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
Pussy Galore be running an organised crime gang. Initially trapeze artists, her group of performing catwomen, "Pussy Galore and her Abrocats", is unsuccessful, and so the women train as cat burglars instead. Her group evolves into an all-lesbian organisation, based in Harlem, known as the Cement Mixers. In the novel, she has black hair, pale skin, and (according to Bond) the only violet eyes that Bond has ever seen. She is in her thirties, her voice low and attractive. Pussy tells Bond that she became a lesbian after she was sexually abused by her uncle at the age of 12. Auric Goldfinger