By the time I got to New York to start seeing doctors, I was blind. “It was like a shade descending slowly over my sight. “Shortly after that, I was on vacation in Vienna when I started losing sight in my right eye. Then I started dropping things and falling down. “I didn’t think much about it at the time. All I could do with my left hand was slide it down the guitar.
“All of a sudden, I couldn’t press the strings with my left fingers. “I was the guitarist, and I was playing the lead riff, a piece I’d played hundreds of times,” she said. She was in a London recording studio, cutting a record with her band, called “Stephanie LaMotta’s Band.” His intended victim, Stephanie LaMotta was serving a life term with MS. He got only seven years, for attempted murder. “When the police came, I was holding his head off the sidewalk, wondering if he was alive.” “I hit him in the stomach with my left hand and as he started to double up, I hit him on the jaw with my right. When I saw blood from the cut, I went into a rage. “He tried to stab me, but I blocked the knife with my left hand. “Then I said: ‘Do you know who I am? I’m going to hurt you if you use that.’ On the news of LaMotta's passing, De Niro released a statement to ABC News, "Rest in Peace, Champ.“I said: ‘Come over to my car and I’ll write you a small check.’ Then he wanted my jewelry, and he pulled out a knife. I love him, God rest his soul," Baker said of his illustrious career, adding, "He never went down!" "He was a great man, sensitive and had eyes that danced right up to the end. In 1980, he became the inspiration for Robert De Niro's Oscar-winning performance in Martin Scorsese's epic "Raging Bull."
He decided to try his hand at acting and was cast in more than a dozen films. His legacy was heightened after he retired from boxing in the mid-1950s. In all, LaMotta was 83-19 with four draws. His six iconic fights against Sugar Ray Robinson spanned almost a decade. LaMotta was a world middleweight championship in the late 1940s, but was a well-known brawler before winning the title. The family is in the planning stages of his memorial and funeral and will celebrate his life in Miami and New York, Baker said. LaMotta's wife, Denise Baker, confirmed his death to ABC News and said he died from complications of pneumonia. Boxing legend Jake LaMotta, who inspired the 1980 Oscar-winning film "Raging Bull," died on Tuesday.
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