Biographie de Vikki Lamotta and Thomas Hause
Vikki LaMotta was born in the Bronx on January 23, 1930 and was married to the middle weight champion Jake LaMotta for eleven years. Jake and Vikki had a daughter Christi and two sons - Jake Jr. and Joe - both of whom died in 1998. Jake Jr. died of liver cancer and Joe in an airplane crash. In 1962, she married Tony Foster; they had a son, Harrison, and later divorced.
Vikki was a chorus girl, model and promoted the Vikki LaMotta Cosmetics line.
She wrote this autobiography in the 1990s but did not want it released until after her death due to the information revealed in the book.
Vikki lived a full life and died in 2005 in Boca Raton , Florida, two days after her 75th birthday.
Thomas Hauser is an attorney and well-known author based in New York city with over 50 published fiction and nonfiction books. His ability to explain and bring to life events of complexity and importance has secured his reputation as a responsible and reliable social critic.
His first published book, The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice, was adapted as Costa-Gavras's highly regarded film Missing, starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek. Most recently, he and author Dr. Robert Peter Gale re-released a bestselling classic book Chernobyl: The Final Warning. For many years he has written extensively about boxing - he was recently selected for boxing's highest honor, induction into the International Boxing Hall Fame.