Adult film entertainer, Max Hardcore whose real name was Paul Little, died on Monday at age 66.

He reportedly died from septic shock and pneumonia after a cancer battle, his business partner said.

He was alleged to have tortured and abused numerous women for his own sadistic pleasures and in the production of pornography.

Max, who was popular for his extreme and degrading adult film scenes, had been receiving radioactive iodine treatment following a thyroid cancer diagnosis in March 2022.

His office manager and business partner Paul Munoz said: ‘He was almost at the finish line for the chemotherapy.

‘He went in and did the surgery and he didn’t want to spend the weekend at the hospital, so he came back home and that’s when things went south for him.

‘His wind tunnel ruptured and air started going into his neck and his neck started swelling up.’

The porn star was put on a ventilator at one point and spent a month in the hospital before things appeared to start improving in February.

‘And then this past Friday, he suffered some kind of infection in his throat and downstairs,’ Munoz said.

‘This infection wiped him out because his immune system had not recovered from the last time in December.’

Max was still making efforts in the adult entertainment industry up until he was diagnosed with cancer.

He had a nearly three-decade long career with more than 500 performing credits and 360 credits as a director.

His movies often slammed for their extreme and degrading nature landed him in legal trouble in May 2007, when he and his production company Max World Entertainment were indicted by a grand jury in Tampa, Florida, on charges of distributing obscene material through the U.S. mail and internet.

He was then sentenced to 46 months in prison in 2008, however, he had supporters who believed that the charges were unjust.

Max was alleged to have tortured and abused numerous women for his own sadistic pleasures and in the production of pornography.