Tommy, any chance you can share more stories about her?
Taken from another board
Remember Denise Rutkowski? Won the '93 USA womens then won her first pro show/Jan Tana and then got 2nd at her first Olympia. Here's why you never heard of her again: CRACK! Denise used to live "in the hood" in Venice, called "ghost town." Anyway, she lived with her bf and training partner Jeff J, who always sported a new black eye from her, or broken arm,etc, and her 250 pound lesbian lover. Now, get this: she was also fucking the head of the Rolling 60s Crips! He would store the gangs drugs and weapons at her house. Anyway, she was a major crack fiend and that's where all her $$$ went. She used to raise pit-bulls too and her stud dog, Gangster, was one mean s.o.b! Anyway, one night the cops rousted her down in Torrance when she was living in her car with her dog. Sad. She hadn't been training and was completely out of it. Anyway, she made her way back east and "found religion," as they all seem to, and that's the last I heard of her. One time she called me up from the hospital and asked me to come get her. She said the doctors were inserting spiders and bugs under her skin and that she had to escape. What makes all of this really sad (btw/I did not go and get her) was her potential. Definite Ms. O material there. Oh well. Prior to bodybuilding Denise was a stripper down in San Diego. Anyway, I remember when Dan Duchaine was giving her help and he told me back then this was one to watch. He was right.