Canadian pornographic actress (1994–2017) Mercedes Grabowski, known professionally as August Ames, was a Canadian pornographic actress. She appeared in more than 250 films, including a non-pornographic film in 2016, and was nominated for several AVN Awards. With a self-disclosed history of sexual abuse and mental illness, Ames died by suicide in 2017 at the age of 23 after a social media backlash following a tweet she posted, due to some perceiving the tweet as homophobic. 440,558 views on December 7, 2017 — Wikipedia's most-read article that day. Also most read: Bitcoin, Apatheism, Jerusalem, Israel. Wiki link