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The Sun
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Adult film star Victoria Beatriz dies aged 28 after health battle as family asked for ‘prayers' days before her death
AN adult film actress has died aged 28 after spending several days in hospital in critical condition. Vitoria Beatriz was a Brazilian performer known for her work with Peruvian production company Inka Productions. 3 3 3 She died on Tuesday after being hospitalised for undisclosed health issues. Her death was confirmed in a social media statement by the firm, which remembered Vitoria for her "joy, warmth, and the light she transmitted". Born in São Paulo in July 1996, Vitoria had carved out a growing presence in the adult film industry. She had thousands of social media followers as she worked on projects in both Brazil and Peru. In the days leading up to her death, the actress had been admitted to a medical facility in critical condition. Her family and representatives chose not to disclose the cause of her hospitalisation, instead asking fans for prayers and privacy. A statement posted on Vitoria's Instagram fan page last Friday read: "I want to inform you that Vitoria remains hospitalised, and we, the family, have chosen not to share details of the situation. "Just know that she is surrounded by care and love." The same account later confirmed her death and shared a moving message from the page administrator, who claimed to have regularly communicated with Vitoria via WhatsApp. Describing the news of her death as a "shock", the admin wrote: "She told me about the challenges she faced with her physical and mental health, and how difficult it was to go through this every day… She was a very strong person, but also very sensitive." .
CNN
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNN
The unassuming suburban homes that hosted and inspired porn sets
EDITOR'S NOTE: In Snap, we look at the power of a single photograph, chronicling stories about how both modern and historical images have been made. In a makeshift bedroom with vibrant purple curtains, the adult film actor Sharon Wild poses for a photograph between takes, sitting on a worn and dirty mattress, a diaphanous piece of pink fabric draped over the side where she sits. The dracaena tree in the corner is fake, and the rooms' props — a single lamp, a brown suitcase on a rack — evoke the barest sense of setting and narrative. It's those mundane details of pornography sets, in both studios and rented homes across California's San Fernando Valley, that intrigued the American photographer Larry Sultan. In the late 1990s, a shoot about the daily life of a porn star for the men's magazine Maxim led Sultan, by chance, back to his childhood neighborhood in the Valley. The area had become a hub for adult film entertainment studios thanks to its relative affordability and proximity to nearby Los Angeles. Sultan returned for several years to photograph the homes rented out to adult film companies – settings which could arouse the fantasies of everyday life, as well as studio sets that hastily replicated scenes of American domesticity. 'It was like this parallel reality, and he was really fascinated by it,' Yancey Richardson, Sultan's gallerist, explained by phone. 'The Valley' published as a book in 2004, and images from the series have regularly been included in exhibitions of the late photographer's work. (Sultan died in 2009, from cancer.) His portrait of Wild is currently on view at Richardson's eponymous gallery in New York for its 30th anniversary show. In his book, Sultan wrote on the strangeness of the Valley's homes temporarily annexed by adult entertainment, as if families had abandoned them suddenly overnight. The interiors and furnishings speak to a familiar domestic middle-class life — often reminding him of his own childhood — yet they had been 'estranged' from their real purpose, he said, curated in service of the performance of pleasure and sex. Sultan's wife, Kelly, was on set during the fateful Maxim shoot. Over the phone, she recalled: 'What was immediately of interest to him was the home itself: the magnets on the refrigerator; the details of daily life that were still alive in the home and being used as a backdrop for this alternative family that had moved in for the day.' Throughout the images, the sex itself is relegated to the background, or hinted at with a wink and a nod: bodies are seen through windows and reflections, cropped out of frame, or comedically obscured by plants and furniture. '(He was) looking for the details on the sets and in the homes for clues to excavate this interior psyche that that we all have,' said the photographer Rebecca Bausher, who was his assistant at the time. 'We'd walk into a setting and there might be a sex scene already happening, like, off in a bedroom or off to the right. But he'd be like, 'Oh my God, look at this menorah.'' In homes, Sultan often sought out a sense of place and belonging, Bausher said. But in the production studios he photographed, the sets' incongruities took center stage: curtains pushed back to reveal the set wall; living room furniture haphazardly assembled together, clothes strewn about; the illusion of a backdrop of a suburban street interrupted by the studio props. The portrait of Wild, who makes direct eye contact with the camera, is a rare moment when Sultan's presence is acknowledged by the actors. 'I think of myself on porn sets as documenting fictions,' Sultan said in an interview with the Oakland Museum of Contemporary Art in 2003. 'I like the theatrical lighting, I like their staging, I like that kind of weird theater, and yet what I'm doing is not making film stills, I'm making almost contra film stills. I'm making those moments that are off, where the drama isn't being targeted right at that dramatic moment. It's an anti-dramatic moment.' In the same interview, he acknowledged the portrait of Wild, and the strange, constructed feel of the scene. 'When I see some purple curtains, I run for my camera,' he said. 'Give me purple curtains and a red suitcase and I'm in heaven!'
