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Hollywood Star Jason Dottley Finds New Life in Puerto Vallarta HEALS BROKEN HEART AND LAUNCHES THREE NEW BUSINESSES Hair by Sergio at La Barberia on Lazaro Cardenas Custom Top, AshyTee by HeirPHorce
AS JASON DOTTLEY WILL GLADLY TELL YOU, EITHER YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM OR YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHO HE IS. “It’s a great way to keep your ego in check,” Dottley said with a laugh. In 2008, Dottley soared to a level of fame that very few out gay actors before him ever have. He was regularly on TMZ.com and TMZ TV and was shot by paparazzi every time he left his house. His photos appeared in gossip magazines around the globe and he was named to the OUT 100 list. “I was very lucky. Timing is everything. I was the star of a cult-favorite TV show ‘Sordid Lives' with icons Rue McClanahan and Olivia Newton-John in 16 countries,” he explained.
‘Why would we go out to eat if not to have the paparazzi take our picture?” God! He put up with a lot from me. He’ll always be the Sean Penn to my Madonna. The one true love.” Jason released five Top 40 Billboard records in a row before retiring from music in 2018. That’s when his whole life took a huge turn. Family tragedy struck. He had just spent the past two years taking care of his grandmother, and then she passed away. Already dealing with the sorrow from her death, his mother was diagnosed with Stage four cancer and within days of her diagnosis she was in hospice.
Dottley even had the famed Cindy Guagenti as his publicist. He joined her client roster that was also made up of stars like Kim Kardashian and Brad Pitt.
“The eye of a Category 5 hurricane literally made landfall over the hospital in Florida,” he explained. “With my mom in a wheelchair tied to my left arm, my dog tied to my right arm, the building was crumbling. I could only hope the rope would keep us all together.”
“I remember my ex-husband Del Shores asking me, ‘Can we please go to dinner just once and not have a crew of paps waiting for us outside?’ Not missing a beat, I responded with
Jason thought his young life and those he most loved was over. With water rushing in from every direction, he began texting people with “goodbye, I love you” messages.
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“Miraculously, we survived and were med-evacuated to Alabama,” he said. Four months later, on Valentine’s Day, his mother died while he lay next to her, holding her hand. “Now I have her angel’s wings tattooed on that hand, and a forever Valentine,” he said. After her death, he and his dog/ child Ty moved back to Los Angeles to start anew, but within a year, he found himself on vacation in Puerto Vallarta. So, for those Jason Dottley fans who wanted to know more about who he is, Jason cast a wide net with his online fans online to ask a few questions. OUT & ABOUT PV: What brought you to PV? I couldn’t take Trumpland any more. It was September of election year and Ty and I got a suite at Casa Cupula for a week, then two weeks, then three weeks. After a month there - it’s FABULOUSLY hard to leave Cupula - I flew back, put my stuff in storage and rented a hacienda
here for a year. I was here to write my first book about my mom and return once America had her shit together — but I’m still here! FROM TWITTER @CALLMEADAMNYC (CELEBRITY INTERVIEWER) What’s the most inappropriate question you’ve ever been asked in an interview? “Would you ever date one of your step-daughters’ friends?” @MAXXXX_D Does the entertainment industry embrace adult content now that JustForFans is a thing? Does it hold back work? I’m sure Disney won’t hire me. But I don’t care. I only started an OnlyFans account as therapy for PTSD from sexual assault (google Dottley, rape). I went five years only having sex with one person because of my PTSD. That all changed because of onlyfans and it happened in Puerto Vallarta. There was something about doing OnlyFans, now JustForFans is my preference, that gave me back ownership of my sexuality. So, I am not concerned about industry perception. It healed me. outandaboutpv.com
