Justin Heath Smith (born April 3, 1981), known professionally as Austin Wolf, is an American former gay pornographic film actor. Throughout his career, he has won six GayVN Awards, two Pornhub Awards, two Grabby Awards, and two Str8UpGayPorn Awards.
Austin Wolf | |
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Born | Justin Heath Smith April 3, 1981 Texas, U.S. |
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Occupation | Pornographic actor |
Years active | 2012–2024 |
Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)[3] |
Born and raised in Texas, Wolf moved to New York City at age 20, where he became an escort and won three International Escort Awards. He made his debut as a pornographic actor in 2012 with the gay pornographic studio Randy Blue, with whom he worked for three years before signing an exclusive contract with Falcon Studios. He began working exclusively with CockyBoys starting in 2019 and with Men.com starting in 2023.
In 2024, Wolf was arrested and charged with possessing and distributing hundreds of videos of child pornography.
Early life
editJustin Heath Smith[4] was born on April 3, 1981,[5] in Alvarado, Texas, where he was also raised. He has one younger sister and one older sister. At age 17, he started coming out to his friends and family, including his mother, who was initially upset before coming to accept Wolf's sexuality.[6] Soon after, he began working out and putting on muscle and, according to him, became arrogant due to becoming "society's attractive man". At the age of 20, he left Texas and moved to New York, where he worked as a designer furniture retailer. After the subprime crisis, he lost his job as a designer furniture retailer. He then worked at a gay bar as a bartender before creating a profile on the escorting site Rentboy and starting to work as an escort.[7][8]
Career
editIn November 2012, Wolf made his pornographic debut with a solo video for gay pornographic studio Randy Blue. He has stated that his family was supportive of his entering the pornographic industry, describing his mother as his "biggest fan", and has attributed his skills as a pornographic actor to his sex addiction. He then worked with Randy Blue for three years, where he made his first partner video starring pornographic actor Nicco Sky. He won the awards for Best Top and Best Body at the International Escort Awards, an awards ceremony for male escorts, in 2013.[9][10] He signed an exclusive contract with Falcon Entertainment in April 2015 while appearing in releases for pornographic studios Raging Stallion and Hot House.[11] Wolf made cameos as a "shirtless person" on The Wendy Williams Show three times through being friends with the show's art director, Michael Lee Scott.[8]
In 2012, he worked on the Broadway show Bares XXII: Happy Endings,[12][13] starring Kyle Dean Massey and Jennifer Tilly. In 2013, he appeared in the Broadway show The Big Man.[14] Wolf made a profile on OnlyFans, a subscription-based platform where creators set their own rates, in April 2017, where he began uploading videos of himself having sex from when he was in his twenties. He became one of the first pornographic actors to use OnlyFans to sell content.[15] He reached over one thousand subscribers within two weeks of starting his account.[8] In October 2018, a preview clip from an eight-minute-long 4MyFans video of an off-duty Delta Air Lines flight attendant performing oral sex on Wolf while in uniform and in an airplane bathroom aroused controversy after being uploaded to Twitter, leading to the flight attendant's suspension due to his employee ID being visible and widespread tabloid coverage of the video.[16] The flight attendant stated that he was unaware that the tryst was being recorded, which Wolf denied.[17][18][8][19] Wolf soon deleted his Instagram profile, stating that he wanted to "get his life back on track". That same month, he became Pornhub's most-searched gay pornographic actor and won the Str8UpGayPorn Award for Favorite Daddy.[20][21] Also that month, he uploaded another video of him having sex with an Uber driver.[22] Wolf was the fourth most popular gay pornographic actor on Pornhub in 2018.[23]
In April 2019, he signed an exclusive contract with gay pornographic studio CockyBoys.[24] He won the award for Most Popular Gay Performer at the 2nd Pornhub Awards in October 2019, where he gave an emotional acceptance speech.[25][26] Wolf was Pornhub's third most-searched gay pornographic actor in 2019.[27] In January 2020, he won the award for Favorite Fan Content Creator at the 3rd Str8UpGay Porn Awards.[3] He was one of Pornhub's brand ambassadors in April 2020, when they launched their satirical "Scrubhub" video series as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[28] Men.com signed Wolf to an exclusive contract in January 2023.[29] He made his premiere for the studio in Fast & Vicious, in which he played a gangster opposite Skyy Knox.[30]
In November-December 2023, he recruited top porn stars from around the world in his inaugural Collab Week event at Almar Resort in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.[31][32]
Public image
