“Please leave this as a private family matter in this difficult time.” “She was the kindest person I ever knew and she meant the world to me,” her husband, director Kevin Moore, told the Adult Video News (AVN) website. Her death was ruled a suicide due to hanging, according to a spokesperson for the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office. She was 23 years old.Īmes, whose real name was Mercedes Grabowski, was found dead on Tuesday morning in the city of Camarillo. August Ames, one of the most popular porn stars on the internet, has been found dead in California in an apparent suicide, officials say, just days after she received criticism on social media for refusing to work with certain performers.