CNN
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNN
The unassuming suburban homes that hosted and inspired porn sets
Visual artsFacebookTweetLink Follow EDITOR'S NOTE: In Snap, we look at the power of a single photograph, chronicling stories about how both modern and historical images have been made. In a makeshift bedroom with vibrant purple curtains, the adult film actor Sharon Wild poses for a photograph between takes, sitting on a worn and dirty mattress, a diaphanous piece of pink fabric draped over the side where she sits. The dracaena tree in the corner is fake, and the rooms' props — a single lamp, a brown suitcase on a rack — evoke the barest sense of setting and narrative. It's those mundane details of pornography sets, in both studios and rented homes across California's San Fernando Valley, that intrigued the American photographer Larry Sultan. In the late 1990s, a shoot about the daily life of a porn star for the men's magazine Maxim led Sultan, by chance, back to his childhood neighborhood in the Valley. The area had become a hub for adult film entertainment studios thanks to its relative affordability and proximity to nearby Los Angeles. Sultan returned for several years to photograph the homes rented out to adult film companies – settings which could arouse the fantasies of everyday life, as well as studio sets that hastily replicated scenes of American domesticity. 'It was like this parallel reality, and he was really fascinated by it,' Yancey Richardson, Sultan's gallerist, explained by phone. 'The Valley' published as a book in 2004, and images from the series have regularly been included in exhibitions of the late photographer's work. (Sultan died in 2009, from cancer.) His portrait of Wild is currently on view at Richardson's eponymous gallery in New York for its 30th anniversary show. In his book, Sultan wrote on the strangeness of the Valley's homes temporarily annexed by adult entertainment, as if families had abandoned them suddenly overnight. The interiors and furnishings speak to a familiar domestic middle-class life — often reminding him of his own childhood — yet they had been 'estranged' from their real purpose, he said, curated in service of the performance of pleasure and sex. Sultan's wife, Kelly, was on set during the fateful Maxim shoot. Over the phone, she recalled: 'What was immediately of interest to him was the home itself: the magnets on the refrigerator; the details of daily life that were still alive in the home and being used as a backdrop for this alternative family that had moved in for the day.' Throughout the images, the sex itself is relegated to the background, or hinted at with a wink and a nod: bodies are seen through windows and reflections, cropped out of frame, or comedically obscured by plants and furniture. '(He was) looking for the details on the sets and in the homes for clues to excavate this interior psyche that that we all have,' said the photographer Rebecca Bausher, who was his assistant at the time. 'We'd walk into a setting and there might be a sex scene already happening, like, off in a bedroom or off to the right. But he'd be like, 'Oh my God, look at this menorah.'' In homes, Sultan often sought out a sense of place and belonging, Bausher said. But in the production studios he photographed, the sets' incongruities took center stage: curtains pushed back to reveal the set wall; living room furniture haphazardly assembled together, clothes strewn about; the illusion of a backdrop of a suburban street interrupted by the studio props. The portrait of Wild, who makes direct eye contact with the camera, is a rare moment when Sultan's presence is acknowledged by the actors. 'I think of myself on porn sets as documenting fictions,' Sultan said in an interview with the Oakland Museum of Contemporary Art in 2003. 'I like the theatrical lighting, I like their staging, I like that kind of weird theater, and yet what I'm doing is not making film stills, I'm making almost contra film stills. I'm making those moments that are off, where the drama isn't being targeted right at that dramatic moment. It's an anti-dramatic moment.' In the same interview, he acknowledged the portrait of Wild, and the strange, constructed feel of the scene. 'When I see some purple curtains, I run for my camera,' he said. 'Give me purple curtains and a red suitcase and I'm in heaven!'
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Channel 4 bombarded with Ofcom complaints over 'disgusting and disgraceful' sex scenes in Bonnie Blue documentary about romp with 1000 men
Channel 4 bosses have been boarded with Ofcom complaints after its Bonnie Blue documentary last month about her romp with 1,000 men left viewers horrified. The broadcaster aired the behind-the-scenes look at the adult film star's stark challenge to sleep with 1,000 men in just 12 hours. During the hour-long programme, Bonnie - whose real name is Tia Bellinger - was shown having sex with three men. Scenes were also not pixelated as the 26-year-old bedded various men during her challenge. However, the show has now landed Channel 4 in hot water as TV watchdog Ofcom received 160 so far over its airing. Commenting on the show, one disgusted viewer said: 'I watched half of that Bonnie Blue documentary, and oh my f**king god it actually knocked me sick, what the f**k Channel 4.' A second said: 'Channel 4 has sunk a new low. Why is there a documentary on Bonnie Blue? Why are they trying to normalise her deviancy on national television?' 'Channel 4, a public service broadcaster, sinks to a new and disturbing low. In fact, right into the sewer. It's time to defund the BBC and maybe get rid of Channel 4 too,' said a third. The broadcaster has also been slammed for making the programme freely available to under-18s via the app and its on demand player despite it being shown at 10pm after the watershed. While viewers under 18-years-old are technically blocked from such content, there is no age verification process and the show was released just days after new rules were introduced to social media sites to improve children's online safety. Children's commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza said: 'This documentary risks taking us a step back by glamorising, even normalising, the things young people tell me are frightening, confusing and damaging to their relationships.' Ian Katz, chief content officer at Channel 4, defended the documentary, telling the Sunday Times that it is 'clearly a legitimate subject' as Bonnie Blue is a 'huge phenomenon' who has 'transformed the porn industry'. Meanwhile, the Daily Mail revealed how major firms had refused to run adverts alongside Blue's documentary. Card payment service Visa, juice brand Cawston Press and vodka brand Smirnoff, which is owned by drinks company Diego told Channel 4 they did not want their products associated with the show. The broadcaster has also been slammed for making the programme freely available to under-18s via the app and its on demand player despite it being shown at 10pm after the watershed The Daily Mail previously revealed how major firms had refused to run adverts alongside Blue's documentary They added they did not want their products promoted because it was not in line with their advertising guidelines and company values. Meanwhile, Bonnie recently confirmed she was divorcing her partner as she admitted dating may be hard given her activities. She met her ex-partner Ollie Davidson when she was just 15. Bonnie said: 'We were together from when I was 14 and he was 15. 'We got married at 20, we were together a long time and we just grew apart.'
Fox News
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
'Diddy's' Legal Troubles Not Over
A former escort is launching a lawsuit against disgraced music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs, who was recently acquitted of rackateering and sex trafficking charges, an adult film star was found dead and one actor is in hot water for actions on social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
