Traci Lords

American noted porno actress who took her name from her idol, Jack Lord in TV's "Hawaii Five-O." (Tracy Lords was also the name of Grace Kelly's character in High Society). At 14, she ran away from home and an abusive, alcoholic dad. Hitting the streets, doing nude photos and a "Penthouse" centerfold at age 15, she was already involved in drugs and booze and she learned to make easy money in pornographic movies.

Lords did more than a hundred porn films and videos between 1984-1986, titles such as "Breaking It," "New Wave Hookers" and "Sister Dearest." Her pouty lips, full bosom and fresh looks captured blue-movie audiences all over the world. When the FBI discovered her films, many distributors were fined because of selling under-age sex films. After age 18, Lords made one more porno in France, "Traci, I Love You." In 1989, she successfully made an unprecedented transition to serious film with "Cry Baby," "Not of this Earth," "The Nutty Nut" and "Raw Nerve."

Lords married prop master Brook Yeaton in 1990, settling comfortably into domesticity. In a later interview she said, "It was never about sex, need or obsession, all that pornography meant was a means to get drugs. All I cared about was getting high. I had no inhibitions or morality of sense of anything but wanting drugs."