Chloe Jones (
née
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Melinda Dee Jones; June 17, 1975 – June 4, 2005) was an American
pornographic actress
A pornographic film actor or actress, pornographic performer, adult entertainer, or porn star is a person who performs sex acts on video that is usually characterized as a pornographic film. Such videos tend to be made in a number of distinc ...
.
["A girl called Jones"]
, Jack Marx, ''The Age
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'', August 9, 2006, Retrieved November 6, 2007
Early life and career
Melinda Dee Jones was born and grew up in Silsbee, Texas
Silsbee is a town in Hardin County, Texas, United States. This town is north of Beaumont. The population was 6,935 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area.
Geography
Silsbee is located in eastern Hardin ...
.Anna Nicole Smith
Vickie Lynn Marshall (née Hogan; November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007), known professionally as Anna Nicole Smith, was an American model, actress, and television personality. Smith started her career as a ''Playboy'' magazine centerfold in M ...
, a Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe ( ; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "Blonde stereotype#Blonde bombshell, blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex ...
movie, and more. She later became a ''Playboy
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'' model and appeared in ''Vanity Fair'', '' Hustler'', and '' Swank''.Penthouse magazine
''Penthouse'' is a List of men's magazines, men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione and published by Los Angeles–based Penthouse World Media, LLC. It combines urban lifestyle articles and Softcore pornography, softcore pornographic pictures of ...
'' Pet of the Month[ in April 1998, and she reluctantly crossed over into adult movies in 2001.]New Sensations
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, followed by another contract with Vivid Entertainment
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in 2004. After her retirement on camera in 2004, she continued to earn a living as an escort online and still received money from her website. [ and, in March 2005, Jones appeared in a story in the '']National Enquirer
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'' claiming that Charlie Sheen
Carlos Irwin Estévez (born September 3, 1965), known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. He is known as a leading man in film and television. Sheen has received numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award as well as ...
was among her suitors in February, 2005.["Charlie Sheen fights back"]
''Arizona Republic
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History
Early years
The newspap ...
'', March 25, 2005, Retrieved November 6, 2007 Sheen's agent disputed the claim, stating that Sheen had not seen Jones since 1996.[Gatecrasher]
, March 24, 2005, ''New York Daily News
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'', Retrieved November 6, 2007["Sheen Fighting Call Girl's Claims"]
, 2005-03-25, World Entertainment News Network
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WENN's subscribers include newspapers, maga ...
, Online at IMDb, Retrieved November 6, 2007
She appeared twice on ''The Howard Stern Show
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'' in 2003.''Howard Stern'' (TV Series) – Full Cast & Crew – IMDb
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Death
Jones had been in and out of the hospital for 3 years prior to her death from drug overdoses and complications due to her faulty liver. Since March 2005 her health had deteriorated. Jones died in her sleep at home on June 4, 2005, at around 4:00 am, two weeks shy of her 30th birthday. Her early death has been reported as due to liver failure caused by alcohol and prescription drug abuse. Jones had been on the list for a liver transplant, however people close to her say that she did not take it seriously and continued to drink, eat poorly and continued misusing medications. Jones was survived by her husband, her then 9 year old daughter, her then 8 year old twin sons, her mother Donna and her older sisters Michelle and Melanie. Houston, Texas
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.
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1975 births
2005 deaths
Alcohol-related deaths in Texas
American people of Dutch descent
American female adult models
American pornographic film actresses
Penthouse Pets
People from Silsbee, Texas
Pornographic film actors from Texas
Deaths from liver failure
Drug-related deaths in Texas
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American women