Cause of Death Released for Adult Film Star Jesse Jane, Who Died With Boyfriend

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Adult film actress Jesse Jane died in January 2024 of an accidental overdose of fentanyl and cocaine at the age of 43, according to a report obtained by Heavy from the Oklahoma City Medical Examiner’s Office.

Jane, whose name is given in the report as Cynthia Ann Taylor, and her boyfriend Brett Hasenmueller, were found dead together inside a home in Moore, Oklahoma, on January 24, according to a statement emailed to Heavy by Moore police. The New York Times listed her birth name as Cynthia Ann Howell.

Moore police wrote at the time, “The apparent cause of death to both victims is an apparent overdose,” according to the press release emailed to Heavy.

However, that cause of death was not formally confirmed until July 8, TMZ reported.

The July report says that Jane was found deceased at her boyfriend’s home and that her body was “decomposed.”

According to TMZ, Jane was considered “one of the biggest porn stars during the 2000s.”

Police Found Jesse Jane & Brett Hasenmueller After Responding for a Welfare Check

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According to Monroe police, Jane and Hasenmueller were found dead inside the home in Moore, Oklahoma, when police went there after receiving a call for a welfare check.

In a news release, Monroe police wrote:

On Wednesday, January 24th, around 11:00 a.m., the City of Moore Police Department was responding to a welfare check request in Moore. Inside the home, officers located two deceased subjects, Jesse Jane and her apparent boyfriend, Brett Hasenmueller. At this time, there does not appear to be any foul play involved, and the apparent cause of death to both victims is an apparent overdose. The state medical examiner’s office will determine the exact cause of death.

Hasenmueller’s employer had grown concerned when they hadn’t heard from him “in a few days,” TMZ reported at the time.

She starred in Hooters restaurant commercials and was a Hawaiian Tropics bikini model, according to The New York Times. According to her IMDb profile, Jane acted on “Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding” before moving into adult films and a show on Playboy TV. She had one child, according to Complex.

According to his obituary, Hasenmueller “was born and raised in St. Louis, MO and attended St. Catherine Laboure grade school and St. John Vianney High School. Upon receiving a leadership scholarship, Brett’s college days took him to Chaminade University in Honolulu, Hawaii, and University of Dayton in Ohio.” Hasenmueller was only 33 years old when he died, his obituary says.

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He loved and played a number of sports from soccer to baseball, basketball, golf, and volleyball. He excelled at everything associated with a ball and was a sportsman a parent would be proud of.

A variety of jobs after college allowed him gain experience that would eventually land him a job with ARS Construction of St. Louis, and after several months, moved to their Oklahoma office as Head Adjuster.

TMZ did not report the official cause of death for Hasenmueller.

Jesse Jane Had Been Arrested Multiple Times

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Jane had run afoul of the law several times in her life. She was accused of pushing and biting an unidentified boyfriend in 2020 while drinking, and arrested and charged with domestic violence, according to TMZ.

Two years before that, she was arrested on a charge of public intoxication, according to The New York Post.

“It looks like you got great footage of me being intoxicated,” Jane told The Post in an email, claiming a video obtained by the publication “looks like when someone is roofied. I was extremely incoherent as seen in the video. I couldn’t even stand up on my own.”