December 7, 2011 | Celeb Watch

Rita Hayworth's gay grandson found dead

Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos was found dead this past weekend in what authorities are calling a suicide. He was discovered on his bed with a plastic bag over his head.

The 25-year-old was the grandson of Rita Hayworth. He was also part of the Aga Khan blood line, and considered a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.

In 2007 it was revealed that he was also a bit of an amateur pornographer, directing and starring in a few videos he released on XTube under the name Andrew Sauston. He experimented with bareback sex in one scene called “Chelsea Bareback Whores.”

Embiricos was "a strikingly handsome, personable guy who radiated charm no matter what crisis he was weathering,” wrote Village Voice gossip columnist Michael Musto, who knew him from the New York night-life scene.

Musto added that Embiricos had been battling HIV, had been in and out of drug rehab and had attempted suicide before. 

Some have questioned the suicide, suggesting he could have been experimenting with autoerotic asphyxiation. Others have wondered if he could have been murdered, with more conservative family members tyring to silence an obvious squeaky wheel.

"Whatever the case, I'm deeply saddened by the loss of someone with such radioactive charisma," Musto wrote. 

Rita Hayworth’s grandson, Andrew Embiricos, found dead in New York [Washington Post]

Rita Hayworth's Grandson Dead In Suicide: Or Was It?  [Village Voice]