Michael Vegas born June 4 1984 in Huntington Beach is an American pornographic actor model and photographer who has also gone by the stage names Michael Mike Vegas Mike and James Oak - Childhood He was born and raised in Huntington Beach Orange County California in a loving middle-class family his father was a photographer After graduating from Fountain Valley High School in Fountain Valley California he worked at an upscale costume store in Newport Beach California every Halloween season between the ages of 13 and 22 as well as a construction worker and a paramedic He lost his virginity with his girlfriend when he was 18 years old He went to nursing school graduated from the fire academy and was about to become a firefighter when he was in a motorcycle accident and broke his spine spent ten days in a coma and had to wear a neck brace for six months He settled in Orange County and also worked as a clown