There’s been a sad development in the story of Glee star Mark Salling, who took his own life earlier this year after being busted for possession of child pornography.
The Los Angeles County Coroner has revealed that Salling’s blood alcohol level was .095 at the time of his death, higher than the state of California’s .08 legal limit.
Besides alcohol, however, no other substances or drugs were found in his system, a toxicology report has found.
In January, the 35-year-old’s body was found hanging from a tree in a riverbed near his home in the Tujunga neighborhood of Los Angeles. His death was ruled a suicide.
Related: Glee’s Mark Salling pleads guilty to possessing child pornography
Salling’s legal troubles began back in December 2015, when was arrested at his Los Angeles home for possession of child pornography. Investigators found over 25,000 images and 600 videos on Salling’s computers and thumb drives.
In May 2016, he was formally charged with receiving and possessing kiddie porn. He plead guilty to the charges in September 2017.
At the time of his death, the actor had negotiated a plea deal with prosecutors and was facing between four to seven years in prison. He was scheduled to be sentenced this month. The case was ultimately dismissed following his suicide.
This latest report from the Los Angeles County Coroner brings a closing to a very tragic and disturbing story.
Related: Former “Glee” actor Mark Salling has committed suicide
rdb2010
Word on the street is it was not suicide but an execution. As part of his plea deal with the DA Mark was to name names on where the underage porn came from and who would often “date” the stars. He was to provide this list of names a few days after his “suicide”. Some of the names on the list were at the highest levels of the entertainment industry and they made sure the list was never seen.
ChrisK
Links?
Brian
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2018/01/blind-item-8_31.html
tham
Yeah, that seems made up.
His was all computer images, his case was not VHS, clock and dagger.
He got caught by accessing KNOWN child sites.
He killed himself simply because he didn’t want to go through what happens to prisoners of kiddy porn in jail (on the first day, someone knocks all your teeth out of your mouth)
So please, be informed when the next time you try to spread goofy, made up conspiracy theories.
happiness17
Execution sounds possible. The state wouldn’t have given him a deal unless he had something thing to give them. It’s very possible that Mark was part of a group that shared his interest in child porn. That said I wonder why the coroner and police have ruled his death as a suicide. Mark Sallings life really was a tragedy. He was a good actor with a promising future. Sallings was also a very sick individual. Unfortunately sexual perpetrators don’t get better. The chances of him reoffending would’ve been high. That didn’t give anyone the right to take his life.
mcflyer54
I cannot address the murder vs suicide argument. However,, if a plea deal had already been reached (especially with a relatively short 4 to 7 year sentence for such a considerable stash of child porn) then it is highly likely that Mark had already provided the prosecutor and other law enforcement with all of the information concerning source and distribution that he had. This is especially true if he had not yet been incarcerated. It would be very uncharastic for the sentencing terms to be that firm prior to the accused providing all of their information for review and authentication.
PinkoOfTheGange
I see they are all out of tin foil hats here
AndThenTheresMax
Am I the only gay in the village who has a problem with this being on Queerty? Yes his death was tragic but I’m a gay who really sick and tire of having my sexuality attached with child pornographers. Why the gay media keeps reporting child pornographers, like we are supposed to keep score, is beyond me.
Armiya
It’s in here because one of the editors had a bone for him and he sang on TV. The same editors who have been drooling over Will Smith’s son before he became of age.
ripzippysf
I agree. Posting it seems to align gays and lesbians with pedophilia. Pedophiles are usually heterosexual predictors.
Donston
Almost 40% of people who at 14 years or younger contend with sexual abuse, sexual assault or engage in sex with an adult are boys who are victimized by men. However, the perpetrator is rarely a gay identifying man and mostly not even men known live “gay lifestyles”.
tham
@Donston
You see why people think you’re a Russian troll, right?
You are basically saying that a vast majority of child abuse is done by men on boys.
Which is nothing but wrong. The SUPER majority is done by straight men AND women (school teachers, looking right at you) on their straight counterparts. Hell, we just had a male teacher run off with his female student to Mexico.
So, there you go….you make up things from thin air, then twist it to sound like it’s all gays…that’s why people think you’re a Russian troll.
Donston
“Tham”. No one has ever accused me of being a Russian troll. Except you just now. Nor have I ever been accused of making stuff up. Try again. You however have said more than a handful of ridiculous things and have had mulitple accounts (or “friends” with rarely used or never seen usernames who just conveintly pop up to support you divisive perspectives).
