Laura D'Atri

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Laura D'Atri is a retired topless dancer, glamour model, adult model, escort and sometime porn star.

Laura D'Atri worked as a topless and nude dancer when in college. After college, her first job was as a copy writer and producer for a Los Angeles TV station in the news department. She began modeling nude semi-professionally and for a couple of professional photographers for extra money. This eventually became her full-time employment after the TV station discovered what she was doing when an upper management person saw a layout in a magazine while on vacation in Europe. Leaving the TV station made finances even tighter and she was introduced by one of her photographers to a rather exclusive madam who was servicing the entertainment and wealthy businessmen in Los Angeles. She worked as an escort for over five years while working as a nude model and sometime "fluffer" for porn films. At this time she was recruited by a porn producer to do a "special" film for a wealthy private indivdual. It was to be a private film showing the buyer's favorite fantasies. The buyer did not want known porn actors in the film thinking it would be more realistic using unknowns. She went on to do four more of these "collector" films for different individuals.

D'Atri met and eventually married a cinematographer who was not in the porn industry, but worked for major studios on many first-run major motion pictures. She ended her work as an escort shortly after their marriage, but she continued as a model for men's magazines and her work for the porn film industry, at the time a minor part of her career. On a visit to Italy to see her future husband who was working on location there she ran into Bob Guccione who she had done several photoshoots with. She was given a small bit part in the infamous movie Caligula as a participant in the orgy scenes. This film has been edited and re-edited so many times, some editions have left her scenes on the cutting room floor, but she can be seen briefly in one of the versions available today.

Over her career, she has worked for Playboy and Penthouse, never as a centerfold but in pictorial essays and advertisements for the magazines and special edition publications for the magazines. At one time she likely appearred in every men's magazine published during the 1970's and early 1980's. Towards the end of her career she did more pornographic work, mostly for magazines and other print matter. She retired in 1992, but did a couple of shoots for photographer friends afterwards, but the last was shot in 1995 at the age of 46.

Laura is still married to the cinematographer and they recently celebrated their 34th anniversary. Both are retired and living in Arizona today. They have no children. She has always been an advocate and practices exercise, and healthy diet which she attributes her longivity in the modeling business and still much younger than her years physical appearance, today. She spends her time today working with local charities and no kill animal shelters. She is also writting a book on her life and the industry.