Porn star Dakota Skye was found dead in her apartment this week, roughly one month after she received online backlash for a pro-George Floyd post she made on social media, which featured her exposing her breasts in front of a memorial dedicated to the Black Lives Matter martyr.
Skye, whose real name is Lauren Scott and was 27 and began working in the pornography business at 19, a website that posts news relating to adult films reports. The website also notes that “Sources familiar with the model also mentioned that in her private life she had been plagued by personal struggles,” and, “Most recently, Skye had expressed anger and frustration at being targeted by abusive online trolls.”
Cassandra Fairbanks and The Gateway Pundit report that “The reason she was targeted was because of a photo she took at a George Floyd memorial” that shows her, lifting her top to expose her breasts, in front of a mural featuring Floyd. The caption on the tweet, posted on the anniversary of Floyd’s death, is “Happy #georgefloyd day in Santa Barbara (;”.
Happy #georgefloyd day in Santa Barbara (; pic.twitter.com/yFa93IP3kL
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The majority of replies to the tweet appear to be negative. “Wow.. wrong,” wrote one user. “You can breathe just f**king fine. DELETE THIS,” wrote another. “This is kinda weird. Like, I get that you’re showing off your tits, which I absolutely report,” added a third, “It’s just a weird hashtag to use even if a memorial to him is in the background.” On May 10, a fourth user condemned Scott with a tweet saying the post “is absolutely f**king terrible” and accusing Scott of “letting racists in the comments go completely unchecked.”
In an attempt to reason with those attacking her for the topless photo, Scott attempted to argue, “I’m celebrating BAD cops being checked [for] abusing [their] authority against human being,” The Gateway Pundit reports. Her attempt to assuage the growing number of critics fell on deaf ears, according to the publication, and “the leftists were not interested in her explanation.”
Linda Arden, Scott’s aunt, told The Sun that – like Floyd – Scott “battled an addiction with fentanyl” and was an alcoholic. “She died almost exactly two years after her mother, my baby sister’s death which was caused by addiction and alcoholism,” Arden told The Sun. “Lauren was a product of a highly dysfunctional family involving drugs, alcohol, physical, emotional, verbal, and sexual abuse.”