CORNER’S REPORT SAYS MARILYN CHAMBERS DIED OF
NATURAL CAUSES
The LA Times reports iconic porn star Marilyn
Chambers passed away last month from natural causes, a Los
Angeles County coroner's spokesman said on May 18.
Chambers, whose real name was Marilyn Ann Taylor,
was found unconscious April 12 at her home in Canyon Country. An
autopsy was conducted two days later.
“The findings of the autopsy," according to the
coroner's report, "have established the cause of death to be:
effects of cerebral hemorrhage, ruptured cerebral artery berry
aneurysm. Other conditions: Hypertrophic heart disease.”
Toxicology tests showed that two drugs in her
system -- hydrocodone and citalopram -- were "within or below
therapeutic levels."
A final autopsy will be available in several
weeks, coroner's officials said.
Throughout the '70s and '80s, Chambers was one of
the biggest names in the porn industry, ranked by Playboy
magazine as one of the top 100 sex stars of the 20th century and
named one of the top 10 adult film stars of all time by Adult
Video News.
Chambers became a pop culture phenomenon when she
starred in the X-rated "Behind the Green Door" in 1972,
prompting Procter & Gamble to pull off the shelves boxes of
Ivory Snow soap, then graced by her angelically complexioned
face.