Physicians are either ignorant, or loved ones don’t want others knowing the true cause of death.” This misdiagnosis occurs in half of autoerotic asphyxiation cases.
He had his demons due to his troubled upbringing and series of malevolent women, but he was also filled with too much hope to ever be able to kill himself. He never fully recovered from her damage.”Īccording to the friend, Tanner’s death was ruled a suicide by the Las Vegas coroner, but the friend says that that is incorrect.
She was extremely psychologically and sexually abusive to him. He didn’t have his first girlfriend until age 22 or 23, when he first started gogo dancing in L.A. “Jamie would engage in a lot of unhealthy masturbatory acts,” the friend told Str8Up. While Str8Up has not been able to independently confirm the cause of Tanner’s death, the friend (who asked that his name not be used in this article) has stated that Tanner-who also went by “Jamie Stroud”-died on December 11th, and no one else was involved in his death. Tanner’s body was found by friends approximately 24 hours after he died in his Las Vegas home. The news of Tanner’s passing comes to us by way of a friend, who tells Str8Up that the former Randy Blue performer died accidentally while performing autoerotic asphyxiation on himself. Str8Up is saddened to report that former gay porn star Chip Tanner died tragically this month in Las Vegas, Nevada. Original story as published on December 24th, 2020 is below. This story has been updated here, as Chip Tanner’s “death” is now confirmed to be a hoax, and Tanner was recently in prison after being convicted of a home invasion in Nevada.