editWolf is considered a pioneer in making OnlyFans a popular pornographic platform.[18] He owns his own subscription-based pornographic website, 4MyFans.[15] David Levesley of British GQ called Wolf "a big name in gay porn" in June 2019, while, in April 2020 JC Adams of XBIZ described him as "a veteran performer with a lauded filmography" who "cemented his stardom" by being "a dazzlingly prolific content creator".[18][26] In January 2019, Vanity Fair called Wolf a "gay porn mega-star", while, in January 2020, Mickey Keating of Instinct called him "the gay porn star of the world right now".[33][8] Matt Rettenmund of Boy Culture ranked Wolf one of the greatest gay pornographic actors of all time.[34] Daniel Villarreal of Queerty called his "tribal" belly button tattoo a trademark of his.[22]
Wolf has described his political beliefs as "completely aligned with" those of comedian Kathy Griffin.[8] In June 2020, during the George Floyd protests, Wolf posted a video on Twitter in which he called on pornographic studios to take down any content featuring fellow pornographic actor Billy Santoro who had advocated for police to shoot Black looters. JustForFans, another subscription-based pornographic site, took down Santoro's account soon after. Wolf soon sparked controversy for telling a Black commenter on Instagram, who wrote that America was about "power and exploitation", that they should move.[15]
Personal life
editAs of 2019[update], Wolf has a husband.[35]
Arrest for child pornography
editOn April 21, 2024, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed a search warrant in Wolf's Manhattan apartment, where an SD card containing hundreds of videos of child pornography, which he reportedly received and sent anonymously with an undercover FBI agent through Telegram between March 24 and 28, was found. According to Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the videos included one of a 10-year-old child being raped and bound by a man, while others contained children as young as infants.[36] In June 2024, the United States Department of Justice announced that Wolf had been arrested in New York and charged with one count of distribution and receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.[4][37] Following his arrest, his Twitter account was deactivated.[38]
Awards and nominations
editAward | Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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Cybersocket Web Awards | 2014 | Best Sex Scene | Austin Wolfe and Caleb Strong | Nominated | [39] |
Best New Pornstar | Himself | Nominated | |||
2016 | Best Pornstar | Nominated | [40] | ||
2017 | Nominated | [41] | |||
2018 | Nominated | [42] | |||
Best Sex Scene | TKO Total Knockouts | Nominated | |||
2020 | Best Porn Star | Himself | Nominated | [43] | |
Gay Fleshbot Awards | 2019 | Best Clip Performer | Nominated | [44] | |
Performer of the Year | Nominated | ||||
Best Group Sex Scene | Aventón | Nominated | |||
GayVN Awards | 2018 | Favorite Daddy | Himself | Nominated | [45] |
Best Fetish Scene | Skuff: Rough Trade 1 | Won | |||
Social Media Star | Himself | Nominated | |||
Best Group Sex Scene | The Fixer | Nominated | |||
2019 | Best Three-Way Sex Scene | Aventón | Nominated | [46] | |
Best Top | Himself | Nominated | |||
Best Duo | Cross Fuck | Nominated | |||
2020 | Favorite Dom | Himself | Won | [47] | |
Best Supporting Actor | Rags to Riches | Nominated | |||
2021 | Favorite Top | Himself | Won | [48] | |
2022 | Favorite Dom | Won | [49] | ||
2023 | Favorite Body | Won | [50] | ||
Favorite Creator Site Star | Won | ||||
Grabby Awards | 2014 | Best Newcomer | Nominated | [51] | |
Manly Man | Nominated | ||||
2016 | Hottest Top | Nominated | [52] | ||
Manly Man | Nominated | ||||
Hottest Rimming | Fined Tuned Ass | Nominated | |||
Total Exposure 1 | Nominated | ||||
2017 | Hottest Top | Himself | Nominated | [53] | |
Manly Man | Nominated | ||||
Performer of the Year | Nominated | ||||
2018 | Best Actor | The Fixer | Nominated | [54] | |
Best Group | Nominated | ||||
2019 | Hottest Top | Himself | Nominated | [55] | |
Best Duo | Cross Fuck | Nominated | |||
Best Three Way | Rideshare | Nominated | |||
2021 | Performer of the Year | Himself | Nominated | [56] | |
Hottest Top | Nominated | ||||
Hottest Body | Nominated | ||||
Hottest Daddy | Won | [57] | |||
Hottest Rimming | A Man and His Boy Part 2 | Nominated | [56] | ||
2023 | Hottest Top | Himself | Nominated | [58] | |
Hottest Daddy | Won | [59] | |||
International Escort Awards | 2013 | Best Newcomer | Himself | Nominated | [60] |
Best Top | Won | ||||
Best Body | Nominated | ||||
2014 | Best Pornstar Escort | Nominated | |||
Best Body | Won | ||||
2015 | Best Top | Won | [61] | ||
Pornhub Awards | 2019 | Most Popular Gay Performer | Won | [62] | |
2020 | Nominated | [63] | |||
Top Daddy Performer | Won | [64] | |||
Prowler Awards | 2020 | Best International Pornstar | Nominated | [65] | |
Str8UpGayPorn Awards | 2018 | Favorite Daddy | Won | [66] | |
Favorite Gay Porn Star | Nominated | ||||
Best Group Sex Scene | The Fixer | Nominated | |||
Best Topping Performance | Nominated | ||||
2019 | Favorite Body | Himself | Nominated | [67] | |
Favorite Topping Performance | Austin Wolf and Nico Leon | Nominated | |||
Favorite Fan Content Creator | Himself | Nominated | |||
2020 | Favorite Fan Content Creator | Himself | Won | [68] | |
2022 | Favorite Body | Himself | Nominated | [69] | |
XBIZ Awards | 2019 | Gay Performer of the Year | Nominated | [70] | |
2020 | Nominated | [71] | |||
2021 | Nominated | [72] |
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