Officers have launched the reason for demise of actor Jesse Jane, who died earlier this yr at age 43.
Jane, an grownup movie star who additionally appeared in “Starsky & Hutch” (2004) and “Entourage” (2005), was discovered lifeless on Jan. 24 alongside her boyfriend, Brett Hasenmueller, at his Moore, Oklahoma, house.
A partial post-mortem report launched Sunday now confirms preliminary suspicions.
The native Texan died from an unintentional drug overdose of cocaine and fentanyl, in accordance with the restricted one-page doc from the Chief Medical Examiner’s Workplace. The complete post-mortem report will likely be made public on July 17.
Lt. Francisco Franco of the Moore Police Division beforehand informed The New York Instances that officers had found the couple already deceased throughout a welfare examine.
Jane, born Cynthia Ann Howell, graduated with honors from Moore Excessive Faculty in 1998 and modeled for native retailers earlier than her appearing debut in 2003’s “Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding,” making her porn debut the identical yr, in accordance with the Instances. She went on to have a prolific grownup movie profession and led the big-budget porn franchise “Pirates.”
Jane informed CNBC in 2009 that performing had merely been “a job” that allowed her to purchase a house and feed her son, whom she shared with ex-husband Wealthy Taylor.
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Fentanyl, an artificial painkiller, is 50 occasions stronger than heroin and is usually used as a reducing agent for cocaine. It has claimed the lives of an alarming variety of Individuals amid the continued opioid disaster, with deaths hovering from greater than 57,000 in 2020 to greater than 71,000 the subsequent yr, in accordance with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
Need assistance with substance use dysfunction or psychological well being points? Within the U.S., name 800-662-HELP (4357) for the SAMHSA Nationwide Helpline.
