Lorissa Deanna McComas (November 26, 1970 – November 3, 2009) was an American actress, film producer and

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Biography

McComas studied

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as a child and graduated from Princeton High School in

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in 1988. She became an Education major at

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before she started stripping and modeling.Lorissa McComas
Goldposter.com McComas built a successful strip-O-gram service in

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(Ohio) after college. In 1990 she was arrested along with another stripper on charges of prostitution, by Hamilton County police: she had allowed a guest at a

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to tuck a dollar bill into a

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just above her knee; this was treated as a form of prostitution under the very strict Cincinnati ordinances of that time. She was featured in literally hundreds of magazines and calendars since her first ''

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'' magazine modeling job, starting in 1991. By 1994, she was the owner of Extasy Entertainment, a company that provided strippers to clients in the Cincinnati area. Cincinnati had no strip bars during this time period. The majority of her work consisted both in nude modeling and co-starring in a variety of

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, in addition to supporting roles in

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and TV programs. In 2005 she relocated to

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, allegedly so she could provide assistance caring for her ill mother. In 2006 she disclosed she was suffering from

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, a rare and severe form of neuroinflammatory and

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disorder causing

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, and

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symptoms.

Death and controversy

McComas died on November 3, 2009, in

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. Although some reports claim she died by a

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, there are some friends or acquaintances who have claimed there was foul play involved in her death; suspicion lies with McComas' husband, Doug Taylor, from whom Lorissa had filed for divorce in 2006, relocating from Melbourne, FL to Waverly, VA, after allegedly accusing Taylor of being an

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and

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husband."Justice For Lorissa". Posted October 30, 2013 on Lorissamccomastruth.blogspot.com During this time she was in the process of winning back custody of her son, who was taken from her by the Florida CPS due to unfit living conditions, these conditions supposedly being Taylor's drunken and gun-slinging behavior, including shooting a gun through a door despite knowing their son was on the other side. Apparently, Doug Taylor came to Waverly and began a near three-year cycle of abuse until McComas's alleged suicide in 2009. Although McComas's death was ruled a suicide by the Waverly Police Department, there were massive irregularities in Doug Taylor's alibis (he changed his story no fewer than three times in the first four hours after her death), as well as several pieces of evidence that, according to some of McComas's friends — and the website Lorissa McComas Truth — strongly suggest that Taylor's actions were the real cause of her death: several residents of Waverly have stated that Taylor was abusive and irrational during the period leading up to McComas's death, most importantly the night prior to and the morning of her death; apparently Lorissa McComas did not know how to use a pump shotgun (the suicide weapon), and her fingerprints were not on the gun. Also, neither

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s or

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were found on her hands. Despite some of the suspicious details regarding McComas's death investigation, and although an online petition for

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to reopen the investigation in the death of Lorissa McComas was created in

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in October 2013 ("Virginia State Police: Re open the investigation in the death of Lorissa McComas"), it has since been closed, and the Virginia Police has refused to revise or reopen the investigation.

Filmography

* '' Project Viper'' (2003) * ''

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'' (2001) - Lola Tanner, Sheriff Jim Tanner's daughter * '' The Bare Wench Project'' (2000) - Lori * '' Hot Boyz'' (1999) - Roxanne * ''

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'' (1995) remake of the 1978 film * '' Virtual Desire'' (1995) - Julie * ''Red Lips'' (1995) - girl in hotel in white hot-pants * ''Stormswept'' (1995) - Kelly * ''Lap Dancing'' (1995) - Angie ParkerLap Dancing
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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:McComas, Lorissa 1970 births 2009 deaths American female adult models Glamour models Actresses from Columbus, Ohio Miami University alumni American film actresses 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses People from Waverly, Virginia People from Sharonville, Ohio