Pussy Galore Pussy Galore Pussy Galore is a fictional character in the 1959 Ian Fleming James Bond novel "Goldfinger" and the 1964 film of the same name. In the film, she is played by Honor Blackman. The character returns in the 2015 Bond continuation novel "Trigger Mortis" by Anthony Horowitz, set in the 1950s two weeks after the events of "Goldfinger". Blanche Blackwell, a Jamaican of Anglo-Jewish descent, is thought to have been the love of Fleming's later life and his model for Pussy Galore. In Fleming's 1959 novel "Goldfinger", Pussy Galore is the only woman in the United States known to
Chris Blackwell became a major in the Jamaica Regiment. Blackwell's mother, the former Blanche Lindo, was born in Costa Rica, of Sephardic Jewish ancestry. She belonged to a powerful family who made their fortune in sugar and Appleton Rum toward the end of slavery. The Lindos are named as one of the 21 families who controlled Jamaica in the 20th century. Blackwell's parents divorced when he was twelve. Blanche was considered the love of Ian Fleming's later life, becoming the James Bond author's muse and the inspiration for the character Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger". She owned several thousand acres of land near