UPDATE:
It wasn’t Sophie’s agency but Lola Cait who faked Sophie’s death.
Opinion/Editorial
Last week I was the first one to report how 20-year-old Sophie Perez had been killed in a car crash. Her Myspace page left this message from her “sister” Marie:
Rest in peace Sophie, you’ll be missed. This is her sister Marie. I will keep this Myspace updated.
Charlie Malloy at FOX Magazine then ran my story at xxxPornTalk. For a week he had been trying to find an obituary to prove she was really dead because there have been many cases, even from very well known porn stars, that had faked their deaths for whatever reason.
Remer at xxxPornTalk then left this messages:
I heard a conflicting story about her demise…something to the fact that it doesn’t exist….she lives…..
Someone should do their homework…if only to believe in a myspace page….
Only saying that there are a lot of “fake” myspace pages…..don’t want to ruin your day or nothing…..but you may want to double check your facts…
The URL says it all….
myspace.com/giirlzincfla
I contacted Charlie on Myspace and told him if she is alive, maybe she did it because she was being threatened by someone and had to go into hiding. And maybe he should drop the case because it might put her in more danger.
I then checked Sophie’s Myspace page and was horrified to see the page is now decorated with a drug background & tables. Why would her “sister” do this? I also thought why does her page have the agency’s name and not her own.
I have come to learn many girls don’t own their names, Myspace pages, email accounts, blogs, or websites. I was told ClubJenna deleted the Myspace page of one of their girls after she had left them. ClubJenna ran the page. She probably was never allowed to log onto “her” own page to even decorate it.
These girls get into porn and someone tells them they’ll handle everything for them. The girl agrees but doesn’t realize she just handed over her entire porn & celebrity identity to someone else to do with as they please. I understand a person spending all the time, money, and energy on building someone’s career and wanting to hold on to their investment. But after a certain amount of time, these performers have the right to own their name, Myspace page, email account, and buy back their websites. Many of the biggest female porn stars don’t own their names. They handed over their identity for a contract. Maybe they didn’t read what they were signing or maybe they were lied to and deceived.
Sophie Perez didn’t own that Myspace page of hers which announced her death. The page was used to recruit women for Girlz Inc. Sophie left the agency and they retaliated by announcing she had died. Just like Derek Hay at LA Direct had announced Jayme Langford had retired so to ruin her reputation all because she had left their agency.
Charlie Malloy sent me this message at Myspace today:
I just heard from Sophie. I am 99.9% sure it is her. She is fine.
Sophie Perez is a sweet girl. Her former co-worker is not. Last week, she posted that Sophie was killed instantly in a car accident on their shared MySpace page, which was used to recruit talent for Girlz Inc. modeling agency. This hoax can be found at www.myspace.com/giirlzincfla. FOX is pleased to learn that Sophie is still among the living. She has, however, left the business.
WatusiTwist
December 29, 2008
They changed the url – retitled it Rest in Peace and slapped on mary jane pics and motifs.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=291632168
Harvey Dent
December 29, 2008
I wonder if family and friend can now sue the agency due of the “pyschological angwish” of having been told that their daughter-sister-relative is death?
Paperchase, this is a question for you.
Steven Millan
December 29, 2008
Sounds like her agency attempted to pull a Hypatia Lee here(with their client).
iwasthere
December 29, 2008
Hypatia faked her own death on her website. She said she was terminally ill and begged people to buy stuff off her website to help out her family.
Most girls like having everything done for them, because they are too lazy to do it themselves.
frog
December 29, 2008
I saw some interview with Paul McCartney years back where he said royalties he received from having been a Beatle were still subject to the contract he signed with EMI back when they were just playing clubs in Liverpool.
iwasthere
December 29, 2008
Yes, that is why record contracts are indentured servitude. They are always in favor of the label. Paul shouldn’t complain though, because the deal the Beatles received was far better than anyone would receive today (they were allowed to keep their publishing rights, etc).
