Retired Gay Porn Star Ryan Idol Convicted Of Trying To Kill Girlfriend

Gay porn stars use the weirdest things as weapons (glass paperweights, cherry tomatoes, electrical boxes, Fleshjacks, broken doggy bowls), but I think this one takes the cake:

“A Sacramento Superior Court jury convicted a one-time gay porn star Tuesday of attempted murder for smashing his girlfriend over the head with a toilet tank lid.”

They’re talking about 1990’s gay porn legend Ryan Idol, of course. Luckily, the girlfriend survived. But the question is, was it really attempted murder? A jury thought so. But, if you really wanted to intentionally kill someone, is a toilet tank lid the easiest way to do it? That’s just silly.

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Marc Anthony Donais, 47, known in his x-rated movies as Ryan Idol, was taken into custody and held without bail after his conviction for the Sept. 5, 2009 attack in the woman’s home on 48th Street in Sacramento.

According to testimony at trial, the 41-year-old woman had broken up with Donais, who claimed to be bisexual. She testified she moved out of their West Sacramento condo when he knocked on her door the night of the attack while she was taking a bath.

She told jurors she let Donais into the house and that he immediately told her he wanted to kill her. He testified at trial that he thought she had pulled a knife on him during their discussion in her bathroom and that he grabbed the toilet tank lid and hit her with it out of self defense.

Donais is a former model who once appeared as a centerfold in Playgirl magazine, according to assorted web sites. Several of the sites described him as a popular actor in gay pornograhic films who appeared in several movies in the 1990s under his stage name of Ryan Idol.

I guess Playgirl is the big name worth referencing for the Sacramento Bee, but Ryan Idol is known for his movies, not magazine spreads. Back in 1998, he made news when he fell out the window of his 3rd story apartment in New York and was seriously injured; he blamed the incident on drugs and alcohol. Whether or not he was under the influence of anything at the time of the toilet tank lid attack is unclear, but none of the charges he was convicted of yesterday involve drugs.

Earlier this year, Idol made a rare public appearance at Cocktails With The Stars in West Hollywood, and he looked so old! He was really hot before, though:

As of this posting, Idol has yet to be sentenced (update: sentencing is scheduled for December 9th) but an attempted murder conviction should land him behind bars for at least a few years. Here he is with Chi Chi LaRue at CWTS last May. So long, Ryan!

 

 

 

18 thoughts on “Retired Gay Porn Star Ryan Idol Convicted Of Trying To Kill Girlfriend”

  1. Actually Mr Idol fell out of a window,hitting his head and after falling out of this window he than proclaimed to the world to be straight and cured of being a homosexual ??!!!!……

    @John it may have something to do with growing up in the cradle of hell “America”,living there would make any homosexual male want to kill or commit suicide

  2. Not trying to be snarky, but I’ve noticed that a lot of aging white guys become virtually unrecognizable from their former youthful selves. It’s uncanny!

  3. Ryan Idol is still not bad looking for someone in his late 40’s. He does not look so old in my own opinion, plus was he being investigated for fraud by the authorities of Birmingham, Alabama a few years back?.

    1. The witnesses said he jumped, he said he fell. Kind of like when tennis player Bjorn Borg took a whole bottle of sleeping pills because he felt sick, or Jennifer Capriati took a whole bottle of pills by accident, or football player T.O…. It’s always a misunderstanding if they survive.

  4. Is it somehow appropriate for me to enjoy the fact this story is published in the same week as the earlier story about him sleeping with Forest (and mistreating him) and maybe ChiChi appeared? Now, no, it isn’t and yet …

  5. Where on earth is she going to “pull a knife” from in the bathroom? If he knocked on the door while she was taking a bath then presumably she answered wearing a dressing gown. I doubt she keeps knives in her dressing gown pockets.

    It’s lucky it wasn’t one of those toilets where the cistern’s behind the wall. He might have had to gouge her eye out with a toilet brush.

    1. I was thinking the same thing. Unless she was washing the dishes while taking a bath, the knife story is pretty far-fetched.

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