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Jon Vincent
From Outcyclopedia, the free and queer encyclopedia. Jon Vincent was the name used by former professional baseball player Jeffrey Vickers during his nearly fifteen year career as a star of gay and bisexual porn videos. He was born Jeffrey James Vickers in New Orleans on 17 December, 1962. Jeffrey Vickers was signed to play with the Kansas City Royals baseball team when he was only twenty years old. In November of 1983, however, he was arrested along with four other team members, including star Vida Blue, and charged with conspiracy to buy cocaine. While the other four more experienced and valued players were suspended for a year and eventually traded off to other teams, Vickers was fired. As he later said in an interview, "I broke my father's heart." Shortly after his career in baseball ended, Vickers entered competitive body-building and began performing in pornographic videos under the name John St. Vincent. In 1988, as Jon Vincent, he appeared in Heavenly, and quickly became a star with a tremendous following. Vincent's popularity with his fans stemmed largely from his rough, dirty-talking, masculine persona. He was frequently rough with his co-stars, and was even known to put his fist through a wall once during an argument with a director. Though he once told an interviewer that he had no intention of dying a drug addict, and had even joined a drug treatment program, Vincent's drug problems which had begun in the early '80s continued to plague him throughout his life. On 3 May, 2000, after successfully auditioning for a part in the New York production of the play Ten Naked Men and beginning talks for a directing deal with porn company New Age Productions, Vincent was found dead in his apartment of a heroin overdose. Though no note was found and his roommates believed his death to be a simple overdose, the coroner found undigested valium pills in Vincent's stomach and ruled his death a suicide. After a memorial service in New York, Vicker's body was shipped to Baton Rouge and interred next to his father. He left behind a nineteen-year-old son. Jon Vincent continues to command a following among fans of gay porn, still drawn to his performances, his persona, and his intense, smouldering gaze. Pre-production of a documentary film about his life and career, The Jon Vincent Story, was announced in March of 2001, and a biography, A Thousand and One Night Stands: The Life of Jon Vincent, was published in October of 2001. Select Filmography:
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Video News - Jon Vincent Commits Suicide
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Ferry: Death & Life in Male Erotica
Entry revised 29 December, 2004. All text is available for use under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (see Copyrights for details).
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