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The uncensored, no-nonsense true account of a life marred by murder, tragedy, sex, drugs and sport, describing Valentino's life involvement with bodybuilding and its association with steroids and underground behaviour, including the sex and muscle worship trade in which Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also participated. Valentino eventually began dealing drugs himself and details the dangers and the fallout, which included the murder of his girlfriend, his arrest and his rise as the most unlikely of celebrities.

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Publié par	Ecw Press
Date de parution	20 décembre 2010
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781554909216
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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“Gregg is an inspiration. The things he has been through in his life are exactly what music and movies are made of.” — Grandmaster Melle Mel, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

DEATH, DRUGS, AND MUSCLE THE GREGG VALENTINO STORY

Gregg Valentino with Nathan Jendrick

ECW Press

Published by ECW Press, 2120 Queen Street East, Suite200, Toronto, Ontario, Canadam4e 1e2 416.694.3348/ info@ecwpress.com

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or trans-mitted in any form by any process — electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise — without the prior written permission of the copyright owners and ECW Press.

library and archives canada cataloguing in publication

Valentino, Gregg Death, drugs, and muscle : surviving the steroid underworld / GreggValentino, Nathan Jendrick.

isbn 978-1-55022-921-9

1. Valentino, Gregg.2. Bodybuilders—United States—Biography. 3. Doping in sports.i. Jendrick, Nathanii. Title.

gv545.52.v35a3 2010 796.41092 c2010-900588-0

Cover and photo section: Rachel Ironstone Cover images: Gregg Valentino Typesetting: Mary Bowness Printing: Webcom1 2 3 4 5

This book is set in Minion and Akzidenz

printed and bound in canada

Disclaimer Out of necessity, some names and details have been changed to protect the innocent. Additionally, other names and locations have been altered as a safeguard against the many parties who still walk free and might wish to do harm to those who have made their pasts known.

Ackn owledgments . . .vii Prol o gue . . .ix

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TAB LE OF CONTE NTS

The Early Years . . .1 The Life I Almo st Had . . .9 Mark Wahlberg . . .14 Andrew Crispo . . .18 Steroids 101 . . .26 Meeting Julissa: A Lover and a Par tner . . .34 Learning to Live Tw o Lives . . .42 Unexpe cted Hold-Up . . .46 Sa ved by an Angel . . .57 Carelessly Stepping into the Dark Side . . .65 Tears of My Love . . .73 44th and 11th . . .79 A Little Help from a Friend . . .88 Police Assault . . .93 The Mo st Impor tant Thing . . .97 Samantha . . .102 Lo sing My Pillar of Strength . . .106 Complete Betrayal . . .112

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The End of One Life . . .118 Julissa Punks a Punk . . .122 A Couple of Chara cters in My Drama . . .127 When the World Ends . . .131 Running on Empt y . . .142 Little Death . . .146 Julissa’s Gh o st . . .155 The End of Life as I Knew It . . .162 Unlikely Celebrit y . . .165 On the Inside . . .173 Eugene Barbagallo . . .179 Beginning Anew . . .183 The Synth ol Myth . . .187 Media Scandals and Co stly Misunderstandings . . .192 A Crazy Little Thing I Called Ra ven . . .200 My Life To day . . .216

Acknowledgments

This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother, Rosemary Valentino, and to the memory of Julissa Rivera. My most heart-felt appreciation goes out to my family: my father, Paul Valentino, and my sister, Jamie Valentino DeRosso; if not for their love, I would never have made it. My love and thanks go out to my children: my son, Paul, and my light and angel, Gina. I would also like to acknowledge many friends, whose support and actions have kept me from being lost in my life — Bob Bonham, Dana Capobianco, and Father Mark Rosetti; they helped me to make it through hell on earth — and my boss and, most importantly, my good friend, Steve Blechman, whom I love and admire. Steve believed in me and gave me a chance when the rest of the world told him he was crazy. His faith in me means more than words can say, and my life would not be the same without him. To Carlon Colker, Garry Michel, Michael Gennusa, Steve Zaccaro, Mitch Farina, Alex Abbay, Mike Lambile, Mike Gentile, Jasmine Bellard, my sweetheart Lucia Moreno, and my friend Nathan Jendrick . . . thank you all. – Gregg Valentino

To all who have helped me with yet another amazing project that I have been blessed to take part in, I offer my deepest grat-itude. Foremost, my sincere thanks to Gregg Valentino for allowing me the opportunity to take this ride. To Jack David and the staff atecw, thank you for believing in this terrific

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story. To my wife, Megan Jendrick, I could never thank you enough for your patience and love; you are truly wonderful and the biggest blessing in my life. To Tom and Janice Tani, Don Anderson and Christena Warwick, Michael Jendrick, Matt Nader, Jerimy and Maria Edee, Mel and Tiffany Stewart, Mike Heaberlin, and Anjan Mitra: thank you all, the reasons for which would require a book of their own. – Nathan Jendrick

Prol ogue I’m not a superstitious guy. I don’t tend to believe things I can’t see with my own eyes. But over time, when all the pieces are put together and you look at something without bias, there are moments when you just have to admit that the most unusual things seem not just plausible but also true. Upstate New York is home to Howe Caverns, described as a “living, limestone cave, carved by an underground river over the course of 6 million years, located156feet below the earth’s surface.” They say now that it’s over10million years old. Some people will also tell you that it’s a powerful and mysterious place — that it’s sacred, that it can place a curse on you — and however crazy it sounds I believe it. Keep in mind I don’t say this lightly; I’m a headstrong realist. But if the story is true, it took10million years for that place to develop into what we know it as today, and after going there myself it took only a couple of months for my entire world to come crashing down. For much of my life, I did things backward. Often I had my priorities all mixed up, to the detriment of not just myself but my friends and family as well. Years after I married, I found the woman I believed wholeheartedly was my true love, Julissa, and things only became more confused. I couldn’t leave my wife because we had a history together, and we had children. But during the time that I should have been nurturing my relation-ship with my family, I was spending it giving Julissa the life she had never had. I neglected my obligations, and over time every-thing deteriorated.

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