Léon Bing has lived many lives: top model, Hollywood insider, Mob mistress, single mother, confidante to notorious Bloods and Crips, and award-winning journalist. From her life in New York as an ambitious teenager turned high fashion model and social butterfly, to her eventual return to L.A. and reinvention as a writer, Leon creates a sparkling portrait of a city, an era, and one remarkable life full of wild subcultures and unconventional relationships.