Porn Legend Jim South Passes Away #RIP

Sources are reporting that former agent Jim South of World Modeling has passed away today. He was 90 years old.

Jim South was a true legend in the adult industry, known and beloved by many.

World Modeling became infamous for unknowingly representing a then underaged Traci Lords. Through South’s agency, 15-year-old Lords started nude modeling; she had introduced herself with a fraudulent identification card on the name Kristie Elizabeth Nussman that made her 22 years old. Lords became the September 1984 Penthouse “Pet of the Month,” for which she earned $5,000, and first performed in pornographic movies in October 1984.

In 1991, porn producers discovered that Alexandra Quinn, a World Modeling talent, had entered porn in 1990 at age 17. Quinn pretended that she was born in 1968, the same year as Traci Lords’ birth. Unlike the Lord’s case, Quinn did not generate a scandal with media coverage, nor did anyone face legal action.

World Modeling went out of business in November 2006 because of declining profits. Over a year later on December 5, 2007, South announced the reopening of World Modeling with a change of direction as well as an intent to reduce the number of young women he represents.

It’s not known exactly how he died. He had just moved into hospice care. Again he was 90 years old, and died sometime today.