Porn Valley- The year that Savannah won the Best New Starlet award, every AVN writer swore to me on a stack of bibles that they had voted for Angela Summers. The Legs McNeil book The Other Hollywood devotes a chapter to her committing suicide.

In it we learn that Savannah and Jeanna Fine had a fling. Nancy Pera who became Savannah’s manager after Savannah left Vivid states that Savannah and Fine broke up just after Savannah had started working for Vivid. The only comment Savannah would make about the bust up is that she and Fine were doing heroin together one time and that Fine wouldn’t let her have any. Fine says she ran for her life out of Hollywood and moved to San Diego, got married and had a son. Fine said one night she told her husband she wanted to go get Savannah and bring her to San Diego.

Ron Jeremy states that Savannah was unprofessional and too difficult to work with. I had heard the same things, too, but Savannah was an absolute doll on the two CDi shoots that I had written scripts for her to star in. Ron Jeremy states that Vivid subsequently fired her. “That’s unheard of,” he says noting that Savannah was making a lot of money for the company. “You could take a dump on the set and we’d put up with it.” Jeremy states that Savannah would walk off a set on a whim, especially if there was a rock concert in town.

Bud Lee goes on to say that Savannah had no respect for anybody. “The crews hated her. And a lot of it was drugs.”

Savannah committed suicide on July 11, 1994. Pera remembers driving to Savannah’s house and seeing paramedics at the bottom of the street. Savannah had been in a car accident, hit a fence, bloodied her nose, went home and shot herself with a Beretta. According to Pera, Savannah was still alive when the ambulance took her away.

“I never that much to her in the first place,” Henri Pachard states. “She looked to me like an old junkie- you know, with store bought tits and long, straight, white hair. What’s the big deal?”

Bill Margold goes on to say that Savannah’s death propelled PAW into existence. Vince Neil who talks about having stood up Savannah for the AVN awards show says she wasn’t a gold-digger like “most of the girls in her line of work”. Margold says that girls in the adult industry don’t know what fame’s all about. “They suck it up through their noses, they shoot it into their veins, they become polluted by it, and then, perhaps they kill themselves over it because they’re afraid their fame is going to dissipate. I think Savannah was a case of that.”