Roman Ragazzi, Former Israeli Military Trainer and Gay Porn Star Found Dead of Apparent Suicide

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VIA GAWKER:

Dror Barak, 38, was found dead Saturday night of an apparent suicide. A former Israeli military trainer who achieved stardom under the name Roman Ragazzi, Barak hadn’t been active in porn since 2008. He left the industry to concentrate on a fitness company he founded.

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While working as an administrative aide for the Israeli Consulate scandal Barak Barak was outed as a porn star in 2007 by the New York Post’s Page Six gossips, resulting in a minor scandal. He resigned, then later started a fitness blog as well as what some say was a legendary career in porn. His boyfriend told a gay porn blog (NSFW) that though Barak’s business was going well, he suffered from depression.

It’s rumored that male porn stars have a very high rate of suicide, and according to this list posted on a NSFW blog, there appears to be some truth to the rumor. Susannah Breslin tried to explain the reasoning for this strange phenomenon over at Salon after the suicide of porn star Stephen Hill.

[article via Out Magazine]

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20 COMMENTS

  1. Very nice pictures. I’m not very comfortable with this very explicit posting just few days after he committed suicide.

  2. Very sad and tragic news. He was indeed a beautiful man, one who bravely and competently served his country, and who carried himself with grace and dignity even as others sabotaged his career for their own selfish motives. He had nothing to be ashamed of or to apologize for. Rather, the dishonor belongs to those who harmed him for no good reason at all.

    I respectfully disagree that it’s in bad taste to post these pictures of Dror so soon after his demise. He was a handsome man who had a terrific body and brought much joy and pleasure to others. He was proud of what he did and how he did it, and rightly so. By his devotion to physical fitness, he demonstrated and celebrated the male form in all its glory, thus encouraging all of us to do follow suit.

    While Dror Barak is now gone, he has left us with a “body” of work that will continue to inspire all of us in ways both mundane and sublime. I’m sure he would find peace and satisfaction in knowing that — and hopefully he did. Were that we all could do a fraction of the same with the time and talents we have in this life.

    My condolences to his boyfriend and to everyone who will remember, enjoy, celebrate and appreciate “Roman Ragazzi” in their own way. That’s his legacy, and it’s one to be damn proud of.

  3. Hate to say I told you so…BUT… I DID !!! The VAST Majority of these Porn stars are Addicted to Booze and/or Drugs, to Dull the Reality of what they are… pieces of meat, that once their ..um…Talents are exploited to the max, are kicked to the curb like Trash, with the public screaming NEXT !!! I Don’t envy their life style one bit. And this “God” had a Boyfriend…wow… must have been a Great match. The guy chose Suicide over the Love of his life. Anyway, for all you Tolerant F*cks who despise Ben Godfre because he’s not doing Porno, it shows he has his Sh*t together better than any of these Porn Stars.

  4. @masculinefoothillsman

    Obvious troll is obvious. What a sad, insignificant little life you must live to post such ignorant and speculative trash.

  5. I am in complete agreement with Trunzo. “Roman” was a work of art, both in the way he developed his body to the epitome of masculine beauty, and also in the way he shared his erotic performances with us. The news of his passing makes me very sad, but there is no disrespect in celebrating that he lived.

    maculinefoothillsman is a doofus. enough said.

  6. Its sad whenever anyone passes. But suicide is about choosing, and he made his. We can sit here and question his choices, but it was his life to end.
    As for the taste of posting the porn after his passing, this was his art. It was what he left us. Deal with it. Plus those picks are fucking hot. How am I just hearing about this guy?

  7. Perhaps this is a discussion for another time and place, but I spent a little time today visiting “Out” Magazine’s site, and reading the posts there about Dror Barak’s/”Roman Ragazzi’s” passing.

    While there were those whose grief is heartfelt, appropriate and apparent, I was stunned (in a world that over-uses that word shamelessly) to read the comments from those who felt Dror’s end was a fitting and expected result of his time before the camera.

    What an ignorant pity.

    Dror Barak’s “career” in porn ended four years ago — FOUR YEARS AGO. If his suicide was directly related to that aspect of his life, it would have occurred way before this.

    Rather, Dror’s demons were more universal (and thus likely more threatening to the general population), centering on depression. Sadly, there exists a powerful dichotomy in “gay culture” (another over-used expression) between the love (and for some guys, necessity) of watching and jerking off to porn and simultaneously loathing the men in it as being “pieces of meat who are addicted to booze and drugs.”

    Perhaps the idea of having the men we watch and dreamily film-fuck being three-dimensional humans is threatening to some people. Perhaps the fact that some — maybe most — of them are intelligent, funny, well-adjusted and “enjoying the ride” as well as being amazingly talented sexually is too much for their fans to bear. Maybe some folks are jealous. Maybe it’s easier and more empowering to imagine them as drug-addled and dependent on the mercy of our favor.

