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Breaking My Silence: Confessions of a Rat Pack Party Girl and Sex-Trade Survivor
Breaking My Silence is a gutsy and wrenching story of a former Rat Pack party girl and sex-trade survivor Jane McCormick. Not only does she reveal her 1960 sexcapades with Frank, Dean, and Peter, Vick, Sam, Arnold, Jerry, Bill, and other celebrities, she also details her molestation by an abusive stepfather McCormick tells her story not to titillate but to help young girls dicide not to enter prostitution, to give hope for escape to those girls already on the prowl. I want the law to change. To lock up the Buyers and the pimps and get help for the victims
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248 pages, Paperback
First published October 9, 2007
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April 9, 2009
When I was a teenager I remember a girl who everyone called a prostitute. Of course my parents would never allowed me to go anywhere near her because of her reputation. But I always had questions in my mind about her and other girls like her. I've never really understood what would make someone even think about going into this "profession." What in their childhood made them capable of selling themselves to pleasure men? Did they grow up with a low opinion of themselves? Were they abused as a child? Were they looking for something to fill an empty void in their lives? As they grew into adults why did they continue? Was it the money? Did they enjoy what they were doing? How did they get started? Were they forced into this line of "work?" And how do they ever quit? Do they wait until they are too old and no longer attractive to men?
All of these questions have been answered for me through my reading of Breaking My Silence. Jane McCormick takes you through her childhood, her start in the business and even into her life with some of her "Johns" from her "little black book." She tells of her abuse as a child, as an adult and finally her escape. After reading Breaking My Silence I saw Jane as a strong person who was determined to do whatever was needed to get her children back into her life and to do whatever it took to make her life as complete as possible without the prostitution. This was one of the most informative books I've ever read about a subject that is normally kept behind closed doors.
All of these questions have been answered for me through my reading of Breaking My Silence. Jane McCormick takes you through her childhood, her start in the business and even into her life with some of her "Johns" from her "little black book." She tells of her abuse as a child, as an adult and finally her escape. After reading Breaking My Silence I saw Jane as a strong person who was determined to do whatever was needed to get her children back into her life and to do whatever it took to make her life as complete as possible without the prostitution. This was one of the most informative books I've ever read about a subject that is normally kept behind closed doors.
July 23, 2010
This is an incredible story about a woman sexually abused in childhood, later to become a high class call girl. She was FRANK SINATRAs girlfreind in the 1960s. She was abused by her husband and some how survived . Although there are many fun stories about celebrities in the book, its not meant to glamorize prostitution, the author JANE McCormick number one goal is to help women get out of prostitution, SELF PUBLISHED and beautifuly written. Rat Pack FANS will love this book also. Check out www.BreakingMySilence.net for an autographed copy , also available AT AMAZON and BOARDERS
July 23, 2010
I am the AUTHOR of this book
August 6, 2022
Clueless, uneducated "bimbo" brags about all the men she makes money from bedding, including a lot of famous stars, but blames everyone else for all of her horrible choices in life, including giving up her small kids to become a professional escort. The book is filled with mistakes ("Las Angeles"?) and has no redemptive quality. Some of this may have been corrected when the revised version called Rat Pack Party Girl was later published, but this is a mess.
For example she tells us up front the date of her birth, then throughout the book makes errors about her age when certain things happen. She starts having sex at 13, not 14 as she claims. Maybe that doesn't make a difference but when she repeatedly misstates her age you know she is either trying to spin the truth or simply can't do basic math.
What's worse is that she appears to have no conscience or morality, spitting out story after story of taking men "around the world" (whatever that means, she never explains it), having sex with four or five high rollers a night, going through a couple husbands and pimps, getting connected to the Mafia with people trying to kill her. And yet through it all she keeps making dumb choices, never simply leaving people who are abusing her because she is making too much money at her "job."
Then near the end of the book she suddenly turns lesbian, continuing to "turn tricks" with rich guys but falling for women. Almost all of her stories don't give enough detail in order to make them totally interesting, though the surprising number of famous old celebrities she beds is shocking. Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Cahn, Englebert Humperdinck, Harry James, Jerry Lewis, and a pretty amazing story of her not just sleeping with Sam Snead but taking his money to pay to sleep with Arnold Palmer the night before a tournament to help Snead win!
She spent many years with Frank Sinatra and yet fails to quote more than a couple of sentences from conversation between the two. How do you encounter some of the most famous men in America, reveal that they paid you to sleep with them, but don't share what in the world you talked with them about?
And she claims that not one time did she enjoy having sex with any of them. They were all purely business transactions. She does mention that every single guy praised her for her looks and how beautiful she was. After a few times this gets old and you realize she is using the book to boost her ego.
The book stops 40 years before its publication and a good question is why does she gloss over the rest of her life, including more Mafia connections, illegal activities, nine grandkids, and defective breast implants? She tries to tack on a "resource list" for those in the sex trade, and she claims to want laws to punish pimps, but you can't get beyond the fact that this woman was almost never coerced into doing anything--she freely did it for decades in order to make money and show her value to aggressive men. While she can blame the men all she wants (and she certainly seems drawn to some horribly violent guys), she proves her own bad judgment and criminal behavior in this poorly thought-through book that should have her thrown in jail. She was often the manipulator that used men to feed her desires for material things, and her ultimate unhappiness came because she reaped what she had sewn.
For example she tells us up front the date of her birth, then throughout the book makes errors about her age when certain things happen. She starts having sex at 13, not 14 as she claims. Maybe that doesn't make a difference but when she repeatedly misstates her age you know she is either trying to spin the truth or simply can't do basic math.
