Traci Lords is an American actress, singer, model, producer, writer, and director who is best known as the most renowned and successful juvenile adult film star, having appeared in over 100 films as a teenager. Lords earned the Fright Meter Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2012 and the Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2013.

What is the Net worth of Traci Lords?

Traci Lords successful heartbreaking career has earned her a $7 million dollar net worth. Her main sources of income include her singing, modeling, acting, writing, and directing.

Early childhood and education

Traci Lords was born on May 7, 1968, as Nora Louise Kuzma in Steubenville, Ohio, USA. She is of Caucasian ancestry and of American nationality. Lords is the daughter of Patricia Kuzma and Louis Kuzma, both steelworkers. Lorraine is her older sister, and Rachel and Grace are her younger sisters.

Lords’ parents split when she was seven years old because her father was an alcoholic who sexually abused her mother on a regular basis. After his parents divorced, Lords moved to her great-house, grandmother’s which was nearby, with her mother and three sisters.

Lords, according to her, had a difficult adolescence. At the age of ten, she was raped at a friend’s birthday celebration by a 16-year-old boy. She began attending Redondo Union High School in 1982. During this period, she developed a belligerent demeanor.

Professionalism

Traci Lords began her adult film career at the age of 15, acting in a few films. Lords appeared in John Waters’ Cry-Baby and Serial Mom in 1994. She has also appeared in a number of television shows, including Melrose Place. HarperCollins published her autobiography, ‘Traci Lords: Underneath It All,’ in July 2003.

Lords was cast in Kevin Smith’s comedy picture ‘Zack and Miri Make a Porno’ in 2008, alongside former adult-movie star Katie Morgan.

In the following years, she starred in the science fiction film ‘Princess of Mars.’ Some of her major television work as a mainstream actor included the schizo-sicko serial murderer Sharon Lesher in season 2 of Profiler (1996) from 1997 to 1998, as well as the tough heroine Jordan Radcliffe in the last season of the sci-fi series First Wave (1998) from 2000 to 2001. Lords even tried her hand at writing and directing a short film, which led to another career as an indie film writer-director.

Private life

Traci Lords has numerous affairs and married three men in her life. From 1990 until 1995, she was married to American actor Brook Yeaton. Later, Lords married for the second time to Ryan Granger in 1999, but the marriage was short-lived, and they divorced in 2000.

Lords married actor/producer Jeff Gruenewald on February 23, 2002, and they have one kid, Joseph Gunnar Lee, born on October 7, 2007. The pair currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Lords previously collaborated with various celebrities, including John Enos III from 1995 to 1996, Joey Ramone in 1993, Riki Rachtman in 1992, Slash in 1989, Dave Coulier in 1988, Tom Byron, and Harry Reems.

Lords was arrested by FBI investigators in May 1986 after it was revealed that she was underage, which meant that any films featuring her were unlawful to rent or buy, and video stores across the country hastened to remove them. Traci’s first legal adult film was I Love You (1987), which she shot on her 18th birthday in Paris, France.

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