    But it’s not fair — and I submit not even accurate — to foster the double standard that these guys are good enough to watch fuck, but not good enough to care about in any other capacity once they’ve shot their loads. I have never been a “porn star,” but I’ve been lucky enough to have known a few in my time through various associations, and I can tell you this — the men I’ve known in the business have been gentlemen in every sense of the word. They deserve to be respected and admired for who they are as TOTAL human beings, not just for their time in front of a camera.

    Sure, there are some jerks and substance abusers in the land of porn — just as there are in the world of accounting and nuclear science. But that doesn’t mean that they’re ALL conniving, scheming jerks who are perpetually high. It’s about time all of us gay guys who enjoy porn give those who perform in it the credit and respect they deserve as men who wear clothes, have intelligent conversations, pay their bills, love their friends and families and function in the real world. And yes, these men have to earn that respect — just like anyone does, and that’s only fair. But they must be given that opportunity — which is so often denied by consumers of their product for reasons that I just don’t understand.

    Believe me, these men know their “careers” are short and the public is fickle — and harshly judgmental. For the most part, their lives do not rise and fall in synch with their performance popularity. They know they are damn lucky to indulge their own fantasies and act them out. Porn’s a business — like baseball — and the pros know that. Like any job, it’s often routine and less-than-thrilling. It does not “define” and “validate” them any more than being in a high school play defines and validates those of us who have been there, done that and moved on.

    So let’s try not to be so critical of those who give us so much pleasure. They’re real men like the rest of us, and merit our respect as such — as performers, as former performers, and as guys like Dror Barak who just loved lying on the couch and watching movies with his boyfriend and his beloved dog by his side.

    Such a decadent thing to do.

  8. Blah, Blah, Blah, Yada, Yada, Yada. Guess all you Grieving Souls will have to find some New Piece of Ass to Masturbate over. And considering at least 2/3 to 3/4 of the Gay scene probably found this Fossil too Old ( Face the facts that when you’re over 25, and for alot of Pervs, if you’re over the age of 10, you’re too old for them) well, MOVE ON ! I’m sure this Dead porn stars BF found someone new before Rigor Mortis set in. Hell, he probably found someone before. Maybe that’s wht this…um…”GOD” … committed Suicide.
    As for Trunzo….I always knew you were Un-balanced, but your Over the Top Eulogy & Sanctimonious Hypocrisy is an Un-veiled cry for help ( or in your case, a “LOOK AT ME…PLEASE!!!) I hope you’re going to the Funeral Trunzo. It’s obvious you’ll be throwing yourself onto the Coffin, Un-aware it’s going into the Crematorium until it’s too late. Oh well…Buh Bye 🙂
    As for his “body” of work…OMG…WTF ???!!! Who are we talking about here? Steven Spielberg? Ernest Hemingway? Some Nobel Prize Winner who found a cure for Cancer, or settled the Middle East Question?! HELLOOOOOOOO…He was a …PORN STAR!!!! A PROSTITUTE PIG WHO HAD SEX ON FILM!!! The only difference between him and some Bottle of Beer Whore missing most of her/his teeth, with piss stained dirty clothes drooling on a street corner is…well…NOTHING! He got more money, better looking Fucks, but they actually have more Class than him, in that they DON’T let the world see it. Also….HE’S DEAD by his own hand, despite having it all, as it seems all you “Worshippers” of this “God” would like us to believe and convert to.
    Hopefully your next “GOD” for all you MASTUBATORS out there, at least dies of an Accidental Alcohol Poisoning or a Drug Over Dose, and not taking a Cowards way out by Killing himself.

  9. I think MFM might have tried to get into porn, but was rejected bitterly. 😛

    And attacking someone after their death – even if you disagree with their lifestyle or career choice – is a shameful disgusting act only a truely pathetic and worthless person would even DREAM of attempting. Maculine went from being moderately humourous/weird to being scum on the same level as Westboro with this low and vicious attack.

  10. MFM is a troll. A common pest that needs to be squashed like the insignificant little parasite he truly is.

  11. “Roman” found out that it’s very hard to pay for the party when the party’s over. He knew what he was getting into when he started having sex on camera for money….surely he knew there would be consequences SOMEhow…how would you like to be the boyfriend he offed himself for, only to be left with a legacy of fucking other guys? I almost feel sorry for the boyfriend, but then again, find me a pornstar who doesnt come with baggage. Sad he killed himself, disgraceful that you`re dishing more porn over it….

  12. Don’t waste your breath, or truth, on these Creepy Crawlers flipflopfan. That’s why you’ll only find them under Rocks, or in some dark corner of the baths in a sling with a line waiting to use them. They think all gay guys Worship at the Alter of Degradation & Filth, with their High Priests being Porn Stars and/or Drag Queens, or worse. If you dare to expose them to the light or to the truth about their “Gods”, their true self emerges, calling for your Death. See above. They live in a World so far from Reality, where everyone and everything is gay, a Psychiatrist would have them locked up for life. But no worries. I think we should all chip in and buy them a one way ticket to Iran, where they can convert those heathen to their way of thinking 🙂

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