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SAN FRANCISCO— from www.avn.com – Falcon Studios contract star Erik Rhodes, 30, died at 5:30 a.m. Thursday morning from a heart attack during his sleep.

Falcon officials, including Adam Q. Robinson, Falcon’s vice president of production, issued statements through various social media outlets this morning about Rhodes’ passing.

“It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of Erik Rhodes this morning. Erik died of a heart attack in his sleep,” Robinson tweeted. “Erik has been an amazing friend & part of the Falcon family for 8 years, a man of steel on the outside but all teddy bear on the inside.”

A tweet on Rhodes’ Twitter account reads, “Erik Rhodes has left us this morning at 5:30am his family and boyfriend Riccardo are in deep pain, please respect this sad moment.”

Rhodes, born Feb. 8, 1982, was an openly gay man, who topped and bottomed both professionally and in his personal life. He performed in 44 scenes for Falcon Studios, most recently in Body Shop, co-starring Landon Conrad, Marc Dylan and Trenton Ducati.

He was also a troubled man, by many accounts, struggling with drugs and depression.

“My name is James … I have worked in the adult entertainment industry for the last 7 years of my life under the name Erik Rhodes. I’m not sure how I ended up here, and I don’t know how I have survived this long … all I do know is that it can a very lonely place and sometimes I need a blog to get shit off my chest. So take it or leave it … here it is,” reads the profile on his Tumblr blog “Erik Rhodes: A Romance With Misery.”

Many of his blog posts and several of the comments left on his blog refer to his drug use, and recent binges.

“Well to be honest i’m on steroid overload right now… (not thats its much different from normal, but i’m just more focused looking to attain a certain goal),” he wrote two months ago. “For the first couple months, really up until last week, after my break-up, (which i’m sick talking about) but my strange lifestyle right now seems to be a direct result of it, well, anyways i was abusing Meth… and i mean hard… and since i’m not small boy and i wanna feel my high… i was shooting up syringes full of the shit… .8 – .9… ask any meth head and they get retarded off .3… but i got myself to the point where if my high didn’t feel like a partial seizure i wasn’t happy with it.”

Rhodes later updated the post to say he had written it in response to a man who wrote and asked him about trying meth for the first time.

“I was hoping it would be something to change his mind, something to let my failure be his guide and hopefully have him not venture down that road,” he wrote. “But of course the whole story gets cut apart and i’m made to look like an asshole. I mean i go out of my way to make myself look bad enough only to have headlines written only about the juicy part of the story. Retarded.

“Oh well, whatever sells tickets to the circus.”

His last post was four days ago, in response to a fan who said he was about to start a steroid cycle and wanted suggestions because he wanted to “be as huge as you.”

“My cycle right now … 3000 mg of Test Enanthate a week, 2500 mg of Nandrolone Decaonate and 300 mg of Trenbolone Acetate. With 5iu of Human Growth Hormone everyday,”Rhodesreplied. “I’m waiting until I pop. Or my liver fails … which ever comes first.”

No other details on Rhodes’ death were immediately available.

from www.frontiersla.com – The 30-year-old Long Island-native was a truly hilarious and larger-than-life character as well-known for his wicked sense of humor as he was for his enormous muscles. Rhodes was a legend in the gay adult film world. His fame transcended porn and he did mainstream modeling (famously appearing in an ad for Loehman’s department store) and sat front row at the Marc Jacobs fashion show.

He was a regular in the pages of PAPER magazine and on PAPERMAG.com, and we’ll cherish his hilarious stories that didn’t make it to print — including the one of him losing his virginity at a Mexican restaurant in a strip mall and being served a burrito lunch on the set of his adult film debut. He was a true New York character and we’ll miss him like crazy.