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August Ames
Sign in to saveAlso known as Mercedes Grabowski, Hailey Edwards
Canadian pornographic actress (1994-2017)
Film & TV
Acting · Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
August Ames (born August 23, 1994 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, died December 5, 2017) was a Canadian porn star. She was of Polish ancestry and was one-quarter African-American. She was also known as Hailey Edwards. August committed suicide at the tragically young age of 23 on December 5, 2017, by suicide after a social media backlash following a tweet she posted, due to some perceiving the…
Known for
- Cherry Bomb2024
- Dream House2024
- My Hotwife Squirts! 3 — (archive footage)2023
- All Day Long — (archive footage)2022
- Best Babes with Big Butts — (archive footage)2022
- Morning Wood — (archive footage)2022
- Sweet Sting of the Black Widow — (archive footage)2022
- I Prefer All-Girl Quickies — (archive footage)2022
- Lez Go! — (archive footage)2021
- Curved Cougars2021
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1948
- Active to
- 1963
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 16
- Total plays
- 24
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission
· 2020 · cited 8,906x
- Methods for detecting carcinogens and mutagens with the salmonella/mammalian-microsome mutagenicity test
· 1975 · cited 6,276x
- Revised methods for the Salmonella mutagenicity test
· 1983 · cited 5,886x
- Dementia prevention, intervention, and care
· 2017 · cited 5,024x
- A Method for Determining the Sedimentation Behavior of Enzymes: Application to Protein Mixtures
· 1961 · cited 4,429x
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Quotes
- “Like every girl in the business, I'm more than just a porn star. I am a fun, loving, normal chick who likes to have fun, likes to live her life, and I don't want the world to burn.”
- “There will always be those haters everywhere you go, so I learned a while ago to appreciate the positive and ignore the negative.”
- “whichever (lady) performer is replacing me tomorrow for @EroticaXNews, you're shooting with a guy who has shot gay porn, just to let cha know. BS is all I can say🤷🏽♀️ Do agents really not care about who they're representing? #ladirect I do my homework for my body🤓✏️🔍”
- “Some days I'll be fine and if I'm not doing anything I'll get these awful flashbacks of my childhood and I get very depressed and I can't get out of bed and cancel my scenes for like a week or two.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Mercedes Grabowski , ( 1994-08-23 ) August 23, 1994, Antigonish, Nova Scotia , Canada
- Died
- December 5, 2017 (2017-12-05) (aged 23) , Camarillo, California , U.S.
- Cause of death
- Suicide by hanging
- Occupation
- Pornographic actress
- Years active
- 2013–2017
- Spouse
- Kevin Moore
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Wikidata facts
- Genre
- pornographic film
- Mass
- 52
- Image
- August Ames 2014 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 168
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- Commons category
- August Ames
- date of birth
- 1994-08-23
- birth name
- Mercedes Grabowski
- pseudonym
- August Ames
- end of work period
- 2017-00-00
- start of work period
- 2013-00-00
- date of death
- 2017-12-05
- name in native language
- Mercedes Grabowski
- social media followers
- 607368
Sources (14)
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Article
Mercedes Grabowski (August 23, 1994 – December 5, 2017), known professionally as August Ames, was a Canadian pornographic actress. She appeared in more than 100 films, including a non-pornographic film in 2016, and was nominated for several AVN Awards. With a self-disclosed history of sexual abuse and mental illness, Ames died by suicide in 2017 at the age of 23 after a social media backlash following a tweet she posted, due to some perceiving the tweet as homophobic.
Early life