# It seems Tawnee Stone may have died \[she's alive- ed. title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2010, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925 "2010-12-31T07:18:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Petter888](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@Petter888](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petter888)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/121 "2011-01-13T13:06:34Z")
I’m glad to know Tawnee is alive, well and happy. I’m not blame her because she entered in the porno world, on the contrary. What she did was only to pay he studies and achieve her independence. It was only a work. I don’t know her personally but I feel she is a great person. Please tell her I really wish her all the happiness in the world with her husband and friends. I would like very, very much to meet her personally but I know it’s not possible. ---
**Author:** ![demonictom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@demonictom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/demonictom)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/122 "2011-01-16T14:53:24Z")
@Petter888 Yes, She is alive and indeed a great person. She did porn only to support herself financially for her studies. and she did not do any serious porn like hardcore stuffs or DVDs or anything… shes quit porn like 5 years ago and shes no more a porn star… just like you said, lets forget what she was in the past and appreciate what she has become now and wish her the best… 🙂 … i met her and her husband two days back and had a chat… im sorry i cant convey her fans messages :D… but i can tell you she’s happy of her life now 🙂 . so this would be the end of this topic i think… so that lightspeed guy is right… Tawnee stone is dead! haha ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/123 "2011-01-16T16:11:46Z")
> [@demonictom](#): > > she did not do any serious porn like hardcore stuffs or DVDs or anything.. Her website would suggest otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![master\_darr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@master\_darr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/master_darr)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/124 "2011-01-17T10:58:51Z")
happy to hear tawnee stone is alive. i couldnt sleep till i found out. checked internet and couldnt find any thing on it. good night every one 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![master\_darr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@master\_darr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/master_darr)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/125 "2011-01-17T11:15:07Z")
> [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](#): > > I’ll happily and obligingly apologize for not having read the OP clearly enough before questioning anyone’s viewing habits. > > But to so vehemently and vulgarly offer such an angry and fervid insult over a frigg’n porn star demonstrates an astonishing lack of perspective in one’s life, does it not, _gentlemen_? no it dos’nt shes still a person and its a tragedy when a person as young as she dies ---
**Author:** ![niwa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@niwa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/niwa)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/126 "2013-01-09T19:17:14Z")
Here, this site says that she was working up in till 2007. > **[Tawnee Stone - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2540840/)** > > Tawnee Stone. Actress: Midnight Dew. Tawnee Stone was born in 1982 in Texas, USA. She is an actress. ---
**Author:** ![niwa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@niwa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/niwa)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/127 "2013-01-10T03:21:13Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > There are virtually no underage girls in porn. I don’t say this because I’m naive, I say this because I’m cynical. Underage porn prosecutions are a prosecutor’s dream. Everybody is on their side. Yet, they don’t exist. Wake up and stop turning a blind eye. Child porn is everywhere in the world and it’s a huge business and still growing. > [@six\_gun](#): > > I > The VAST majority of illegal images do not come from websites but are swapped through file sharing with software like Limewire and Kazaa. So if you hear of some guy with 1000’s of illegal images - they will have come from file sharing. It’s called human trafficking you jackass and its everywhere in the world today. Ever heard of LS model agency? They sold nothing but child porn. Not only did they sell photos and videos, but also sold the girls as prostitutes. Little Amber is a USA child model. Look it up on Google. I’m sure the news articles are still up. None of these models are virgins. All the kids have been raped before they ever take any photos of the girls and it does not matter what country they are from. How do you think the porn industry began? By swapping their videos or photos with other people much like the Child porn industry began. There are always child porn websites and they last more than 4 week at a time. It took months to bring down LS and they where up for a few years! > [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > But it’s a fact that every case I’ve read about that’s come to prosecution involves the girls using fake identification to get into the industry. So you read about two cases. It’s time to do some more reading. Pornography: obscene literature, photographs, paintings, etc., intended to cause sexual excitement ║the treating of obscene subjects in art, literature etc. [from Greek pornographos, writing of harlots] Taking photographs of a child in a sexual way to induce ones lust, desires, and fantasies is called child pornography. Get a dictionary and learn what the words mean before you use them. I don’t want to hear your ignorant opinions. I’m sorry for breaking the rules, but the have no respect for life or for people other than themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/128 "2013-01-10T03:33:30Z")
Wow… second post and you are going to get a warning… this may be a record. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/129 "2013-01-10T03:37:12Z")
> [@niwa](#): > > It’s called human trafficking you jackass and its everywhere in the world today. Don’t insult other posters. There’s no exception for causes you feel strongly about. > [@](#): > > I’m sorry for breaking the rules, but the have no respect for life or for people other than themselves. They’re not posting here, so insulting **Exapno Mapcase** doesn’t get the message across. And in any case it looks to me like he was talking about legal pornography. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/130 "2013-01-11T21:41:20Z")
Not only that, the insulting response comes two years after the original post… And yes it does seem **Exapno** was talking about legit commercial porn. ---
**Author:** ![richard1334](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@richard1334](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/richard1334)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/131 "2013-05-30T11:55:20Z")
Tawnee STONE est son pseudonyme Son vrai nom: Tammy SARIS ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/132 "2013-05-30T12:03:13Z")