Read more often dude. Yes, almost 40% of convictions for men having sex with young teens or pre-teens happen to be against boys. Whether that’s reflective of real world numbers is not known. There’s no reason to see it as homophobic. It’s just the reality of some sh*t. Something you and multiple handles don’t live in.
tham
Really?
With all your “women hate gay men because they feel threaten” and “all problems start with gay men being the worst at it” stuff?
Well that just an example how gay men are not falling for the Russian bot farm plan.
Believe, the ones who are actually gay men on this site, all think it.
OzJosh
Totally agree. Statistically, kiddy fiddlers are predominantly heterosexual. It does not become a gay issue just because the perpetrator is cute. It really is about time Queerty developed some kind of conscience or, failing that, sensitivity to its audience.
oz1967
Sad is not a word I would use for his death, good riddance to bad rubbish is the only thoughts I have.
WillParkinson
Totally agree with you.
DCguy
So an entire article now because they found out the guy had an amount of alcohol in his system equivalent to about 2 drinks?
And not really sure why this is on Queerty, the guy dated women and was a pedophile, nothing lgbt about it.
ChrisK
Glee was a gay hit though.
jpcolter
You don’t understand alcohol at all. His blood alcohol content is more in line with about eight to nine drinks.
ChrisK
One example would be 7 beers in 4 hours =.095.
DCguy
Hi JP,
I’m not sure why you seem so adamant. While I was slightly off, it appears that somebody at his weight would need about 4 drinks to reach that level. Not sure why you seem so upset about that.
http://www.brad21.org/bac_charts.html
And it still doesn’t change my comment about the article that this is a nothing story, and is about a guy who dated women and was a peodo.
Brian
A gossip site I read had a blind item that was clearly about Mark, saying that he was found with defensive wounds on his hands and was pretty clearly murdered, then staged to look like a suicide. Supposedly there’s a whole pedophile ring of Hollywood bigwigs who have no problem taking people out when they think someone might start naming names. Of course, he had like 2 years to name names so it doesn’t really make sense, but it’s fun speculation, even if I think it’s all BS.
ChrisK
I new it. You can bet Bryan Singer or David Geffen is behind it.
Donston
That’s not my idea of “fun speculation”. It also sounds ridiculous. But Hollywood is so malicious, conniving and manipulative that you never completely dismiss any conspriacy theory.
Brian
This site also says that Steven Spielberg is one of the biggest pedophiles in Hollywood, so I take it all with a huge grain of salt. Of course, if that comes to light and turns out to be true, I won’t know what to believe anymore.
tham
See above.
Mark’s case was pretty clear cut.
And besides, no C list actor had ANY knowledge on some super large Hollywood child porn ring…unless, it was a C lister kid porn ring…
Like one that has Frankie Muniz, Zachery Ty Bryan and Jermey Miller.
tham
I mean, your concept of how “Hollywood” works is adorable.
I mean, even on Glee, Mark was still a C lister.
DCguy
Notice how whenever somebody comes in with a conspiracy they never post a link to back it up.
Here’s a thought, post the name and a link to the “Gossip Site”.
I love all of this ridiculous speculation, because why is it so difficult to assume that a guy who was on top of the world for years, rich, famous, and a star might kill himself over revelations that he was a pedophile with tons of kiddie porn videos, is going to jail, and will never be able to get a job acting again. Sounds like a person ripe for suicide.
Besides, if he WAS going to give information on some peodo ring he would have done it already and gotten less or no jail time.
So again, feel free to put up the link to that gossip item, otherwise, what we have here is somebody with a computer full of disgusting crap that hopefully didn’t molest any kids, who killed himself because he got caught.
Brian
Here’s a thought, don’t scroll right past the link I already posted above this to tell me to post the link. Then again, it actually got you to post something without the word “MoBro” in it, so forget that, just keep doing whatever it is you’re doing.
whitakerk861
Nothing LGBTQ about this Queerty unless you employ pedophiles perhaps?
Armiya
No. Just reporting on someone they found hot before they were mired in scandal…because a pedophile and physically abusive (forced unprotected sex on a female partner) guy who is good looking = spilling ink on a gay “news” (that’s laughable) site.
