I thought this would be an autobiography on faith and one written by an overcomer. Rather, it is a shocking and lurid tale about a life that no woman should embark upon.
I also was extremely disappointed by the lack of transparency and an obvious lack of truthfulness, as by this point it is well known that Miss Greenlee made some unfortunate mistakes that had direct consequences and had a heavy hand in her own demise.
Many people have empathized with Sabrina Greenlee's story. However, there is an abundance of evidence pointing to the fact that Greenlee stalked Savannah Grant for an extended period, taking very aggressive women along with her. Greenlee would wait until she had left her job as a stripper and proceed to harass and terrify Grant and her infant child by ringing the woman's doorbell in the small hours of the morning, pounding upon her door, and threatening her time and again with physical violence. Sabrina followed Savannah Grant to places of business, around the small community, leaving the younger woman in a chronic state of fear and stress. Eventually, Greenlee did this one time too many. She boldly entered Grant's home after being told to leave and proceeded to stand at her threshold threatening her physically like many times before. This occurred after many incidents of police presence, indeed after Greenlee was taken to court by Grant, and still, she chose to persist in harassing the much younger girl. I am not defending Grant's action; I am stressing that Greenlee was committing an open act of trespass on the day of the incident. Few people would consider it most unwise to stalk another person, a romantic rival, especially when the young woman was vulnerable, a single mother living at home with a small infant child. Greenlee was much older, much larger in stature, and had a large number of female friends no less aggressive than herself who would also join in harassing Savannah Grant.
I thought Miss Greenlee would be honest about her part in the events that followed the stalking and harassment. Instead, she claims she was only at Grant's to collect a vehicle. That makes no sense as she drove there with her minor child, shockingly, her daughter. The child was many years below driving age or ability; Greenlee would not be able to drive two vehicles home. When asked about this during an interview, Greenlee says she "wasn't thinking." Greenlee made a veritable fortune doing things that ranged from unsavory to serious crimes that generated a very large amount of disposable income. She owned three luxury vehicles. Her minor child was not going to be able to drive her Lexus home, so that leaves the reader with a very concerning question: Why was Miss Greenlee at Grant's home? The trial revealed that Greenlee was there, as she had been so many times before the injurious incident for the reason of harassment as she was deeply jealous of the young romantic rival whom she viewed as competition for a man named Antonne. Greenlee's explanation simply does not compute. Greenlee's book also revealed another shocking fact: She gave Antonne a nice vehicle right before he was scheduled to testify. Is that a crime in itself as it construes bribery of a witness? The vehicle was taken back on the point of physical threat by Greenlee's intimidating father. By this time the damage had been done to Miss Grant. Mr. Antonne Young has now admitted he lied, rather egregiously about the entire incident and the long trajectory of Sabrina stalking, harassing and boldly threatening Savannah Grant, who was only a few years out of her teens at the time of the incident. Miss Greenlee was a mother in her 30's of a large brood of children. These revealing statements are most concerning as the result was a 20-year sentence for Savannah Grant and resulted in her infant son being placed into one miserable foster home after another. Today, Savannah Grant is nearly estranged from her son, who suffered greatly during his mother's incarnation. Anyone who has studied the case agrees it was the false witness given by Antonne Young which resulted in Grant's maximum sentence. Greenlee to date, has never admitted her part in the incident, only that she should have not 'associated with such a low caliber of people.' I was also stunned by her admission in the book that she went right back to having an intimate relationship with Mr. Young. Miss Greenlee has inexplicably referred to herself since this shocking incident as being a sufferer of "domestic violence." However, in yet another stunning admission she describes herself as growing annoyed with Mr. Young one afternoon and she proceeded to pull out a knife and repeatedly stabbed him in the chest and arms with such ferocity, that I am surprised he is alive. She describes the scene as extremely bloody and that her children and mother commented on her clothing when Greenlee returned home and described herself as drenched with Antonne's blood. I, like so many, abhor domestic violence. Yet in this instance, Greenlee was the aggressor, and really, she should have been held criminally liable for such a savage attack on her boyfriend, no matter how unlikable he may have been, as she describes him.
Then there is Greenlee's lurid and nearly pornographic descriptions of her time as a stripper and actually, in the manner in which she describes her work, also as an escort. Greenlee brags on her body and said she made over 3 thousand dollars most nights, mostly out of the wallets of married men. She describes her stripping routine as something straight out of a pornographic publication. I had known that Greenlee had worked as a stripper, as most people who know of the case. I thought it would be something she regretted, not something to be crowed over and excessively bragged about as she does in her autobiography. Time and again, Greenlee describes doing things such as encouraging her son to commit fraudulent acts to keep his college grant, such as keeping clothing in her home when in fact he no longer had residency in his mother's home. Greenlee describes paying each of her children large amounts of money daily to bribe them to attend school. She describes cursing at her mother and once attempting to severely injure the older woman by hitting her with a table! Greenlee boasts that no man who walked into the club where she worked as a fully nude performer could reject her charms and that the other women were not nearly as beautiful nor as talented. Greenlee also admits that she not only worked as a nude dancer but also as a drug trafficker before and after the incident. She relates that she only quit this criminal form of making huge amounts so that her now famous son would agree to go to college! What adds an element to her antisocial tendencies is that she herself has never once ingested any form of substance or illegal drugs, instead taking very good care of herself. She also said that most of the nude dancers were drug addicts, not the robust Greenlee! She said she has always enjoyed excellent control of herself; it was the horrific addictions of other people who she used to save enormous amounts of cash. Indeed, Greenlee writes that she and her children lived not unlike celebrities during the time in her life previous to the incident. Yet, she reveals her son received government aid to go to college. Surely he did not need those monies, as so many impoverished kids do to attend college. Greenlee says she and her children were enjoying great affluence from her self-described enormous success as the preferred dancer of the stripping club she worked at. Greenlee described having huge amounts of cash beneath her bed in a safe at all times. Yet time and again, she described a life of continually receiving expensive gifts and huge amounts of cash due to her job and preferred status as the most beautiful and premier dancer at the stripping joint she was at. I found not one indication that she felt remorse over the married men she describes as often being her benefactors.
This vile tale is not at all what I was expecting, and I regret my purchase. I must warn other readers that this book is not a book about faith, nor is it encouraging in any manner. Rather, it is shocking, and to be honest, a profound disappointment of one woman who decided to have everything she wanted, no matter what the personal cost to others, even to those of her children. In no shape or form does Greenlee express any concern for the tragic circumstances of Grant or her child, who I must remind readers, was a small infant when this incident occurred and resulted in his mother needing to serve a miserably long prison term resulting in the baby being raised in one abusive foster home after another. And to know it was all based on the false testimony of Antonne Young, likely induced by his receiving a new car from Greenlee, is extremely disturbing. Greenlee should be humbly grateful that her children forgave her, and I hope that someday she will take some form of accountability for this sad incident. Greenlee has also claimed in interviews that she is entirely blind. That is also an exaggerated claim. Greenlee is blind in one eye, the other has a fair amount of functional vision left. There is far little truth in Sabrina Greenlee's story. It is one filled with braggadocio, self aggrandizement, half-truths, and a number of bold lies. I regret spending my money on this.
Bobby Canedy
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