Felicia Tang RIP

Felicia Tang RIP

This morning I awoke to check my email and was horrified by an email sent to me by a photographer friend.  Felicia Tang, model and actress, had been tortured, murdered and mutilated by her boyfriend.  Her body was found on Friday but was not identified until today.  I worked with Felicia on a clubwear catalogue a few years back.  We also appeared in a number of calendars together.  And I think she was also a Benchwarmer model.

 Felicia's boyfriend was a preacher and had studied in the seminar.  This crime is unbelievable.  But what is also so disturbing is the way in which it has been reported.  Felicia has been portrayed in the media as a "porn star".  She was not a porn star.  She did pose nude.  She did do movies where she took off her clothing.  She did not have sex on film. Period.  The media is using the "porn star" angle to sensationalize her death and therefore make for more interesting copy.  This is a woman who was a victim of domestic violence.  In no way should she be dragged through the mud for her so-called "lifestyle". 

I read some comments this morning about this and thought I should post them:

September 17, 2009 1:35 PM

MIKE said:

Someone needs to do some fact checking. She never did XXX. She only did bikini and strip. Sloppy reporting.

September 17, 2009 5:42 PM

Skippy said:

Wow! What tabloid journalism you resort too just to get some traffic to this post. XXX? Get your sh!t straight!

September 17, 2009 7:04 PM

Skippy said:

Wow! What tabloid journalism you resort too just to get some traffic to this post. XXX? Get it straight!

September 17, 2009 7:05 PM

Jake said:

She never appeared in any XXX rated movies. Awful reporting!

September 17, 2009 7:15 PM

Jenn said:

Please get your facts straight. You are reporting not only about a woman who was slain in a brutal way, but she was also a friend to many, a daughter to a family, and a beautiful person inside and out.

September 17, 2009 7:17 PM

Tom Himes said:

Get Your story right you jerk....

September 17, 2009 7:58 PM

Advocate for true journalism said:

You are an IDIOT! People like you try to profit from others' tragedies with fraudulent journalism. I bet you knew precisely that she was never in any xxx movies.

September 17, 2009 10:15 PM

Dan said:

I can't believe what I just read, what you have done here is unconscionable. You obviously don't care about the facts or portraying an accurate story, only to sensationalize this tragedy for your own purposes. The real tragedy is to those of us who knew her, what a beautiful person she was, and to see you reduce her to something like this is sick. We grieve for her and to see this only makes it worse.

And here is a recent article: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/18/crimesider Felicia's character should not be judged; rather, it is the character of her "preacher boyfriend", her murderer, that should.