MONROVIA, Calif.—Despite direct testimony by the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on former softcore performer Felicia Tang that the 320 separate wounds found on her body were not self-inflicted as a result of a GHB overdose, a jury has found Tang’s boyfriend not guilty of torturing and then murdering her in September of 2009.
The 31-year-old was found dead in her home after live-in boyfriend Brian Lee Randone called 911 to report her unconscious and not breathing. Following an investigation, police and prosecutors charged Randone and held him on a $2 million bond.
The defense claimed that Tang’s death was not a homicide but the result of a seizure brought on by a GHB overdose, and that her wounds were consistent with someone who was totally out of control. During the trial, a friend of Tang’s testified about the extent of the victim’s recreational drug use with Randone, saying the couple would take GHB together at parties that sometimes lasted for days.
During the trial, the defense claimed that Deputy Medical Examiner Ajay Panchal of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner was too inexperienced with victims of GHB overdose to be able to determine with any authority whether the wounds on Tang’s body were the result of an attack or were self-inflicted. This was his first autopsy on an individual who had such a high level of the drug in her body at the time of her death, the defense claimed.
Tang's adult credits include Peach DVD's Hotel Decadence and Sugar Daddy Wanted. KTLA reported that she also appeared in several mainstream movies, including Rush Hour 2 and The Fast and the Furious.
Randone is a former preacher who appeared in 2000 on the Fox reality show The Sexiest Bachelor in America.
