It was during that period her father, a high ranking UN Official, and her mother were on the verge of divorce. Lankester says her professor lost her entire portfolio and she was never able to recover and continue persuing her art ambitions. She had ambitions to be an artist, had put together an art portfolio and had motivations to attend the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. And also I have two daughters and I wanted them to know really what I went through and that it’s ok as a woman to be tough.” I’m in Switzerland now, I Google my name and I can read about my arrests, etc. It felt like my past was kind of catching up with me. I started Googling myself and I found that there was a lot on the Internet, which was a surprise for me. There are a few characters that have died, which was ok for me in regards to the story. In why she wanted to pen almost 400 pages on her life working in the sports betting industry, the former first female employee of Ron Sacco’s operation said this: We did have a couple other female clerks. When I moved offshore and joined in the Dominican Republic, I was one the few women.
“I was definitely the first woman to start working in Ron’s office in California, in Los Angeles in 1986. Responding to if she is the first woman of offshore gambling, Marisa says this:
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Marisa’s story is full of drama and tragedy, but somehow she found the inner toughness to keep going. Her new book titled Dangerous Odds: My Secret Life Inside an Illegal Billion Dollar Sports Betting Operation is an in-depth portrayal on her life in the sports betting industry. She started in Los Angeles before moving to the Dominican Republic with the rest of the staff because Ron Sacco’s operation kept having issues with authorities in the United States. Lankester, her story is a rare female perspective on the early days off offshore sports betting in the Caribbean. At the end of his operation, before authorities got involved down in the Dominican Republic and shut it down, the FBI reported that Ron’s operation was taking in over one billion dollars a year.įor Ms. The media has called him one of the most successful people in that industry. Lankester went to work for Ron “The Cigar” Sacco. In the United States, it is illegal to partake in sports betting outside of a regulated establishment, like a Las Vegas sportsbook. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, Marisa Lankester was one of the few women working in what might be termed the bookmaking industry, taking sports bets and grading them as wins or a losses. Bookies and bookmakers are the people who take bets on sporting events.