Porn star Colton Ford is DEAD TO ME!!!!

Who?

Hiking accident.

Hiking accident sounds suspicious. RIP hon, I blew many loads to your vids.

I'm a certified porn addict and even I don't know who this is/was. Then again, he doesn't seem like my type.

He of "Gang Bang Café ", R1.

Hiking accident after doing tons of meth.

R4 he was 62, so his porn heyday was probably in the '80s or '90s.

Remember when he tried to become a singer?

This may have been in Palm Springs.

Last night there was a search party near one of the trails.

Very sad news for those of us who knew him. He was a loving and kindhearted person.

ChiChi confirmed it? Of course. Death of porn stars and ChiChi go hand-in-hand... or should I say drugs-in-dead-body?

Add another notch to her belt.

RIP Colton (and the trillions of sperms you spawned).

I'm always surprised when I see that their real last name is so ethnicky. Maybe porn whitewashes them.

The scenes between him and his at the time real boyfriend Blake Harper got me off so many times back in the day

R9 That was the aptly named Rim Rock Trail!

She died...doing what she loved *sobs*

" hiking accident" ? He used a ton of steroids and HGH. If it was a "hiking accident" the core reason was a cardiovascular event leading to a fall etc.

One thing that Wilton Manors and Palm Springs has in common is the large number of early morning and late night bed deaths of elder gays in their 50s and '60s

This one example of "he had a hot ass, but couldn't live forever" being a true statement.

You’ve got to climb Mount Everest to reach the rim rock trail…..

Glenn Soukesian died the day before Cheryl Sarkisian's birthday.

Soukesian -- that's Armenian, right?

Sad news but some of these replies are hilarious.

Chi Chi LaRue is still alive?

Soukeschian!

Was he gay-gay or gay4pay?

That's how I'm gonna decide to mourn his death or not.

[quote] Chi Chi LaRue is still alive?

Chi Chi will be here with the cockroaches and Cher.

R24 Pretty sure he was gay gay.

I shall light a candle of grief and remember the visual him lapping his boyfriend Blake Harper's insanely prolapsed anus.

He wa so incredibly hot I blew many a load wanting to fuck him and be him. Rest in peace stud

My god…. COLTON FORD is DEAD ? ?

who is he??

R27 I always thought Blake's prolapsed hole resembled an elephant's trunk opening.

Heaven needed another insatiable bottom!!

I'm surprised crazy Zach from Str8upGayPorn has jumped on this one yet.

Betty Bowers confirming Colton Ford’s hiking accident death?

Not on my bingo card.

Is the talapia fresh?

R33 Betty Bowers didn't.

But Deven Green, who plays her, did. Deven lives in Palm Springs - which appears to be where Glenn/Colton died.

Legend in his own mind.

If you don't know who Colton Ford is, then you're either not very old, not gay, or not into porn. Or, not up on your gay pop culture.

Or, some combo of the above.

A comment on the Gay Men of Palm Springs Facebook page:

"He had a voice that touched even the heavens."

M

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R13 this poor dude is dead but that porn music in his old porn clip is just about the most depressing thing to hear as detritus from his notable life work.

R39, you haven't heard Zeb Atlas try to sing.

He had a hot ass but he couldn’t live forever.

There was already a thread, but for some reason this one seems to have taken off.

He made a cum-back a few years ago with some new videos. And supposedly he was in a relationship with fellow former porn legend Matthew Rush.

Why did he choose a stage name that sounds like a car dealership in San Bernardino County?

Colton Ford is an excellent gay porn star name.

My favorite pic of him.

Gorgeous man - just naturally beautiful. Seemed like a good guy.

When I read it was a hiking accident, I immediately thought of Palm Springs - and yep.

I have to think it was some sort of heart issue as well.

At least he died doing something he loved in a beautiful area. Not half out of his mind in some spoiled bed in his 80s. Still too young to go but there are worse things.

Colton, nor his partner Blake, never did anything for me.

His contemporaries like Chris Steele, Dean Phoenix, Jason Branch, etc.. were way hotter and better performers.

