{"id":13405,"date":"2025-06-17T21:15:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T02:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=13405"},"modified":"2025-06-17T21:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T02:32:47","slug":"industry-personality-reality-tv-star-cousin-stevie-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=13405","title":{"rendered":"Industry Personality, Reality TV Star Cousin Stevie Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SOURCE: www.AVN.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOS ANGELES<\/strong>\u2014Adult video director and early reality TV star Stevie Forem, affectionately known to all as Cousin Stevie, died Sunday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a medical emergency at home on Thursday. He was 85 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forem rose to prominence in the adult industry while starring in the Showtime reality series Family Business<\/em><\/a>, which followed the behind-the-scenes antics of his younger cousin Adam Glasser, better known as adult director Seymore Butts. The mainstream cable show featured Glasser, Forem and Glasser\u2019s mother Lila, as they managed Butts\u2019 adult production business. Forem started his adult career as a salesman for the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An emotional Glasser told AVN that Forem was stricken suddenly last Thursday, in his sleep, by what doctors called a \u201cspinal cord stroke,\u201d which left him unable able to move his arms or legs. Though he initially showed slight improvement in the hospital, prompting Glasser to hope for a recovery, Forem passed away early Sunday morning from what was likely organ failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was planning on going down there Sunday to see him again,\u201d Glasser said. \u201cAnd I did actually go down there Sunday to see him again. However, when I did get down there, the reception was acting strange and kind of delaying me, without telling me why they were delaying me. And what they were doing was waiting for a nurse to be able to come and talk to me and tell me that he had passed at, like, 4:30 in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Family Business<\/em>, which ran from 2003-2006, was an early foray into the reality genre for cable channel Showtime, as well as being ahead of its time for showcasing the adult industry. At the turn of the century, the potential of social media was just emerging, streaming adult webcam sites were in their infancy, and DVD was the dominant format for content. Anal sex was still considered a taboo topic\u2014and was the niche for Seymore Butts\u2019 videos. Glasser had been producing adult videos since the early \u201990s and the eponymous Seymore Butts<\/em> series won AVN Awards for Best Gonzo Series in 1999 and 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well-received by mainstream cable audiences whose only exposure to adult material was often on late-night cable TV, “Cousin Stevie” stood out and became an identifiable pop culture figure. He was often pictured flipping off any camera pointed at him, with a mischievous smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forem also eventually produced a popular adult DVD series, Cousin Stevie\u2019s Pussy Party<\/em><\/a>, which highlighted all-girl squirt fests and featured ensembles of early \u201800s gonzo stars including Sunny Lane, Flower Tucci, Kayla Paige, Nicki Hunter, Jada Fire and Cytherea, among many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe loved it. Gosh, he loved it,\u201d Glasser said. \u201cBecause he never imagined himself in that position. … Like a dude [in his older years] gets a job in a warehouse or something like that. But not, you know, not ending up on a reality TV show\u2014and then becoming a director and et cetera, et cetera. That’s kind of an odd path, but he loved that path and he enjoyed every second of it. Thoroughly. He was never [a perv], there was nothing, anything like that at all. He just enjoyed it. He enjoyed being around, you know, the energy of the younger people and the celebrity that he got from it, and people. I mean, he did. He loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cousin Stevie, Adam Glasser aka Seymore Butts, AZ and Mari Possa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In more recent years, Forem had been enjoying life with his bride of many years, Aimee, in their home by the beach in Marina Del Rey, California. He is survived by Aimee, his sons Mark and Keith, Glasser, Glasser\u2019s mother Lila and sister Eve, as well as numerous friends and fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCousin Stevie was like a long lost uncle to me\u2014very sweet and caring, with a dash of pervert mixed in,\u201d said industry publicist Lainie Speiser. \u201cLike the time he told me he would gift me a Hitachi Wand for my birthday that would have a photo of his face taped to the top!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe would not only talk about the industry, but about life itself. He loved his wife and his family and friends so much. A real mensch, as we say in the tribe. He would call just to say \u2018hello\u2019 and check in with me to see how I was doing, and it made my day many times. The last time we hung out face-to-face was at NightMoves in Florida, 10 years ago. In between watching Bonnie Rotten perform, we enjoyed a giggly gossip chat that I remember clearly but cannot repeat! I love you Stevie\u2014look up my Dad for me, will ya?\u201d Speiser added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCousin Stevie was a gem,\u201d said Hollywood sex tape broker Kevin Blatt. \u201cI have him to thank for my introduction to Pure Vanilla, a pre-paid value card for adult content. He became our spokesperson. He was always a character and hysterical\u2014I hadn\u2019t spoken with him in many years, but I have very fond memories of him and our time together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe once had me judge a Cousin Stevie’s Pool Party<\/em> and all I can say about that experience was that it was the only other time I saw an audience covered in plastic bags. The first? Seeing Gallagher at the front row theater in Cleveland, Ohio. God bless Stevie and may his memory be a blessing,\u201d Blatt reminisced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former A! Entertainment radio host and event emcee Tony Batman recalled, \u201cCousin Stevie was a caring, \u2018we can all win\u2019 type of guy. He would always help me with advice and friendship. A big adult radio supporter, which I loved about him. We partied at the Playboy Mansion together, so, that\u2019s like a male bonding experience in itself. He will be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SOURCE: www.AVN.com LOS ANGELES\u2014Adult video director and early reality TV star Stevie Forem, affectionately known to all as Cousin Stevie, died Sunday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a medical emergency at home on Thursday. He was 85 years old. Forem rose to prominence in the adult industry while starring in the Showtime reality… Read More »Industry Personality, Reality TV Star Cousin Stevie Passes Away<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13411,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405\/revisions\/13411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}