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01-06-2008, 03:15 AM
Traci Lords Biography
(a.k.a. Tracy Lords)
* Real name: Nora Louise Kuzma
* Born: 07/05/1968
* Birthplace: Steubenville, Ohio
* Aliases: Traci Lords, Traci Elizabeth Lords
* Hair: Blonde
* Eyes: Green
* Height: 5'7"
* Siblings: 3 sisters
* Hobbies: Writing poetry, music and song lyrics
* Cat's Name: Steve McGarrett
* Favorite Actor: Jack Lord (Hawaii FIVE-O)
* Favorite Actress: Katherine Hepburn
* Favorite TV Show: Hawaii Five-0
* Favorite Film: The Jungle Book
* Books: Traci Lords: A Perspective by Paul Hugli, Traci On Paper
Traci Lord's Nora Kuzma's parents divorced when she was a young girl. Her mother decided to move her family, which consisted of Nora and her three sisters, to a new life. They found it in Lawndale, California - just east of Redondo Beach. Nora entered Redondo Union High School in 1983 and she appears in the Fusion '83 yearbook. She was also on the Junior Varsity Swim Team.
When she was fifteen she became pregnant and decided to have an abortion - which she paid for herself. Also at fifteen, wild child Nora finally ran away from home and an older male "friend" took her to Jim South's World Modeling Agency of Sherman Oaks, California. She signed up using the name Kristie Elizabeth Nussman, producing valid-looking documents attesting to her identification and age. South had Nora, or Kristie, strip while he took Polaroid photos as a test shoot. She was sent on her first real "assignment" shortly thereafter.
Nora/Kristie soon changed her name to Traci Lords. She says she chose the name "Lords" as a sort of homage to her favorite actor, Jack Lord of Hawaii 5-0 fame. The earliest spellings of her name vary from "Tracie" to "Tracy" to "Traci" - the final spelling that she still uses today. This name game even led to an Adult Video News (AVN) columnist to comment in the November 1984 issue: "How do you spell a name? Tracy Lords, Tracie Lords or Traci Lords? Since it's gotta be a fake name anyway, this little cutie probably doesn't care how we spell it, as long as she can cash her check each Friday when she finishes her weekly film." Within just a few short months, Traci went from being a featured performer to Adult Film Mega-Star.
Her videos outsold other porn starlets' by 10-to-1. Traci's sexual fervor and appetite on the set were unparalleled according to many of her costars. They say that she enjoyed what she did and couldn't get enough. The Traci Lords "orgasm" is legendary - those screams and squeals are instantly recognizable.
In the summer of 1986 the FBI raided an apartment at the corner of Catalina and Garnet in Redondo Beach - Traci's apartment. They found her fake IDs. Traci's ride was over. Reportedly an anonymous tip to the authorities led to the raid. There have been some that claim Traci's mother or that even Traci herself was the informant.
Traci had just recently formed her own company, The Traci Lords Company, and was producing her own Adult Films. What better way to corner the Traci Lords market than by making all previous films legally unavailable? This is, of course, only one of many theories and is probably untrue. Who knows? What is known is that Traci's escapades almost brought down the Adult Film Industry with thousands of cassettes being pulled and indictments flying left and right. Traci was never prosecuted. "One day Traci Lords will wind up as the cornerstone of a bank..."
Traci disappeared. She needed to distance herself from her former life. Traci denies much of her past and claims a major cocaine addiction and exploitation at the hands of the porn industry. She sometimes states that she doesn't even remember making the videos that made her hundreds of thousands of dollars, she was either too drunk or too high. Others say that this is a bunch of crap. More than a few past acquaintances have noted Traci's tendency to lie - even about silly, pointless things. To this day, many claim Traci is an habitual liar and just can't help herself. She later took voice and ballet lessons, and trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Hollywood. She released an "exercise" video and got the lead in Not of This Earth. Her straight career was finally going somewhere.
