She was the biggest star in adult entertainment before tragically ending her own life at 23. Shannon Wilsey, best known by her stage name Savannah, took the industry by storm in the early '90s. At the height of her fame, she dated a slew of actors and rock stars, starred in mainstream films, was chauffeured around in limousines and was treated like an A-lister on the set of her X-rated movies.
![[Savannah took the industry by storm in the early '90s and even managed to crossover into mainstream fame]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/10/23/93969837-14264821-image-m-5_1736551757003.jpg)
By 1994, when Savannah killed herself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, she was broke, battling drugs, and in despair that she would never work again following a car accident that damaged her face. She grew up in a broken home to a teenage mother and a father who didn't claim her as his own, and was molested as a child.
![[Savannah's movies all became best sellers and she quickly established herself as the most popular star in porn]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/10/23/93969813-14264821-image-a-15_1736552882785.jpg)
By 16, she was doing drugs and was in a relationship with '70s rocker Gregg Allman - who was 40 at the time. She traveled around the country with the thrice-married crooner on his tour bus and even appeared in some of his music videos. 'She liked the fact that he bought her expensive things that we never could,' her mother Pam Longoria told E!'s True Hollywood Story.
![[Despite being in the adult industry, Savannah rubbed shoulders with mainstream stars like Mark Wahlberg]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/10/23/93969841-14264821-image-a-18_1736552932959.jpg)
Shannon Wilsey aka Savannah was the biggest star in adult entertainment before tragically ending her own life at 23. According to her uncle, Savannah started doing heroin at this time and would even have it mailed to her house when she wasn't on the road with Allman.
![[By age 16, Savannah was doing drugs and was in a relationship with '70s rocker Gregg Allman - who was 40 at the time]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/13/16/93979667-14264821-By_age_16_Savannah_was_doing_drugs_and_was_in_a_relationship_wit-a-1_1736784686104.jpg)
