Pretty Kandi Barbour was discovered by photographer Diana Hardy in the 1970s. As a teenager and under Hardy’s direction, Kandi began posing for various men’s magazines. At 19, she ventured into the world of hardcore pornography, appearing in over 30 films. She eventually left the adult film business to focus on mainstream modeling. She became a familiar figure in a series of television commercials for various K-Tel Records releases in the 80s.
Kandi split her time between Los Angeles and Honolulu, Hawaii, where she worked as an exotic dancer at Club Hubba Hubba.
After falling out of the public eye, Kandi was discovered dead from exposure on a San Francisco street in January 2012. Her body was unclaimed and was donated for medical research and later cremated.
Court records revealed that Hawaiian railroad and shipping mogul Laurence Dorcy had left a substantial sum of money to Kandi in his will when he passed away in 2011. At the time, no one knew how to locate or contact Kandi and the inheritance went unclaimed.