> [@richard1334](#): > > Tawnee STONE est son pseudonyme > > Son vrai nom: Tammy SARIS Reported. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/133 "2013-05-30T18:09:40Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Here are some strictly factual comments. > > There are virtually no underage girls in porn. I don’t say this because I’m naive, I say this because I’m cynical. Underage porn prosecutions are a prosecutor’s dream. Everybody is on their side. Yet, they don’t exist. Probably the last big case was all the way back in the 1980s, with Tracy Lords. Lords was 16 in 1984, yet she was never presented to the public as someone especially young. Even in her Penthouse centerfold, taken pre-porn, she was listed as being 22. Apparently no one in the industry ever thought twice about this. She looked that age. She was not outed until the week after her 18th birthday. Oddly, on that 18th birthday, she made a porn movie for her own production company. When the news hit and all her other movies were pulled from stores and destroyed, this now incredibly valuable film from the most famous porn actress in the world was the only one allowed to be openly sold. Many people raised an eyebrow at this. > > Since then, the only national case was that of Joe Francis, the Girls Gone Wild guy. Francis may have his picture in the dictionary next to slimeball, but the concept of filming college girls on spring break, even if they are “college” girls, can’t in any way be equated of filming underage girls. Every prosecutor wants Francis. But the one big case had the judge throwing the charges out of court because there was no evidence for them. Francis eventually pled to time served on charges including child abuse and prostitution. I haven’t found the exact crimes he’s supposed to have committed, but articles say that even his experienced crew were fooled by fake i.d.s good enough to get past them. I realize I’m posting to a zombie thread but this isn’t really correct. There was another relatively well-known case of an underage performer: [Alexandra Quinn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Quinn) (real name: Diane Purdie Steward). Like Lords, she had started performing in porn films before she was 18 using a fake ID. She was caught around 1991. [Brent Corrigan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Corrigan) (real name: Sean Paul Lockhart) is a performer in gay porn. He performed when he was 17 using a fake ID. He was never caught but went public in 2005 after he had turned 18. There have also been some movies made by [Kristara Barrington](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristara_Barrington), [Nikki Charm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Charm), and [Ali Moore](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0600874/) that have been pulled because it’s not clear if they were over 18 when the movies were made. These cases all came in the aftermath of the Lords scandal. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/134 "2013-05-30T18:57:08Z")
Oh dear, again. I missed Comet niwa as it went speeding around Earth, and didn’t catch the brief show of insults and accusations. I’ll have to get out more. Little Nemo, I said “last big case” not “last case of any kind”. None of the five you mentioned appear to have resulted in any prosecution of anyone, which leads me to question whether they can be considered cases at all in the sense I was using. And your cite says Nikki Charm was always over 18. So that’s four people in the entire industry in the past quarter century, all using fake i.d.s rather than the connivance of the producers. I’d say that strongly reinforces my point rather than rebuts it. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/135 "2013-05-30T21:21:19Z")
[Quote=richard1334] Tawnee STONE est son pseudonyme Son vrai nom: Tammy SARIS [/quote] Reported. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Reported. Pourquoi? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/136 "2013-05-30T22:19:30Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > There have also been some movies made by [Kristara Barrington](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristara_Barrington), [Nikki Charm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Charm), and [Ali Moore](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0600874/) that have been pulled because it’s not clear if they were over 18 when the movies were made. Regarding Nikki Charm at least, it seems clear enough to WikiPedia. From the link you supplied: > [@](#): > > Federal authorities suspected that other actresses may also have made films before they were legally able, including Nikki Charm and subpoenas were issued seeking access to records confirming her age. Unlike Lords, Charm was able to produce documentation verifying that she had made her first adult film soon after her 18th birthday and was therefore legally able to appear in pornographic movies. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/137 "2013-05-31T01:56:57Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Reported.Pourquoi? Puisqu’il est dans le « mangeur de grenouille. » Nous sommes censés parler dans le « mangeur de chaux » ici. Note: I’m not sure [Babylon.com](http://Babylon.com) translated that exactly as I typed it in. Blame it if you see any mistakes or offensive phrases. I’m glad this is a zombie thread. I thought she was still alive years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/138 "2013-05-31T02:40:53Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I’m glad this is a zombie thread. I thought she was still alive years ago. I guarantee she was alive years ago. It’s today I’m uncertain about. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/139 "2013-06-02T13:26:18Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I guarantee she was alive years ago. > > It’s today I’m uncertain about. Well, being a zombie and all, it depends on your definition of “alive”. And now the phrase “zombie porn” is in my head. Per Internet rule 32, it must be a real thing, but I’m not about to google it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925/140 "2013-06-02T21:02:47Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Little Nemo, I said “last big case” not “last case of any kind”. None of the five you mentioned appear to have resulted in any prosecution of anyone, which leads me to question whether they can be considered cases at all in the sense I was using. And your cite says Nikki Charm was always over 18. So that’s four people in the entire industry in the past quarter century, all using fake i.d.s rather than the connivance of the producers. I’d say that strongly reinforces my point rather than rebuts it. I’d say the conclusion is that underage performers working in porn is very rare but not completely unknown. And that this still is the case since the Traci Lords incident. As for Nikki Charms (aka Shannon Eaves) I’ll admit I don’t know when she was born and when she first performed in porn. Any honest conclusion is that the subject is in dispute. Eaves and some people are saying she was eighteen; other people are saying she wasn’t. I haven’t seen the evidence so I can’t conclude which side is right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-seems-tawnee-stone-may-have-died-shes-alive-ed-title/565925.md?page=8)