Ted Cox (porn actor)

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For other persons of the same name, see Ted Cox.

Ted Cox (real name Michael Kelley) was a gay pornographic actor who made movies primarily in the 1980s and 1990s, primarily for Vivid Video. Cox provided a youthful look, and featured a bulldog tattoo on his right shoulder. His videography included Boys on the Block, Pay to Play and Sweet Meat Lost Innocence.

He gained notoriety offscreen in 1991 when he was charged with the murder of an older male friend, Michael Frank, in New York City.^{[citation needed]} Cox and Frank had supper together the night before Frank was found dead, having been stabbed 22 times.^{[citation needed]} After spending over a year at Rikers Island prison awaiting trial, he was acquitted having successfully put forth an alibi defence.^{[citation needed]} News reported Chris Bull is quoted in an interview (at http://gaytoday.com/garchive/interview/110199in.htm ) as saying "The hardest thing about the gay beat is the number of slayings I've covered, from Charlie Howard to Matthew Shepard. Some are really lurid. In 1991, I reported on the murder of a New York City gay man. Police arrested porn star who went by the name Ted Cox, but he was later acquitted. The murder is still unsolved."

Following his release, Cox returned to the gay porn video scene, adorned by many more tattoos. His most successful video, Courting Libido, was set in a prison.