Award-winning porn star, Raven Alexis, born Francesca Montalbano, died on Wednesday from a life-threatening infection amid a battle with Crohn’s disease.
She was 35 years old at the time of her death.
The adult entertainer’s husband, who has not been named out of privacy concerns, confirmed her death in a video message posted on Instagram and Facebook Thursday, Adult Video News reports.
“I want all those people out there to know that she loved you all, she cared about you and I’m just so blessed to have her in my life and be a part of my life,” he said.
“She was the absolute world to me, the love of my life.”
Alexis’ bereaved beau announced that the skin flick star had died at a Las Vegas hospital of “complications” from Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory condition that affects the digestive tract.
Specifically, she succumbed to septic shock, when one’s blood pressure drops to a dangerously low level, while her body tried to fight off an infection.
Alexis earned numerous accolades during her storied skin flick career, notably winning the awards for both the Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene and the Fan Award for Wildest Sex Scene in 2011 for her work in “Body Heat.”
