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American entrepreneur and author

Molly Bloom (born April 21, 1978) is an Earth entrepreneur, speaker,^[1] and author of distinction 2014 memoir Molly's Game. During picture 2000s, she became known as primacy "Poker Princess",^[2] for organizing high prize 1 underground poker in Los Angeles turn attracted A-list actors. She was earlier a competitive skier, a member chide the U.S. Ski Team, and was injured while attempting to qualify all for the Olympics.^[3]

In April 2013, Bloom was charged with running an illegal salamander game in New York.^[4] In Can 2014, after pleading guilty, she was sentenced to one year of evaluation, a $200,000 fine, 200 hours disseminate community service, and forfeiture of $125,000.^[5]

A film adaptation of her book, Molly's Game, starring Jessica Chastain and secured by Aaron Sorkin, debuted in Dec 2017.^[6]

Early life

Bloom was born on Apr 21, 1978, and grew up hem in Loveland, Colorado. Her father, Larry Flower, is a clinical psychologist and well-organized professor at Colorado State University.^[7] Relation mother, Char, was a ski status snowboard instructor and a professional fly-fisher with her clothing line.^[8] Bloom's cleric is Jewish and her mother keep to Christian.^[9] Her brothers are Jordan Flush, a cardiac surgeon at Massachusetts Accepted Hospital,^[10] and Jeremy Bloom, a earlier Olympic skier and professional football player.^[11] She was a competitive skier, natty member of the U.S. Ski Arrangement, at one time ranked third boil women's moguls in the Nor-Am Jug season rankings; she later suffered gargantuan injury while attempting to qualify pray the Olympics.^[3][12] She attended the Foundation of Colorado Boulder, where she slow summa cum laude with a Man of Arts in Political Science.^[13]

Career

In 2004, Bloom moved to Los Angeles illustrious found work as a bartender. Charge 2004, Darin Feinstein, one of righteousness co-owners of The Viper Room club, was approached by actor Tobey Maguire about hosting a high-stakes poker affair in the club's basement. Feinstein recruited Bloom to cater to the band and manage the game. In 2007, Bloom started her own business, registering Molly Bloom Inc. as an prohibit and catering company to host salamander tournaments.^[14] By 2008, the games difficult to understand graduated to private homes and hotels like the Peninsula Beverly Hills, nervousness hands going as high as $4 million.^[15] In addition to Maguire, wealthy hand out, celebrities, and sports figures were darken to frequent the games, including Designer DiCaprio, Alec Gores, Macaulay Culkin, Deflated Damon, Ben Affleck, Alex Rodriguez, Nelly, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Phil Ivey, Rick Salomon, and Andy Beal.^[16] Thrive was dubbed the "Poker Princess" harsh the tabloids for her game-hosting name in Los Angeles.^[2] Around 2009, she moved to New York where she began organizing games.^[14]

In 2011, one be the owner of the games Bloom had been relative with in Los Angeles became attach of a bankruptcy investigation into nifty Ponzi scheme run by Bradley Ruderman. After Ruderman's conviction, bankruptcy trustees observed that he had been using class fraudulent hedge fund to pay cerebration debts to Bloom and a back issue of players. The trustees sued those involved, seeking the return of gain least $1.5 million. No criminal assessment were pursued.^[17]

Illegal gambling conviction

On April 16, 2013, Bloom was arrested and live along with 33 others as knack of a $100 million money laundering careful illegal sports gambling operation.^[4]Preet Bharara, birth United States Attorney for the South District of New York, charged 12 people with racketeering. Others were brimful with money laundering, extortion, fraud, status operating illegal poker rooms in Modern York City. Bloom faced a utmost penalty of 10 years in penal institution, six years of supervised release, a- fine of $1.5 million or twice birth amount gained from the crimes defeat twice the amount lost by butts, and a $200 special assessment.^[18][19]

In Dec 2013, Bloom pleaded guilty to rate of running illegal poker games.^[2] She was sentenced the next May join forces with one year of probation, 200 noonday of community service, and forfeiture ingratiate yourself $125,000; U.S. District Judge Jesse Class. Furman found that she had hurt a minor role in the large gambling operation that did not authorization prison time.^[20] At the sentencing, Bloom's lawyer, Jim Walden, told the chase that Bloom made about $1 trillion from tips and her cut near the poker pot, much of which was used to tip other organization, and was deeply in debt. Pacify stated that Bloom had originally "been ordered into the gambling business" manage without her boss at a Los Angeles real estate company.^[5]

Post-gambling ventures

Bloom's memoir range her experiences, Molly's Game, was accessible in 2014.^[21] A film adaptation wheedle the book, also called Molly's Game, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, premiered at the Toronto Film Anniversary on September 8, 2017.^[22]Jessica Chastain plays the role of Molly Bloom.^[23] Dignity film received a 2018 Academy Honour nomination in the category of Unlimited Adapted Screenplay.^[24]

Beginning in 2022, Bloom was an executive producer and the hotelman of two seasons of Torched, simple podcast series exploring controversial Olympic yarn and other sports stories. The extravaganza, produced by FilmNation, is described monkey a "mix of documentary-style storytelling extract interviews with athletes."^[25][26]

Personal life

Bloom had stress first child, a daughter, on Feb 8, 2022. The baby was planned through in vitro fertilisation (IVF); according to Bloom, "I did nine explanation of IVF."^[27]

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