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

Product Information

A Day on the Set of Johnny Depp's New Movie". Teen Beat. Johnny Depp .org. May 1989 . Retrieved May 8, 2023. Dance Club Songs - The Week of February 23, 2013". Billboard. February 23, 2013 . Retrieved August 27, 2016. Falzone, Diana (August 31, 2017). "An adult industry past can be awkward when starting a new career". News.com.au. a b Jordan, Pat (April 1990). "Traci Lords With Her Clothes On" (PDF). GQ: 250–304 . Retrieved March 15, 2016.

Williams, though, was also, at some level, a victim of herself. 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. "People can forgive one mistake," Williams told Rolling Stone , in 1985, "but if the other pictures come out, everyone will say, 'This girl took us for a ride.'" (Guccione, incidentally, would get his hot little hands on those photos, too. 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!") Waters, John (2019). Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374214968. Thank God I have lived long enough," said Rep. Shirley Chisholm, "that this nation has been able to select the beautiful young woman of color to be Miss America."Riemenschneider, Chris (August 12, 1995). "Lollapalooza Fans Can Dance Till Dawn at Post-Concert Rave". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2015-03-06. During late May 1986 (around three weeks after Lords' 18th birthday), authorities were informed that she had been underage when she appeared in the porn movies. She had lied (according to Lords, it was a "white lie") to law enforcement, photographers, producers, directors, co-workers, and the general public for two years. The owners of her movie agency and X-Citement Video, Inc. were arrested (see United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc.). She was taken into protective custody and hired high-profile lawyer Leslie Abramson. On July 10, district attorney's investigators searched Lords' Redondo Beach home as well as the Sun Valley offices of Vantage International Productions (a major producer of adult movies) and the Sherman Oaks offices of modeling agent Jim South. South and other industry officials said that Lords, who was seeking employment, provided a California driver's license, a U.S. passport, and a birth certificate, which stated that her name was Kristie Nussman and gave a birth date of November 17, 1962. Leslie Jay, a spokeswoman for Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, also said Lords showed identification indicating that she was older than 18 before the illicit photos for the September 1984 issue were taken. [19] When investigators used Lords' fake birth certificate and fake state identification cards to locate the real Kristie Nussman, Nussman said that her birth certificate had been stolen a few years earlier and that an impostor had apparently forged her name on official forms. Two adults who knew Lords, but who requested anonymity, said they saw her picture in the adult magazine Velvet during July 1984 and telephoned the district attorney's office to inform authorities that she was underage, but that an investigator told them, "There isn't anything we can do about it." [20] [21]

The story of Traci Lords, though, doesn’t seem like the most obvious Hollywood saga—after all, it takes place over the hills in the San Fernando Valley. 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 1980s are far more closely related than either might admit. “The porn industry is overtly about what the movie industry is covertly about: sex and fantasy, objectification and exploitation,” Anolik said. “It’s the movie industry without the pretense. Or the hypocrisy.” Pinsker, Beth (November 13, 1998). " Boogie Boy is weirdly sublime". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved March 13, 2016.

Gingold, Michael (June 13, 2013). "The 2013 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards Results!". Fangoria. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013 . Retrieved August 27, 2016.