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Black Widow Archery

[Blind Gossip] There is a movie from the 1980s that occasionally pops up on cable called Black Widow, starring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell. It’s a femme fatale psycho thriller.

In the movie, Russell’s character ensnares wealthy men by pretending to have something in common with them.

For example, she educates herself about rare coins to ingratiate herself with a lonely (but very rich) middle-aged bachelor who is an expert in rare coins. He is thrilled to find someone who shares his passion for numismatics. She successfully dupes him. They marry. Then she poisons him, takes his money, and sets her sights on an even richer victim. Winger plays the federal agent who tries to stop her.

The tagline of Black Widow is: “She mates… and then she kills.”

Our Black Widow is not quite as extreme. But she actually has a similar technique!

A few years ago, she set her sights on snaring one particular rich man.

Although they both were married, his net worth was ten or twenty times as much as her husband’s net worth. She wanted him bad. She knew that he was really into [archery], so she started taking [archery] lessons. She didn’t actually give a sh*t about [archery], but she needed a way to get to him.

He was impressed and thrilled that she knew so much about [archery] and that she seemed so passionate about it. She talked him into starting a [archery-related] business with her. Since he loves [archery] so much, he thought it was a great idea.

They spent a lot of one-on-one time together in this new business. It got very personal. Their personal relationship didn’t quite work out the way she hoped and he wound up staying with his wife. She came so close to getting him, though!

So, Black Widow’s interest in “archery” wasn’t born of a desire to do something adventurous or fun or different or to learn a new sport. It was all about trading up to that one particular married rich man.

That one didn’t work out. But Black Widow is a tenacious woman.

More to come.

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  2. GingerNaps says

    Archery here is a place-holder to indicate some specific skill. Bezos was just honored by some aviation museum, and Sanchez took up flying just a few years ago. She’s known Bezos and Mackenzie for close to a decade.

  3. Kellikopter says

    This is Geena Davis. The blind clearly states that the rich dude stayed with his wife and the Black Widow didn’t hit her target. Sanchez landed Bezos, so this is clearly not her.

    • eissak elag says

      Geena Davis performed on a competitive level (Olympics right?) for archery…I just don’t think it is her.

  4. Mischief Girl says

    The only celebrity/actress I know that is interested in archery is Geena Davis, but I can’t believe she faked her interest in the sport as she was at Olympic level in skill.

    I’ll be interested to see if this one is revealed.

    • EmmaTheRevelator says

      It’s not actually archery lessons. The real word was just replaced with archery. 😀 It’s Lauren Sanchez. She started a helicopter business with her first target before moving on to the idiot q-tip who’s actual wife is genuinely attractive.

  6. freckles23 says

    Gonna take a guess here and say Lauren Sanchez and Harrison Ford.

    Her interest in flying ?

  7. rae.rae says

    I’m going to take a guess this is Lauren Sanchez. So Bezos wasn’t her first go, she tried to level up with the helicopter pilot training. It says they started a business together so this could be Steve Stafford, who she formed Black Ops Aviation with (ties in with blind title hint). Don’t know his net worth or marital status though – the rest fits!

  10. GretaGuesses says

    Was Lauren Sanchez ever married? This sounds like her MO. It sounds like Sparkles Markle too. Both are climbers.

    • EmmaTheRevelator says

      She’s still married to a high powered Hollywood agent. The lazy eyed q-tip wasn’t the only cheater in that situation. And to think they both have kids who get to read all this one day. Makes me wonder how she would react to someone pulling her bs on her own son…

  16. gingersnaps says

    Wouldn’t this be Geena Davis? Back in the 90s she was into archery and almost made onto the US Olympic archery team for the Summer Olympics in Sydney. She was married to Renny Harlin at the time.

  21. KCeagle says

    Miranda Kerr ?

    She’s pretty, but kinda overrated as far as supermodels go. Use your newly acquired archery skills honey and aim for someone lower on the Forbes list.

  24. nycmadam says

    Lauren Sanchez, of course. She’s about to land the biggest fish of all, unless MacKenzie walks off with half the marital assets.

    She’s amoral but smart. She knew when to strike at a rich guy who was ripe for a midlife crisis.

    • reen57 says

      Yup. Looks only last so long. I’ve seen this kind of thing over and over. Laura will lose him the way she got him to someone younger and smarter. It may take 10 years, but karma is a * with a very long memory. I think that once she gets what she thinks she wants she will go looking for another target. If Jeff wants to marry Laura, he better get an iron clad contract first. I want MacKenzie to be much happier without his cheating self around.

    • amagod121 says

      But I don’t understand his thinking. His estranged wife is beautiful but Laura’s face is all pumped up with Botox and fillers, to the point that she’s getting the Cat Woman look to her. Plus she has a very nasty, predatory smile with him that seems to be aimed directly at women. WHY would he choose an obvious gold digger over his gorgeous wife? I really don’t get it!

    • GingerNaps says

      Amagod, while from the outside it’s hard to comprehend, I think this is a classic Bill Clinton/Hillary Rodham scenario. Bezos was abandoned by his bio dad more or less, and grew up in a lower middle class household. Mackenzie is from an upper middle class San Francisco family, was sent to boarding school in Connecticut, and got to Princeton through smarts and privilege. He probably never felt good enough for her family. Plus Bezos was a scrawny nerd and Lauren is every 6th-grader’s fantasy.