Anyone remember Savannah? That 90s porn star that killed herself?

She's a whore, darlin'.

Yes, I remember Savannah, her story is so damn sad. Musician Greg Allman was "dating" her when she was 16 years old. He basically fucked her and did a bunch of drugs with her. He brought her along when he was on tour.

Gregg Allman turned her out when she was a teenager. Drugs drugs drugs.

Anyone talking about porn stars is talking about drugs. They do them, the people who fuck them do them, and they all eventually burn out or OD.

Savannah couldn't kick, hated whoring and she hated her life. Allman has to take some of the blame for her death.

Kim Kardashian is the most famous porn star in the world today. Much more famous than Savannah and just as much of a whore.

Yes! That was my favorite "E!: True Hollywood Story." I watched it every time it was on.

I was about to say, there was a really good story in GQ about her, thanks R3!

There was an E! True Hollywood Story on Savannah. The episode is posted in pieces on YouTube. I couldn't find piece # 1. Piece # 4 was the lowest number I could find. It did change my estimate of Greg Allman.

Entire.

She really killed herself. She was very, very vain and wrecked her car and messed her face up somewhat after a night a partying. She was majorly in debt from her spending money faster than she made it (and she really raked in a lot of money at her peak) and owed the IRS. She was going to miss a big stripping gig that she needed badly to do to get back on her feet. She was distraught and shot herself.

I've heard numerous stories about how she was an absolute nightmare to work with. She would often show up late, if at all and would leave a shoot if she found out a rock star she wanted to fuck was in town. The producers and directors put up with her because her movies flew off the shelves. Even though she was one of laziest, least enthusiastic performers ever. She would also put down many of the female stars around back then down, sometimes even to their faces, calling then ugly and skanky, among other things. Only her one time girlfriend Jeanna Fine could keep her in somewhat good behavior sometimes.

When she died, Hustler Magazine put a ding dong, the witch is dead subscription ad in their magazine with x-es over her eyes. She was that disliked in the industry. She was female equivalent of Matt Gunther.

Perfect summary r8!

One porn reviewer called her "the epitome of lazy sex" which was true. They had to dub in moaning sometimes because she wouldn't even bother.

She was much more uninhibited with the rock stars. She made the newspapers when she blew Slash under the table at a popular restaurant. She also said she fucked the Nelson Twins at the same time on Joan Rivers talk show. It's on youtube.

Jesus Christ, Sharon Kane's old Hollywood voice. lmao.

I wish I could find the old link from DL about her.

Matt Gunther was a disgusting human. He was so nasty to people, a complete drugged out whore and a racist.

The world is better off without him.

More stories about Matt Gunther!

R8 Screw magazine also had the headline [quote]“DING DONG THE BITCH IS DEAD... Everyone knew that she was an airhead, and now she's got the hole in her head to prove it.”

Wow.

Didn’t some porno mag print a picture of her death scene? Or am I confusing her with the porn star who got shot by her crazy ex-boyfriend before he shot himself?

Frontline documentary about another porn star (Shauna Grant) who killed herself

I remember her costars Augusta, Waycross, and Albany and who could forget her trans costar Atlanta

[quote]Soon after, Billy was browsing a newsstand when something called Squeeze magazine caught his eye. It cost $16. There on the cover was Shannon, his baby, wearing the little black dress he’d bought her. She had a guy’s prick in her mouth.

As it so happens...

"Screw magazine also had the headline [quote]“DING DONG THE BITCH IS DEAD... Everyone knew that she was an airhead, and now she's got the hole in her head to prove it.” "

As always, the men who run the straight porn industry are the epitome of elegance and tact.

I did not know she was that hated. I did know she was a bitch and overpaid.

Did she write really awful poetry like Matt Gunther.

I never found Matt Gunther hot. Never.

It’s cool he was one of the first Hispanic to get cast in big studios and his name became big but he wasn’t even good looking in the face and was an AWFUL PERSON.

There’s someone that remembers him being in a wheelchair waiting for a bus and when the bus came the ramp to get him on broke so he went on a racist tirade to the black female bus driver. “Get me on this fucking bus ni**er bitch” etc. he was DISGUSTING.

R17 Shauna Grant was even more of an enigma. Her parents were strict but don't give any signs of being abusive. She just wanted money and fame and got involved more and more with the adult industry and drugs starting at the age of 18.

So what is the dirt with her and Gregg Allman? The guy who wrote the article above said that Allman's people contacted him telling him to leave Gregg out of the story but he refused because it was common knowledge that Gregg was fucking her.

