Exclusive: Gay Porn Star “Ludvig” Pleads Guilty To Murdering TheGuySite.com Owner, Sentenced To 45 Years In Florida Prison
As Str8UpGayPorn first reported exclusively in May of 2023, gay porn performer Richard Lam (a.k.a. “Ludvig”) had been charged with capital murder after being arrested for killing William Futral, a gay porn studio owner with whom Lam had a long and volatile personal relationship while the two worked together on Futral’s now defunct TheGuySite.com. Lam’s murder trial was set to begin next week in Tampa, Florida, but earlier today, Lam accepted a deal from the state and pleaded guilty to second degree murder. By taking the lesser second degree charge, Lam has avoided a first degree murder conviction and the possibility of being sentenced to death. Instead, he’s been sentenced to 45 years in state prison followed by ten years of probation. People convicted of murder in Florida are not eligible for parole and must serve their entire sentence.
A copy of the plea agreement, as obtained exclusively by Str8Up:
Lam also pleaded guilty to grand theft auto and will serve five-years for that concurrently. As you’ll recall, Lam stole Futral’s car after killing him and led police on a week-long manhunt across the state of Florida.
Beginning in late 2020, Lam performed as “Ludvig” in nearly two dozen hardcore gay sex videos on TheGuySite. In 2021, he was arrested and charged with raping another unidentified man in Florida, but that charge was later reduced to domestic violence strangulation, to which Lam pleaded no contest in 2022 and was placed on probation. While still on that probation, Lam killed Futral less than a year later.
Shortly after the crime, Lam had essentially already confessed to Futral’s murder in a series of disturbing text messages sent to a friend, which were subsequently shared with authorities, so it’s not surprising that he took the plea before going to trial. If 30-year-old Lam—who sliced Futral’s neck open with a knife or cutting shears, causing blood to be splattered all over his apartment—serves his full sentence without dying in prison, he’ll be released when he’s 75 years old.
