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What’s amazing to me is the almost comme ci, comme ca, indifference the adult world has taken to the news of the Ryan Idol murder case.
Few have recognized the fact that Idol was practically the John Holmes of the gay industry. Lifeguard handsome, Idol was the king. Then, again, so was Elvis, and Elvis died on a toilet seat. Which is the way Idol chose to go out. Except, like in a Warner Brothers cartoon, Idol clunked his girlfriend over the head with one. Well, actually a porcelain toilet tank lid if you’re a stickler for detail, but toilet seat sounds a lot funnier.
What’s also amazing is the fact that Idol’s trial was kept under wraps. It was only this week when a jury in Sacramento handed down a guilty verdict that we knew anything about it. My suspicion as well as David Forest’s [Forest, pictured, managed Idol’s career for 20 years] is that no one in the mainstream press made the connection that Marc Anthony Donais, the man on trial, and Idol were one and the same.
Cripes, if Jenna Jameson were on the witness stand for noodling Tito over his bleach blond buzz cut, TMZ would have been all over it. So just on general principle, if I were running the Sacramento Bee, I’d hang the reporter by his thumbs for blowing a missed opportunity.
What’s again amazing, is the fact that the mainstream has picked up on this story in ways the porn industry hasn’t. Certainly all the major gay sites have done so, but real world news and business sites saw this intriguing story for what it was- another celebrity fallen from grace soap opera, but with the porn industry twist.
This story was OJ but without the gloves. Where with OJ, it was rampant ego, so it was with Ryan Idol, but in reverse. Idol’s was fragile, and that, mixed with booze, is a deadly cocktail.
The girlfriend’s name has been withheld from the press, but she was 41, and Idol used a self defense tactic at his trial. He claims she wielded a knife. He wielded a toilet lid. In a street fight, a toilet lid usually wins, but they’re not the most convenient of weapons.
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