On the set of Cry Baby she met Brook Yeaton, a propmaster, and the two were married on September 29, 1990 in a traditional Catholic ceremony. In 1995 the couple divorced (also a Catholic tradition). In 1996 Traci became engaged to John Enos. In 1997 they broke up. On June 26, 1999 Traci married actor Ryan Riel Grainger. In February 2000 Traci filed for divorce in Torrance Superior Court citing irreconcilable differences. The couple had been living apart since January 5, reportedly. [geez, does she eat crackers in bed or fart at the dinner table? what's the deal with the relationship failure rate Traci?] "Credibility is my goal now."
Today Traci gets regular film and TV work. Some are bit parts with only a line or two and some are starring roles. In 1995 Traci released a CD of techno dance music entitled '1000 Fires.' While not everyone's cup of tea, the CD did receive critical praise. A second release is promised for later in 1999. She continues to strive for credibility because she will always be Traci Lords "ex-porn star." In a perfect world this shouldn't matter, but in this world of hypocrisy and double standards it means everything
Traci Lords (May 7 1968 - ) "If you're sexy, everybody will love you. That's what I wanted."
Here is a young lady so perfect, so straight from God's own Heaven that developing anything remotely resembling an "uncomplimentary" biography of her would be next to impossible. What a babe. What a fox and a half, this Traci Lords. She's considered by many to be the most influential, competent underage porn star of the late twentieth century. Her very name inspires enthusiastic shivers of delight through anyone familiar with child molestation or popular culture of the mid-1980's.
This delicious dish of vanilla ice cream was born Nora Louise Kuzma, in Steubenville, Ohio -- but later moved to Lawndale, California with her mother and three sisters to escape an alcoholic father. While a high school student at Redondo Union, she ran away from home and had an abortion.
Then suddenly at age fifteen, she's the centerfold in the September 1984 issue of Penthouse magazine! What the fuck? How does that happen? This is the same issue which exposes would-be Miss America Vanessa Williams in a black and white lesbian pictorial. There's an interview with John Travolta, a feature on Boy George, rumors of a Penthouse Treasure Hunt -- and a Hyapatia Lee spread near the back, but in one shot she's poking what looks like a super-sharp fingernail up her rear end, so no thanks. Traci Lords sells this issue all by herself.
How does a teenager from Ohio fool a room of professional photographers, lawyers, agents and human resource professionals? She goes and lives with a man in his forties who pretends to be her stepfather. Together they visit Jim South's World Modeling Agency with a fake driver's license. Traci announces she's a newcomer to the business, discovered while sunbathing at Malibu Beach. She strips naked and demonstrates she isn't shy. Then she identifies herself as twenty-two year old Kristie Elizabeth Nussman. Reports indicate she also had a license made for a one miss Christie Lee Nussman, which suggests that even at the tender age of fifteen, Traci was working twice as hard to lick twice as many dicks.
Traci adapted her stage name from the character of Tracy Lord portrayed by Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story. Between the ages of fifteen and sixteen, Traci centerfolded for Oui, Hustler, High Society, and Swank, often appearing more than once in the magazine due to her tremendous increase in popularity. Among the photographers? Suze Randall, a woman whose name you see regularly but never care about. It goes without saying that owning any one of these magazines is now considered a felony, but nobody cares. Traci's layouts are totally killer and worth it.
At age sixteen, she was paid ten thousand dollars for four days' work on her first adult video, What Gets Me Hot. Her fuck-suck scenes with Tom Byron were stellar, propelling her to worldwide superstardom overnight. She was featured alongside all the biggest names in pornography from day one. She was literally everything a man could ever hope for. Make no mistake: it was not Traci's youthful appearance which made her so appealing, but her insane enthusiasm for sex, her voracious on-screen sexual appetite. Traci did straight and lesbian scenes with the confident brush strokes of an Italian Renaissance painter. She performed until she was exhausted. When confronted with something as potentially mundane as a solo masturbation sequence, her attention to erotic detail was unparalleled. She had full round breasts, a totally fuckable face, and her ass was a delicious peach. Traci Lords had it all.
