Model Jeff Thomas dies

Wow, he was beautiful!

Was it the AIDS?

COVID? The vaccine?

Suicide unfortunately.

The rumors going around are suicide. Already depressing whenever somebody relatively young dies, and going by his Insta he was gay (or a hellacious gaybaiter), so that makes it even worse. Rest easy, man.

Why did he kill himself?

R6 because Angela Bassett didn’t win an Oscar.

Tragic. I'm sure he must have been dealing with inner demons if it was indeed a suicide. Condolences to his family and friends.

R2, are you the “Was it the AIDS?” troll?

And he just got a new "Resilience" tattoo.

R10 well that was money wasted!

I love dogs but unless they are a service animal, they need to stay at home. They also need to be leashed in public areas. Too many dog owners are absolute raging narcissists who are irresponsible and entitled. They don't care about dogs at all. Because if they did they'd understand that DOGS ARE NOT PEOPLE. They are a completely different species from mankind and have different needs. Dogs do not belong in crowded and narrow spaces where they can become anxious and paranoid nor do they need to be in grocery stores, restaurants and coffee shops where they can spread germs and bacteria and shed hair around food that people are going to eat.

They are doing more harm to their dogs in the long run by treating them like security blankets they need to carry around everywhere. And the ones who compared to dogs to babies and toddlers are morons. Babies and toddlers can't kill someone or someone else's dog by getting defensive or triggered and people aren't allergic to small kids.

The issue is stupid dog owners who have no consideration for other people nor consideration for how thier animal actually feels. Of course, these narcissists will deflect blame and accuse their critics of "hating dogs and being monsters." Gimme a break!

Who had him?

What is he hugging in that pic?

Another vapid whore gone. She couldn't live forever.

r14 his own knee

R12 is so confusing.

r12 is a nut

R12 just posted in the wrong thread, that's all.

Should have posted in the one linked below

r19 ahhhhhhhhh

His Instagram reeks of gay-baiting.

R21 not anymore.

Well its sad that he killed himself. R.I.P🙏❤

I'm sorry he was sad and killed himself.

But truth is, as a "model", it appears to be no great loss to the industry because I can't find a single legitimate ad job or editorial for this guy.

And his agencies are C or D or Z List.

Exactly what kind of "model" was he because he left very little recorded impact on the fashion industry.

Hiss!

HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

I can't be "sad" for a gay-baiter. IF they can't make their career succeed without leading on their gay male audience, I have no sympathy.

Why is it always the hot ones who succumb to their inner demons the most often?

He had everything going for him - killer looks, his healthy body, I'm sure a dynamic social circle that invited him to plenty of circuit parties and trips abroad to exotic destinations, family who loved him, and a moderately successful modeling career...

And even with all of that, somehow, he still wasn't satisfied with his existence and felt ending it was better? How unfortunate.

This bio seems to be assembled by A.I. and contains surprising details if all true. Married with kids? 40 isn?

[quote]Thomas is married to his long-time partner, and the couple has two children. He is an avid traveler, and loves to explore new places. He is also an avid reader, and enjoys spending time with his family.

"Partner???" "Two children???"

His Instagram shows NOTHING about any partner or children.

Well, I said it was written by an algorithm so no accounting for veracity.

The A.I. generated bio sure is very flattering. Sounds like the greatest model, entrepreneur, family man, philanthropist of recent times

His Instagram DOES, however, reek of "ally" and "supportive straight" friend of the gays, while still mayyyybe being gay (wink, wink).

Why was he so vague about it? GAY-BAITER is why.

I don't get gay-baiter. I get aging rent boy. I hope its not true. It would be nice if he was the major model his eulogiser presents him as.

AI obits all over the internet!

[quote]Anyone familiar with him?

Only with the restaurant he named after his daughter. They make the best Frostys.

One of his alleged family members claims he didn't kill himself.

BTW, the model Jeff's life and death are getting mixed up by the A.I. bots with a dead 62 year old!

He didn't have any kids.

His Instagram claims he is a—

[quote] 🐾 Proud Dog Dad.

He failed.

The gayest his Instagram gets is a Vanity Fair party pic of Jeff posing with Power Gays Ricky Martin and Matt Bomer.

R26 He was dating Richard Biglia but they broke up.

The video is AI, and read by Computer text to voice.

We are doomed.

[quote]And his agencies are C or D or Z List.

Well, ever since Hilary Michaels closed Models, Inc., has there been a top agency?

This is his brother. I guess it really does come down to the gym and not genetics.

[quote]Exactly what kind of "model" was he because he left very little recorded impact on the fashion industry.

He’s an Instagram model.

Weird how Jeff had ALL of his gay pics scrubbed from his Instagram.

Puff piece last year in local Miami mag:

Uncaptioned picture.

This pic of Jeff and Richard is nowhere on either of their Instagrams.

^ Were they happy?

I give up. Looking for a picture of Jeff Thomas on a runway, in a fashion editorial, in an advertisement, is like looking for the same with Melania Trump. As far as I know Melania trump has one known fashion editorial booking, for Sports Illustrated. Otherwise, smoke and mirrors.

So was this a real person or some AI creation?

Real person. Lots of standard shots a person makes when they identify as a model and have agencies representing them but where is the work? Also it might have been some time ago, maybe 15-20 years ago, and been washed off Google image search algorithms, which increasingly SUCK.

Model Jeff Thomas died because Jamie Lee Curtis won the Oscar.

So sad. I guess he didn't want his stuff.--

--Speaking of which...

R9 I dunno, am I? Can I be? I didn't know that was a thing! If it's not taken I'll go with it!

Gurl...this the Jeff Thomas I thought OP was talking about 😑

I thought the OP was talking about this Jeff.

He hada hot ass but...

He had a pretty high standard of living. Someone guessed rent boy and that seems to fit. No way that he was supporting himself through modelling as theirs no trace of him working as a model on the internet. So sad. He was so beautiful. This is what happens when you value alll the wrong things.