R23 Wasn't Matt Gunther's real name is Steven LANG? Not very Hispanic. He just had an off kinda look about him. He was a total cunt, I remember him getting some type of award when he was ill in his wheelchair. A lifetime achievement or some nonsense at a Gay Porn awards years ago in LA. Not a fucking humble bone in his body. Here he was suffering from AIDS, unable to walk, and he was bitching to people about his Leather Daddy outfit. Like anyone wanted to still fuck that tired ass

Re: Sharon Kane, I worked for Alex de Renzy in SF for 8+ years and I never crossed paths with her. 1969 to 77. Surprised to hear her mention him.

The article posted by R2 is an excellent read. It's pretty clear some fucked up things happened in her childhood, even before she went off with Gregg Allman.

[quote]Wilsey told her manager, Nancy Pera, that her childhood was unhappy and that she had been molested. That is not uncommon for women who work in the sex industry, studies show. Many were abused as children. But Mike Wilsey said his daughter never told him about any such abuse.

Mike Wilsey's an asshole. He ignored her for years and let Shannon's crazy mom have full custody because he didn't think Shannon was his. Turned out she was, but by the time she came to live with him as a child, the damage had already been done.

Shannon/Savannah got together with all Allman when she was 15 or 16. After they split up, she was with one rock star after another (and Pauly Shore, who was the only one who seemed to genuinely care about her).

Shauna Grant's parents seemed cold (especially her mother), She tried to commit suicide before she left her hometown and went to California and got into porn.

Howard Stern always asks any stripper or porn star on his show if they were molested. They always say yes. Sex workers don't just happen: They're created.

Jenna Jameson’s book “How to Make Love Like a Porn Star” gives a pretty good look into the porn industry. It’s been a while since I read it, but I think she mentions Savannah.

there were two Holly2ood film projects in the works following her death. Guess they were never green lighted.

Story sounds very similar to Shauna Grant (Colleen Applegate.) There was a TV movie about her - Shattered Innocence.

But what about Matt Gunther?

Was her death mainstream media news?

Yes, it very much was. She even got an E! True Hollywood story.

About Matt Gunther. I had no idea he was Hispanic. This is a rather affectionate, but honest, tribute to him. We probably need to start a separate thread for him. But, yes, I remember Savannah. I always felt sorry for her. She clearly wasn't having fun, although she was very popular. I only watch porn where the performers enjoy (or appear to enjoy) what they're doing.

Matt Gunther looks like anything BUT A WASP to me... so not shocked he was Hispanic.

[quote]Only her one time girlfriend Jeanna Fine could keep her in somewhat good behavior sometimes.

I'm not a connoisseur of straight porn, but I thought she was notorious for refusing to do girl-girl scenes.

R39, The problem, for me, is that Matt has almost the exact same coloring (hair and skin) that I have, and I'm not WASP (not a single drop), but I'm also not Hispanic. I knew other guys who looked like that (but not that physical perfection). My family is from France. I've never been able to make out peoples' eye colors online. I had black hair (now grey) and a great tan at one time. Tim, on his blog, admits he was an asshole, but commenters seem to be willing to admit he might have had a kinder side. I think most of us bitter bitches probably do (and I'm not usually a bitter bitch). RIP Savannah, and Tim Gunther.

R41, Fuck, I'm such an asshole. I meant Matt Gunther.

Gregg Allmän also caused Jenny Arness, the daughter of Gunsmoke star James Arness, to kill herself.

Geez, Gregg Allman sounds like garbage. Did he suffer in life?

Who told the story about Allman sitting at his desk talking when Cher came in to say hello. Allman gestured to his crotch, and Cher went over got on her knees and blew him under his desk while Allman continued the conversation? When he was done she got up and left without saying another word. It's in someone's book, anyone remember?

R40 She actually did more scenes with women than men. She could very nasty cutting the other women down, if she though they were out of her league.

Don’t all porn stars eventually kill them selves?

R47 Mike branson is now a contender for the rbg seat on thebsupreme actually

Matt Gunter's ashes were scattered at sea I think.

R37 Yes, her suicide got a lot of press. The tabloids, LA Times, Rolling Stone and GQ all did lengthy articles on her life and death too.

Her mother sued Gregg Allman after her death. Can't find anything about the outcome of the lawsuit. I'm guessing they made a settlement for her dropping the case.

The GQ article about her.

[quote]r19 As it so happens...

[italic]Who amongst us ...

The daughter of that Gunsmoke guy sounded like she would have been driven to suicide sooner or later anyhow. She also dated child televangelist Marjoe Gortner and total prick Ryan O' Neal.

