The Last Days of August: Episode Four

The Last Days of August

K Seabury

Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Jon Ronson, the creator of Audible Original The Butterfly Effect, delves into the pornography industry again as he unravels the never-before-told story of what caused a beloved 23-year-old actress’s untimely death.

In December 2017, famed adult film star August Ames died by suicide in a park in the Conejo Valley. Her death came just a day after she’d been the victim of a social media pile-on by fellow porn professionals—punishment for her tweeting out something deemed homophobic.

A month later, August’s husband and pornography producer Kevin Moore connected with journalist Jon Ronson to tell the story of how cyberbullying via Twitter killed his wife. Neither of them could predict the rumors and secrets that Ronson would soon hear, revelations that hinted at a very different story—something mysterious and unexpected and terrible.

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0:00.0	The last days of August contained some explicit and upsetting material involving sexuality,
0:05.5	assault, and self-harm.
0:07.5	It may not be suitable for all audiences.
0:09.7	And so we set about trying to find someone who is in the room that day, with August and
0:17.0	Marcus to pre.
0:20.8	Marcus, the photographer, said that August must have been exaggerating what happened,
0:24.9	because she was mentally ill or a millennial or whipped up by Kevin or some combination,
0:30.1	but he hadn't been in the room.
0:33.9	We approach Marcus to pre several times through an interview and he takes us a one word
0:38.4	reply.
0:39.9	No.
0:40.9	And then, finally, success.
0:47.8	As I told Lena, I just want to be identified as someone who was close to production, who
0:52.4	was there that day, and someone who was known August for a while.
0:57.5	Sure, that's fine.
0:58.7	I'm happy with that stipulation.
1:02.4	So you were in the room that day.
1:05.6	Yes.
1:06.6	So obviously you saw everything that happened.
1:09.6	Yes, I did.
1:11.1	It's quite brave of Paul.
1:12.5	I'll call him Paul to do this interview, because he could put his job at risk.
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