“People faulted him for doing steroids, which was the thing that allowed him to be the ideal they wanted,” said Samuel Colt, an actor who appeared with Mr. “And people were always trying to push drugs onto him.” Rhodes on-screen and was a friend for the last several years of his life. Rhodes got into fights with boyfriends, and the police would be called. Jacobs, who did not respond to calls for comment for this article, fell away. Rhodes went from using steroids to dealing them. And then, a few years ago, he tested positive for H.I.V.Īccording to Mr. Rhodes found this out when he went to shoot a scene for Randy Blue, a company that requires testing. “They said, ‘Your test results came back, and you’re H.I.V.
Nevertheless, Randy Blue still managed to get Mr. Rhodes to film a solo scene that day, Mr. Colt said.Īs the novelty of being in pornographic films wore off, Mr. Rhodes turned increasingly to the Internet, using his Tumblr feed and his Facebook page to discuss his sense of anguish. so alone,” he wrote in a post just weeks ago.
Rhodes was hired along with another escort to perform for a wealthy client (according to text messages later read by his brother), the two men continued the evening on their own, having sex and doing drugs.