Susan Dey will not be issuing a statement at this time.

[quote] His contemporaries like Chris Steele, Dean Phoenix, Jason Branch, etc.. were way hotter and better performers.

If I recall correctly Jason Branch brought Blake Harper into porn while they were dating.

R46 - Dean Phoenix is one of the hottest of that crop. I've watched his stuff for over 20 years; he seems like a good guy, too.

R48, nope, can't believe I know this but Blake and Jason met on set at Titan in the late '90s, they were cast in a scene together, and became an instant couple for a few short years.

R10 yes, one of the nicest people I've ever met. Sweet man

R24 all the way gay

Awwww. He was the first daddy type to really do it for me.

He was daring Methew Rush?

"Why did he choose a stage name that sounds like a car dealership in San Bernardino County?"

Other names he considered: Bolt Harden; Cody Irons; Gunner Steele; Bram Rockford; Jaeden Mansfield; Eice Bergundy; and Dash Maxton.

Blake Harper went back into nursing in his native Canada after leaving porn.

[quote]Colton Ford, a multifaceted entertainer, began his career in gay adult films

Colton Ford, a multifaceted entertainer, began and ended his career in gay adult films

That's very sad news. 62 is awfully young to die for someone who was healthy and fit and living life. RIP.

I jerked off to his porn many times over the years.

R8 remember when u were hot & skinny?

I can only be upset if he was a top.

He had a nice weiner.

armenian? persian?

Whoosh r54

R16: “Live fast and leave a pretty corpse”

Think you meant “Live fast and leave a petty corpse”

[quote]armenian? persian?

Armenian.

[quote]I'm a certified porn addict and even I don't know who this is/was.

You can't be much of a porn addict if you don't know who this stud is. Or maybe you're just young.

How does someone like Colton support himself for 40 or more years of adult life with no obvious steady employment? Training? Whoring? He didnt survive a couple dozen porn videos made decades ago and a non existent music career. Retail? Pool maintenance? What?

Porn videos are essentially business cards for escorting services and "appearances" R67.

Some of us are supreme court judges.

Deadliest profession on earth.

Wow George went and this guy on the same day. It really makes you wonder doesn't it.

isn't 62 a good 15 years past an escort's sell by date?

62 in porn star years is 124 in average-person years.

He literally lived multiple porn star lifetimes.

I think silver muscle daddy escorts can get work into their 50s but it must be dwindling returns and vicarious.

[quote] How does someone like Colton support himself for 40 or more years of adult life with no obvious steady employment?

Didn't he have a corporate career (in Atlanta, I think) before porn? Then he was working as a personal trainer and did some modeling. Then there was the stint on those craptastic LOGO shows.

He lived in the building next door to me for a while and he and that partner--Angelo, I think his name was--were always so friendly and warm. Genuinely nice and pleasant to be around.

After that, I think he moved home to SoCal and I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of inherence after his mother passed. And then Palm Springs and more personal training and Only Fans, I think.

Plus the escorting R75.

Plus the waiting for parents to die r75

He was a trainer in Palm Springs. Saw him at the gym several times.

I am fat-whore adjacent but it looked pretty legit to me.

He was quite the deal when he was at the height of his fame, as was also his then-partner, Blake Harper

He wasn't necessarily the single greatest sexual performer in the world, but still he was quite decent, and he was ridiculously attractive.

He was a very nice man. He could have had a ridiculously big ego, but he didn't. The world is less for his passing.

oh, no

Yahoo!

....but also, it's Yahoo, don't read the comments

I saw it mentioned somewhere he didn’t show up for work and his coworkers/friends knew something was wrong. I don’t know if he was still with Matthew Rush/Greg Grove.

Well. WTF happened?

Guess we're re-casting Fisto.

R84 I dunno, all we see so far is something about a hiking accident. That usually means he fell to his death off a trail. But who knows.

And do we STILL not know what kind of "accident that happened at home" it was, that felled the mighty Tim Kruger? That was back in early March.

He was in a Cyndi Lauper video.

R86 - falling can happen and does happen in those trails every year. But he could have also had a heart episode of some kind. Once you're up there - nobody around to help you.

