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Traci Elizabeth Lords was born Nora Louise Kuzma on May 7, 1968, in Stuebenville, Ohio to parents Louis and Patricia Kuzma. She made her stage name by combining the first name of her high school best friend, Traci, and the last name of her favorite actor from Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord. At twelve she fled from her abusive, alcoholic father to Lawndale, California with her mother and three sisters. Later, while attending Redondo Union High School, she had an abortion and after having a nervous breakdown, ran away from home. While living with her Mom's forty-something ex-boyfriend who posed as her stepfather, she used a friend's birth certificate and a fake driver's license indicating that she was twenty-two years of age to fake her way into the porn industry at the age of fifteen, starting with Jim South's World Modeling Agency. Shortly after, she was modelling for widely distributed adult magazines, most notably Penthouse, in the same September 1984 issue that exposed Miss America 1984, Vanessa Williams. She quickly became one of the most popular starlets in town, and by now ventured into Adult movies. Lords's youthful appearance and enthusiastic sexual performances propelled her to stardom and is considered by many to be one of the first porn queens. By the time she was 18, she'd appeared in 100 adult films. (According to Lords' autobiography, however, approx. 80 of those films were comprised from leftover and re-edited footage from the original 20 films that were shot.) But in 1986, federal authorities discovered she was underage while making movies and they arrested her, as well as the owners of her movie agency and X-citement Video, Inc. See United States v. X-Citement Video.
The ensuing prosecution against the agencies cost the pornographic film and distribution industry millions 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 child pornography. Lords herself was never charged, since as a minor she was unable to give legal consent to perform sex acts on film for money. 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. Only one of her films, Traci, I Love You was actually produced after her eighteenth birthday, and is the only one of her films commonly and legally available in the United States. Since Lords retained the distribution rights to that film, there has been speculation within the industry that she engineered the revelation of her age, to channel people's purchasing to the one film which would actually make money for her.
In parts of Europe and other regions where the minimum legal age for involvement in pornographic films is lower, Lords' films and images in a variety of formats are still legally available. The controversy still sparks debate. Government prosecutors declared that Lords was a victim of a manipulative industry, while Lords has claimed that she was drugged and made to do things she did not want to do but did it, because she had a drug habit. But industry insiders, like Ron Jeremy and Ginger Lynn, as well as boyfriends 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. While Lords decries the pornographic film industry, she continues to use the stage name she gave herself as a minor.
The Justice Department was forced to drop all charges when it was revealed that the fake ID which Lords had used to dupe the pornographic film industry was a U.S. passport in the name of Traci Lords - the government had been duped, and any defendant would simply have been able to hide behind the government's error.
Filmography: Frostbite (2005) - Naomi Bucks
Chump Change (2004) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) - Sam
Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2002) - Chameleon
You're Killing Me... (2001) - Laura Engles
Certain Guys (2000) - Kathleen
Epicenter (2000) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) - Amanda Foster
Extramarital (1999) - Elizabeth
Me and Will (1999) - Waitress
Stir (1998) - Kelly Bekins
Blade (1998) - Racquel
Boogie Boy (1998) - Shonda
Nowhere (1997) - Valley Chick #1
Underworld (1996) - Anna
Blood Money (1996) - Wendy Monroe
Virtuosity (1995) - Media Zone Singer
Ice (1993) - Ellen
Serial Mom (1994) - Carl's Date
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II (1994) - Norma
Laser Moon (1992) - Barbara Fleck
The Nutt House (1992) - Miss Tress
Raw Nerve (1991) - Gina Clayton
A Time to Die (1991) - Jackie
Cry-Baby (1990) - Wanda Woodward
Shock 'Em Dead (1991) - Lindsay Roberts
Fast Food (1989) - Dixie Love
Not of This Earth (1988) - Nadine
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