OMG, the fucking purple prose in this GQ article, it's like a bodice-ripper with Fabio on the cover: "Jason slammed the door shut, slumped back against it. His soft brown eyes were saucered with panic; his lightly muscled chest was pumping air. “She did not just do that,” he groaned. He smoothed his fingers down one of his Luke Perry sideburns, absently measuring its length against the bottom of his earlobe, wondering what to do next."

It's like a Barbara Cartland novel.

[quote]r33 there were two Holly2ood film projects in the works following [Savannah's] death. Guess they were never green lighted.

Colleen Applegate / Shauna Grant's life story was loosely used (no pun intended) as the basis for the TV movie SHATTERED INNOCENCE (1988). According to Wikipedia, her family purchase her headstone with the money they got for the rights.

How would [italic]that[/italic] be for a final scene ? ?

R55 The guy (Jason Swing) who was with Savannah when she killed herself is rather handsome. Here's a more recent pic of him. The author seemed to have a man-crush on him.

I suspect they didn't think Savannah would be much of a sympathetic character for a movie like Shauna Grant was. Grant was rather wholesome looking, quiet and sweet according to those who knew her.

R43, that’s a shame because the marriage lasted about a minute.

I don’t understand what all these girls saw in Allman anyway.

She certainly behaved badly but she was deserving of some sympathy. She was a poor little fucked up girl, ruined even before she became a porn star. Greg Allman was certainly scum for coming after her when she was just 16 years old. What the hell did Cher see in that drug addicted piece of shit? I guess it was all about sex; Allman was supposedly "a bull in the bedroom." Anyway, she was an idiot for marrying him.

She was no Dorothy Stratten

Shauna Grant was so naive when she got into porn that she used her real name for her first few movies.

Shauna Grant looks kind of like a better Jessica Hahn ... that skeevy church secretary Jimmy Swaggart (?) kept as a mistress.

That's not the most flattering pic of Shauna Grant. She had a soft, wholesome, Midwestern girl-next-door look. That's why she was so popular. It surely wasn't for her sexual enthusiasm. She came across as being uncomfortable in her movies. She's one of those people that should've never gotten back in the business. Or at the most, stuck with the solo nude work.

"Shauna Grant looks kind of like a better Jessica Hahn."

Shauna Grant aka Colleen Applegate was WAY better looking than Jessica Hahn. Jessica Hahn was and is as fugly as a bucket of toads. Shauna Grant was quite pretty, but after she got addicted to cocaine her looks went to hell. There's a mugshot of her where she looked incredibly dissipated. What a shame; that pretty blonde girl was turning into a drug addicted hag.

^There's a mugshot of Shauna Grant? What was she arrested for? I've never heard of this.

You were 7 in 1994, OP? You’re a child.

I remember seeing an E True Hollywood Story about a porn star who shot herself in the pussy with a shotgun. Is that this one?

I’m 32 now.

Traci Lords has an interesting story. She's claimed that she was a cokehead the whole time she was in porn, but everybody who worked with her says she was a complete professional who never did drugs and was extremely savvy about her career.

I read Traci’s autobio UNDERNEATH IT ALL. It was a really good read.

"There's a mugshot of Shauna Grant? What was she arrested for? I've never heard of this."

She was arrested on (what else?) a drug charge. I saw it on some tv piece about her after her death. It was so sad. She looked so ruined.

Traci has always lied about her time in porn. She was no naïve victim like she painted herself to be. She got a fake ID that was good enough to fool the government and they issued her a passport with the fake name she used (from an actual living person) . She also formed her own production company at 17 and sold her one legal porn movie to one of the major distributors for a large among of money, the catch was they only could for 10 years and then the rights reverted back to her. She was shrewd and calculating.

"See you in heaven if you make the list." Savannah did!

P.S. This video creeps the FUCK out of me so be warned. 'I don't want to die somewhere in the Valley..."

R76 Some of the dead porn stars in that video aren't even dead, like Bambi Woods (and that's not even a picture of her) and Lisa De Leeuw.

That video was put up by former hooker/porn star/con artist turned anti porn activist/religious zealot/con artist Shelley Lubben. Ironically, she was just found dead herself this past weekend of a likely drug overdose.

She was absolutely batshit crazy (and incredibly manipulative). Here's a video to display the depth of her craziness.

I’ve seen some of her work and was never impressed. I never got why she was such a big deal.

Most porn stars are drug addicts. Drug addicts OD all the time.

But Gregg Allman carries some blood on his hands.

I read that aliens told her what 2020 had in store and she just decided death was better.

I don’t care

I know some women probably just take the money they make and move on to content obscurity or maybe some really enjoy the work but I feel for female pornstars. It seems like it must be a hard life.

That kind of sounds hot r45 but only if the guy isn’t pedo garbage