Who is Pussy Galore from Goldfinger and what is their importance?

Pussy Galore is the leader of the "Cement Mixers," a gang of women based in Harlem, and one of the gangsters in on Goldfinger's plot to rob Fort Knox. Galore and her gang are the members of her former trapeze group. She is a fast-talking, tough woman. She is described as a lesbian who nevertheless seems to have an attraction to Bond. She escapes the Fort Knox ambush with Goldfinger and helps to kidnap Bond. She then offers to help him escape. She and Bond survive the crash of Goldfinger's stolen plane and become romantically involved at the end of the novel.