Who is Brent Corrigan? The gay pornstar at the heart of the King Cobra murder

While some of the stars of gay porn are nameless to fans who may know their features like the back of their hand, that’s certainly not true of Brent Corrigan.

As with the likes of Sasha Grey and Jenna Jameson, Brent Corrigan has broken through the niche of adult films to be a legitimate mainstream star, though it happened in the murkiest of circumstances.

Below we give an overview of the life of one of gay porn’s most well-known names.

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What is Brent Corrigan’s real name?

Many gay pornstars don’t get into the business using their real name.

That’s partly because they don’t need every aunt and uncle back home happening across their work when they type their name into AskJeeves.com, plus the old-fashioned reason why the likes of Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovitch), Elton John (Reginald Dwight) and Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) changed theirs… that’s showbiz.

Brent Corrigan’s real name is Sean Paul Lockhart (which if you ask us is way more showbiz than “Brent Corrigan” anyway).

You may have also seen Brent controversially credited as Fox Ryder, if you’ve rented Falcon Studio’s 2006 film The Velvet Mafia or 2008’s Best of Roman Heart.

How old is Brent Corrigan?

Brent was born on Halloween, October 31, 1986, so as of now, Brent Corrigan is 31 years old.

His age is more than just a bit of trivia. In 2005, his lawyer Chad Belville revealed that when Brent filmed his first porn scenes in the movies Bareboned Twinks, Casting Couch 4, Every Poolboy’s Dream, and Schoolboy Crush, he was just 17, a full year younger than the legal age to star in porn.

“His true birthday is October 31, 1986, so he was 18 in October 2004,” said Chad. “Anything made before that would be, by definition, child pornography. My client’s goal is to get the DVD’s that were made before he turned 18 off the market.”

At the time, bareback twink porn specialists Cobra Videos dismissed the claims as “just allegations”, but distributers Pacific Sun Entertainment voluntarily pulled those first four films from circulation.

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