She was very involved in the selling of the book in Hollywood, and said she insisted on getting it to Sorkin. The release of the book Molly's Game was a game-changer for Bloom, who at the time was living with her mother in Colorado and working to recover from losing all of her assets to her legal troubles.
Bloom eventually pleaded guilty to lesser charges in 2014, and a few months later, released her memoir Molly's Game: The True Story of the 26-Year-Old Woman Behind the Most Exclusive, High-Stakes Underground Poker Game in the World. In 2013, she was arrested and charged as a part of a huge operation that took down over 30 people. An Olympic-level skier whose plans for law school were derailed when she fell into the world of the exclusive poker games of Los Angeles, Bloom's life became prime movie material when she got involved in the Russian mob (via said poker games) and found herself in the FBI's crosshairs in 2011. Only this time there are no court appearances involved, just red carpet walks and praise for the film based on her life.īloom's turbulent history made the perfect material for Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut, Molly's Game. Fast forward to 2017 - Molly's Game is earning rave reviews and Oscar buzz, and Bloom has found herself in the spotlight once again. Not even she could have guessed where the real Molly Bloom is now. Bloom has appeared on numerous shows and in media outlets such as Ellen, Vice, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, Vulture, and has been asked to speak at Fortune's Most Powerful Women, for companies like Blackrock Financial, SiriusXM Radio, and will deliver the 2018 commencement speech at Colorado State University.When Molly Bloom was drowning in debt and arrested for hosting illegal gambling events in 2013, she was probably too busy facing the possibility of spending a decade behind bars to even fantasize about her life becoming a major motion picture. The film Molly's Game, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, stars Jessica Chastain (as Molly), Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Brian d'Arcy James, and Chris O'Dowd. What happened next is where her story truly begins. This led her to what she thought would be a year sabbatical in LA.īloom was finishing her degree in Political Science from the University of Colorado - Boulder, and was in the process of applying to top tier Law Schools, when her assistant job turned her into an accidental entrepreneur, running one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world, pulling in as much as $4 million per year. 3 in North America in moguls, but her Olympic dreams would go unrealized as she left the team to pursue other projects. Ski Team and at 21 years old was ranked No. A year later, fully recovered, she was back on the slopes. While training as a pre-teen she was diagnosed with severe scoliosis and had to undergo surgery that the doctors said would end her athletic career. Her games featured hundreds of millions of dollars and players like Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, A-Rod, and Ben Affleck.īloom began her career as a world-class skier. Bloom's memoir chronicles her journey from college student to LA waitress to building and operating the largest and most notorious private poker game in the world. She is best known for her memoir, Molly's Game, which was adapted into an award-winning film of the same name by Aaron Sorkin. Molly Bloom is an inspirational keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of Molly's Game.
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