There are a LOT of hiking trails in PS. But mid-week or later in the afternoon, they can be desolate and few if any hikers.

People always underestimate the heat and the trails. Fucking idiots go during the summer and hike to far, then it's blistering hot coming down.

There are deaths on those trails every single year. But the temps recently wouldn't be a factor in this case - temps were mild.

R88, yeah, I’m just guessing he fell because of the word “accident.” But it could be anything including heatstroke, a heart attack or other medical emergency.

Snake bite, maybe. (Guessing.)

He could have also starved in the wilderness, like Julian Sands.

Maybe a woman pushed him off a cliff.

As a singer he was a great porn star.

But he was hot.

He seemed like a good guy. I bet he would've appreciated the cunty/snarky/bitchy DL comments.

he did have a pleasant look about him? As for Kruger’s still mysterious death my spidey senses tell me it was electrocution.

He wasn't in porn for very long...which is fairly typical. High burn out rate for performers and fans...though OnlyFans has changed that dynamic a lot. Now a lot of these guys are "entrepreneurs" who can make big bucks and run their own careers.

And, not all porn stars "hustle". In fact, I think fewer and fewer of them go that route now, at least the ones who become big video stars. They can make thousands through OnlyFans. They don't need/want to do $500 tricks with fat old men when they can make $20k a month putting out content themselves.

[quote]As for Kruger’s still mysterious death my spidey senses tell me it was electrocution.

I thought a group of parents got together and set him on fire in a boiler room.

oh yeah. Did Ford have 1000 subscribers paying 20 a month? If so, KUDOS!

Kruger’s death mystery deserves its own thread. Are there no DL sleuths in Barcelona? We need to sponsor an investigative team to probe the locals.

Matthew Rush "honered" him.

My theory about electrocution came when I was watching yet another deep anal probe on that rooftop Tim had, and that janky jerry rigged shower, and then the moved inside, and with all the electric equipment around, and the guys walking naked and barefoot, and perhaps wet from the shower. It occurred to me Tim may have been electrocuted.

Did Colton ford pull the plug?

R100 I didn't know that Colton and Matthew Rush had broken up and things "ended on a bad note", but that was a nice tribute. I imagine it's twice as hard to find true love as a gay porn star than a regular gay man.

Sorry for his death, but calling him an "actor" is more than a bit of a stretch!

R100 I'd have never recognized the guy in that picture as Matthew Rush.

I hope Rush/Grove got his life back together after all his drug problems. From the outside it looks like he did.

Does the "celebrities die in 3s" principle apply when it's George Wendt, Gerry Connolly, and Colton Ford?

R106 - I was going to say - last time someone checked in on Matthew Rush it was with a mugshot in Wilton Manors and he was methed out of his mind.

Sounds like he cleaned up.

R100 "honor" among whores. Who knew.

R65 Armenian, Italian and Irish

R109 That's "honer" to you, Missy.

[quote] Hiking accident sounds suspicious.

Not really. It was 100 degrees in Palm Springs on Monday 5/19.

R112 So has it been confirmed that he was the man found dead in Palm Springs this week?

[quote] That's very sad news. 62 is awfully young to die for someone who was healthy and fit and living life. RIP.

Olivia, 62 years old is NOT young and certainly not 'awfully' young.

You stupid bitch!

More details on Reddit, including from PSBeef - a personal friend of the victim.

R114 it is relatively young in these modern times. My grandpa is 62, but you would never know it if you met him. He looks younger than his age, and he still jogs 2 miles every morning. Old is a mindset.

“My grandpa is 62”

Liar

Goodbye americas rosebud

Never hike alone.

R115 Yes, that was the thread I posted upthread (or in the other thread) - when the hiking accident was mentioned I figured this was him.

100 is hot enough that anyone who got lost or injured could get dehydrated very quickly. But someone who's been here for a few years like Colton/Glenn would have known (I hope) not to go up in the peak part of daytime sun.

R112 - but he went hiking on Sunday when it was in the 80s - they went searching on Monday when he didn't show up for work.

