Jim South Net Worth is
$1.7 Million
Jim South Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Jim South (born James Marvin Souter, Jr. in Dallas, Texas) is a recruiter and agent in America’s pornography industry.South sold insurance in Dallas for a few years and moved to Los Angeles in 1968. He opened a fashion modeling agency first, then formed the World Modeling Talent Agency in Sherman Oaks, California in 1976. The agency represented many performers and models who worked in adult movies and magazines.World Modeling has represented adult stars such as Shauna Grant, Marc Wallice, Ginger Lynn, Gina Ryder, Savannah, Katie Gold. Cheryl Austin, and Christy Canyon. The agency became infamous for unknowingly representing a then underaged Traci Lords. Through South's agency, 15-year-old Lords started nude modeling under the stage name Kristie Elizabeth Nussman. Lords became the September 1984 Penthouse "Pet of the Month", for which she earned $5000, and first performed in pornographic movies in October 1984.Following the May 1986 revelation that most of Lords' porn work was illegal, South was arrested on March 4, 1987, and was among those later charged by the U.S. government with pandering and child pornography. The charges were eventually dismissed after the discovery that the government had issued Lords a passport under the name Kristi Nussman. (South first learned that Lords' age was in question in a phone call from Suze Randall.)In an interview South said, "The only reason that (the charges were) dropped was that the federal government that saw the very same ID I saw gave Traci a passport to go to Europe to make an X-rated movie." That movie, Traci, I Love You, which was made in Cannes soon after Lords' 18th birthday, is her only legal porn film in the United States.In interviews and her book, Lords held him in perpetual contempt for what she sees as his (and others') unapologetic role in her sexual exploitation. She stated that she named him "Tim North" in her autobiography not for legal reasons but as a means to protect people from him, and to avoid giving him and his company any publicity, which could draw young women into the sex industry. Lords wrote that South gave her cocaine and champagne during her first nude photo shoot at World Modeling. Christy Canyon, a supporter of South, disagrees with this claim, and said that Lords lied a lot in her book. Another performer with South's agency during this period, Colleen Brennan, says "I'm sure lots of people offered Traci coke back in the day, but Jim South wouldn't have been one of them. And it's not like he hung around bus stations trying to recruit, we all came to him."In his investigative memoir Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography, published in the United States by Headpress in 2012, New York journalist Robert Rosen describes the Traci Lords affair as a government sting operation. According to the book, the government was aware that Lords was underage, yet rather than “rescue” her they allowed Lords to continue performing in pornographic movies for a year in
Full Name | James Marvin Souter |
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Profession | Actor, Casting Director, Casting Department |
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1 | Anybody can say or have the opinion they want to have, just like I believe if a girl is of age and she's not drugged or coerced, she has the right to be in a movie, she has the right to rent, buy or view a movie. And if she's against it, she has a right not to be anywhere around it, not to see it in papers or on newsstands or in boxes; that's her right. I think there will always be people who think any of this is degrading for women. |
2 | World Modeling helped start the testing through AIM and Sharon Mitchell that tests for the entire industry about 15 years ago, give or take. In fact, I set her up in the building that I'm in because there are a lot of directors and stuff in this building. And then finally, she expanded and moved. But, everybody has to get a PCRDNA AIDS test every 30 days and have it with them at all times. They must show the director and/or the photographer the original test, not a copy. They also have to be tested for chlamydia and gonorrhea. And they have to do that every 30 days and have proof of it or they don't work. |
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1 | Announced his company will reopen in January 2008. [December 2007] |
2 | His agency represented Ginger Lynn, Gina Ryder, Shauna Grant, Savannah, Katie Gold, Jenaveve Jolie, Monica Mayhem, Dalny Marga, Kristi Myst, Amber Lynn, Ashlyn Gere, Jill Kelly, Christy Canyon, Kristara Barrington and Traci Lords. |
3 | Before opening the adult industry based World Modeling Talent Agency in 1976, South owned a fashion modeling agency. |
4 | While his agency mostly represents female talent, World Modeling has represented male performers. Marc Wallice was a client. |
5 | Scott Schwartz once worked as an assistant at World Modeling. |
6 | Citing declining profits from increased competition, he closed World Modeling in November 2006. |
7 | Traci Lords named him "Tim North" in her autobiography. |
8 | Uncle of Aspen Stevens. |
9 | Father of Jim South Jr. |
10 | Owner of World Modeling, an agency that has long supplied actresses to the adult-film industry. |
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Makin' It | 1994 | Video | |
Up and Cummers: The Movie | 1994 | Video | |
X Factor: The Next Generation | 1991 | Video | Dr. Bob Schwartz |
Sorority Sex Kittens 6 | 2003 | Video | Shady Texas Politician |
Angles | 1999 | Video | |
Close at Hand | 1999 | Video | |
Casting Director
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Rawhide | 2003 | Video | |
The Golden Girl: Part Two | 1993 | Video | |
Casting Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Conquest | 1996 | Video casting agent | |
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Millennium | 1999 | Video special thanks | |
Sex: The Annabel Chong Story | 1999 | Documentary thanks | |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Adventures in Pornoland | 2008 | | Himself |
The Child Star Jinx | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Pornucopia: Going Down in the Valley | 2004 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself / Himself - Talent Agent, World Marketing |
Biography | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Hard Trip | 2003 | Video documentary | Himself |
High Chaparall | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Pornstar Casting Director |
X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
E! True Hollywood Story | 1998-2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Porno Vision | 2001 | Video documentary | Himself |
Give Me Your Soul... | 2000 | Documentary | Himself - Agent |
18 and Nasty 17 | 2000 | Video | Himself |
Beautiful Models | 1999 | Video documentary | |
Rated X: A Journey Through Porn | 1999 | Documentary | Himself |
Sex: The Annabel Chong Story | 1999 | Documentary | Himself - Owner: World Modeling Agency |
Porn... It's a Living | 1998 | | Himself |
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Fallen Angels | 1985 | Video documentary | Himself |
Won Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1996 | XRCO Hall of Fame | X-Rated Critics' Organization, USA | | |