September, 2008 | Fallen Angels and Lost Devils

Fabio Scorpion – Male performer in many Joey Silvera movies died 26 Nov 2004

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First posted in AVN.com

Fabio Scorpion, a Brazil-based bisexual adult performer who appeared in Evil Angel and other productions shot there, suffered a fatal heart attack during calf implant surgery, Evil Angel reported Wednesday.

Scorpion was 31, said Evil Angel’s Jeff Marton.

“There’s no damn justice in the world when a guy that is this beloved goes like this,” Marton said. “It’s just so sudden. It just tells me there’s no God.”

Marton said he learned of Scorpion’s death in a Rio plastic surgery clinic on Tuesday from Brazilian-based Evil Angel director Stanlay Miranda, who frequently used Scorpion in his productions.

According to Marton, Scorpion went to the clinic late last week for calf implants, but had a bad reaction to the anesthesia and hit his head during a fall, prompting him to be hospitalized. Scorpion spent several days in the hospital, then checked himself out Sunday night. On Tuesday, he went back to the clinic to try the calf implant procedure again, and during the attempted surgery, he suffered a fatal heart attack.

“I can’t believe he went back again,” Marton said, “and I can’t believe the clinic let him. They never did complete the procedure.”

Scorpion also appeared in titles directed by Evil Angel head John Stagliano and Evil Angel director Joey Silvera.

Scorpion’s credits include Miranda’s Rio Carnival Orgy 2 and 3 and Best Ass in The World; Silvera’s Rogue Adventures 5, 9, 20 and 21; and Stagliano’s Buttman’s Anal Divas and Buttman’s Bend Over Brazilian Babes 3. Scorpion also appeared in titles from other companies, including Elegant Angel’s Transposed 4, 5 and 7.

Lisa Kage – Black Tgirl Extraordinaire and my friend …

September 13, 2008 American Starlets Fallen Angels 5 Comments

Black Tgirls

Lisa Kage RIP 1976-2006

” Lisa was a friend of mine since I met her on my first shooting trip to New York in either 1998 or 1999. We became friends immediately and she is one of the few girls I’ve worked with whom I continued to have a fantastic platonic relationship. She was intelligent, fun, witty, sarcastic, educated, well-read, prone to exaggeration, classy, an absolute tease, a born exhibitionist, a terrible drinker, a huge eater, artistic and different in many ways to a majority of the girls I’ve met over the years. She was working in a mainstream job when we first met and was doing the adult film work mainly for the fun of it, as much as the money.

My best memories of her were meeting her for lunch in Queens in 2001 – and she brought a picnic basket including champagne … in the middle of Queens! Tony Vee, Lisa and I took a day trip to Coney Island with Tony in the intention of doing a photoshoot but we ended up just going on the rides (where Lisa of course insisted on showing off).

Lisa came out to Hawaii in 2003 to do some work with Frank and myself and we all had a great time.

I’ve been in sporadic touch with Lisa over the last few years, mainly because I’ve rarely been East coast and more preoccupied with my own life. She last worked with us when she was in London to do some recording for a CD she was working on. She looked better than ever and Greg said she was great and in her usual high spirits.
I had no idea that she had been ill and it seems that I’m not alone in that, it was something she’d kept to herself.

I know my experiences with Lisa aren’t unique. I’ve spoken to many people over the years and a few recently who shared a bond with Lisa which extended past the normal work ethics. She didn’t just make you feel special, when you were with Lisa you were special – and so was she.”
– seanchai Oct 25 2006

Lisa Kage, black tgirl extraordinaire was 30 when she died of of an undisclosed illness.

Lisa Kage having fun at the Waldorf Astoria

Ariel aka Alessandra aka Lola RIP Tues Oct 17 2006

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Ariel aka Alessandra aka Lola – 1972-2006

It’s my sad duty to inform you that a girl whom many you may have seen or known died earlier today, she had been ill for some time.

She was originally known as Alessandra on Shemale Yum as long ago as 1998 but has also appeared on our sites as Lola and Ariel. She’s been on many other websites and DVD’s over the last 5 years or so, lived in Chicago for some time, traveled across the USA but returned to what I believe was her native Texas.

I don’t have any other further information, or do I believe is much more necessary than what is posted above. I only met her once, about 5 years ago and found her to be a fun and likeable individual, although I’d had sporadic email contact with her since then.
My personal thoughts are with her friends and I know she had many.

She was 34

when she died.

Camilla de Castro – took her own life, 26th July 2005

September 13, 2008 Brazilian Transsexuals Fallen Angels 9 Comments

Surely one of the most famous and sought after transsexuals in the adult industry, Camilla de Castro of Brazil, took her own life on Sunday 26th July 2005.

Camilla has a huge fan base among lovers of the Brazilian transsexual scene but she was far much more than that. She worked in main stream entertainment with a regular spot on a television show in Brazil, where she was a glamouress model and not the butt of jokes – recognised on the street and with the name, she nevertheless could not find happiness and in a drug fueled frenzy, leaped from her 8th story apartment building.

Louie Damazo, the webmaster of Brazilian Transsexuals with whom she’d had a relationship with as well as worked for, multiple times, stated: “She was one of those special girls, very beautiful but also with a good heart, I am very saddened to hear of this and I don’t think that Brazil will have another Camilla de Castro”.

She was 26 when she died.

Video Bob

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Video Bob 1953-2004

Video Bob, the larger than life photographer who has photographed many models over the past five years that have appeared across the Grooby sites died on Sunday aged 50.

Due to respecting his privacy I’ll be vague about certain details. Bob started as a member of Shemale Yum in 1996 and soon started corresponding with me as a fellow fan of the girls, he then began sending copied TS tapes for my enjoyment as they were unavailable in the UK, this led to us meeting in Florida and Bob starting editing some tapes of mine
Bob started shooting in 2001 and after a few hits and misses he became a regular photographer getting many great shoots for Shemale Yum but really finding his niche with black shemales all over Florida who appeared on Black Tgirls.

In 2001 Bob and I flew to Brazil to shoot the first VHS/DVD release from Grooby Productions, “Shemale Yum takes on Brazilian Transexuals”, Bob shot many of the scenes and edited all the tapes he continued to work on all the tapes right through to “Butt Surfing Shemales” which he passed on because of other work committments.

Bob was possibly the most irritating person I’ve met. He had an incredible knack of annoying people by doing very little. Luiz in Brazil would call him “But Bob”, because after Bob had just had the best meal in Brazil, been wined and dined and met-up with a cute little trannie for the night…when asked in the morning how was his night, he’d reply;
“It was good BUT……”.

Bob, Frank and I once had a night in Vegas accompanied by Alannah Starr, Saigon Lee, Ivy, Gia Darling, Joanna Jet and three more gorgeous girls – after being limo’d around town, VIP’d at every club, danced and cuddled with the girls and basically had what some people would pay $1000’s for…Bob complained because he couldn’t get any free sex. Despite all this he had a child-like quality to him, excitable, petulant, sometimes naive and always putting himself into amusing situations (amusing to those around him) his stories will go down in our history as legendary.

Bob was larger than life, his appetite for food, fun and girls was voracious. Whether looking at a buffet or a naked girl, his expression would be a cross between Marty Feldman and Peter Boyle from “Young Frankenstein”. Since working with us over the last few years he realized what he truly loved to do – photograph the tgirls.

Bob lived large. His presence will be missed by all the Grooby crew as well as the 100,000’s of members who have enjoyed his photos and video clips over the years. I suspect the stories about him will continue for a long while…

We pass our sympathies onto his wife.