Maybe he read David Geffen's marriage annoucement and...

Well, he did end up taking a plunge.

Maybe he saw the news of the Geffen wedding.

That was a rough 35

Real Estate Investor & Entrepreneur/Model = broke from bad investments. If true, that would explain the suicide.

Safe and effective.

Does anyone remember the hot male model Ambrose Olsen?

He hanged himself around 2010.

Too many hotties, offing themselves.

R43, how sad for his brother. I’m sure he loved him very much, and this is absolutely heartbreaking. Just a reminder that when you kill yourself, you’re killing someone’s loved one.

R68

Does anyone know how he killed himself?

pills? rope?

RIP

The Chinese article linked at r45 is so much better written than that AI-generated garbage: it went into details about his ex-bf Biglia’s tribute, and the reason why he suffered from serious clinical depression [homophobic discrimination]; ironically the treatment of clinical depression apparently set him down the path of prescription drug addiction

The article also mentioned Jeff’s concern about social issues like gun massacres on campus

It seems he died by swallowing a whole bottle of sleepingbpills

Once in love, always in love

R73 Are those the photos that he removed from his insta?

There's something so tasteless about a broken heart emoji.

R74: I believe so

Him removing those photos only made it look like he was hiding something.

If he had just left the photos it would have seemed like a couple of bros just hanging out.

R39: yes, Vanity Fair’s Oscar Party, 2018

R77: possible signs of some rather unhealed wounds from the past

In that short page 6 video, it says that witnesses saw that he jumped from a balcony.

how gruesome.

I was hoping there would have been a beautiful corpse.

[quote]supporting himself through modelling as theirs no trace of him

Oh, fucking dear!

R80: Suicide by jumping is such a violent death

I’ve always been haunted by this pic: the metallic barrier crushed by gay Hong Kong superstar Leslie Cheung’s body when he jumped from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel

R82, was he great, big fat person?

Nay.

He was taking it in the can whilst bent over the balcony railing, and he slipped and fell.

I call it the Rentboy Surprise. Happens all the time!

R83: no, he’s quite svelte, and had appeared in a number of award-winning movies such as ‘Farewell My Concubine’ and the Wong Kar Wai-directed ‘Days of Being Wild’ as well the gay classic ‘Happy Together’

Here Leslie [left] is seen in an undated pic with his bf/true love, Mr Tong

[quote] no, he’s quite svelte, and had appeared in a number of award-winning movies

Ah so.

[quote] no, he’s quite svelte

Not anymore.

He's (Jeff Thomas) got a bunch of pride party videos on his Insta. Again, it could just be gay baiting, but it's there.

r89 How is baiting, when he dated men. 🙄

[quote]with his bf/true love, Mr Tong

Mr. Tong?

I can't go on, with ALL THESE MODEL SUICIDES THAT NEVER SEEM TO STOP.... One every 13 years.

Faye Dunaway is bumping off little homosexual (former) boys!

I guess being gorgeous doesn't always make people happy!

R39, did Ricky and Matt tap that?

No, it doesn't, r94.

Heartbreaking 💔

I have a limited reservoir of grief and I can't spare any for someone I don't know.

Next...

R91: his name in Chinese is 唐鶴德/Tang He-de; ‘Tong’ is the Cantonese pronunciation of ‘Tang’ [same character as Tang Dynasty]

He also has a rather silly English name, Daffy

Here’s a South China Morning Post about their love

Why does it seem so much more tragic when a hot guy dies?

Jeff Thomas was never a GAP model.

He wasn't a supermodel like me

I am very confused by these thread, are those Chinese guys his children?

Not a true supermodel like Ypir

Not even a second-rate model like Datalpunge.

R105

Family says "Not a Suicide!"

R103: sorry about causing the confusion. Don’t worry, the Chinese guys have nothing to do with Jeff Thomas; it’s just that one of them, the HongKong actor/singer Leslie Cheung, also committed suicide by jumping

The main point was the gruesome pic at r82, illustrating the damage of what a falling body might do, even to something sturdy like a metallic barrier

Richard Biglia is hot as fuck.

Once again you lot are late; girls over on LPSG long sniffed out Jeff Thomas and news of his death.

DL's main interest.

(Ex-)bf wins the butt wars.

R107 His horseface cousin said it wasn't suicide, but she's probably just in denial. There were witnesses who said that he jumped from the balcony.

When families say someone couldn't have committed suicide as they saw them in very good spirits just the day before, it means that they have no idea what goes in the mind of a suicidal person. In fact a person who has already taken the decision to commit suicide will be in a much better mood than they had been in a long long time, as the decision to end your life lifts a considerable weight off their shoulder and they know that their unendurable pain is about to end.

That is why you have to monitor closely those who have been depressed for a long time suddenly get back on their feet, for no particular reason, and welcome social functions and family events that they had avoided for years, smiling, as it may also be a sign that the final, irrevocable decision has been made. And you have to be especially wary of depressed people who on top of their newly regained chirpiness suddenly start to give valuable gifts left and right. It might be a further sign that the person has made the decision to end their life.

On top of that and in the words of Six Feet Under: "never underestimate the power of denial". Which we all know happens to be the first step in the process of grieving and the state the whole family finds itself right now and for at least a couple of weeks to a couple of years, depending on how fast each member of the family can go through the process.

The 'interview' he gave upthread is just absolute blather: as if he opened a plug in his brain and a whole lot of meaningless shit poured out to fill the brief, like some kind of human ChatGPT. It suggests he was utterly disassociated from any personal genuiness. That he topped himself comes as no surprise. Such people often do because they have a difficult time establishing real friendships.

R111: thanks! I’ll just repost it here. Who knows if/when LPSG is going to do a purge

R112: thanks!

