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The husband of adult performer Vicky Vette has been found dead at the home of a friend he was staying with, Vette’s publicist confirmed today.

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The cause of death was unclear.

Jason Sechrest, a spokesman for Vette, said her husband who went only by the name Frank, was found dead by an acquaintance he was staying with. Other details were not available.

“All we know is that police ruled it a suicide," Sechrest said, adding that Vette would not comment on the matter.

On Sunday, Vette announced in a news release that she was separating from her husband, who performed with her in videos and Web cam shows from her Web site, vickyathome.com. In the release, Vette cited 18 years of physical and mental abuse as the reason for the separation. She also claimed that she had him arrested on Jan. 3 after three straight days of beatings by him.

Moreover, she claimed she filed a restraining order against him shortly thereafter.

Despite these incidents, Vette said in the release that she could continue her feature dancing tour as scheduled. She was scheduled to be in Jezebel’s in Wichita, Kans. Feb. 9-11 and in Los Angeles for scheduled shoots from Feb. 15 through mid March.

She is also scheduled to visit clubs in Charleston, S.C.; South Beach, Fla.; Pompano Beach, Fla.; Los Angeles and Boise, Idaho, through May.

Sechrest said Vette does not plan to cancel any dates.

“It’s a difficult time for her, but Vicky says that her friends and fans can send their condolences to her at Vicky@vickyathome.com,” Sechrest said.

Vette, who had done some nude modeling in her native Atlanta, began her career when her nude photos appeared in Hustler magazine’s "Beaver Hunt" contest as a semi-finalist in 2002. But with her husband’s encouragement, Vette began making hardcore adult films, she says in her Website.

“It really wasn’t a stretch,” she says on Website. “We had been swingers for over 15 years. We didn’t have any of the jealousy issues that other couples in the same situation would encounter.”

The couple had owned their own home building company before they joined the adult industry.

In an unusual twist, AVN recently received a letter allegedly written by Frank where he accuses Vette of membership in the National Alliance, a violent white supremacist group and that she subscribes to the organization’s newsletter.

“This is the very reason she won’t do interratial (sic),” he wrote, also alleging that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating his allegations.

Sechrest denied the allegations, saying Frank was a member of the group and was trying to smear his wife because she was leaving him.

“The Vicky I know would never belong to a group like that,” he said. "The irony is, Vicky is already planning to do an interracial scene and is currently in negotiations to do so. When you have more demand, then you can ask more money when you finally do it. It’s not a race thing at all.”

The National Alliance is said to be the largest neo Nazi group in the country. It was founded by William Pierce, who authored “The Turner Diaries,” which is thought to have inspired Timothy McVeigh to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.