According to Twitter, he's been in the hospital after getting his thyroid removed.

Wiki says he's 66 but he looks 96.

Update.

AVN reports he is dead

https://avn.com/business/articles/video/max-hardcore-passes-away-917357.html

Fuck man. End of an era. I wonder how sick he was long for. He was using the fake dick thing for a bit.

Per the article, I'm not sure everyone loved him. Some may have tolerated him for financial gains...

What a king. Rest easy man

What's going to happen to the hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of his content? Does his business manager control that? Is his going to keep the pay site going or does he upload it to one of the tube sites and make money off of the ad revenue? Or does it all rot in a storage locker somewhere?

I ran a search to see if anyone else wrote an article. None came up. You'd think a guy who did what he did, paid the dues he paid, and all in such a calculated way would have warranted more than one article from AVN. It was mentioned on adt but of course with scorn. I wasn't a fan of his. At one time a PW was raising a little cash and I paid a modest sum for her to mail me a cache of DVDs she'd gotten, I guess as punchouts or whatever dvd demos or promos or called and one of his was amongst them. I just didn't find it stimulating at all.

He was probably Jewish so I hope he's no longer ill wherever dead Jews go after they die.

Miami Beach?

Someone has to keep the site alive. Probably a pretty penny each month in forgotten rebills.

DailyMail and DailyBeast both have articles about him. Probably just changed some words from the AVN article.

Max was Smelly Monkey.

Dude, he took advantage of desperate/damaged young women to abuse them in the worst way to make a few bucks. I love my porn, and I understand these young women weren't saints, but let's call it like it is.

I thought he was a terrible pornographer and believe the stories of his onset abuse but RIP regardless.

I kind of thought something was up with the fake dick stuff, but looking back, him admitting to drugs being on set sometimes and showing girls using them in a handful of the free trailers on his site should have been a clue also.

I thought maybe the statute of limitations may have ran out on those crimes, so to speak. Now I'm pretty sure at that point, he just didn't give a fuck anymore.

Serious?

Monkey was a rotating group of people. Max could have been one of them, I don't know for sure. Max was a lot more cynical and direct than most Monkey stuff. Monkey was also pretty slow-witted in live chat settings. Max was never slow.

But hell, the site has been around 20 years and a lot of it was spent trying to pin down Smelly Monkey. No reason to stop now, I don't need amy more tranny pics up in here.

I'm not defending him at all. His product was visually repugnant. For the most part his performers were physically ugly women. But, the FBI raided his home, incompetently discharged a shotgun into his floor and convicted him to prison simply for the things I just listed here. There is an injustice there. I just thought it odd such a galvanizing character wouldn't garner a larger sendoff than he did.

He got charged w obscenity and it was bogus. If he got charged w rape etc I'd see the point. It's p obvious w some of the one-and-done-ers on his site that he really pushed it w em. But fuck they signed the contracts. Also he walked these whores thru what he was gonna do to them pre shoot. I think we are repulsed because he was so demented and creepy about it. I mean Rocco pulls a lot of that shit and he's a dream boat. That said, Max made a point in implying some of those chicks were 'underage' and had plenty of creepy dialogue asking them to bring their little sisters by etc. I have been watching his stuff from the Tim Lake days to the end right before prison and you can see him getting sicker and more unraveled; I truly believe he was a sadist and a creep . But I like the fact he told the feds to get fucked and he upset so many feminists. Pretty sure he's in hell now but godspeed you perv.