Kangol
I think they’re reporting on this because 1) Glee was a beloved, very pro-gay/LGBTQ show and 2) Queerty really, really loves reporting hot young white dudes. Selfies, tragedies, you name it. And that’s its right.
There are so many other bits of gay news happening, but our dear site just refuses to report on them. But hey, that’s what DuckDuckGo, and Bing (and that evil behemoth that begins with a “G,” for searching) and bookmarks for other gay news sites are for, right?
Juanjo
It would appear that they had some evidence on this guy and he admitted to the acts. However, I am always pissed off when I read statements like:
“Investigators found over 25,000 images and 600 videos on Salling’s computers and thumb drives.”
I have seen cops and prosecutors do this before. They have done it to clients of mine and of other attorneys, I know. When the cops execute a search warrant they will seize computers, phones and anything data can be stored on. They will inventory the images and videos and that is what that statement refers to here. The fact is that he could have videos of every episode of Glee, as well as several Hollywood movies, on his computer and it would be part of the 600 videos.
The other thing they do is screen all the images and videos, note which ones are pornographic, even if the type of commercially available porn one can buy any day of the week legally. Then they decide whether there is an underage image in the media. If one is reviewing images or videos of prepubescent children, it pretty easy to determine. However, if they are teens, not so easy. But the burden is on the accused to refute an assessment that a young man or woman in the video is not 16 but rather is 18. There is no scientific standard to assess such. One has to track down the person which is often not easy to do. This is especially an issue with porn from Europe or Asia because the models are often impossible to track down and records are not always what they should be.
tnguy222
Fascinating post– it is always shocking to me the manipulation that can been employed subtly to sully the character of a Defendant.
Generally speaking, are you open with your sexuality to Clients? Are you open with some rather than others? When do you decide to show that side of your life? Has it been well received?
I have only done corporate work for oil and defense companies in the Middle East, so obviously being open has not been an option. I am outwardly ‘straight’, but I recently moved back to the States and wonder if/how/when I should come out to clients. Do you have any advice?
Juanjo
tnguy – I live in San Francisco and sexual orientation has not bee a really big issue for me for a long time when it comes to work. I neither bring it up nor deny it when it comes to clients. It is not hard to figure out since I refer to my husband from time to time when making small talk. There is also a wedding ring on my finger and people sometimes ask about my spouse or if I have children. I have not done the booze and schmoose routine for a while because I have been doing this for a long time and now I usually work for other attorneys, doing contract work on their caseloads. I am slowly winding down my practice and plan on retiring in the next year or so. But truthfully most people I have dealt with were far more concerned with if I could represent them competently than who I slept with.
I have represented some large corporations in the past – Owens-Corning, Owens-Illinois, Georgia Pacific, Kaiser Gypsum and some others. Pretty much every large corporation I have encountered had a non-discriminatory policy and it was not an issue.
Captain Obvious
It isn’t just Mark. Matthew Morrison who was also attached to the show hangs out with Brian Singer and they have parties crawling with teenage boys. Matthew also had some strange “storyline” where he became best friends with a teenage boy.
I agree with the person above who said this was probably some execution to keep yet another Hollyweird secret. The pedo rings run deep and Mark probably wanted out of whatever he got himself into honestly. I say that only because the way he was outed doesn’t jive with the protection these weirdos usually have when their illegal activities come to light.
Greg
Teenagers don’t fall into the pedo category. Pedo is for children.
tham
So the Russian trolls want “normies” gays to start crying “conspiracy”.
Even tho Mark is a C lister, who couldn’t get hired for a job, even when he was on Glee.
But some how, we must think he had dirt on A listers in Hollywood…
That’s like saying, this city councilman had child porn and died, he must have had dirt on Trump.
Donston
Tham, that’s your method now? Anyone who says something you disagree with or something you think is ridicuous is a “Russian troll”? Come up with a new thing quick.
PinkoOfTheGange
Why the hard sell on this conspiracy theory.
Captain Obvious
Conspiracy? You can find pictures of Morrison and Singer surrounded by little boys way too young and underage to be near them at all.
And I don’t classify people who would bed anyone under 18 in a special category other than pedophile. They don’t deserve that much consideration and I find it odd anyone would care to make a distinction.
Brian
That’s not Tham’s method now, it’s always been. About 95% of his posts include the word “Russian”. I can only assume he’s actually trolling us, seeing what ridiculous levels he can push it to. Because if someone is truly that paranoid and/or dense to think that way, that’s just the saddest thing ever.
