In Memoriam:
Shauna Grant committed suicide by shooting herself. She was only 20 years old.
Roberta Pedon died due to complications with liver disease. She was only 28.
Kandi Barbour was found dead on January 18, 2012 in San Francisco. The address listed on her California State ID on the rap sheet was a homeless resource center in SF. According the report, investigators believed she was homeless for several years prior to her death.
Mary Millington committed suicide at age 33, by an overdose of tricyclic antidepressant anafranil, paracetamol and alcohol at her home in Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, following a downward spiral of depression, cocaine use and kleptomania.
Rebecca Brooke died of an accidental drowning due to a fall in Boca Raton, Florida.
Candida Royalle died in Manhattan, NY of ovarian cancer.
Marilyn Chambers was found dead in her home near Santa Clarita, California. The autopsy revealed that she died of a cerebral hemorrhage and an aneurysm.
Candy Kane died of pancreatic cancer.
Rene Bond died of complications from cirrhosis of the liver and HIV Aids.
Linda Wong died of a drug overdose of Xanax, chloral hydrate and alcohol.
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Mary Millington / The British Sex Symbol Who Believed In What She Did
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Mary Millington
1945—1979
“The only really uninhibited, natural sex symbol that Britain ever produced and who believed in what she did."—David Sullivan
Millington was bullied at school due to being born illegitimately, and suffered from low self-esteem throughout her childhood and teenage years. She left school at 15. She had to nurse her terminally ill mother for more than ten years, and began her porn career to pay for her care. In her first Whitehouse appearance adult magazine publisher David Sullivan claimed that she was the bisexual nymphomaniac sister of the magazine’s editor Doreen Millington, and so gave Mary her new stage name. She soon became the most popular model in any of Sullivan’s magazines.
At the height of her fame she was also working behind the counter in Sullivan’s sex shops, mainly in the Whitehouse shop in Norbury. She continued working as a call girl, which she had done since her early modelling days.
Millington’s final appearance was in the Sex Pistols film Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, directed by Julien Temple, which was released theatrically in March 1980. However, neither she nor her punk rock co-star Sid Vicious lived to see the completion of the movie.
In 1978 she turned 33, and found herself being replaced by younger models in Sullivan’s magazines. She opened her own sex shop, Mary Millington’s International Sex Centre, selling illegal material. The shop was raided by the police on numerous occasions, and she claimed the police threatened her and forced her to pay protection money. In the past she had publicly criticized police raids on sex shops and published the addresses and telephone numbers of Scotland Yard and Members of Parliament in her magazines.
She had always been prone to neurosis and depression, which was exacerbated by her cocaine habit. Her mother’s death in 1976 also affected her deeply, and her behavior became unpredictable. Her life had begun a downward spiral into drug use and depression following the raids on her shop. Her kleptomania became more pronounced in the last year of her life.
Millington committed suicide at age 33, by an overdose of tricyclic antidepressant anafranil, paracetamol and alcohol at her home. Her husband found her dead in her bed on 19 August 1979. She left four suicide notes which were found near her body.
After her death, NCROPA founder David Webb wrote "Mary was a dear, kind person and we much admired her courage in standing up to the bigotry and repression which still so pervades the establishment of this country. A feature-length documentary chronicling Millington’s life, entitled Respectable – The Mary Millington Story, was produced in 2015.
Source: Wikipedia
Mary Millington / Men Only / 1974
Classic pornstar Mary Millington listening to walkman for Men Only magazine, 1974.
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