What's worse is that she appears to have no conscience or morality, spitting out story after story of taking men "around the world" (whatever that means, she never explains it), having sex with four or five high rollers a night, going through a couple husbands and pimps, getting connected to the Mafia with people trying to kill her. And yet through it all she keeps making dumb choices, never simply leaving people who are abusing her because she is making too much money at her "job."
Then near the end of the book she suddenly turns lesbian, continuing to "turn tricks" with rich guys but falling for women. Almost all of her stories don't give enough detail in order to make them totally interesting, though the surprising number of famous old celebrities she beds is shocking. Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Cahn, Englebert Humperdinck, Harry James, Jerry Lewis, and a pretty amazing story of her not just sleeping with Sam Snead but taking his money to pay to sleep with Arnold Palmer the night before a tournament to help Snead win!
She spent many years with Frank Sinatra and yet fails to quote more than a couple of sentences from conversation between the two. How do you encounter some of the most famous men in America, reveal that they paid you to sleep with them, but don't share what in the world you talked with them about?
And she claims that not one time did she enjoy having sex with any of them. They were all purely business transactions. She does mention that every single guy praised her for her looks and how beautiful she was. After a few times this gets old and you realize she is using the book to boost her ego.
The book stops 40 years before its publication and a good question is why does she gloss over the rest of her life, including more Mafia connections, illegal activities, nine grandkids, and defective breast implants? She tries to tack on a "resource list" for those in the sex trade, and she claims to want laws to punish pimps, but you can't get beyond the fact that this woman was almost never coerced into doing anything--she freely did it for decades in order to make money and show her value to aggressive men. While she can blame the men all she wants (and she certainly seems drawn to some horribly violent guys), she proves her own bad judgment and criminal behavior in this poorly thought-through book that should have her thrown in jail. She was often the manipulator that used men to feed her desires for material things, and her ultimate unhappiness came because she reaped what she had sewn.
January 4, 2016
A very disappointing read.
Jane, or "Baby Jane" as she was known to her "tricks" is entirely unlikeable. She has cast herself in the role of victim, when in reality she is just as much of a user as the johns she likes to call predators.
Jane is filled with contradictions. She claims that she was "tricked" into prostitution, but then gives detailed, happy explanations of how she spent her ill-gotten gains; on ridiculously expensive clothing, fancy hairstyles, getting her nails done, flashy cars and so on. She claims that her children are the most important thing in her life, yet she moved from California, where her two daughters lived after Jane was denied custody, to Las Vegas where prostitution was more lucrative. Despite making nearly $500,000 per year (in the 1960's), she only sent $1,000 per month her daughter's guardian as child support. That means out of the roughly $40,000 per month she brought in, she sent her daughters a measly $1,000. One more example is how she claimed that her "celebrity clientele" were fond of her for many reasons, but primarily for her discretion. Yet then she tells how she would amuse her hairdresser with tales of Frank Sinatra and the rest of the "Rat Pack". And lets not forget that she wrote a tell-all book using the celebrities real names. Really discrete, Jane.
This book was filled with self-pity (she claims to have been a sex-slave; I don't know many sex-slaves who are banking $500k per year), contradiction and self-congratulatory nonsense (she was known as the best BJ in Las Vegas in the 1960's - way to go, Jane; that's definitely something to brag about.)
While Jane's stories were interesting, I just couldn't get past my dislike of her, which translated into a dislike of her book.
Jane, or "Baby Jane" as she was known to her "tricks" is entirely unlikeable. She has cast herself in the role of victim, when in reality she is just as much of a user as the johns she likes to call predators.
Jane is filled with contradictions. She claims that she was "tricked" into prostitution, but then gives detailed, happy explanations of how she spent her ill-gotten gains; on ridiculously expensive clothing, fancy hairstyles, getting her nails done, flashy cars and so on. She claims that her children are the most important thing in her life, yet she moved from California, where her two daughters lived after Jane was denied custody, to Las Vegas where prostitution was more lucrative. Despite making nearly $500,000 per year (in the 1960's), she only sent $1,000 per month her daughter's guardian as child support. That means out of the roughly $40,000 per month she brought in, she sent her daughters a measly $1,000. One more example is how she claimed that her "celebrity clientele" were fond of her for many reasons, but primarily for her discretion. Yet then she tells how she would amuse her hairdresser with tales of Frank Sinatra and the rest of the "Rat Pack". And lets not forget that she wrote a tell-all book using the celebrities real names. Really discrete, Jane.
This book was filled with self-pity (she claims to have been a sex-slave; I don't know many sex-slaves who are banking $500k per year), contradiction and self-congratulatory nonsense (she was known as the best BJ in Las Vegas in the 1960's - way to go, Jane; that's definitely something to brag about.)
While Jane's stories were interesting, I just couldn't get past my dislike of her, which translated into a dislike of her book.
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July 29, 2011Intresting story, Felt sorry for her at times as it seems all she wanted was to just be a normal housewife and mum. Like a lot of women though, she just kept picking the wrong men.
She certainly would be a intresting dinner guest, for all her storys of meeting celebrity's.
I can see why she would be against prostition.
She certainly would be a intresting dinner guest, for all her storys of meeting celebrity's.
I can see why she would be against prostition.
March 23, 2013
While some of these stories may seem outrageous, a bit of fact-checking confirms that yes, these famous people were in the places and times doing some of the things available to public knowledge. More people behaving badly with few details left out. Some sexual accounts may be vague to the uninitiated.
March 21, 2014
I found this book so very sad and disturbing.
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