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federal prison
forthcoming
freedom
Gen x
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Hollywood
Italian family
love and family
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mob wife
neon
Orange county 80s
prison
prison and survival
prison reform
redemption
retro
retro 80's
road to freedom
road to recovery
vintage 80s
Product details
- ISBN 9798895653524
- Weight: 349g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Post Hill Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A true story of an original girlfella who broke all the rules, survived federal prison, and found grace along the way.
“…Denise has a style of polished rawness that finds the humor within the darkness.
Dealing doesn't pull anything from the bottom of the deck.”
—Charlie Sheen
To meet Denise Trigo-Fleming today is to meet an accomplished and savvy professional with a happy family, leading a quiet and enviable Hollywood life. She is devoted to her teenagers and active in their everyday moments, manages publicity campaigns for A-list clients, is an executive producer, and spends the summers traveling with her close-knit family. But when she was her kids’ age, Denise was a major player—a teenpin—in the Southern California drug trade.
Denise grew up in a beachside Orange County town, partying with Hollywood icons while trying to balance loyalty, rebellion, and survival. Her fast-paced life came to a crashing halt during a life-altering federal drug bust in Hawaii that sent Denise to prison for the rest of her twenties and early thirties.
With the perspective of motherhood, and her work in the criminal justice system, she deals with the lessons of her past and shares the wisdom she has gained along the way. Denise’s memoir is part Orange Is the New Black, part How to Murder Your Life, and part The Many Lives of Mama Love. In Dealing, Denise takes us inside the heart of a teenage girl coming of age amid an electric cultural renaissance, living a double life—one within a loving Italian family, and another in an underground world as a teenage criminal mastermind, all colored by the nostalgia of her youth.
Illuminated in dazzling 1980s neon, Dealing is about the choices, circumstances, and betrayals that led to Denise’s seven-year prison sentence, as well as her struggle for redemption on the other side.
“…Denise has a style of polished rawness that finds the humor within the darkness.
Dealing doesn't pull anything from the bottom of the deck.”
—Charlie Sheen
To meet Denise Trigo-Fleming today is to meet an accomplished and savvy professional with a happy family, leading a quiet and enviable Hollywood life. She is devoted to her teenagers and active in their everyday moments, manages publicity campaigns for A-list clients, is an executive producer, and spends the summers traveling with her close-knit family. But when she was her kids’ age, Denise was a major player—a teenpin—in the Southern California drug trade.
Denise grew up in a beachside Orange County town, partying with Hollywood icons while trying to balance loyalty, rebellion, and survival. Her fast-paced life came to a crashing halt during a life-altering federal drug bust in Hawaii that sent Denise to prison for the rest of her twenties and early thirties.
With the perspective of motherhood, and her work in the criminal justice system, she deals with the lessons of her past and shares the wisdom she has gained along the way. Denise’s memoir is part Orange Is the New Black, part How to Murder Your Life, and part The Many Lives of Mama Love. In Dealing, Denise takes us inside the heart of a teenage girl coming of age amid an electric cultural renaissance, living a double life—one within a loving Italian family, and another in an underground world as a teenage criminal mastermind, all colored by the nostalgia of her youth.
Illuminated in dazzling 1980s neon, Dealing is about the choices, circumstances, and betrayals that led to Denise’s seven-year prison sentence, as well as her struggle for redemption on the other side.
Denise Trigo-Fleming is a California native, prison reform advocate, media producer, and CEO of the public relations and marketing firm Look Los Angeles. She also owns Love Me Nutrition, a supplement company that promotes wellness and gives back to the community. Denise resides in the Hollywood Hills with her husband, talent manager Dave Fleming, and their two children, Radley and Paloma. She enjoys traveling and cooking recipes that transport her to summer days spent on the coast of Italy with her family. Dealing is her first book.