“My grandpa is 62”

Sure, Jan.

I just want to say thank you to r97 who gave me the biggest hardest laugh I've had here at the DL in a very long time

I’ve showed so many people this amazing song/video

I just want to say thank you to R124 who gave me the biggest hardest laugh I've had here at the DL in a very long time

IIRC, he was mostly a top in his videos, but he did bottom occasionally.

Okay, so psbeef did not say it was former porn fucker/former/pop singer/icon/good guy/cock sucker Colton Ford... DL is still at a loss for "details." i think Butch Sous Chef was solved quicker than this mystery.

Does NO ONE in Palm Springs open/read/comment on DataLounge? No one?!

Oh - and who gets his stuff?

R127 Yes, me, I have commented several times.

No one has officially confirmed it but we don't exactly get dead people on hiking trails all the time, I think it's pretty obvious the Reddit thread was about him.

Now he belongs to the anuses.

A long time ago

My god he was a terrible singer. Two questions: 1) was that an open mike that let anyone have a go? 2) Did he think he was a credible musician or did he know he sucked and just continue with light-hearted cheer?

the documentary about his porn-to-music attempt ain’t awful.

blake’s sooooo sexy.

colton's real parents steal the show -- especially his funny, supportive dad

Indeed, but we see queens like that all the time online now

Did someone say singing porn star?

Fuck you all! I was the original singing porn star! And I actually had a hit!

I've hiked the trails around PS many many times. There are numerous steep areas and the trails are very rough (gullies, loose rocks, etc). It would be simple to lose one's footing or to slip on a small rock and go sliding. -especially if someone was jogging or distracted at the wrong moment. I'll try to post a picture to give people who haven't been there an idea of the terrain.

Whoops, that was a map. I think this link has pictures:

Thanks R136.

I think he was in the area behind the Vons. I believe that's the Rimrock area, which includes the nudist area and area where play happens.

maybe he died while fucking?

I doubt it. It would have been pretty rude for a trick to just leave him on the trail.

R131 He was by no means a terrible singer. He actually had a nice voice. Not great, but good.

I remember years ago being on vacation in NYC with my friends and we were at Splash in Chelsea. Colton Ford came in as a "surprise guest" and got up on stage and started singing "No One," the Alicia Keys song.

All the gays in the place flocked to the stage in awe. My friends and I left.

Did Colton Ford really think their was an actual market for granny porn pop music?

The STAY video at r124 defies logic!

R141: He was awfully. The doc on him was painful to watch.

His singing is awful. He makes pained faces. And the tone reminds me of the action of someone painfully squeezing out turds.

OK, it looks like we have a bit more of an official statement.

So he hiked Sunday, but was reported missing Monday around 4 pm and found a few hours later.

R145 - Well, the Palm Springs TV station isn't above talking about gay porn stars.

He looked great for a long time - but damn, he hit a wall in that pic. As we all do i'm sure. He had decades of people ogling him and calling him beautiful. There are worse things.

Why is there a picture of Popeye in this thread?

Did he shave a decade off his true age?

Does he have a blackhead in r145s pic or a nose ring?

I wonder if PS gay anchor Peter Daut wrote that text about Colton being a "legendary" porn star?

He was 62. He looks like fine for his age.

Jesus, you people are cretins.

Now we await the coroner's report on cause of death - heart attack, heat stroke, exposure...suicide?

Very sad. I knew him very casually in the last few years in the Steel Gym (formerly World) in Palm Springs where he was a trainer. No steroids-just a very good looking low key dressed pleasant trainer- in great shape. We have some common friends- they always spoke well of him.

Looks like he and his equally “famous” boyfriend ended up well in life which is not always the case with those in that industry. RIP

Since he’s dead, I’m not sure he’d think it ended so well.

He fell, apparently. That’s reported by a friend of his in a comment on Dallas Steele’s FB page

Does one usually make a death report on another porn performer’s FB page?

R156 That had to be a big or hard fall if it killed him. Unless the fall led to dehydration etc.

Looks like he was far enough back on the trail that he wouldn't have been spotted easily by more casual hikers.

