Traci Elizabeth Lords born Nora Louise Kuzma , May 7, is an American actress, former pornographic actress, singer, model, and writer. During the mids, she used a fake ID to conceal the fact that she was two years underage when she starred in X-rated films and was one of the most sought-after pornographic actresses in the adult entertainment industry. When the FBI acted on an anonymous tip that Lords was a minor during her time in the industry and pornographers were distributing and selling illegal images and videotapes, the resulting fallout led to prosecutions and court cases in addition to bans on all but the last of her adult films.
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Simpson, and Eve Babitz for this magazine. But for Anolik, host of the new podcast Once Upon a Time in the Valley, Hollywood and the porn industry that Lords dominated in the mid s are far more closely related than either might admit. Or the hypocrisy. The fourth episode drops on Tuesday; get an exclusive preview of that here:. This is sex, glamour, scandal, crime, and the movies—just a different kind of movie. This was a huge scandal, and one I was totally unaware of, because at the time it broke I was seven years old. Confession: I have my own porn past. This is obviously way before I was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Traci, and what happened 25 years ago, was the topic of conversation between these two.
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Traci Lords is a study of a determined and complex woman with a very controversial background. She moved with her divorced mother and three sisters to Los Angeles at age While staying at the house of her mother's boyfriend, Roger, she began nude modeling at age 15, then adult films a year later. An incredibly developed, full-figured girl, she easily duped photographers, producers and directors with the help of a false birth certificate and driver's license.
Traci Lords is a study of a determined and complex woman with a very controversial background. She moved with her divorced mother and three sisters to Los Angeles at age While staying at the house of her mother's boyfriend, Roger, she began nude modeling at age 15, then adult films a year later. An incredibly developed, full-figured girl, she easily duped photographers, producers and directors with the help of a false birth certificate and driver's license. Her stage name is a combination of Traci, from a former school friend, and Lords, in honor of her favorite male actor, Jack Lord Hawaii Five-O She later owned a white Persian cat named Mr. Steve McGarrett, the name of the character Lord played on the show. Traci made somewhere between 80 and X-rated movies some consisted mostly of leftover footage from previous shoots between and