By the time she was eighteen, Traci had appeared in one hundred and seven adult films, usually under the influence of ***** or "managers". Each successive film grew incrementally more explicit, more jerkoffable, and more wonderful than the last. Great stuff. Four cocks all at once, big sloppy whatnots all over the face, and that tried-and-true patented fuck-me stature which these days can only be fully experienced outside the United States. Eighteen is great-teen in European brothels, but I guess it's just not for America.
One side effect of so many people wanting to fuck Traci was all the nosy, snoopy, busybody no-goodniks who felt like getting to know her. Traci's background was investigated in 1987, yielding a storm of further curiosities. She was nineteen and legal when her true date of birth was finally revealed, but the fallout was devastating. Her numerous agents, her dozens of video producers, her hundreds of distributors were immediately prosecuted. Hundreds of thousands of tapes were yanked off shelves by desperate adult book store owners unable to afford serious accusations of trafficking child pornography. For the next four years, police agents, church groups and concerned parents would regularly conduct "raids" of porn shops, hoping to find stray Traci tapes the owners had missed. Meanwhile, normal healthy adult pornography enthusiasts were doing the same thing.
Traci Lords has experienced great success
Traci Lords has experienced great success in all areas of modern popular culture. She has sold numerous record albums, appeared in the dramatic television series The Profiler and the SciFi Channel's First Wave. Her acting talent is legitimately showcased in multiple films by John Waters (Serial Mom, Crybaby).
But she would not suck dick in this town again. Congress responded swiftly, enacting harsh legislation to combat pedophilia and its commercial exploitation. A law signed by President Reagan on October 18, 1986 imposed new and specific obligations on producers of explicit sexual conduct. When you see mandatory references to "Section 18 U.S.C. 2257" or "Section 75 C.F.R" during the opening credits of any one of your many beat-off tapes or digital video discs, you're looking directly at a silent homage to the legacy of Traci Lords.
(a.k.a. Tracy Lords)
* Real name: Nora Louise Kuzma
* Born: 07/05/1968
* Birthplace: Steubenville, Ohio
* Aliases: Traci Lords, Traci Elizabeth Lords
* Hair: Blonde
* Eyes: Green
* Height: 5'7"
* Siblings: 3 sisters
* Hobbies: Writing poetry, music and song lyrics
* Cat's Name: Steve McGarrett
* Favorite Actor: Jack Lord (Hawaii FIVE-O)
* Favorite Actress: Katherine Hepburn
* Favorite TV Show: Hawaii Five-0
* Favorite Film: The Jungle Book
* Books: Traci Lords: A Perspective by Paul Hugli, Traci On Paper
Traci Lord's Nora Kuzma's parents divorced when she was a young girl. Her mother decided to move her family, which consisted of Nora and her three sisters, to a new life. They found it in Lawndale, California - just east of Redondo Beach. Nora entered Redondo Union High School in 1983 and she appears in the Fusion '83 yearbook. She was also on the Junior Varsity Swim Team.
When she was fifteen she became pregnant and decided to have an abortion - which she paid for herself. Also at fifteen, wild child Nora finally ran away from home and an older male "friend" took her to Jim South's World Modeling Agency of Sherman Oaks, California. She signed up using the name Kristie Elizabeth Nussman, producing valid-looking documents attesting to her identification and age. South had Nora, or Kristie, strip while he took Polaroid photos as a test shoot. She was sent on her first real "assignment" shortly thereafter.
Nora/Kristie soon changed her name to Traci Lords. She says she chose the name "Lords" as a sort of homage to her favorite actor, Jack Lord of Hawaii 5-0 fame. The earliest spellings of her name vary from "Tracie" to "Tracy" to "Traci" - the final spelling that she still uses today. This name game even led to an Adult Video News (AVN) columnist to comment in the November 1984 issue: "How do you spell a name? Tracy Lords, Tracie Lords or Traci Lords? Since it's gotta be a fake name anyway, this little cutie probably doesn't care how we spell it, as long as she can cash her check each Friday when she finishes her weekly film." Within just a few short months, Traci went from being a featured performer to Adult Film Mega-Star.
