Popular Bear Model (and Tony Orion’s Boyfriend) Chris Miklos Dies at Age 40

A recognizable figure on the bear party circuit and a popular bear model, Chris Miklos — who has been dating porn star Tony Orion both as a couple and in a throuple — died suddenly in his Dallas home over the weekend. He was 40 years old.

The cause of death appears to be a heart attack. He was found by a neighbor on Monday afternoon, but had not been seen since Saturday night. As the Dallas Voice reported, in addition to modeling, Chris “was a clinical research associate, performing medical testing on experimental drugs to treat a variety of ailments, including HIV.”

Tony Orion and Miklos had been in a relationship dating back to the spring, and were romantically connected in a threeway relationship with fellow bear Greg Demers back in May. Tony, however, was visiting Chris alone in Dallas as recently as last week, according to Facebook, departing on July 14. Tony called Chris Pup Daddy.

Today on Facebook Tony writes:

I haven’t been able to think rationally or even believe that call last morning was real. I can’t understand why someone so amazing, so loved, so bright and original like him was took out of our lives like this. For the first time in my life, I was feeling loved, loved for who I really am and being able to give back all this love inside me. I can’t believe my Pup Daddy is gone. I can’t believe that I won’t see he smiling to me again, or hugging me and making me feel like nothing else in the world matters, just being in his arms and stay there forever. Look into his eyes and not having to say a word because we didn’t need it. Pup Daddy I miss you so much and I loved you like I never loved anything or anybody in my whole life, you made the past months of my life the the best moments a pup could have and I could see how much you loved me just staring into your eyes. You always will be in my heart forever and nobody will ever take this away from you. Forever From your Muscle Pup.

Tony had broken up from a different throuple, with Aleks Buldocek and Paul Steele, earlier this year after this scene was filmed for NakedSword’s Boyfriends.

Modern Bear magazine, which was putting out a 2015 calendar featuring Chris, confirmed the news of his death today.

Below, Chris’s final selfie, and the final photo taken of him on Facebook from Saturday night in Dallas, with two unidentified friends.

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Now, some recent photos of Chris and Tony, and some of Chris’s earlier model shots for Atlas Men and others.

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22 thoughts on “Popular Bear Model (and Tony Orion’s Boyfriend) Chris Miklos Dies at Age 40”

  1. I saw Chris at a Furball in N.Y.C. a few months ago. I recognized him from the music video he was in. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the balls to go up to him and say Hi. Now sadly it won’t happen.

  2. Why is expressing concern for a dangerous drug habit hating? It’s the opposite. Sycophancy based on sexual attraction is often the motivation for pursuing these terrible things in the first place. If you like your friends and think they are handsome then they have no need whatsoever to indulge in things that will more than likely leave them in a terrible state later in life or as here, leaving you altogether. When will people start to acknowledge the terrible problems that this kind of worshipping is causing?

  3. Chris was an amazing man and friend…all you haters out there need to stop. RIP friend. So sorry for your loss Tony and all who were blessed to know him. FYI I’m 38 and Chris was a year ahead of me in high school , he is 40.

  4. Don’t be fooled people.
    HIV is NOT a life threatening virus.
    With medicine like truvidia you can live forever, for like 150 years.
    It is that amazing. Listen to their PR reps and not anything else.

  5. I met Chris a few years ago when he was running an HIV vaccine study. He was warm and kind and, well, smokin hot. You guys need to stop being such bitches.

  6. Rough looking or not, I find the dude sexy as hell. Terrible loss to everyone who knew him, especially Tony Orion.

  7. Actually I couldnt understand why these gym fit guys were so vulnerable to have heart attact. Maybe their bad habits like drugs, burgers and too much sex.

    1. Fitness due to steroids which most likely caused the heart attack at 40.
      a dead giveaway is the reddish skin color on a lot of these men, due to high blood pressure and heart enlargement (side effects of steroid use)

  8. He was in Provincetown MA last week for “Bear Week”. I talked to him and he seemed very fit and happy. This is freaky!

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