Handsome and likable Levi Richards was born Richard Livert on July 31, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York. Livert was in the debating group in high school and worked part-time jobs as a busboy as a teenager. Richard left home at age 18 to attend Southern Illinois University. Upon returning to New York Livert got a job managing Rita Dimitri's La Chansonette supper club in Manhattan. While working at said club Richard met Lee Strasberg, who encouraged Richard to try acting. In 1968 Livert left New York to seek fame and fortune in Los Angeles, California. Richard subsequently joined theater groups like the Venice Free Theater and began acting in plays. After seeing an ad in the L.A. Free Press for nude modeling, Livert started nude modeling on the side in order to supplement his meager income. Richard made a subsequent transition into 8mm softcore loops before moving onto hardcore features for Jack Genero.

Livert eventually returned to New York in 1971 and tried his hand at selling jeans, jewelry, t-shirts, and cosmetics as well as worked in restaurants, moved furniture, and took care of animals before resuming his career in adult films. Among the notable East Coast adult filmmakers that Richard appeared in X-rated movies for are Gerard Damiano, Radley Metzger, Joseph W. Sarno, Eduardo Cemano, and Doris Wishman. Livert got married in 1975 and, since his wife wasn't impressed with the porno business, made the choice to quit the adult cinema scene altogether. Richard continued to act in theater productions for a few years before acquiring a real estate license in 1988. Livert obtained a Professional Certificate in Real Estate from New York University and became a member of the Real Estate Board of New York. Richard started as a broker at the Michael A. Burak Company and spent much of his real estate career as Director of Sales at the Winick Realty Group prior to joining Goldstein Realty Commercial in the spring of 2000. After Goldstein Realty was purchased by the Prudential Douglas Elliman Commercial Group, Livert went on to work for Douglas Elliman as a real estate broker. Richard's life came to an abrupt tragic end when he committed suicide on October 6, 2015. He was 71 years old.

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