Traci Lords Net Worth

Traci Lords's Quotes

• [asked about her role as Jordan Radcliffe on First Wave (1998)] I jokingly refer to it as the DKNY Militia because she always looks great. When she's battling the aliens, she's always got the best leather pants on.
• My parents never got along. It was a very ugly scene to be a part of.
• [about her porn career] No one put a gun to my head and said "you have to do this."
• [about her porn career] I was really young, I was really stupid about some things.
• I hate the phrase "former porn queen." That part of my life was a long time ago. Think of something else to call me... I'm successful in spite of my past, not because of it.

Interesting Facts about Traci Lords

1. "Traci" comes from her girlfriend's name, "Lords" from Jack Lord (Hawaii Five-O (1968)).
2. She was the centerfold model for the same issue of Penthouse Magazine that "exposed" Miss America 1984, Vanessa Williams. Because she was underage, it was illegal to own or trade that issue unless the pictorial of Ms. Lords was removed.
3. She was Penthouse Pet of the Month in September 1984.
4. She had her name legally changed to Traci Elizabeth Lords.
5. Her husband, Jeff Gruenewald (aka Jeff Lee), is a union ironworker.
6. Her father, Louis Kuzma, was born in West Virginia, of Czech, Slovak, and Ukrainian descent. Her mother, Patricia Louise (Briceland), has English, Scottish, and German ancestry.
7. She has 1st KYU in Bujinkan Ninjutsu.
8. She is easily the most successful of former porn stars to make a transition to mainstream movies.
9. She contributed vocals to the Manic Street Preachers song "Little Baby Nothing," from the Welsh group's "Generation Terrorists" album in 1992, and released as a single in November of that year. The song is about the sexual exploitation of a woman and singer/guitarist James Dean Bradfield said that "we needed somebody, a symbol, a person that could actually symbolize the lyrics and justify them to a certain degree. Traci was more than happy to do it. She saw the lyrics, and she had an immediate affinity with them. It was definitely easy to incorporate her personality into the lyrics. We just wanted a symbol for it, and I think she was a great symbol." Traci said that "I listened to the tape and really identified with the character in the song...this young girl who's been exploited and abused by men all her life."
10. A bra worn by Traci (from her relationship with ex-fiancé John Enos III) sold at auction on eBay for $80.00 in April, 2007.
11. Son, Joseph Gunnar Lee, born October 2007. He weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces.
12. She was almost cast as the female lead in Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995), but lost out to Sharon Stone.
13. In April 1992, she appeared as one of the celebrity models in a charity fashion show staged by Thierry Mugler to benefit AIDS Project Los Angeles.
14. John Tierney introduced her to future husband, Jeff Gruenewald.
15. In 2005 she was Best Supporting Actress for True Crime NYC at the Spike Video Game Awards.
16. In 2012 she was Best Actress- Excision- Festival de Terror de Molins de Rei.
17. In August 2005, she was in Los Feliz, California.
18. She is the subject of the song "Come Back Traci" by Sloppy Seconds.
19. She attended Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, California. A fellow student was Brandy Ledford.
20. After Not of This Earth (1988) established her in mainstream movies , Lords appeared in other films.