Again, as the Mods at LPSG can be quite temperamental/erratic and given to deleting things, let me just repost them here:

Jeff

Ex bf Richard

Cute gladiators

R114 That's very much true. I witnessed it first hand with a close friend about a decade ago. He had just helped his ex move to another state for a new job and I picked him up at the train station when he returned. He seemed so light and in a great mood.

He had borrowed the novel, Mrs. Dalloway, from his ex and read it on the train ride home. I don't know shit about Virginia Woolf and the only thing I knew about that novel is that it's considered a classic.

That was around mid-May and a few weeks later in early June, he hanged himself. It was the most fucked up thing that our friend group experienced. Subsequently, that friend group sort of just drifted apart after it happened, and we barely talk anymore.

R120: how eerie. And the character Septimus in Mrs Dalloway killed himself by jumping out of a window

I've never been to me.....

Amy Winehouse's parents said she was CLEAN & SOBER when she died and had not been drinking alcohol.

They even FOUGHT against her autopsy results/cause of death being released but insisted that Amy was not drinking.

Guess what? She drank herself to death.

Jeff jumped willingly to his own death.

r120

r122

Is the denial related to a life assurance payout?

R126 It very well could be. Policies don't pay out if suicide is the cause. Although, sometimes they do if two years have passed since the policy was taken out.

Or, given the fact that Jeff was reported to be addicted to prescription pills, could it be that while zonked out on Xanax/Ativan/OxyContin/ god knows what else, he accidentally stumbled and tumbled over one of those trendy just-a -sheet-glass -3-feet-tall-and-some steel railing balcony barriers and plunged to his death?

An accident exacerbated by Style-over-Safety interior design?

See pic for balcony illustration. The guy, gay English ex-soccer player Thomas Beattie is completely UN-related to this story

[quote]That he topped himself comes as no surprise.

You kids and your euphemisms. We used to call it playing with a dildo.

LPSG has shut down Jeff Thomas thread for time being out of respect.

Damn good! Some queens just don't know how to behave appropriately in certain situations.

R130: I just knew the Mods at LPSG would do something like that

It's so strange to me how people get weird about sex/nudity when someone dies. I guess I find it weird because I never have "fantasy boyfriend" thoughts about these guys.

He fell to his death taking a selfie

Didn't the ex say that Jeff suffered from debilitating depression?

This is why you should NEVER live in a place with a balcony. It’s too dangerous anymore.

R133 If that turns out to be true then it’s fucking hilarious! 🤣

Actually it was his brother who posted about the depression

The agent suggested it was an accident

I’m thinking the brother would know better

They would just need to look at his camera roll to know who was right. Were there a lot of selfies right before and on the way down?

There is a rumor floating around he was recently cut off by a gay "mogul" who just got married. Hmmm

I'm the one who queried first, up thread, that he seemed, possibly, to resemble, well, an aging rent boy and I was HISSSSSED about my "HISSSSING". 😜

[quote]It’s too dangerous anymore.

Oh, dear!

But how many likes did he get?!

RIP Jeff

He had a hot ass, but he couldn't live forever

So was it a comedy death? I really hope it was, makes it far less tragic and sad.

Is that his balls or his dick?

^ a glimpse of his dick I think

From his brother Skylar Ray Thomas’s Facebook:

[quote]Skylar Ray Thomas is with Jeff Thomas. 12 March at 04:36 · Dear friends and family,

It is with heavy hearts we announce the passing of my brother, Jeff on Wednesday, March 8th. As you have followed through the years, Jeff traveled the world and lived life to the fullest. What you may not know, is Jeff struggled with addiction and mental health challenges, which ultimately led to his tragic passing.

While Jeff's struggles were difficult, we want to remember him for the kind and caring person he was. He had a contagious sense of humor, a love for music, art and family, and a passion for helping others. He touched the lives of so many people, and his memory will live on in our hearts forever.

As a family, we hope that Jeff's passing can serve as a reminder of the importance of seeking help for mental health and addiction issues. We also ask that you honor or celebrate him respectfully in social media and encourage anyone who may be struggling to reach out for support, and to know that they are not alone in their struggles.

Today, we celebrate Jeff's life and to mourn his passing. We thank you all for your love and support during this difficult time, and we ask that you continue to keep Jeff and our family in your thoughts and prayers. We will be honoring his life soon with a memorial service and will communicate those details to everyone when available.

Skylar and Jeff; not sure who the girl is

Family

Beautiful Jeff

Nice smile

It's funny you mentioned him. He dropped by several days ago.

Model Jeff Thomas may have died while attempting to take a selfie on his balcony, his agent claims in a new interview.

There’s still such a negative stigma associated with suicide, which seems archaic.

Sometimes it is the best and/or only solution.

“He was happy, motivated and excited for his next step”

Yeah, but that next step was a doozie.

And r154 comes in breathlessly like he's Cronkite with a breaking scoop.

SMH.

(^.^) quelle horreur!

Vulnerable

Sweet, with Richard

^ sorry wrong pic

I don't think I've seen one unfiltered pic of him among those posted.

Stretch marks on those ass cheeks…that’s why he did it.

Sorry, but I’m really not feeling the loss with this.

R172: he looks pretty natural and unfiltered in this pic from r149

Although the fact that it was first posted by his brother Skylar on Facebook might have something to do with the lack of filters, but still

^ oops that’s for r162

His emotional support

Memories

this used to be my playground

Overboard was one of his favorite movies.

No, that little French bulldog is not a service dog. What kind of scam is he trying to pull?

Beautiful moody pics shot by Brian Kaminski

What a sad loss

R173 Is it though?

R174, Not feelin’ it.

It's weird how this thread is being prolonged. Clearly a lot of sad queens get all soggy about a puddle-deep, deeply narcissistic Insta-ho.

Soggy? This thread is rife with sarcasm.

Took awhile for the sarcasm to take off. The sobbing sparkle ponies who started off got pissed when I posted skepticism at R24.

bump

.....

