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August Ames

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Adult Actress

The Resume

    (August 23, 1994-December 5, 2017)
    Born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Birth name was Mercedes Grabowski
    Appeared in over 270 adult films
    Films included ’10 Missing,’ ‘Big Wet Breasts,’ ‘Don’t Tell Hubby,’ ‘Flesh Hunters,’ ‘Safe Landings’ and ‘Raw Talent 3’
    Married to porn producer/director Kevin Moore
    Committed suicide by hanging

Why she might be annoying:

    When she was fifteen, she stripped for the father of a child she was babysitting in return for cocaine.
    She was a teenaged alcoholic: ‘When I would drink, I’d black out every time.’
    She was bipolar and claimed to have multiple personalities.
    She said she hated going to therapy for her emotional problems because she felt the therapists judged her negatively because of her profession.
    She was accused of homophobia after refusing to appear in a film with an actor who also performed in gay porn.
    Her last tweet before her suicide: ‘fuck y’all.’

Why she might not be annoying:

    She said that as a child she was repeatedly sexually molested by her paternal grandfather.
    Her father refused to believe her and sent her to a group home when she was twelve.
    When she was a teen, she worked on a ranch near Colorado Springs, where she taught disabled children how to ride horses.
    She denied being homophobic and said she was worried about less strict HIV testing standards in the gay porn industry.
    She received some ugly tweets over her refusal. (Example: ‘The world is waiting for your apology or for you to swallow a cyanide pill.’)
    Jenna Jameson, among others, said she was a victim of cyberbullying.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 35 Votes: 48.57% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 13 Votes: 30.77% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 29 Votes: 44.83% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 11 Votes: 18.18% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 47 Votes: 46.81% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 127 Votes: 53.54% Annoying