I didn’t know him, but I’m sure many of you did… RIP Bill…
William Futral, the owner of gay adult website TheGuySite.com, was found murdered at his Tampa apartment the afternoon of May 1, according to multiple reports. He was 52.
The press release notes that the death was “believed to be a targeted attack.”
Wow, this reminds me of that other gay porn site owner in Texas that was also murdered by a model a few years ago. Forgot the name of the site.
I hope the owners of Gemini Men, Red Hot Straight Guys, Beefcake Hunter and the other solo operators stay safe!
Wonder what will happen to TGS. I seem to recall he may have been working with Dominic Ford, or at least using his website hosting and payment system so maybe DF will keep it going. The site is still live as of today and Ludvig’s scenes are still there.
I suspect the site will go down eventually, there’s just no-one operating it now as otherwise the Ludwig scenes would probably have been removed by now.
Thinking that TGS might come down at any moment I decided to join with my affiliate URL to take a final look. TGS was actually one of my favorite sites years ago and a big money maker for me. In fact, it was the site I signed up with that established my CCBill affiliate ID. But when they switched to the business model that includes payment for credits to download videos my sales dropped off big time.
Now I may know why: after I joined this week I did not see the sale come through on CCBill.
It’s only a matter of time before it’s closed down. Probably takes a while to filter down and the site just remains up as long as the hosting is availble, i.e. until next hosting bill isn’t paid.
It’s a different scenario than Latinboyz but when their owner passed someone else took over operations. Not saying that will happen for TGS but it’s a possibility… At a minimum maybe someone will continue to pay hosting bills until the sites just no longer profitable.