character’s cradle to its metaphorical grave, nerdy Screech has evolved into a name synonymous with career car crash. After a lucratively self-directed and starred porn tape, ‘Screeched - Saved By The Smell’ (what smell?! We dread to think), Diamond has hit headlines again for his involvement in a Boxing Day stabbing, where he apparently shanked someone with a switchblade. TMZ have got some rather worrying footage.

Jon Dough

Louis Theroux’s ever popular documentaries reached their apex when in 1997, he immersed himself in the world of Californian adult entertainment. Revisiting his old haunts in 2012, Theroux found the once thriving porn industry much changed, damaged by the rise of free porn online. One of the many casualties was Jon Dough, a once prolific adult actor who starred in over a thousand films. Found dead by his wife, Monique Demoan, Jon Dough was said to have hanged himself due to a cocaine addiction spurred on by the difficulty of maintaining a career in porn.

Gordon Ramsey Midget Lookalike

In a case of the most tragically inappropriate headline ever, let's take a second to remember the sad tale of Percy Foster, Gordon Ramsey’s midget-porn-star-look-a-like. The notoriously unreliable Sunday Sport newspaper ran the following headline after the spendthrift adult actor was supposedly found gnawed to death by badgers:

After some investigation, including somebody consulting noted porn historian (yes, a real job title) Bill Margold, it turns out that Percy Foster didn’t actually exist to begin with, and that his break out film ‘Hi-Ho- Hi-Ho, It’s Up Your Arse We Go’ never actually existed. A happy ending *cough*, for once.

Steve Driver

Steve Hill took his addiction to pornography to a new level when he started following a career in the industry himself. A history of gun crime followed him to his death, when he found himself cornered by a SWAT team in Hollywood after killing a fellow adult actor, Herbert Win Wong, with a Samurai style machete. Meeting his end by falling (or jumping, reports are unclear) from a cliff after being tasered by police.

Lolo Ferrari

The woman with the biggest breasts in the world was an unhappy lady from the off. Abused by her parents and then married to a man who became her pimp, the French dancer, porn star and singer born Eve Valois subjected herself to 22 breast enlargements. Rumour has it her boobs were courtesy of someone involved with the creation of the Boeing 747 aeroplane.

Despite the inevitable fame that came with her augmented chest, Lolo Ferrari stated that the body changed she subjected herself to were a product of an intense self-loathing. “All this stuff has been because I can’t stand life” she tragically said, before committing suicide in 2000.

Luka Magnotta

In one of the bloodier adult industry tales, gay porn star Luke Magnotta was recently found guilty of the murder and dismemberment of a Chinese student back in 2012.

The Canadian former porn actor was found guilty of not only that whole 'bloody dismemberment' first-degree thing, but also criminal harassment of the Canadian Prime Minister, to whom he sent parts of Lin's body.

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