Vikki lamotta biography

Vikki LaMotta, born Beverly Thailer, was an American model and the second wife of champion boxer Jake LaMotta, during his peak years of success, during which time Vikki became a celebrity.
Vikki LaMotta (January 23, 1930 – January 25, 2005), born Beverly Thailer, was an American model and the second wife of champion boxer Jake LaMotta.
The story of Vikki LaMotta's life reads like a highlight reel from a television mini-series.

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Vikki LaMotta (January 23, 1930 – January 25, 2005), born Beverly Thailer, was an American model known as the second wife of champion boxer Jake LaMotta, during his peak years of success, during which time Vikki became a celebrity.

In the 1990s, she wrote an autobiography, but requested it not be released until after her death due to the information revealed in the book. After she died in 2005, Knockout!: The Sexy, Violent, Extraordinary Life of Vikki Lamotta was released. She was born in the Bronx, the daughter of Abraham Lucien and Margaret ‘Ruth’ Thailer. She had several siblings, including two sisters, Phyllis and Patricia. Her paternal grandparents were immigrants from Romania.

She married LaMotta when she was 16 after they met at a community pool. It was his second marriage and Vikki’s first. They divorced in 1957, after 11 years of marriage. During that time, Jake’s boxing career had started to slow down, and he began taking out his anger on Vikki. He became controlling of her, and Vikki was forced to leave him even though, at the time, they had three small children.

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The Vikki LaMotta Story: Jake, Raging Bull, Playboy, Sinatra and The Mob

Ricky Hatton used to talk about the "red mist" that descended on him sometimes in the ring. It cost him his two biggest fights – against Floyd Mayweather Jnr and Manny Pacquiao – and, away from the ring, he suffered from a similar impulse, an irresistible urge to "go for it".

Yet two weeks in rehab, the loss of his licence and a £20,000 fine do not seem to have convinced the Hitman he has a problem with drink or drugs, even though he clearly has issues adjusting to life after boxing. Fighters can be like that. As soon as they stop believing they're some version of superman, it's all or nothing – often nothing. No athlete carries the psychic baggage boxers are lumbered with. It comes in many forms and the crime sheet is long.

While Hatton has done nothing more than fall prey to human idiocy and put his trust in a friend who ran to the newspapers with an incriminating video, he may benefit from reading about another vulnerable member of his calling whose urges were far more destructive an