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Brad Patton (born Joel Mangs; August 7, 1972) is an Australian-Swedish former gay pornographic actor and figure skater. [1]
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Brad Patton (born Joel Mangs; August 7, 1972) is an Australian-Swedish former gay pornographic actor and figure skater. [1]
Mangs was born in Melbourne to an Australian mother and a Swedish-Finnish father. [2] He spent his childhood in Australia, Finland, and Västerås, Sweden. [3]
He was raised in a religious family, and came out as gay at the age of 22. [4]
Mangs started figure skating at the age of 9, [4] and won medals in Swedish Figure Skating Championships, and in Nordic Figure Skating Championship representing Sweden. After a knee injury put an end to his competitive career, he toured with Disney On Ice as a principal skater, starring as Hades from Hercules, Bagheera from The Jungle Book , and Scar from The Lion King . [5] [6] [3]
In 2007, he appeared (under his real name, Joel Mangs) on the Dutch TV show Dancing on Ice . [7] [8]
He has participated and won medals in figure skating at the Gay Games and the World Outgames. [9] [10] He has also worked as a trainer for young figure skaters in the Netherlands. [11] [12]
Patton made his pornographic debut in 2003 in Australia in a film directed by Chi Chi LaRue for Falcon Studios. [4] He worked exclusively for Falcon for two years, mostly as a top, making his bottoming debut in Heaven to Hell (2005). [13] He later also worked for Colt. [14]
Patton announced his retirement from porn in 2007, but briefly returned for a non-sex cameo in Earthbound: Heaven To Hell 2 (2017). [15] [16]
He had been featured in DNA magazine #77 in 2006. [17] [18] And in 2011, J. C. Adams included him in his list of 100 most famous porn stars, in his book Gay Porn Heroes, in The Superhung category. [19] [20]
In 2016, a hoax photoset of a picture of Mike Pence and a picture of Brad Patton, with the caption "Mike Pence – blast from the gay past.” went viral, purporting to show Pence as a young, gay porn star. [21] [22]
| Year | Competition | Division | Medals | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Swedish Figure Skating Championship | Junior |  | |
| 1993 | Nordic Figure Skating Championship | Senior |  | |
| 1994 | Swedish Figure Skating Championship | Senior | | |
| 1995 | | |||
| 2002 | Gay Games | | [9] | |
| 2006 | World Outgames |  | [10] |
Patton was based in Amsterdam throughout his porn career, and continued to reside there after retirement. [2] Gay porn star Brian Hansen— who was Patton's boyfriend at the time— also retired, and moved to the Netherlands with him, staying there till their breakup. [23] [24] [25]
Patton got married to DJ Kidd Madonny in 2014, [26] and moved to Miami where his husband lived. [27] [16] The couple own a decor company called 3DX. [28]