R180: OMG that’s shocking

Walking through

With his trusty little emotional support pal

People actually didn't know Jeff was gay? Wow.

R180 Thanks for sharing. I'm sorry for Jeff's untimely passing and the loved ones he leaves behind who are mourning his loss. That being said, after reading that article it's much harder for me to feel much sympathy for Jeff.

[quote] “If I’m gonna give up the relationships I have and give up my dreams right now, during Covid, or dating other guys or pursuing people, then I’m going to get a $300,000 car and I’m going to get a $13 million home (on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood Hills). So those are the things that I see fit for me to give up my freedom.”

Just another gay pretty boy of weak moral character who freely chose to use his looks and body as currency to live an outsized life of luxury on someone else's dime for several years. And in this case, the "someone else" is plainly a soulless, empathy-free vessel who has no problem selling out our rights for a tax cut because, hey, when you're obscenely rich in America no one can ever really take away YOUR rights. Gross.

I'm not shocked, because my spidy sense was correct about Jeff's M.O. from the start. But the tale finally told is the full blown lurid genre where one party dies. RIP

Sunny days

hey lady, you lady

cursin' at your life...

"“If I’m gonna give up the relationships I have and give up my dreams right now, during Covid, or dating other guys or pursuing people, then I’m going to get a $300,000 car and I’m going to get a $13 million home [on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood Hills]. So those are the things that I see fit for me to give up my freedom,” he said."

What a shallow piece of price-tag-brained shit Thomas was.

So you learn that he was Peter Thiel's kept lover and suddenly all you see in his photos is contaminated nuclear waste. Yuk!

Meh I nailed it at R24 and R33. Let's just say I've been around and I'm not naive.

R186. Well that explains it. Being forced to continually tolerate and physically be in contact with Thiel... no wonder he jumped.

I had a slightly more empathy for him when I thought he was just an aging rent boy with a drug problem who couldn't deal with getting older.

Now we find out he was the kept man of Peter Thiel, who will probably turn out to be the modern-day version of Roy Cohn, given everything he's doing to hurt gay men and lesbians. Thomas did not care about any of that. He says that he tried to sway Thiel, but in the end, his mansion was more important than any of that.

Thomas was good looking enough that he could have been a fashion model, but he just wanted the mansion, yachts, and to party with celebrities.

Oh honey do you know that time happens? There is a year. And then another year. Thomas tried to be a model and failed. He didn't just want the rent boy life, he fell into it in his 20s to make ends meet as he tried and failed other careers, pursued for over a decade. Thomas was 35, not 22.

Thomas died on the 8th. Thiel was "so distraught" that less than two days later, he was on the text chain that started the run on Silicon Valley Bank.

Dead side-piece? Meh. Who cares. There's a bank that needs to be destroyed.

What is Peter Thiel's problem? Is it just money and greed or is there some kind of sadism there as well?

anagram for Peter Thiel: The Reptile

R187 Is he trying to figure out if he’ll bounce from this height?

He was seriously stupid. A good whore gets property in their name.

[Quote] Matthew Thomas, Jeff’s stepfather who adopted and raised him, declined to be interviewed, saying, “I know the whole story, and I’ve talked to Peter a lot.”

This sounds like fishing for a payoff, no?

R200 Yes it does. You can't take at face value anything the family says at this point, because they're probably looking for a payout.

No,Theil is paying him to keep his mouth shut or else has something on him. If the stepfather is an entrepreneur, he's probablky alsosome sort of grifter.

[Quote] he's probablky alsosome sort of grifter.

What's in the bitch, comes out in the pup.

Not his genetic material. Reading skills?

It's kind of sad that the best the family can hope for is to shake Thiel down for a bit of cash. I don't blame them for not wanting to go up against him, especially after their loss.

They were not Jeff's dependants. Why the fuck would they be "entitled" to shake down anyone for cash over this?

Given that the circumstances of his death [bold]may[/bold] be such that there is someone responsible who would, ordinarily, be brought to justice for it, then the family are doing all they can with the deck stacked against them.

Also, no-one mentioned "entitled", so I'm not sure why that's in quotation marks, nor did anyone say they were dependent on him.

Some DLers have puerile imaginations.

Immediate family members probably have grounds for a wrongful death. Thiel is a rich public figure and had been keeping their family member in an arguably coercive relationship which led to his suicide. Yes, he was a 35 year old drifting from gig to gig and spending too much time at the gym, but there still may be legal grounds.

Thiel is vile, but unless he personally shoved Thomas off that rooftop or paid someone else to do it, he bears no legal or financial responsibility for Thomas' death. The hyperbole on this thread is out of control.

The relationship was over, if I read correctly.

Some AI article posted this photo.

BUMP

He was cute but not $13,000,000 cute.

On one hand, the brother revealed that Thomas had suffered from mental health issues.

On the other, he had just broken up with Peter Thiel, who has a history of being vindictive to those who hurt him (he crushed Gawker for outing him).

So whether it turns out to be suicide or murder, I won't be surprised. We'll probably never know, anyway.

Peter Thiel probably explained to him that according to the termination clauses in tiny characters in the middle of a hundred pages contract was that he wouldn't be able to keep any of his (Thiel's) gift or properties, because everything you have belongs to me the second our paths diverge. The gold digger thought he had it all and then he realized he was basically homeless, had burned too many bridges and he was already 35 and mostly over the hill.

R215- This is what I am thinking. Only one thing gives me pause. He was obviously very vain about his looks , his body. It just seems odd to that someone that obsessed with his looks would jump from highrise and leave a mangled corpse, but I suppose if you someone is at the point of suicide they probably don't care anymore. 🤷‍♀️

SPLAT!

He might have been angry that his own gorgeousness wasn't enough or had even doomed him.

I don't the face is that fabulous. There is a simian aspect from the nose down.

