A commenter once called me a wiki savant, and that's very true. I am a manic cross-referencer who plows through wiki sites like a shark looking for things to bring you. Ninety percent of modern research is knowing how to really get into the minds of search engines in order to track the information you want to know.
Wikipedia has helpful categories that can narrow down what you're looking for, but when I found this one, I just stopped and looked at pictures of kittens for an hour until the sadness went away. Yes, there is a section dedicated to porn stars that have offed themselves, ten women and three men. It is one of the saddest things you'll ever see.
Look, we've all watched Boogie Nights, and there's no reasonably intelligent person who would think that the porn industry was glamorous. Still, you'd get the impression that being paid to have sex would at least still be somewhat better than a dead-end job. They even have an awards show, for crying out loud.
But yeah, sometimes it gets too much. There's Alex Jordan, who hanged herself in 1995 while her husband was in Colorado setting up a ski shop that would hopefully get her out of porn. She addressed her suicide note to her pet bird. This was a year after Savannah ended her life with a gunshot to the head. She had recently been in a bad car wreck that had injured her and lacerated her face. Police believed she killed herself over fear the accident had cost her her lucrative career.
There's more...the likable pianist and UK gay porn star Kent North, who overdosed on crystal meth and left behind his partner, Warren Lord... Megan Leigh, who fell into a deep depression over her family's rejection of her lesbian relationship and took so many valiums she would never wake up...Pauline Chan, who was driven out of a 24th floor window by postpartum depression. Jesus, who needs a drink?