Another porn star who worked in the US adult entertainment industry has been found dead.
Olivia Lua, 23, died in a rehab facility in West Hollywood on Friday morning.
The actress, who used the screen name Olivia Voltaire, is believed to have died from mixing prescription drugs and alcohol.
It is not known how she got the substances into the facility where she was being treated for addiction.
Her agency, LA Direct Models, confirmed her death to XBiz, the porn industry’s news outlet, on Friday.
Olivia’s death is the fifth in just six months across the US and Canada. Four other women have died from suicide, accidental overdose and UTIs.
Olivia Lua, whose screen name was Olivia Voltaire, died in West Hollywood on Friday aged 23
In his statement, Derek Hay of L.A. Direct Models said Lua had been battling addiction for some time and was seeking help.
He said it was a ‘coincidence’ that the two most recent deaths were of women who belonged to L.A. Direct Models.
‘Much comment has recently been made on the number of adult stars having passed in the last year and with great sadness we must inform that the list has grown longer.
‘Olivia joined LA Direct Models in April 2017, though had not been available for work since early October of last year, as she had been facing some personal challenges that had seen her in residential rehab for a period of nearly three months and from which she had been out for about a month, hoping to make a return to work in the early part of this year.
‘We learned today that she had returned to a different facility in West Hollywood after a relapse, approximately a week ago, at which she was found deceased this morning.
Lua had been seeking help for substance abuse problems. Before she died, she tweeted a final selfie (left) and said: ‘No one alive can be an angel forever’
Olivia’s agency said they were shocked by her death. She had not worked for some time due to her addiction problems
‘Family and close friends [said] they had deep concern at the volume of prescription drugs prescribed to Olivia and the danger this posed [to] her. If this was mixed with recreational drugs or alcohol, it is believed this to be the cause of her passing,’ he said.
Olivia Nova, who died in Las Vegas earlier this month aged 20 from sepsis that is believed to have been caused by a UTI, also worked for LA Direct Models.
Hay said it was merely a ‘coincidence’ that the two most recent deaths were of women who belonged to his agency.
‘We at Direct Models obviously can barely believe we are issuing a notice such as this, not once but twice, in such a short space of time.
‘The coincidence that both of these models chosen stage names is Olivia is solely that and they otherwise have no connection. We actually do not think they had ever met.’
On November 9, Shyla Stylez, 35, (left) died in her sleep at her mother’s home in Calgary. August Ames, 23, (right) handed herself on December 5
Days before her death, Lua shared cryptic social media posts including one which read ‘no one alive can be an angel forever’.
It is not clear if any of the five models who have died recently knew one another.
So far, there has been no proof of a link between any of their deaths beyond the fact that they were all porn stars.
The first death was that of 35-year-old Shyla Stylez. Stylez died in her sleep at her mother’s home in Calgary on November 9. So far, no reason has been given for her death.
Stylez left the porn industry in 2016 after 10 years.
In December, actress August Ames, 23, hanged herself in California, where she lived with her husband.
What prompted her suicide remains unclear but in the days beforehand, she found herself in the center of a firestorm on Twitter after publicly saying that she had refused to work with a man she knew did both straight and gay scenes.
Yurizan Beltran, 31, (left) died from an overdose in December and Olivia Nova, 20, died from sepsis (right) on January 9
Ames’ argument was that because the male actor worked with both men and women, he was more likely to have contracted STIs and she believed it put her at risk.
She was slammed for the post.
Days after Ames’ death, 31-year-old Yurizan Beltran died of an apparent drug overdose at home in California. It is not known if the overdose was accidental or intentional.
On January 9, 20-year-old Olivia Nova n died in her bed in Las Vegas.
The young actress had been tweeting about how she was alone for the holidays and wanted to call a fan to lift her mood.
At first, it was suspected that drugs or alcohol may have played a part in her death.
However police reports which have emerged recently suggest the woman was suffering from sepsis.
She had prescription medication given for a urinary tract infection at the home when she died, according to the report.