R158 Even if it was a minor fall, he could have injured himself when he fell and been unable to get up or move, which could have lead to death from exposure.

We salute the flagpole.

Very easy to fall and hit your head on those rocky trails. I’ve been on a number of them.

They’ve done a number on you.

Or he could have been spooked/jump scare by something on the trail - snake, spider, tarantula, coyote, big horn sheep.

That's the other thing about hiking by yourself - you make less noise - no talking or other things to give animals an idea that something is coming. Add in headphones and yeah - you could very easily have a jump scare and lose your balance.

It's something most people don't even think about. I usually stuck to busy trails when I did it alone. It can be a bit annoying with some of the people, but it's safer.

I don't think that trail is very popular - although I know people hike it. Seems like its more of a locals place to go.

Why would you ever hike solo on an infrequently used trail?

R163 here - I'm not blaming him at all. I'm just saying there are a lot of dangers on hiking trails that people dismiss - oh, what are the chances of THAT?

I think particularly in PS because it's so rare to have a metro area smack against a huge 10,000+ft plus mountain range.

I think people are less cautious because - hey, I can see the city, lights, cars, everything from here, unlike in a forest. But nobody can see or hear you up there from below.

And yet, every fucking year - multiple people have to be rescued, injured or die on those trails. It's really not uncommon at all.

The dumber ones are in the winter - they start in the warm late afternoon at the bottom, then hike up and realize - holy shit, it gets COLD and there is ice up here. Then, the sun goes down behind the mountain, giving you less light to make your way down. And they've got 30-60 mins before it goes all dark.

You see hikers' lights all the time at night on the mountain - some are camping up there overnight supposedly. I fucking wouldn't. A few aren't camping and miscalculated really poorly.

R165 True, either you get newbies who do what you said, or newbies who decide at 11 am on a summer's day to hike without any sunscreen, water or protection, and end up literally frying to death in the sun. Sadly.

Go to Koffi or Gre or any place along Palm Canyon in the summer and watch the copters go back and forth along the mountain because at 11 am someone has already fucked themselves and needs help.

…11 am someone has already fucked themselves..,

Do they have an OnlyFans for that?

We are to the point now in this thread where we might be close to a crossover episode: the Mount Everest thread and the dead gay porn star thread.

It was like when they had the hurricane hit empty nest, golden girls, and nurses

R166 - it's usually tourists who never hiked before - and I admit, it's a great experience and it is promoted heavily in PS tourism. Hundreds of thousands of people hike those trails every year without an issue. But it doesn't mean something bad can't happen.

My ex and his son went hiking up one of the more challenging trails behind the Art Museum - had to go off trail to get back down again before sundown and it was a very bad experience.

A lot of those trails don't have good 'exit' points down. Once you're up there, you've committed. Some people stubbornly don't want to backtrack their way down and just keep going - it SHOULD just be a bit further and we go down. Not necessarily. Particularly when you can 'see' the city below and go - that's the golf course, we should just be able to go down from here.

Superficial shit for a moment — Colton’s recent face pic at R145. “Hit the wall”? That’s natural aging. That’s what a fairly handsome white man looks like in his early 60s if he doesn’t dye his white hair and white beard.

I’m a lot closer to 70 than 60. Let’s be honest.

He looks a lot closer to 70 than 60…

[quote] The dumber ones are in the winter - they start in the warm late afternoon at the bottom, then hike up and realize - holy shit, it gets COLD and there is ice up here. Then, the sun goes down behind the mountain, giving you less light to make your way down. And they've got 30-60 mins before it goes all dark.

[quote] True, either you get newbies who do what you said, or newbies who decide at 11 am on a summer's day to hike without any sunscreen, water or protection, and end up literally frying to death in the sun. Sadly.

These have absolutely nothing to do with this guy's death.

But I guess no opportunity to moralize should be ignored, not even someone's tragic death.

That’s what we are here for. Reporting for duty, sir! Yes, sir!

