PENTHOUSE Magazine, Volume 19, Number 9, 1984 Traci Lords

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Lords was born Nora Louise Kuzma on May 7, 1968, in Steubenville, Ohio, to Louis and Patricia Kuzma.

Leslie Jay-Gould, Penthouse 's then-vice president and director of public relations: "The issue was beyond huge, was beyond anything. As of 2020, Lords continues to act, and has had a number of films released over the last couple of years. Teaming up with Ashley West and Entercom’s C13 Originals, Anolik dives deep into Lords’s story as well as the porn industry she came up in in Once Upon a Time in the Valley.

The Paul Oakenfold remix of the song was included on the soundtrack of the movie Virtuosity (1995), in which Lords had a cameo appearance.

Lords got into the adult film industry by using a fake birth certificate to conceal the fact that she was two years under the legal age of 18. The second, Beverly Hills Copulator, was released afterwards, but the third movie, Screamer, was shelved. He ran them a few months later, in the January '85 issue, the cover once more featuring Williams and George Burns, and this time reading "Oh, God, I Did It Again! The studio wanted to say the film character was supposed to be older (like 16 or 17) but Kubrick got them to settle on simply not specifying.He immediately cast Lords into the lead role of Nadine Story, and Not of This Earth (1988) became her first mainstream film debut since her departure from the adult film industry.

The "hardcore" nature of the photos was what offended him he would say later, not having the wit—or the self-awareness—to recognize that his pageant was was, like Guccione’s magazine, pornographic, just a different kind of pornographic—the softcore kind.As it turns out, she didn't put up much of a fight for her title in part because there was a second set of photos, this set shot with a different photographer and with her in bondage gear.

The first season of her podcast, “ Once Upon a Time… in the Valley ” was on adult star Traci Lords . Her latest book, the Los Angeles Times bestseller, Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.

And who was this Traci Lords anyway, this teenager who’d single-handedly almost taken out an entire industry of hardened professionals? He wore silk shirts open to the navel, his chest so waxed you could read by its shine and adorned with multiple chains, from one of which dangled a phallus of solid gold. Richard Bleiweiss, Penthouse 's then-art director: "The thing about this issue is, it became the biggest news story in the world. The most important news in the history of our country, having a woman vice presidential nominee, was overshadowed by the fact that we had…well, that we had what we had.