Porn Icon Jesse Jane Found Dead of Apparent Overdose in Oklahoma

Former adult film actress Jesse Jane was found dead in Moore, Oklahoma on Wednesday morning. Local police officers responding to a wellness check found the porn star, 43, and her boyfriend both dead of apparent drug overdoses at a house where they were staying together.

Jane, who was born Cynthia Howell in Fort Worth, Texas, grew up shuffling between military bases with her family and waiting tables at Hooters before rising to prominence by starring in TV commercials and modeling on the beauty pageant circuit.

In 2003, she made the jump into an adult film career, which she is most known for, signing with the porn studio Digital Playground. Jane starred in the Playground-produced Pirates films, which had combined multimillion-dollar budgets—astronomical allowances in the generally small-budget world of porn.

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