I really think he looks his age (at R145) and kind of handsome at that. Yeah we see copious wrinkles but copious wrinkles kick in when any 63 year old smiles an expressive full-face smile, unless they’ve had work done. His skin otherwise looks great for 63, unblemished and healthy looking.

It’s funny how every Datalounger thinks that he himself looks 10 years younger and everyone else 10 years older than they are.

He’s been in the sun tooo much. And looks it

Frankly he has bigger problems at the moment than his crow’s feet.

Crows pecking at him!

[quote]Or he could have been spooked/jump scared by something on the trail - snake, spider, tarantula, coyote, big horn sheep

... vagina.

A big horn sheep vagina?

I told you I was horny! It's in my FUCKING name. Why you so surprised?

Cis sheep or trans sheep?

I was surprised to see how few credits he had. Only about a dozen.

He's like the Kim Stanley of gayporn stars.

Did he voiceovers of youngin’s, like Kim?

Most porn performers are "in and out" (ha ha) pretty quickly. Only a few last more than a couple years, though that seems to be changing with OnlyFans making it easier to turn it into a career where the performer has control.

Do we still not have details on what happened? Heart attack, slip and fall, scorpion bite?

[quote]I was surprised to see how few credits he had. Only about a dozen.

There are a number of porn "legends" are like that--both Ryan Idol and Mike Branson come to mind.

That's why they're legends--they made their fans want them all the more because they made themselves so scarce.

They also made much more per scene back in the olden times so you didn't have do hundreds of scenes.

But porn stars are supposed die of drug overdoses and suicides and steroid induced heart attacks as cosmic payback for the unfair and disproportionate amount of fun and attention they received in their lives.

Shucks

R104 Well, in his case, he actually did have some acting roles in non-porn projects. e.g. He played "Sheriff Trout" in 28 episodes (three seasons) of the here! TV series, "The Lair."

Someone put up this old podcast interview with him from that era on youtube today in memory to him.

He sounds very intelligent and soft-spoken.

R186 A fall

[quote] But porn stars are supposed die of drug overdoses and suicides and steroid induced heart attacks as cosmic payback for the unfair and disproportionate amount of fun and attention they received in their lives.

Attention, perhaps. I'm not sure most of them have that much fun.

Sex can be lots of fun, but shooting sex scenes under hot lights with creepy people watching, and having it be stop-and-go for hours is supposedly not that much fun.

Was just reading a (very long) tribute to him, and as "famous" as he might have been, he was not all that wealthy.

I guess he'd just moved into his own apartment a month ago after sharing places and having roommates for most of the time he lived in Palm Springs. Not unusual as many older gays moved to PS for what was a lower cost of living and housing.

why on earth would you think a 63 year old who made a couple dozen (at most) porn videos decades ago and self-published his talentless music and still worked in a gym, would be be "wealthy"?

I didn't think he'd be "wealthy" but I also didn't think his finances were so modest that he'd have to put up with roommates at 60something.

God’s waiting room, and all that. Even for pornos.

Love the snark on this thread. Not one poster will be remotely as handsome (never were) as he was at 62. And as I said before, he was very nice- very well liked by a lot of people, not just because he was a porn star.

People simply should not hike alone on rugged trails, especially someone his age.

R199 Maybe he wasn't alone....maybe there was no accident.

Just speculating.

Geez, he was 62 not 92 R199. And hiking alone is fine if you know your limits and don't hike in a super remote area.

Wasn't he scheduled to play Nathan Lane's younger brother in Mid Century Season 2?

What did he do before he turned to porn at 40 ?

He was a Ford dealer, Rose.

Wasn't he in porn in the late 90s-ish? Which would make him more mid-late 30s.

Singer? Please.

All senior citizens should wear life alert! 🚨

R206, yeah, i saw him perform about 21 years ago and it was very very underwhelming.

Any new details?

He’s still dead.

I'm someone who enjoys his alone time, but I always hike with at least one other person. Hiking solo is safe until it's not. Then things get really bad. An injury, a fall, sudden change in weather, animal counter, a serial killer (joking, but kind of not) - all easier to survive when someone else is there.

Apple watches do the same thing R207.