He appeared regularly on Page Six, spent time with the designer Marc Jacobs, was profiled in magazines that had nothing to do with pornography, and shot an ad campaign for Loehmann’s. THE bereaved reactions on Twitter came from all over: Kim Hastreiter, the editor of Paper Magazine Bruce LaBruce, the independent film director and Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters, who called his recently departed friend “brave” and “honest.”Įrik Rhodes, 30, a 6-foot-4, 258-pound gay pornographic-film star who died last Thursday in Manhattan from a heart attack after a nearly decade-long career that had made him an unlikely celebrity in some New York social circles.