Lying prone

Nice ass but you can buy nicer for 13 mill.

R219, Is that how he landed?

Maybe this will be the thing that gets Count Thielula scrutinized much more closely. He’s a sickening person (using that term lightly).

Who is taking the photos of his taint and hole? And why is he letting them?

Why is a hooker having someone photograph the goods? Gee, I can't think why!

Then why isn’t he letting them photograph his erect cock? Does he have standards or is shy?

He wasn't a porn actor. He was catering to a different clientele.

R215 This is spot on.

He was a vain whore who saw his youth slipping away.

I witnessed this first hand. A buddy in my friend group killed himself just before he turned 40. He was very good looking and very shallow. He also had BPD as well as HPD, which were the two primary drivers of his mental illness.

But what really stayed with me was something he said a few weeks before he hanged himself. He talked about turning 40 as if it was a death sentence, sort of like a real life Logan's Run.

He loved to show off his hot body. I remember one Easter brunch about 15 years ago that turned out to be the first warm day of the season. We were all in the backyard just chatting around the pick nick table. He decided to strip down to his underwear and sunbathe. This is incredibly odd behavior for an Easter brunch. He knew that he would draw attention to himself by doing that.

Then a few years later, we were all having a picnic for a Labor Day bbq at a friend's cabin in the woods. He decides to, once again, strip down to his shorts and spray moss off the roof. It was not the time nor place to get on the roof and spray it down to remove moss. But he knew that he would have an audience. I was embarrassed for him and his need for attention.

Then a few months after that he hanged himself. His hot body could never fill the bottomless pit of need in his soul.

How do you fill your need?

By helping others and by being a contributing member of society.

This was his final post.

[quote] He also had BPD as well as HPD

Huh?

I’m guessing borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder?

[quote] Insta he was gay (or a hellacious gaybaiter)

Gay baiting is a literary criticism. Real people cannot gay bait.

[quote] I can't be "sad" for a gay-baiter. IF they can't make their career succeed without leading on their gay male audience

First of all, that’s not what gay baiting is, second, what do you mean leading on a gay audience? Did you think you were going to date him? Do you only support gays? Give me a break. You liked his body. He delivered that. He owes you nothing else.

*owed

[Quote] He also had BPD as well as HPD

Borderline Personality Disorder and Holiday Personality Disorder.

BPD and HPD are part of the same family of diagnoses. In the past Borderlines were often considered to be a subset of histrionics.

[quote]This was his final post.

That's a very stylish club R230. It looks an Elder Gay Eldorado.

R230 I cannot stand insta-hoes at the gym taking selfies of themselves. It's weird. Gyms are for working out. And I'm sure those two guys in the background did not give consent to have their pics taken in a private gym.

R230 Was he testing out the most photogenic landing position?

Maybe he was just bored...

R241, It’s possible . . .

I am the OP of this thread, my jaw dropped when I read the Peter Thiel connection

R243 Is that because you were sucking his cock at the time?

I wonder how many different guys Thiel has "kept"

R245- Yes and did any of them take a sudden flight off of a highrise balcony?

Dead models tell no tales

Green

^ I had that, bitches!

Did the NY Post make up the "selfie" stuff to distract from the Thiel story?

His agent said he probably fell by mistake smoking a cigarette on the balcony as he was known to do. Seems plausible since he posted about his new move and his grandmother as if he was happy not suicidal.

"He had everything going for him - killer looks, his healthy body, I'm sure a dynamic social circle that invited him to plenty of circuit parties and trips abroad to exotic destinations"

The glamorous life of a Peter Thiel rentboy!

R250 I wouldn't be surprised. Thiel is good at eliminating anything disparaging about him online. He must have a team that takes care of defending him.

He didn't read the manual!

Clean

Damn, that ass was fiiine

Did Thiel go inside that ass, or was it the other way around?

Couldn't it have been recto-verso. Thomas seemed really proud of his ass.

If my ass looked like that, I'd be proud of it, too

Its quite plausible that Thiel is adventurous, experienced, and even kind and debauched.

Remember its possible for the kept young man to be a rather conventional object of beauty, not a sexual dynamo.

I cant' type. KIND was supposed to be KINKY

That ass was a national treasure *sobs*

Man-stealing hussy!

More cleaning

Turning it On

Such outpouring for Jeff.

Reminds me of Gore Vidal’s quote when informed of Truman Capote’s death . . . “Good career move”.

I'm sure Thiel spent a lot of time......cleaning him

[quote]arguably coercive relationship

That's like saying my employer coerces me to work by offering a paycheque.

Maybe he didn't "coerce" them but I doubt Thiel was all that wonderful to his pieces of ass

Transient Beauty

where did you find all the glamour shots? When he died we had bupkis.

R271: online, in various websites devoted to male models

True beauty will be remembered

What does his tattoo say?

He was super hot.

Why didn't he have more followers on instagram? Way uglier dudes have much bigger followings.

A self absorbed selfie whore died from being a self absorbed whore. Hopefully he learned his lesson.

He didn't die from selfies. That was spin.

Literally.

Though I don't know if bodies actually spin in mid air.

Ugh—this is what will happen to Dylan G…he’s already doing the same not very erotic pics…suicide watch in 3, 2, 1…

R276: some of you better at deciphering should be able to figure it out

This has been posted before, but this one is lightly adjusted/edited

Just think, gross Peter Thiel had his hands on that!

R281- I would jump from a high rise balcony too if I were him.

He’d be alive today if only he’d owned a selfie stick.

R283- That made me laugh. 😄

He'd be alive if he had stayed away from slimy Peter Thiel

He had a body like Michelangelo's David

So much hotness

Should have settled for a poor man's roses, instead of a rich man's gold!

R286, But hopefully a bigger penis.

Jeff's story feels like a modern day Greek tragedy. Beautiful young gay man lives a life that is so vain and narcissistic, his whole existence and livelihood completely revolves around his looks.

