Gigi Levangie Grazer

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In the meantime, she married an alluring Indian, Italian, African-American blues musician and subsequently affixed a giant-sized poster of Jimi Hendrix on the living room wall. Lived in South L.A. during the late 80’s with her four huge dogs and a shotgun, where she was known as the “white bitch down the street”.

Gigi and her first husband separated after three years. She moved to the Fairfax District of Los Angeles and developed a strong relationship with Canter’s Deli (chicken soup) and Formosa Café (mai tais). She signed up for membership at Sports Club L.A., and spent several years at the “disco” before becoming a reformed funk-aerobicist.

After her divorce (in which she lost custody of the four dogs), Gigi wrote a spec feature script which was optioned. She found happiness living in an apartment with no furniture except for a bed on the floor, a Radio Shack computer, and a card table.

Gigi met her future husband by accident at Orlando-Orsini on Pico at a lunch with a Playboy executive. She had seen him earlier in a magazine entwined with a supermodel and so, upon meeting him, took great pleasure in deriding his taste in women. Her future husband seemed to like this. She had a first date with husband the following Friday- they both drank one-and-a- half margaritas and have been together ever since.

She is a proud stepmom to two teenagers and a proud mother of two young boys.

Gigi Levangie Grazer wrote the movie “Step-mom,” starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon.

Her first novel, Rescue Me, was published by Simon and Schuster in June 2000. Her next novel, Maneater, was published by Simon & Schuster in June 2003. The Starter Wife, available now, is her third novel. And yes, she is tired.

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