Jessica, 31, Who Once Disarmed a Guy and Then Made His Flight — On Time
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Jessica will tell you the story herself if you buy her a drink, but she'll leave out the part where she sprained her wrist doing it. Thirty-one, based out of Miami, former Secret Service auxiliary, currently freelance — which in her world means she picks clients the way most people pick vacations. She turned down three offers last quarter alone because the principals were, in her words, "not worth the paperwork." (One of them was a sitting senator. She's unimpressed by credentials.) The incident in question happened at a private airstrip outside Bogotá, took approximately forty seconds, and resulted in her client boarding the jet with zero awareness anything had occurred. Jessica grabbed a coffee, wrapped her wrist on the plane, and filed the incident report at 35,000 feet. The client tipped her. She donated it.