Due to his sheer beauty, he catches the eye of an extremely wealthy yet extremely vile eldergay, and basically agrees to be the eldergay's kept plaything. Evidently, vile is tolerable but lack of obscene wealth is not.

The arrangement eventually ends, presumably when vile wealthy eldergay tires of this young plaything and wants to upgrade. Young gay man moves on, relocating to an entirely different city for a fresh start but still living in means that appear way beyond those of someone with no discernible skills, credentials, or known sources of legitimate recurring employment income.

Then ultimately, young gay man falls from the perilous height of his luxe chambers to his immediate demise, under unknown circumstances and in a manner that utterly obliterated the one asset he held dearest in his shallow life: his beauty.

You can hire 43,333 escorts at $300/pop for $13 mill. That's a different guy ever night for 118 years. Ain't no one piece of ass with that much--ESPECIALLY if he was a smoker!

Math for sugar daddies!

R290, if Tennessee Williams were alive today, he'd write a Tony-award winning play with a very similar plot based on these events.

"Opossum on an Icy Copper Terrace", or some such.

Memories

Fleeting

The tattoo said Otradovsky. A woman named Mary Grace Otradovsky died in Cleveland in 2019 and Jeff Thomas of West Hollywood is listed as one of the bereaved. Grandson, I assume, though I can't tell as the website is subscription-only and I'm just gleaning this from the Google results page.

Strike that, he was her great-grandson. This lady was almost 104, in case you're wondering how Jeff's great-grandmother was still alive when he was in his thirties.

R296/r297: Thanks for the deciphering and info

Was he cremated? Funeral or memorial service?

Mary Grace lived in Columbus, not Cleveland. Here's the obit.

Jeff's face wasn't all that. And the teeth were overbearing.

R301, He had an odd looking mouth.

Would such an obviously vain man leave a mangled corpse though?

[quote] Just another gay pretty boy of weak moral character who freely chose to use his looks and body as currency to live an outsized life of luxury on someone else's dime for several years. And in this case, the "someone else" is plainly a soulless, empathy-free vessel who has no problem selling out our rights for a tax cut because, hey, when you're obscenely rich in America no one can ever really take away YOUR rights. Gross.

Any man who uses his looks and body as currency also sacrifices his dignity. Any man who believes that his looks and body are his only currency is already damaged. Unlike women, who are conditioned to believe their looks and body are legitimately their currency. Women have to actively reject that conditioning. However, many women can achieve some measure of personal fulfillment trading on their looks and body to be someone's "mistress" or a trophy wife.

A huge part of Smith's emotional turmoil came from the fact that he was not a total idiot and was being kept by a troll. He was unmoored and somewhat ashamed but tried to rationalize it by convincing himself he had an opportunity to change a gay ogre into a normal person. He couldn't and it now seems even clearer why he may have been suicidal. Gay men are still men and most are not built to trade away their dignity, self-worth and emotional well-being in this way.

Bet Thiel has already moved on to an even younger male model/instaho

Who is Smith? R304

bump

Melania should have given him some sugar baby tips

He has a cousin who is saying it's NOT suicide

Laughing at some of the Lipstick Alley comments:

(People don't talk about how Sug@ring can take a toll on the SB if they never had anyone kick any actual game to them. Had he been a ten toes down heaux, he probably could have handled it better. Sounds like he caught feelings or shouldn't have been Sug@ring to begin with.)

R309: speaking of Coachella, the following screencaps first appeared on LPSG

I don’t quite understand why it’s in Spanish but

^^ Direct link

That lpsg thread is juicy, he has ties to Aaron Schock, apparently:

As someone mentioned above, he notoriously sleeps with wealthy men. Aaron S connects him to that high level of clientele willing to pay a few k for someone like Jeff. Despite how old he is at this point ‍

Based on that thread he also had a (non-sugar daddy) bf while he was seeing Thiel

I just wanna know if it was a comedy death or not!

R315: yeah the timeline seems to overlap while he’s going out with Richard @richardbiglia

Hard to believe Thiel wasn’t able to satisfy him 😉

Legs realness

Legs Realness is my Grindr screen name.

Mine is ChunkyLuvr454.

Legs Realness sounds like a gangster's moll from an old Warner Brothers movie

With an unidentified friend

Hot "friend"

There’s really nothing special or interesting about this dead himbo.

Bitch, he was MY himbo!

Time out with friend

Did this guy or his friends ever wear shirts when hanging out? Man, give it a break once in a while. Do you have to advertise 24/7?

Ok, I just sçrolled through this entire thread in one sitting.

R176 you certainly were right to wonder why this thread kept going. Then 4 posts later the Thiel connection emerged.

In retrospect it is easy to see something was slightly "off" about this alleged suicide. The NY Post's "selfie" story is a HUGE red flag. I thought there were witnesses to his alleged suicide? The fact that an investigation was opened at all is huge.

Peter Thiel's machinations aside, whatever was planned seem to have failed; the banking industry is still here.

With Trump's first indictment, the Dominion lawsuit and McConnell's imminent demise, decades long plans are falling apart all at once. Even if the model did truly die by suicide, the notoriously insular upper echelons believe differently.

The next few years of the "Right" should be very, very interesting.

Jeff was clearly a bottom. All those presenting hole shots, yet no dick pics. Jeff strikes me as having tiny meat.

Jeff is likely to have life insurance, so I can see why the family are saying this was an accidental death and not a suicide.

R330, his dick pic is up at the LPSG.COM site linked above. It's a meaty, hard dick. Nothing to be ashamed of.

I stand corrected R330.

Others are there as well, but without this full, hard erection r332.

He looks 35 in 327s cksose-up. One poster on the other site remarked that his skin dindn't loo great close-up.

Fixed link

Third time's the charm

[quote]Did this guy or his friends ever wear shirts when hanging out?

