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Molly Bloom (born April 21, 1978) is an American entrepreneur, speaker, and author of the 2014 memoir Molly's Game. She was formerly a competitive skier, a member of the US Ski Team, and was injured while trying to qualify for the Olympics.
Dec 25, 2017 · To learn more about her injury and time as a professional skier, read her book, Molly's Game: The True Story of the 26-Year-Old Woman Behind the Most Exclusive, High-Stakes Underground Poker Game in the World. Actress Jessica Chastain (left) in the movie and the real Molly Bloom (right).
Apr 7, 2022 · Molly Bloom brought sports stars, billionaires, and Hollywood A-listers together by hosting high-stakes poker games in deluxe hotel rooms. The former waitress earned a modest fortune by hosting games worth millions of dollars before authorities caught up with her and arrested her.
Dec 25, 2017 · Molly Bloom's memoir recounts the actors who played in her poker games, like Ben Affleck and Tobey Maguire, and her encounter with the mob.
Molly Bloom is a fictional character in the 1922 novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the Odyssey. The major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while Penelope is eternally faithful, Molly is not. Molly is having an affair with Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan.
Molly Bloom is a world-class mogul skier with Olympic aspirations, thanks to years of enforced training from her overbearing father. In a qualifying event for the 2002 Winter Olympics, she is severely injured, ending her career.
Jan 6, 2018 · The film Molly's Game (up for two Golden Globes on Sunday) is based on a memoir by Molly Bloom, an Olympic-level skier whose athletic career ended in a dramatic wipe-out. While looking for ...
Jan 5, 2018 · Molly's Game: Directed by Aaron Sorkin. With Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera. The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
Jun 4, 2024 · Molly Bloom is one of the three central characters in the novel Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce. She is written as a mocking parallel to Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey.
Mar 11, 2014 · In Molly's Game, Molly Bloom takes the reader through her adventures running an exclusive high-stakes private poker game. Her clients ranged from iconic stars like Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck to politicians and financial titans so powerful they moved markets and changed the course of history.
