Shannon Eaves, known professionally as Nikki Charm, is an American
pornographic film actor
A pornographic film actor or actress, pornographic performer, adult entertainer, or porn star is a person who performs sex acts on video that is usually characterized as a pornographic film. Such videos tend to be made in a number of distinc ...
XRCO Hall of Fame
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.
Between 1984 and 1990, Charm appeared in nearly 50 videos and was a contract performer with
Vivid Entertainment
Vivid Entertainment Group is an American independent pornographic film production company, Charm stopped appearing in adult videos in 1990, but spent some time as an
exotic dancer
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Modern forms of stripping m ...
. She made a brief return to the adult-entertainment industry between 1998 and 2000, when she appeared in six titles.
In 1986 the media revealed that adult superstar
Traci Lords
Traci Elizabeth Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma; May 7, 1968) is an American actress and singer. As a 15-year-old high-school dropout, she used Identity document forgery, fake identity documents to enter the sex industry, where she began appearin ...
had been appearing in sex videos while underage. Federal authorities suspected that other women may also have performed in such movies before they were legally able, including Charm, and
subpoenas
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were issued seeking access to records confirming her age. Unlike Lords, Charm was able to produce documentation verifying that she had made her first adult movie soon after her 18th birthday and was therefore legally able to appear in pornographic videos.
In October 2002 she was arrested and charged with several counts of
burglary
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and
grand theft auto
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. She was convicted and sentenced to a five-year prison term, which she served in the Central California Women's Facility near Chowchilla.
In early 2011 she returned to the adult industry, working as a production manager, and performed in a scene with
Tom Byron
Tom Byron (born Thomas Bryan Taliaferro Jr.; April 4, 1961) is an American former pornographic actor, director, and producer. A member of the XRCO and the AVN Halls of Fame, he was voted #20 in AVN's list of top 50 pornstars of all time. Byro ...