To be fair, if I had a body even close to his, I'd have two shirts. One for work and one for funerals.

It would be interesting to know the full story of his last weeks.

R328, escorts have to show off the merchandise

I would like know Thiel broke things off with him because of that interview JT gave. I highly suspect he did. JT was with him for seven years. What else did JT know?

Did Jeff Thomas garner this much DL attention when alive?

Henry Cavill IS Jeff Thomas in I'm a Whore, Darlin': The Jeff Thomas Story

R342 Jeff Thomas hasn't received this much attention before, but Jeff Spaide has.

Did Thiel pay this guys family to shut up?

Clothed

Blue

Which of these shots did Thiel jerk off to?

^ maybe this one? Sexy *and* Vulnerable at the same time…

Peter strikes one as a person not easy to get along with: impatient, doesn’t suffer fools; so even just to be his kept boy, the person mustn’t say stupid things or give ‘duh’ responses, and must know when to keep quiet

Not book-smart, but a kind of street intelligence that makes one a hustler, in the positive sense of the word

R349 Not sure I’d define an ardent MAGA supporter as “not suffering fools”. Seems to be a lot of fool suffering with that group.

R350 for the win

Anyone who is bffs with Trump can definitely suffer fools

Laughing with Cousin Meghan

R342, perhaps the ONLY movie nowadays I would run right out and watch in a movie theater opening day!

Was Jeff's death connected to Thiel's run on the Silicon Valley Bank?

[quote] There’s really nothing special or interesting about this dead himbo.

Unless it was MURDER. Then it would make a good episode of Law and Order SVU.

Who will play Thiel and Thomas on the Law and Order episode?

He had a MAGA dad, but couldn't live forever.

[quote] Did Thiel pay this guys family to shut up?

Sad but they would probably take it. JT was going to have a premature end one way or another. The family figures $4mm is exactly what they need to counterbalance their grief.

What was on his iPod?

Time for me to fly.

We love Peter Thiel! He's a hero!

Wholesome

Well at least he's wearing a shirt in that one

The sky was blue that day

Someone knew something....

Heliotropic

Great ass anyway

R366, What a pity if that was cremated.

He must be cremated to destroy all the evidence

Wow, Jeff was like the instaho version of Susan Hayward in Back Street

#JusticeForJeff

There was another male model who killed himself by jumping off a Miami apartment building

A spokesperson for the Miami Dade Coroner’s Office said the investigation into Thomas’ death was expected to take a couple of months. She said, “We have no idea about the cause of death yet.”

R372 he was much better looking.

The archived non-paywalled version of article at r373

Apparently Jeff was also a fuckbuddy of Aaron Schock

"he thrived on mentorships with people of all walks of life". I think we know what this means. He also networked between artists and clients---again plenty of surplus meaning that we can easily figure out.

Well he didn’t exactly “thrive” under Thiel’s mentorship, did he?

I'm guessing his wallet and perhaps his member (augmented by viagra) thrived.

[quote]She said, “We have no idea about the cause of death yet.”

Deceleration.

I mentored Jeff all night long!

snowflakes❄️❄️❄️

Aspirational

That's a sexy photo R383.

R384: yes he looked good wearing clothes too

On vacay

He looked better dressed completely. I don't know what Thiel put him through but Jeff fucked up somewhere between 30 and death. He needed a real occupation to counterbalance the whoring.

Was there an obituary?

R383, I made him dress up like that before sex

R385 He looked even better wearing pavement.

What does Marc Vidal have that Jeff didn't?

Who is Marc Vidal?

From BelAmi porn performer. He went on to become the partner of Giancarlo Giametti, of Valentino fame.

Marc Vidal, call me!

I think Marc is older than Jeff was.

Ker-ching to 'Marc'

Stay away from those tall buildings in FL, kids

There's a new Daily Mail article with lots of dirt on Jeff and Peter Thiel

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

What is it with Floridian building regulations R397?

Will no one think of the twinks?

All FL buildings should have twink guardrails

[quote] Suicide unfortunately.

Yup, a swan dive from the 57th floor.

R400 They slip right through those balcony rails. Darn those tiny little waists!

"What does Marc Vidal have that Jeff didn't?"

A first floor apartment?

By the beach

Wow Marc Vidal must have had some expensive work done. He looks fantastic, much better than he did in gay porn. At Bel Ami his face looked like Central European peasant stock, albeit with a big dick.

Where was the pic at r405 taken? It looks cool

He's not still there, r407.

Was Thiel fucking Jeff raw and breeding him? Was that part of the arrangement?

R407: good question. I thought of the same thing: it looks like a large installation piece set right next to the sea

Could it be somewhere like Dubai where weird fantastic architectural’pieces’ blossom next to their artificially created water front?

If it's true he hung with Aaron Schock then it wasn't suicide--it was karma.

Remnants of Extinction

^ grim

He seems simple, posing in front of tourist attractions in tourist cities. He was in over his head in the croud he ran with and make good choices then very bad choices. The party appearance was a very bad choice. Giving interviews about his Sugar Daddy, yet having no escape plan.

bump

On a lighter note, ex bf Richard has fabulous legs

^ I know, I had my face between them

twisted tongue

I know this pic was posted before, but I think few of us noticed the modest sized dildo on the night stand

^ the size would indicate a rather vanilla sex life, yes?

I think he was vanilla. As I said above, he looks like a simple man not some grand adventuress and courtesan.

Well, looked like anyway.

He was available to guys with lots of cash. And was already a hooker before he met Thiel.

Looks G’d out in thst pic^. For all cummers

^^WTF?

^?

Thiel basically used him as an escort and expensive escort.......Seems Jeff was not opposed to escorting.

I wonder what Thiels husband knew about Thomas and when. Thomas said in the interview that he have that Thiel and his husband had an open relationship and the husband was aware of Thiels rent boy. However, his angry reaction to Thomas being at the party indicates otherwise.

