by Patricia Bellomo | Mar 23, 2011 | Mob Blog
South Beach Pimp.
South Beach Pimp, March 25, 2011
Trash has been hanging around Franco’s. Franco doesn’t mind the working girls, but lately their pimps have been coming in to check on them. He throws them out, but Franco’s is where the action is, and the girls come back. Their pimps stay away, except for one piece of work named Lionel.
Lionel deals dope and skanky girls. Franco doesn’t even want his girls in the joint, and he gives instructions to security, but Lionel takes personal offense and tells Franco he’s going to “shoot up the joint”. Franco calls me and I send Victor down to Miami to set things straight, and now Lionel’s girls are showing up at the nightclub again. But guess what? No Lionel. I did say Victor was good, didn’t I?[/dcs_p][dcs_p]
This blog was written in the voice of Bellomo’s main character, mobster Louie Morelli. If you enjoyed this anecdote, please check out her Miami Beach thriller, Stella di Mare.
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by Patricia Bellomo | Feb 22, 2011 | Mob Blog
Some punk manhandled my girl, Miami, February 22, 2011
Some punk made a play on my girl at Franco’s last night. We were at the nightclub in South Beach–my place, but I’m a silent partner and my guy, Franco, is the front man. Franco’s is a happening place, one of the hottest on Ocean Drive, and my girl was looking hot in the little red Versace number I bought her. I was having a meet with a business acquaintance in the upstairs VIP lounge, and she and Victor’s chick were taking a tour of the place, hanging at the bar with their pink martinis when the punk made his move. He was a greased up Cuban, maybe ten years off the boat, and he was trying hard to look like Al Pacino in Scarface.
One thing you don’t do is make a play on another man’s girl. She told him right off she wasn’t interested and that her boyfriend was upstairs, and the guy persisted, started putting his hands all over her. I can’t blame the guy for looking–my girl’s got a body you wouldn’t believe–but touching is out of the question. Benny, the head bartender, caught him groping and alerted security, and they tossed him out on his ass.
He made a fuss, swearing up a storm in Spanish, and they called Miami PD and had him removed from the club. They did it all legit, documenting everything. I prefer to do it the other way, and I made sure Victor got a copy of the police report. He knows what to do.
by Patricia Bellomo | Feb 16, 2011 | Mob Blog
Back on the Stella di Mare.
Back on the Stella di Mare, Februaru 16, 2011
Home from New York and time to play! I’m on the deck of the Stella di Mare with my two favorite ladies. We’re heading south–to Miami. Victor is with me, and he’s got a taste for stone crabs so we’ll be dining at Joe’s. The girls will love it. They can wear their pretty little dresses and show off their bodies.[/dcs_p][dcs_p]
Right now the girl’s aren’t wearing much. As soon as we left the Boca Raton Yacht Club, their tops came off. They’ve been sunbathing and sipping champagne cocktails ever since, one of them telling Victor her life story. She’s getting looped, and he looks at me and gives a little shake of his head. He takes the drink out of her hand and says, “Doll, you talk too much.”[/dcs_p][dcs_p]
She falls silent, and for a few minutes all we can hear is the hum of the big engines. The air is warm and balmy, the sun sinking in the west, behind the buildings–the Miami skyline is shining gold in the dwindling light, and I wonder if this is why they call it the Gold Coast. [/dcs_p][dcs_p]Back on the Stella di Mare is written in the POV of Patricia Bellomo’s main character, mobster Louie Morelli. Patricia’s books are available at Amazon.com, B&N, and on all e-readers.
by Patricia Bellomo | Feb 11, 2011 | Mob Blog
Angie’s Valentine Surprise, February 11, 2011
I have a remarkably efficient secretary. This morning I’m at my desk when Emily comes into my office. She gives me a little smile and says, “Mr. Morelli, do I need to remind you that Monday is Valentine’s Day?”
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