Her videos outsold other porn starlets' by 10-to-1. Traci's sexual fervor and appetite on the set were unparalleled according to many of her costars. They say that she enjoyed what she did and couldn't get enough. The Traci Lords "orgasm" is legendary - those screams and squeals are instantly recognizable.
In the summer of 1986 the FBI raided an apartment at the corner of Catalina and Garnet in Redondo Beach - Traci's apartment. They found her fake IDs. Traci's ride was over. Reportedly an anonymous tip to the authorities led to the raid. There have been some that claim Traci's mother or that even Traci herself was the informant.
Traci had just recently formed her own company, The Traci Lords Company, and was producing her own Adult Films. What better way to corner the Traci Lords market than by making all previous films legally unavailable? This is, of course, only one of many theories and is probably untrue. Who knows? What is known is that Traci's escapades almost brought down the Adult Film Industry with thousands of cassettes being pulled and indictments flying left and right. Traci was never prosecuted. "One day Traci Lords will wind up as the cornerstone of a bank..."
Traci disappeared. She needed to distance herself from her former life. Traci denies much of her past and claims a major cocaine addiction and exploitation at the hands of the porn industry. She sometimes states that she doesn't even remember making the videos that made her hundreds of thousands of dollars, she was either too drunk or too high. Others say that this is a bunch of crap. More than a few past acquaintances have noted Traci's tendency to lie - even about silly, pointless things. To this day, many claim Traci is an habitual liar and just can't help herself. She later took voice and ballet lessons, and trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Hollywood. She released an "exercise" video and got the lead in Not of This Earth. Her straight career was finally going somewhere.
On the set of Cry Baby she met Brook Yeaton, a propmaster, and the two were married on September 29, 1990 in a traditional Catholic ceremony. In 1995 the couple divorced (also a Catholic tradition). In 1996 Traci became engaged to John Enos. In 1997 they broke up. On June 26, 1999 Traci married actor Ryan Riel Grainger. In February 2000 Traci filed for divorce in Torrance Superior Court citing irreconcilable differences. The couple had been living apart since January 5, reportedly. [geez, does she eat crackers in bed or fart at the dinner table? what's the deal with the relationship failure rate Traci?] "Credibility is my goal now."
Today Traci gets regular film and TV work. Some are bit parts with only a line or two and some are starring roles. In 1995 Traci released a CD of techno dance music entitled '1000 Fires.' While not everyone's cup of tea, the CD did receive critical praise. A second release is promised for later in 1999. She continues to strive for credibility because she will always be Traci Lords "ex-porn star." In a perfect world this shouldn't matter, but in this world of hypocrisy and double standards it means everything
Traci Lords (May 7 1968 - ) "If you're sexy, everybody will love you. That's what I wanted."
Here is a young lady so perfect, so straight from God's own Heaven that developing anything remotely resembling an "uncomplimentary" biography of her would be next to impossible. What a babe. What a fox and a half, this Traci Lords. She's considered by many to be the most influential, competent underage porn star of the late twentieth century. Her very name inspires enthusiastic shivers of delight through anyone familiar with child molestation or popular culture of the mid-1980's.
This delicious dish of vanilla ice cream was born Nora Louise Kuzma, in Steubenville, Ohio -- but later moved to Lawndale, California with her mother and three sisters to escape an alcoholic father. While a high school student at Redondo Union, she ran away from home and had an abortion.
Then suddenly at age fifteen, she's the centerfold in the September 1984 issue of Penthouse magazine! What the fuck? How does that happen? This is the same issue which exposes would-be Miss America Vanessa Williams in a black and white lesbian pictorial. There's an interview with John Travolta, a feature on Boy George, rumors of a Penthouse Treasure Hunt -- and a Hyapatia Lee spread near the back, but in one shot she's poking what looks like a super-sharp fingernail up her rear end, so no thanks. Traci Lords sells this issue all by herself.