R428 They might have an open relationship but they might not be vulgar libertines about rentboys mixing it up socially among their invited guests at Their New Years Eve party at their home. Not everything is an orgy. You don't get it?

R429- Why so hostile? Of course understand why he wouldn't be wanted at the party. I was wondering if Thiel had been honest with his husband about Thomas or if he was blindsided.

R429, trust me, there were other rent boys at the party

*cough*drewschiff*cough*

If I had to guess, I'd say Thiel's hubby must have known that there were other guys (How could he not? Look at all the twinks at the party) but might have been jealous of Jeff in particular. Or guys Thiel had a longer-term involvement with

They should have had a "The Boy is Mine" karaoke battle

R419 oh my, I see why Peter was into pounding Jeff’s ass. It’s a hot piece of ass, and the rest of him is pretty fuck’n hot too. Jeff we miss your hotness.

What will the porn movie be called?

His hole is a lot nicer than Aaron Schock's!

Bump

R435- One last fuck before I fly.

He looks were average.

If he thought of himself as a beautiful model, then he was about to start a hard hike uphill.

[quote]He looks were average.

Mmmmkay, hun.

Let me see if I have my facts correct. He lived in a $13M house in a glitzy part of LA, he drove a $300K car, he got shuttled around in private jets and on multi million dollar yachts and he only had to ‘work’ a few times every so often when Peter required his services. And despite all of this free stuff and lifestyle that he could never have achieved on his own, he just couldn’t be content to stay in the shadows, stay out of the spotlight and not rock the boat? He wasn’t some 19 year old kid, he was a 35 year old man. What the hell did he think he signed up for. That’s not how any of this high end business works. Either you embrace and live with the arrangement and all the confines that come along with it, and let go of your soul, or you don’t sign on in the first place. Too bad Jeff lost his way along the way and didn’t realize it until it was too late.

[quote]His hole is a lot nicer than Aaron Schock's!

Please. A homeless person who hasn't had access to a shower for a month has a nicer hole (and cleaner, too) than Cockgobbler.

What did he do that was "even worse"?

Have a look at some of the other 'models' featured on that insta page. Some classically good looking men but so many fug guys. I hate what modelling has become.

If only they had done a Pretty Woman remake

Pretty Man

Titanic

Star Wars

A sadness in his eyes

R449 My eyes are up here!

He was sad because he had just noticed that his treasure trail was slightly off-center….he knew that Peter wouldn’t like that too much.

It just seems such a shallow, sad, empty life. They only have such a limited amount of time when they are young and pretty then they are dismissed and rejected by their only social network. Why don't they plan ahead and use the money they earn to get a college degree or real estate. Something to financially support themselves later on. My worst nightmare would be to have to be financially dependent on someone else. I would have no self respect or self esteem if I could not support myself, have a career. I am not judging them, I just couldn't live that way. You wouldn't be free to express yourself and would have to tolerate being treated any way they felt like treating you. Your home, your vehicle would never really be yours. You couldn't tell them to kiss your ass if they disrespected you. You would be reduced to putting castor oil in their soup to get your silent revenge.

Look upthread....Thomas was planning to go into real estate and apparently had dabbled in it before. As cunning as he might of been in pursuing moneybags, that doesn't translate into shrewd investing or thinking long-term about the future. At 35, he lasted longer than the average boytoy, which may have been a problem---some would be actor or model who gets picked up and cast aside in their early 20s by some rich guy can more easily go back to some occupation like bartending or physical training. If they're more ambitious, they might get into real estate.

It's pretty likely that he realized that he had hit an existential wall--he either alienated Thiel by going to the press or went to the press after Thiel dumped him w/o it having the salutory effect he was expecting. He must have realized that the gravy train was at an end and he lacked options. Suicide often means that someone no longer sees any options.

35 and hot is not over the hill, especially when there are wealthy men in their 70s and 80s looking for companion. Besides not everyone wants a 21 year old because they tend to be too immature. A 35 year old is perfect because they’re more grown up, yet they still look good.

R453- Your post reminded me that apparently was trying to become a firefighter, I believe. It makes you wonder what he was thinking showing up at that party. Surly he knew better but it seems he thought he had a chance to replace the husband maybe.

He was training to be a firefighter/EMT

And a skydiver R456

He shoulda gone doctor school.

He could have become a politician. A highschool diploma or GED doesn't seem to be required now.

Jeff actually has a college degree. Unlike George Santos and Lauren Boebert

Well, HAD a college degree

*had

r461, great minds think alike.

Buy me a Coke.

I wonder if Thiel and his husband are still together,

R461, will you buy me some coke, too?!

R464, I assume Thiel's hubby knows that he's a player, they've been together a long time (Gawker/Valleywag reported that they were an item back in 2008). Maybe he just stays for the money. And the job (he works for Thiel)

Thiel probably owns his hubby figuratively and literally. A truly independent guy wouldn't work for his husband.

Forever 35

Jeff would've died sooner if he knew it would get him this much attention.

Attention! Attention must be paid!

Jeff shot by another DL Fave, model/photographer Justin Clynes

Wait, he was shot?

I thought he was practicing his swan dives and it didn’t go well.

All the WeHo and Miami gays should launch a sex boycott against Thiel.

I would love to know what the gossip is his former little circle.

Did Thiel pay off Jeff's family?

Jeff and his momma

What is it about family assgrabbing videos that breaks your heart? The sheer insipidness of it, or something else…

Passionate with ex bf Richard: Jeff was on the left

The viking-gladiator get-ups are tacky as fuck. On the bright side, with their money, they were able to purchase quality, many grades above Party City. And with their bodies, WOOF.

They were on sale at the Circuit of Queens outlet store

They look like they could do a remake of The 300

This article said that Thomas's death investigation was supposed to take a couple months. It's going on four months now...