“Thirty years ago, I would have killed her” for posing nude, he said. She’s my friend.”īut he admitted it took a long time for the old rage to subside. In their later years, Vikki and Jake got along socially and at the time of the Playboy spread, he told the Miami Herald that “She’s a lovely lady. She was 75, and had undergone heart surgery months earlier. 25, 2005 at Boca Raton Community Hospital. After escaping a stormy marriage, she became famous in her own right for establishing a cosmetics company based in Boca Raton and posing nude at age 51 in ‘Playboy’ magazine. LaMotta’s ex-wife Vikki, played in the movie by Cathy Moriarty, would eventually move from Miami Beach to Hillsboro Beach in Broward. This wouldn’t be the last time the “Raging Bull” saga would have a Palm Beach County connection. LaMotta wasn’t there at the time of the proceedings, but the Post reported that he “appeared some time later, unnecessarily, after court was recessed.” The Post reported that LaMotta “didn’t try to fight” the charge, forfeited a $50 bond and the case was dropped. 13, LaMotta had been stopped again for speeding, this time going 80 in a 65 mph zone on Florida’s Turnpike. He had one more performance to give: The next day, New Year’s Eve, LaMotta showed up in the criminal court of Judge Edward Newell. 30, three days after the opening, The Post reviewed LaMotta’s role as “chief racketeer and ace con man Harry Brock,” calling his performance “outstanding and impressionable.” (where the city library and Palm Beach Photographic Centre is today.) The advertisement said LaMotta would be backed up by an “all-star cast.” Tickets ran from $1.20 to $2.40.
One day before Christmas, an ad in the Palm Beach Post trumpeted that LaMotta would star in a stage revival of the Broadway classic “Born Yesterday” at the new Laroc Theater, at 413 Clematis St.
He was rarin’ to go to West Palm Beach, apparently. A Miami Herald headline read: “Slim Jake’s Rarin’ To Go Again.” When he was released in May 1958, newspapers took notice that LaMotta had lost 57 pounds in the joint and now weighed a svelte 156. By the end of the year, LaMotta had been convicted on the vice charge, sentenced to six months in the lockup and fined $500. In another incident reported breathlessly in the press, “a lissome 18-year-old blonde” hurt her elbow when she was “catapulted” out of his car early one morning on Miami Beach.
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