How does a teenager from Ohio fool a room of professional photographers, lawyers, agents and human resource professionals? She goes and lives with a man in his forties who pretends to be her stepfather. Together they visit Jim South's World Modeling Agency with a fake driver's license. Traci announces she's a newcomer to the business, discovered while sunbathing at Malibu Beach. She strips naked and demonstrates she isn't shy. Then she identifies herself as twenty-two year old Kristie Elizabeth Nussman. Reports indicate she also had a license made for a one miss Christie Lee Nussman, which suggests that even at the tender age of fifteen, Traci was working twice as hard to lick twice as many dicks.
Traci adapted her stage name from the character of Tracy Lord portrayed by Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story. Between the ages of fifteen and sixteen, Traci centerfolded for Oui, Hustler, High Society, and Swank, often appearing more than once in the magazine due to her tremendous increase in popularity. Among the photographers? Suze Randall, a woman whose name you see regularly but never care about. It goes without saying that owning any one of these magazines is now considered a felony, but nobody cares. Traci's layouts are totally killer and worth it.
At age sixteen, she was paid ten thousand dollars for four days' work on her first adult video, What Gets Me Hot. Her fuck-suck scenes with Tom Byron were stellar, propelling her to worldwide superstardom overnight. She was featured alongside all the biggest names in pornography from day one. She was literally everything a man could ever hope for. Make no mistake: it was not Traci's youthful appearance which made her so appealing, but her insane enthusiasm for sex, her voracious on-screen sexual appetite. Traci did straight and lesbian scenes with the confident brush strokes of an Italian Renaissance painter. She performed until she was exhausted. When confronted with something as potentially mundane as a solo masturbation sequence, her attention to erotic detail was unparalleled. She had full round breasts, a totally fuckable face, and her ass was a delicious peach. Traci Lords had it all.
By the time she was eighteen, Traci had appeared in one hundred and seven adult films, usually under the influence of ***** or "managers". Each successive film grew incrementally more explicit, more jerkoffable, and more wonderful than the last. Great stuff. Four cocks all at once, big sloppy whatnots all over the face, and that tried-and-true patented fuck-me stature which these days can only be fully experienced outside the United States. Eighteen is great-teen in European brothels, but I guess it's just not for America.
One side effect of so many people wanting to fuck Traci was all the nosy, snoopy, busybody no-goodniks who felt like getting to know her. Traci's background was investigated in 1987, yielding a storm of further curiosities. She was nineteen and legal when her true date of birth was finally revealed, but the fallout was devastating. Her numerous agents, her dozens of video producers, her hundreds of distributors were immediately prosecuted. Hundreds of thousands of tapes were yanked off shelves by desperate adult book store owners unable to afford serious accusations of trafficking child pornography. For the next four years, police agents, church groups and concerned parents would regularly conduct "raids" of porn shops, hoping to find stray Traci tapes the owners had missed. Meanwhile, normal healthy adult pornography enthusiasts were doing the same thing.
Traci Lords has experienced great success
Traci Lords has experienced great success in all areas of modern popular culture. She has sold numerous record albums, appeared in the dramatic television series The Profiler and the SciFi Channel's First Wave. Her acting talent is legitimately showcased in multiple films by John Waters (Serial Mom, Crybaby).
But she would not suck dick in this town again. Congress responded swiftly, enacting harsh legislation to combat pedophilia and its commercial exploitation. A law signed by President Reagan on October 18, 1986 imposed new and specific obligations on producers of explicit sexual conduct. When you see mandatory references to "Section 18 U.S.C. 2257" or "Section 75 C.F.R" during the opening credits of any one of your many beat-off tapes or digital video discs, you're looking directly at a silent homage to the legacy of Traci Lords.