![]() But industry insiders, like Ron Jeremy, Ginger Lynn and Tom Byron, say they never saw her use drugs, and that she was fully aware of her actions, even if, as a minor, she could not legally consent. Government prosecutors declared that Lords was a victim of a manipulative industry, maintaining she was drugged and made to do non-consensual acts. She said that the agents claimed to have monitored her for three years. The FBI agents, "appeared annoyed" when she could not provide the information they wanted. Also, she wrote she knew nothing of people's real names or who produced which film, and did not provide such information to the FBI. Lords denies this notion in her autobiography, and claims that she was reluctant to sell the rights, since at that time she was trying to become a mainstream actress and didn't want any older movies still available. ![]() No proof has ever surfaced to substantiate this claim. This action led to claims that Lords herself had tipped off the authorities to gain immunity from prosecution, while profiting from the movie. Only one of these films, Traci, I Love You, was produced after her eighteenth birthday, making it the only one legally available in the United States.Īfter her arrest, Lords sold her rights to this film for $100,000. Lords received a smaller salary, but also received part of the rights of these movies. It also paid for a black Corvette that her boyfriend later wrecked.įor her last few films, she and another much older boyfriend formed the Traci Lords Company, where he co-produced and directed the movies. Most of this money was spent on rent and drugs. According to her autobiography, she made $35,000 as total salary for all of those movies, including the $5,000 she received for her appearance in Penthouse. Like most starlets of the time, Lords received a salary for her appearances in X-rated movies and didn't own the rights of those films. Instead, the agents and producers who accepted her fake IDs were charged and people affiliated with the films in question experienced legal troubles for years. Lords herself was never charged with a crime, since as a minor she was unable to give informed consent to perform sex acts on film for money. Lords felt she was also exploited by the reporters, who used censored stills from her unlawful films. In her book, Lords suggested hypocrisy on the part of the movie producers and the news media, arguing that the porn industry actually got richer from the publicity of the scandal, even as they complained of losing money after destroying her illegal movies. The ensuing prosecution against the agencies cost the pornographic film and distribution industry millions of dollars, as they were obliged by law to remove hundreds of thousands of her videotapes, films and magazines from store shelves to avoid the risk of prosecution for trafficking in child pornography. ![]() In May 1986, authorities discovered she had been underage while making pornographic movies and arrested her, as well as the owners of her movie agency and X-Citement Video, Inc. By the time she was 18, she had appeared in 100 adult films however, Lords argued in her autobiography that about 80 of those films were composed from leftover and re-edited footage from the original 20 films that were shot. Lords' youthful appearance and enthusiastic sexual performances propelled her to stardom. Her first movie was What Gets Me Hot!, followed by Those Young Girls and Talk Dirty To Me Part III, all made in the first half of 1984. ![]() Shortly after, she was modeling for widely distributed adult magazines, most notably Penthouse, in the same September 1984 issue that exposed Miss America 1984, Vanessa Williams. Using a fake ID provided by Roger that stated she was 20 rather than 15, she started in the porn industry with Jim South at the World Modeling Agency in Sherman Oaks, under the name Kristie Elizabeth Nussman. Posing as her stepfather, he helped her respond to classified ads requesting models. On October 7, 2007, Lords gave birth to a son, Joseph Gunnar, her first child with husband of five years, Jeff Lee.Īt age 15, she was living with her mother's ex-boyfriend, Roger. She eventually had an abortion, which she paid for herself went through a nervous breakdown, and ran away from home. In 1983, she began attending Redondo Union High School. Her stage name is said to be in tribute to Katharine Hepburn's character, Tracy Lord, from The Philadelphia Story, or from the first name of her high school best friend Traci and the last name of her favorite actor from Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord.Īt twelve, she fled from her abusive alcoholic father to Lawndale, California, with her mother and three sisters. Nora Louise Kuzma was born in Steubenville, Ohio to Louis and Patricia Kuzma.
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