www.xxxporntalk.com is running a thread on its site titled “Jon Dough Calls it Quits” It leads off with the following article from AVN.

>CHATSWORTH, Calif. – AVN Hall of Fame performer Jon Dough passed away on Sunday, Monique Demoan, his wife of 12 years told AVN.com. Dough, whose real name was Chet Anuszek, was 43.

“I’ve been with Chet for 12 years. We have a four-year-old daughter,” Demoan said. “We lived together. I found Chet yesterday. … He did take his own life.”

Demoan, who met Dough when she worked with him in Ed Powers’ Dr. Butts 3, continued, “Chet was a very warm, loving person.

“We fell deeply in love. He treated me very well. He put me on a pedestal and gave me everything we need. I loved him being a big man, and being held in his arms. He made me feel very comfortable, very loved… He was everything to me. And I bear his only daughter.”

Dough also had his own company, Jon Dough Productions, for his gonzo product, in addition to his Doughboy Video line that were his oral titles. Dough was known as one of the most reliable studs in adult, and had the type of longevity that only a small amount of male performers have enjoyed in the past two decades. His sense of humor came through in series such as Anabolic’s Ass Creampies, a line in which the girls got a plate of whipped cream in the face after the scene. During his most recent interview with AVN in the winter of 2005, Dough jokingly sang a few verses of a song about himself he called the “Ass Cream Man.”

Fellow AVN Hall of Famer Ron Jeremy remarked, “I met Jon Dough way back. We went to Europe a couple times together, and when you travel internationally with someone, you really get to know them.

“Jon was a great guy. He always had a good attitude, he was funny, and he was a fantastic performer. He would always defend his friends.

“Being in my seventh year as a contracted male performer for Metro, I understand that Jon paved the way for male contract performers, him being the very first guy, when he signed with Vivid. He paved the way for some of us, in that respect.”

Adult performer Brian Surewood knew Dough for over a decade, even before Surewood began performing.

“He’s always gave me phenomenal advice,” Surewood said. “I worked next to him in scenes hundreds of times. We were good friends. I knew he was going through some problems. I tried to help him out before with his problems.”

Dough, who grew up Pennsylvania, is also survived by his father and three sisters.

Producer/director Mike John said Monday he knew Dough for about 10 years.

“He was just a really, really solid guy with a big heart,” John said. “We had a lot of common interests outside of the business. We used to go up to Mammoth snowboarding quite a bit, just regular stuff that people do.”

John continued, “He had a lot of problems… He bounced around a lot with deals. He was a strong-willed guy. It’s very surprising to me that he would go out like this. We all tried. He had a lot of people around him but I think he just isolated himself lately. I hadn’t talked to him in two months.”

John, one of the top gonzo shooters in adult, called Dough “a real innovator.”

“A lot of the things he did went on to get copied wildly. We were just all sitting around talking, [Erik Everhard] and a bunch of us and we were saying he was one of the only guys to span the generations. There’s Tommy Byron, Marc Wallice, Ron Jeremy and Jon was one of those second generation guys. And to the last day, he was the only one who would get in the trenches with the new upstarts and show them what was up.

“As a shooter, he was always full of good ideas. … He was the real deal. He lived it. In the end though, I think it just wore him down. I’ve talked him back a million times.”

John said that Dough had aspirations of mainstream acting before he got into porn.

“He was doing some soap operas and he got an offer to do a Hustler layout. He could do it, it worked, and he got more and more calls. Before you knew it, he was in this,” John recalled. “Chet was kind of a wild guy. He was the first contract guy ever [for Vivid]. That was something that had never been donie before. Girls liked him and he was into having a good time.”

Dough, who began performing in 1985 and has appeared in several classic adult films, has well over 1,000 titles to his credit as an actor. He has directed over 70 titles, most recently for VCA Excessive, Hustler, NJ Films and Anabolic.

Vince Vouyer, co-owner of Vouyer Media and a 15-year adult industry veteran, knew Dough for the last 14.

“Me and Chet weren’t hanging out having coffee, drinking beer together-type-of friends, but we had a lot of respect for each other throughout the years,” Vouyer told AVN.com. “We’ve always been good to each other. I’ve worked on a lot of projects with him over the years, some with Vivid, and he was one of the good guys in the business who I actually liked.

“Unfortunately, the past few years have been rough, and he’s had some dependency problems. I don’t know what led up to this. I haven’t been in touch. I tried to put him in some scenes in the past four months. He had been available and then he wasn’t available. He’s been calling me and I’ve been trying to get him in some scenes, but I hadn’t been able to reach him.”

Vouyer added, “He was definitely a good woodsman. I’ve never seen him have bad days.”

AVN Associate Editor Thomas Stanton contributed to this story.

> el kabong writes: Very sad. Why can’t the annoying porn assholes snuff it? From every indication Jon Dough was an amiable guy.

What I find interesting about the AVN article is that there is no mention as to the method of suicide. Most likely this is a result of laziness or acquiescence. I don’t think AVN suddenly got good taste.

In a weird way I like to think their reasoning is that they didn’t want the liability of giving any instructions to the surviving porn community. I mean a rather large segment porn folk (and I am being generously nice here) are dumb as rocks. Real morons, like Ryan Knox for example.

