In the wake of the Lords mess, young-looking starlets Nikki Charm, Ali Moore and Kristara Barrington were ostracized upon the first hints of rumors that they too were underaged. With the strict penalties–forfeiture of assets, long prison terms and six figure fines–for using underaged models, pornographers run like hell from those whose age is questionable. “And that was done with more a wink and a nod than any serious effort to determine what her real age was.” Was this allegation true? “She tells us that she was told to just get some kind of I. Instead she made the most damaging claim of all: that those she had worked for knew she was a minor. To the industry that made her show biz success possible, Traci showed no gratitude. She got roles in the feature films Fast Food, Shock ’em Dead, A Time to Die, Raw Nerve, The Object of Desire, Laser Moon and the John Waters comedies Nutty Nut and Cry Baby–which AVN editor Gene Ross called “a poetically apt title.” She starred in the sci-fi / horror film Not of This World. Traci appeared in the TV series’ Wiseguy, MacGyver, and Married with Children. Aaron Spelling was reported to have paid $100,000 for the rights to her life story.

“You don’t really understand the consequences.” She claimed that producers kept her stoned on drugs and her agent got most of the money she made. “At that age, you don’t really understand what you’re doing,” she said. Now she was an innocent, a child-victim.Īs usual, Traci played her role well. No longer was Traci a scarlet woman too steeped in shame for the wholesome sponsors of American television and silver screen. To Jeremy and others with ambitions in the non-porn film world, the most grating result of the Lords affair was how it opened Hollywood to her. You do it by posing as a poor, abused child, victimized by evil pornographers.Īs Ron Jeremy wrote in Adult Video News: “Isn’t it nice that such a sweet kid can make so many career moves, make so much money, beat her IRS rap, her fake passport felony rap, and at the same time bury an entire industry! Only in Hollywood!”īelow is the conclusion of SKINFLICKS, Chapter 12: The Goddess. How do you make the transition from porn stardom to a so-called “legitimate” acting career?

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