‏Keli Richards‏

Keli Richards was born in Norwood, Massachusetts and grew up in Denham, Massachusetts. Of Irish and Italian descent, Richards was the youngest in a family of eight children (she has four brothers and three sisters). Moreover, Keli's father was a World War II veteran and a police officer who committed suicide when Keli was eleven years old. Richards was raised by a very strict mother. Keli ran track in high school. Richards dropped out of high school in the tenth grade and got a job as a waitress.

Keli moved to Irvine, California at age eighteen and continued to work as a waitress. Richards answered an ad for modeling and became a client for the World Talent Modeling Agency run by legendary agent Jim South. Keli began her career in adult films in the mid-1980's. Richards quit doing porn in the late 1980's and got married. Keli moved to Rochester, New York and that marriage lasted five months and was annulled. Richards eventually moved again to Canada and married another man. Keli gave birth to a son. Richards divorced her second husband in 1999 and started a career in banking. Keli then went back to school and crossed into the medical field. In addiction, Keli has had problems with drug addiction and survived a third marriage with an abusive spouse. As a result of poor choices she wound serving three and a half years in federal prison. After spending over a decade estranged from her son Richards was reunited with him on Facebook. Keli made a comeback in the porn industry in 2018.