> Ben posts: the death of Jon Dough: As I said in another thread to me his life was heaven! Why would you kill yourself when you make a living having sex with beautiful girls? Of all male porn stars I think Jon Dough is about the best there has been

> Random comments: I’m shocked. And appalled. And a little sad. Mostly shocked and appalled. Kinda hungry, too. I wonder what Jon’s last meal was? Must not have been too good — didn’t help him realize that life’s full of a lot of wonderful little things that can get you through rough times. Did I hear mention of drugs? Should have got the legal stuff. They could have helped. I was charmed and pleased to see Vince Voyeur made a point of letting all readers know that Jon was a master woodsman. “Never had a bad day”, said Vince. Not until he punched his own ticket, at least. He’ll live on through his daughter, though. I’m sure she’ll be pleased to learn that her father was a porn mook who killed himself when “work” got the better of him. If there’s one positive thing we can take from this devastating event, it’s this — at least he didn’t kill himself over Jill Kelly. Not the biggest and best silver lining in the history of the known universe, but a silver lining nonetheless.

R.I.P, Jon. You’ll be dearly missed by five people.

> ben writes: Jon Dough was about the best male performer in porn! I have no idea why he would kill himself – his life was like my definition of heaven! To be able to have sex with so many beautiful women…

> ozzie writes: That kinda sucks, I liked him on film. If you have to watch some dude fucking gorgeous women, he was at least tolerable. Doughboy, RIP dude, I’ll watch some of your videos and drop a load in your honor tonight

ADT picks up a similar thread:

> Jewel De’Nyle posts on ADT: Another one gone what’s going on in this business? It’s so sad we’ve seen so much death in the last year. I can hardly take it as it breaks my heart. I worked with Jon in an anabolic movie with Lex shot by Mike John and he was a great guy. I’m very sad for his wife and daughter she sounds like a sweet lady no one deserves this.

> Quasarman comments: I’m not going to pretend that Chet and I were close but I first met him in 1990 on one of the first movies I ever worked on so technically I’ve known him for a long fucking time. When we started Zero he was in a lot of our initial productions and then he just sort of drifted away. I always sensed that he was a troubled guy. A feeling I also got from Cal Jammer years ago who took the same way out. It’s so maddening when someone does this because one part of you is very sad and the other part is just angry. I hope he’s found himself in a better place.

> Tricia Devereaux writes: Jon was one of the nicest guys in the industry. He was also one of the most tortured. Such a perfectionist… always wanting more, never quite having it.

He had SO many friends, so many people who loved him and would have done anything for him. Yet somehow, it still wasn’t enough. Those of us who were lucky enough to have known him closely… well, we unfortunately probably aren’t surprised by this. He was the troubling combination of being a great friend and a great loner at the same time. You could always tell that there was so much troubling him under the surface, yet no matter how much you’d want to help, it was never something that was meant to happen.

Jon, wherever he is, I hope he knows that we always loved him and always will. My most sincere best wishes to Monique and their daughter.

> Chico Wang posts: The ‘homeless’ gimmick on video was just Chet and I fucking around when I was doing web stuff for Anabolic, before my directing gig.

He was always an amazing guy though he did have some demons like everyone does that seemingly controlled his mental stability from time to time. He was always a class act though and never went over the cliff until the stress overcame him. RIP

> von swine writes: I remember talking w/Chet whilst shooting 1 Pink #5, and we got on the subject of rockstars and dead anti-heros. that was where I learned both Chet and I had very similar issues w/addiction. Chet was my bro and one of the ONLY people I’ve met in XXX that wasnt some rat fuck son of a bitch lookin to rip you off or grift you into doing lame scenes for top cash. Chet ALWAYS stuck to his guns and didnt jive anyone. for that alone I will always commend him. this is real tough, I was down for Chet and still am, saying goodbye to him is fucking heavy,..

Chet bro, you were nothing but golden to me, and I know you loved your little girl and your lady. God love you Chet, Im gonna miss you, ~ T. Von Swine

> Mimi Miyagi posts: I was inspired by Tucker Carlson on MSNBC when I did my first television interview to study up more on the Libertarian Party and found my home! I felt dismayed at some of the way the Republican party has been going too far right, and my views are generally much more Libertarian. As a youth my education taught me to decide to be a Republican. That’s why I joined them initially. But in the past few years, they have really changed, and I’m going to pursue the roots of what the Republican party used to be, and that leaves me no other option but to join the movement of the Libertarian Party. Looks like I’ll have another fun filled event year of many more friends now.

> Dino Velvet writes on www.xxxporntalk.com: I am sorry to wreck havoc on good old Eli but it has come to my attention that he’s bullshitting again….. Case in point……..

From: [email protected]“>[email protected]; Date: Thu-Aug-2006

Hi (MODELS NAME REMOVED),

My name is Ely from Eli Management Services, Inc. We own Alternative Modeling and we have been asked to cast a very exciting project. The project will redefine erotica as you know it today. The CEO of the company is securing spot on shows like Opra Winfry, The Today Show, Good Morning America and others to discuss her phylosophy and the movie that we are casting. This is a huge carreer opportunity for anyone looking to build a name for themselves in the adult film market.

If this is something you might be interested in, please email me at [email protected] and I will forward you a link to a video documentry about Redefining Erotica.

Thanks, Ely

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Still you said you were not connected with Amore TV in a past post …..Guess that was a LIE…..and now that you’ve fucked up your own reputation at alternative modeling so you open up yet a new place to search for unsuspecting females……Eli Management Services, Inc….

Give it up……be honest….stop playing games Eli. Also make up your mind on your identity is it Eli or Ely???

PS, I like the name dropping……I really want to see the “Opra” show as well……

>jojo writes: wtf, how can you send out emails and expect to be taken seriously if you can’t even spell.

> Iron Throat posts on www.xxxporntalk.com: After reading the posts here–reading how women are degraded by the gonzos here, posting of ridiculous questionaires, etc,… makes me long for the glory days of porn when it was still cool to be in this business, before the internet brought the worst out of people. Just my .02.