Darrah Ford
December 30, 2008
Most musicians and song writers get screwed. They have to become extremely famous after for them to try to get back their publishing.
Darrah Ford
December 30, 2008
I hope Sophie can sue someone after what was done.
Darrah Ford
December 30, 2008
How did Hypatia think she would get away with it? What did she say after? Did she say she was miraculously healed?
Jaded1
December 30, 2008
Hyapatia has never directly answered that question. From lukeisback.com Hyapatia bio:
http://www.lukeisback.com/stars/stars/stars/female/hyapatia_lee.html
“Hyapatia Lee Fakes Her Own Death
12/31/98
George writes on RAME: I found this in alt.showbiz.gossip I just received the following note from the official fan club for the Native American adult film actress Hyapatia Lee:
“Hyapatia Lee has relapsed into a childhood disease (diabetes) and passed away. This news has upset many beloved fans and friends around the world. When Hyapatia learned of her inevitable demise she had a last request. In her personal words–‘Please set up a fund raising sale in my behalf for my medical and burial expenses. I have no medical insurance and my family can’t even afford the doctor bills not to mention the cost of a burial. I have a lot of fan club merchandise left that can be sold and I will give a list of personal one of a kind items that are sentimental to me. These items are truely [sic] part of me and my history of being a legend of erotica.
“I really appreciate all of the love and support from my friends and I’m sure the Great Spirit will reunite us all one day. I will autograph as many items as I can. Remember, if you buy ANY merchandise from the fan club, it is mine personally. You will not only help a friend in dire need, but also help my spirit to live on with you.
“Please help if you can.” Hyapatia Lee 1961-1998.”
According to the note, those who are already members of her fan club have the first opportunity to buy her remaining autographed photos, magazines, videotapes, etc., before they go up for sale over the Internet on February 1. The news of her passing has not yet been announced on her official website (www.hyapatialee.com). It truly is a shame. Despite her occupation, she always came across as an intelligent, spiritual, and charming young woman. She will be missed.
Luke F-rd writes on RAME: Around May 1998, Hyapatia Lee said she’d relapsed into a serious childhood illness. Several internet reports this week say she’s dead while others suspect Lee is just fine but poor and looking for ways to unload merchandise. Place Luke F-rd among the skeptics.
I received this from a well-placed source: “Hyapatia and her husband are roughly 35 and 28, respectively, and although they’re both in perfectly good health, they’ve managed to qualify for monthly disability and welfare checks from uncle sam. But this is nothing new for Hyapatia – she was collecting food stamps and pleading poverty for government handouts even while dancing on the road for $5-6000 a week. Hyapatia and her husband make a comfortable living off the federal dole, which includes $300 a month from the state for each kid as well – add in the ex’s child support payments, and royalties from Hyapatia’s fan club, website, and movie royalties, and they’re making about $4,000 every month for doing absolutely nothing. They are extremely proud of themselves for having achieved this state of paid inertia, which is also fueled by Hyapatia’s belief that “the world owes her a living.”
“Several months ago, Hyapatia came up with another plan to make more ‘money for nothing’ – and it involved faking her own death. She engaged the help of a few people to start spreading the word that she was gravely ill, by telling them secretly that she was having problems with a stalker, and by faking her own death she would hopefully be able to live her life in safe anonymity. And so a ‘goodbye’ message to fans was put on her website, and all website sales were discontinued (at this time Hyapatia was also filing for personal bankruptcy, which coincidentally necessitated quickly covering any apparant sources of income & material assets, like fan club merchandise and inventory…)
“After a few months passed, Hyapatia decided it was time to roll over and play dead, and had someone begin spreading the word on the net that ‘Hyapatia Lee has passed away’… And this is where the clincher of her plan comes in – attached to the sad obituary note is a brilliant sales pitch, pleading for fans to pity her poor family that has no money to pay her doctor bills or burial expenses, followed with a “special offering” of “exclusive fan club merchandise” from beyond the grave…. Wow – so she got to file for bankruptcy, while keeping all her inventory AND hiding it from Uncle Sam, AND she got to jack up the prices while boosting sales with a tearstained plea that no loyal fan could resist.
