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John Stagliano's girlfriend Krysti Lynn died in a car crash on December 5, 1995. The Penthouse Pet starred in flicks such as Icewoman and Sensual Exposure.

"The business is strange between the women because you're there to work," Krysti told Anthony Petkovich. "Like you saw with Bionca, Debi and me… we got along…but that doesn't mean we go out afterwards or that we're friends. It means that there are certain people on your same wavelength. But we're all different people. I dig Alicia Rio. I talk with her more often than any other woman in the business.

"People get wrapped up in the drugs and make decisions that they wouldn't make if they were sober. People go on the road and spend all their money. How many stories have you heard about porn girls making $90,000 a year dancing and now have nothing? That's the result of drugs.

"I never ask for equal rights for women in porn. I just ask for us to get respect. I'm a businesswoman. I've managed myself since the day I stepped into this business. I have no agents. Guys like Jim South and Reb are the pimps of this business. Many men in the biz feel they can get away with things. Some of the women give in to that. I hear about these girls who do six anals for $300.

"We're going in the wrong direction in porn. When I go to a porn store, I'd rather buy something from 15 years back. We should cut out all this glamour crap and get back to sex." (AVN)

Lynn's real name was Shawna Krysti Yager. Near the end of 1995, while driving John Stagliano's 1993 Acura Legend at 100 mph, she missed a curve and flew 50 feet in the air before plunging into a ravine. The car toppled a foot-diameter tree, then rolled about 150 feet down a ravine.

"She died as she lived, at 100 f---ing miles an hour," wrote John Stagliano in the 2/96 AVN. "She "was the best that ever was." I remember saying that to Tommy Lasorda [a big porn fan] when I introduced her to him at a Dodger game in the summer of '94... She was the best, the most of everything, the best ass, the best smile, the most sexy and the most alive.

"I became a man because I knew her. Everything about her was a test. Could you love her good enough? Could you hate her good enough? I didn't want so much conflict with her, but you couldn't avoid it.

"Our physical relationship as lovers ended about ten months ago [January, '94]. I wanted out. I couldn't give her what she wanted. She was very jealous and I couldn't cut off my sexuality. My whole life, my fortune, had been built on me exploring my sexuality. I dreamt of some kind of open relationship that would allow me to pursue my sexual whims, taking advantage of my place in the world. And she dreamt of being married and having children...

"Ideally, I would have liked her to simply move out of my house, but she took the break very hard. She started to drink, we argued very loudly. And she cried... She drank every day...

"I'm sure she was happy in those last few moments, those last few completely exhilarating moments, streaking down an open stretch of canyon road at 100 miles an hour." (AVN 2/96)

Fourteen months afterwards, Stagliano embarked on his own version of suicide, receiving anal sex from a Brazilian male hooker. During early 1997, while starring in the 2-10 US News and World Report, Buttman tested HIV positive.

At the time of Krysti's death, John, an atheist who largely lives by Christian principles, was preparing Lunatic Prima Donna, a project made for the 'Buttwoman.' At a budget of $150,000 it would've been John's costliest movie, featuring songs written by Lynn. Stagliano was shooting music videos for the feature at the time of Krysti's death.

Lynn's final scene appeared in Stagliano's Butt Freak 2. She jumps in and out of John's luxurious swimming pool before engaging Nicole Lace and Marc Wallice in sex. Her final line on film: "Krysti Lynn's evil ways." She smiles into Stagliano's camera.

Anthony Petkovich says that "Krysti struck me as a perfectionist, a young lady who worked assiduously at each and every item on her agenda. Including porn. Her sloppy gang bang - combined with a screeching ass f--- - in John Leslie's The Voyeur is one of her finest moments of mad lust." (The X Factory)