PinkoOfTheGange
Yes a conspiracy theory is all it is.
I find no credible sources of defensive wounds on his hands.
So now gay men can’t be around children without suspicion?
Tobi
“And I don’t classify people who would bed anyone under 18 in a special category other than pedophile. “
It’s important to remember that some states, and many countries, have 14-16 rather than 18 as the age of consent.
DCguy
Except this guy’s issue was with girls not boys apparently, so not sure he would be hanging out with Singer.
Donston
You’re looking for ephebophilia or hebephilia.
Donston
This was a response to “Greg”.
Brody
He obviously had dirt on the Clintons.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Maybe it’s just me but the phrase “kiddie porn”—specifically the “kiddie” bit,—sounds massively inappropriate
nm4047
I do get a good belly laugh from conspiracy stories. Anyone can just put a story on that site, unsubstantiated and what appears to be quotes from reliable sources of other websites. Give the evidence rather than the anonymity of a website that after being read 3 times all of a sudden become another urban myth.
MacAdvisor
“higher than the state of California’s .08 legal limit.”
There isn’t a legal limit on how much blood alcohol can be in one’s system, there is a legal limit on how much blood alcohol can be in one’s system AND DRIVE. Mark was not driving, he was swinging from a tree. There is not a legal limit on how much alcohol one may have in one’s blood stream to do that. Moreover, .095 may not even be noticeable in someone who drinks to excess regularly.
Mark would have most likely gone to Lompoc Prison Camp, as he would have a low score and it is nearby. He simply would not have suffered any retaliation there, particularly rape. This weird fetish people have prison rape is true for higher-level prisons, but not camps.
The death of Mark is a tragedy and I will miss him.
Brian
No, the story of Mark is a tragedy. The death of any pedophile is a happy ending to the story.
MacAdvisor
Brian, most evidence suggests pedophilia is as hardwired into the brain as homosexuality or gender identity. Thus, Mark had little choice in what he desired. However, he controlled that desired and — to the best of anyone’s knowledge — never harm a kid. He had photos. Photos that likely had long been in existence. As the great jurist Benjamin Cardozo explained in Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928), one can be too far from the event to have causality. I suggest that is the case here, Mark didn’t cause anyone to force children into sex, he didn’t pay someone for the direct creation of kiddy porn. He got what was already available. That a man with such gifts and talents should be driven to suicide is a tragedy. No one should celebrate his death simply because of his hard-wired attraction.
Eventually, death comes to us all, but Mark’s early death is not a happing ending and you are sad man for thinking so. I pity you.
Brian
Quit making shit up to suit your desire to defend a pedophile. You have no idea what was in the photos that Mark had, nor how old any of them were. You have no idea if Mark actually did pay people to create kiddie porn to his liking or not. You also have no idea if he actually molested children or not. Just because he didn’t get caught doesn’t mean it never happened. He quite possibly could have been directly responsible for the molestation or rape of many children, you’re just making unfounded assumptions that he’s not.
Anyone who collects child porn is guilty in contributing to the rape of children who appear in it, and the world is a better place without them, especially since it’s hardwired into their brain and never going to change.
And I don’t need your pity sweetie. You are a revolting human being, there is NO excuse for being a pedophile apologist, and it makes me seriously wonder about the most obvious reason as to why you would do so. I pity any child that crosses your path.
surreal33
Karma is epic. No tragedy here he got what deserved.
batesmotel
So now you’re a judge and lawyer.
CanadianGuy62
Why is it a “sad development” that he was over the legal limit for alcohol? Had he drove inebriated and killed someone en route to his suicide spot, that would be a sad development. Otherwise, it is simply another detail.
Giuseppe
The murder angle isn’t a new one…Geffen/Singer…
Brody
Yet another article teeming with liberal ideology while being sadly bereft of gay issues.
What happened to Queerty?
When did “Free of an agenda” become an ironic punchline rather than a tagline?
Who commandeered this site and turned it into HuffPo with naked dudes?
Farewell and adieu, ye fair snowflake ladies . . . for I’ve received orders for to sail back to saneness, and so never more shall I see ye gain.
Heywood Jablowme
“I’ve received orders for to sail back…”
Ah yes, a nice dacha on the Black Sea?
batesmotel
So sad and shocking what happened to this guy on every level.