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GEORGIA DURANTE—Model, Mafia Wife, Mother, and Stunt Driver—has packed a lifetime of lessons into forty-eight years. This is the true story of one of Hollywood’s most successful female commercial stunt drivers. A woman who can dominate a two-ton vehicle at high speeds, but off road has careened from one emotional head-on collision to another. The story, chronicles the life of a battered woman as she struggles to break the abusive cycle while engineering her escape from the Mafia underworld.
Hollywood producers have known two Georgia Durante's: the steely-nerved stuntwoman with the skill to handle a three-ton high-performance vehicle in high-speed precision maneuvers; and the beautiful model and actress who, at seventeen, was considered the most photographed girl in the country. They knew only those sides of her because that was all she chose to reveal. Only now does she share the full story of her life, in The Company She Keeps.
Georgia reveals how she went from the "Kodak Girl" to drivinggetaway cars for the mob. Today she is still driving getaway cars, but she is now doing it as a stunt driver for the movies. Georgia has taken the negatives in her life and turned them into positives and she demonstrates to her readers how they can do it too. Georgia has recently been featured on E! True Hollywood Story and The Montel Williams Show. A movie about her life is presently being negotiated.
Excerpts from Georgia Durante’s
The Company She Keeps
He placed one bullet back in the chamber and gave it a whirl. He then placed the gun at my temple.
"What are you doing!" I cried.
"I'm gonna find out once and for all how badly you really want to leave," he snarled.
"Please, Joe... don't,"
He brought his face within inches of mine. All I could see were his eyes. I watched in horror as demonic possession took place. In a voice that wasn't his, he spewed, "Are you sure you want to leave?"
Paralyzed with fear, I couldn't talk. He pulled the trigger. Clic | |  | | True Crime, biography, Inspirational
Model, turned getsaway driver for the mob to Stunt Driver for the Stars
What They’re Saying About
The Company She Keeps
"Georgia Durante has written a gripping, fast-paced, insider's look at an underworld she knew only too well. Breathtakingly readable."
Sidney Sheldon
best-selling Author
"We’ve all heard of the Mafia, and read about mobsters, but Georgia Durante saw them up close. She lived with them. She experienced their violence. She survived their wars. In The Company She Keeps.
Jimmy Breslin
Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and
best-selling Author
"This wonderful story of courage offers an exci |
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