Talk:Joey Stefano

Translation to Spanish
I removed the following from the home page. Someone could do a favor by creating a new Wikipedia entry on the Spanish site, and marking it as a translation from the English: Sandover 08:47, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Joey Stefano (Enero 1, 1968 - Noviembre 26, 1994) fue un actor porno norteamericano que apareció en películas gay para adultos. Fue muy popular en la década de los ochentas y a principios de los noventa. Su nombre real era Nicholas Anthony Iacona, Jr.

Nick Iacona, HIV-positivo ya en la mayor parte de su carrera fílmica (si es que no en toda), creció en un suburbio de Filadelfia (Chester, Pennsylvania). Cuando Joey tenía 15 años, su padre murió. Después de varios años de prostituirse y de consumir drogas en la ciudad de Nueva York, Iacona se mudó a Los Angeles disfrutando de una meteórica carrera dentro de la industria de los videos porno gay. Incluso su popularidad llegó a llamar la atención de Madonna, quien lo usó como modelo en su libro de 1991, SEX.

Iacona murió de una sobredosis de cocaina, morfina, heroina y ketamina a la edad de 26 años.

Charles Isherwood, en su biografía de 1996 "Wonder Bread and Ecstasy" (Alyson Publications), argumenta que Stefano había sido abusado desde niño.

American
This unlucky young man was American, not Italian. --24.177.88.53 (talk) 13:52, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Well Italian-American then. He wasn't so unlucky as that he made some very bad choices; poor guy. He was also clearly exploited. Its a shame his Dad died when he was just a kid. Things might have been different if he had a father. --68.118.188.188 (talk) 16:38, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

I am curious as to why the date of Joey's death has recently been changed from 26 to 21 November. I remember distinctly that it was on the 26th: it was my father's birthday. Some years later, when I was researching my biography of Joey, I spoke to staff who had been at the hospital on that day, and saw the death certificate dated the 26th. There was also no reference to him being HIV positive. On the note written by him claiming that he was, Joey left a question mark. Joey is also known to have spoken on the phone to his friend, Robert Prion, on 24 November 1994, when they discussed a film project that sadly was not to be. David Bret. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.244.78 (talk) 11:26, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

Madonna Deeper and Deeper Video
It said in the Wikipedia entry for the Deeper and Deeper Madonna video that Nicholas was the young man posing in his tighty whities while the women watched eating bananas. Was that really him? I watched it and I don't recognize him but I might be thrown by that blond wig. If that was Nicholas than it should be included in the article. --68.118.188.188 (talk) 16:45, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

His IMDB entry says he's on Deeper and Deeper! Bernardo.bb (talk) 22:06, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

In 2014, Noise artist Richard Ramirez produced, under his other alias "Manplug," a HNW tribute song called "Joey Stefano" which he released on the album "Ownership".

I added a source, which were the following: https://www.discogs.com/de/release/7249956-Manplug-Ownership

isn't this enough? Roy Burns-Unmasked (talk) 13:40, 24 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Discogs is not a reliable source. See WP:DISCOGS. The information is also trivial. See WP:PROPORTION ThaddeusSholto (talk) 14:11, 24 March 2024 (UTC)