You can find every Esquire story ever published at Esquire Classic.
This is an excerpt from Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas. Its author, crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi, collaborated with Martin Scorsese on Good Fellas also based on a Pileggi book as well as the movie version of Casino
.
“She was the most beautiful girl I ever saw,” Frank Rosenthal remembers. “Statuesque. Great posture. And everyone who met her liked her in five minutes. The girl had fantastic charm.
“When I met Geri, she was a dancer at the Tropicana. She was also a chip hustler. She was a working girl. She had a couple of guys who she went with, and she made about $300,000 a year.