“Well, now she can pat herself on the back until her arm falls off, reminding herself how clever she is for beating the system again and again, and for pulling off her coup de’ tat, a swan song that swept those scummy porno fans along for one last glorious ride. She planned this out deliberately as her last dealing with adult industry, before closing the door on that unhappy part of her past, and moving in a new direction. I wonder if she’s in newsgroups right now, reading through the sad obituary postings by her loyal and trusting fans… and calculating how much money each one is gonna send her…”
Harvey Dent
December 30, 2008
Hywatta Lee suffers form MPD, or disositive personality disorder.
Another PW, Sophia Lynn, who I also suspect of suffering of MPD also tried to fake her death when she tried to quit porn the first time.
While I do believe is a publicity stunt, I also believe the main personality trying to “kill” her PW alter personality might play a role in that spoap opera like stunt.
MPD is faily common among sex workers. About a third of them have it. I suspect a very popular PW to have it right now.
iwasthere
December 31, 2008
I saw Hypatia on Geraldo years ago and she seemed bitterly unhappy, as if she hated her porn career. Its not surprising she faked her own death.
Harvey Dent
December 31, 2008
And she has said she suffers from disociative disorder so “killing” her PW persona fits the profile.
Those disorders are oftem the product of very serious childhood abuse.
I know a former escort that suffers from than. She has threatened to commit suicide several times or to kill one of her alters. Isnever clear that is her main personality and the alters talking. She even have different forum and email adresses for the alters!
She was caught into a child porn pedophile rig when she was a little girl. And she can ony talk about that in third person.
Darrah Ford
January 1, 2009
Read nightwolff’s comment here saying Hypatia was difficult to deal with in a recent interview.
Darrah Ford
January 1, 2009
Thank you Jaded1 for that! That’s just plain evil what she did to her fans and also her porn industry friends by faking her death. And how was this all allowed with the government dealing with welfare and food stamps? The husband is Bud Lee right? Why is he still accepted by the industry after all of this including her faking her death?
frog
January 1, 2009
Evil? It’s just part of the show. I’d be disappointed if porn stars didn’t occasionally try some scam were they were faking death, etc…
iwasthere
January 1, 2009
I never heard anything about the government fraud supposedly perpetuated by Hypatia.
Bud only rips off the females he is involved with, but never the male run companies he works for, because he’d be blackballed. When he rips off women, people just think the woman is stupid and deserves it anyway, when it is really a betrayal of trust. Bud was definitely a part of Asia Carrera ripping off fans after her husband died.
Harvey Dent
January 1, 2009
Isnt Bud Lee a Pimpwich employee this days?
“Read nightwolff’s comment here saying Hypatia was difficult to deal with in a recent interview.”
Typical of people with Disociative Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder or PTSD due to childhood sex abuse (and all of those diseases are often co morbid meaning that a person can have some or all of them at the same time). I have heard the same of Tracy Lords or Sophia Lynn.
Harvey Dent
January 1, 2009
I think Sophie Perez must be Biopolar. Many sex workers with fairly normal chilhood are Bipolar.
Darrah Ford
January 2, 2009
But playing with everyone’s feelings and emotions especially that of their friends.
Darrah Ford
January 2, 2009
Why Traci and Sophie? 😦
iwasthere
January 2, 2009
I have no idea of how Bud Lee stays employed in the porn industry. He has very little monetarily to show for his more than 20 year involvement in adult. I suppose if you work cheap, have no real ambition to move up, and stick to ripping off female talent, one can survive in porn. I do surmise that working at Pimpwich is like working at a sweatshop for even the clerical employees, so his job is not at all easy.