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Bugsy Siegel death house for sale in Beverly Hills

March 15, 2023

The Beverly Hills, California, mansion where Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel was shot to death in 1947 is on the market for $16.9 million, giving many their first glimpse, through current photographs, of the home’s lavish interior. Though the house at 810 N. Linden Drive has seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms, people familiar with Mob lore are drawn to one room in particular — the living room where the 41-year-old mobster was killed by a gunman firing through a window from outside the home. Siegel had leased the residence for his girlfriend, Virginia Hill. The lease was due to expire in three days. She ...

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Father-son crime team tormented Las Vegas over four decades

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Latest search for Jimmy Hoffa’s remains joins long list of fruitless attempts

The FBI announced in July that it did not find any sign of the body of former Teamsters Union leader…

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Latest from popular crime novelist Don Winslow delves into 1980s Mafia drama

Don Winslow, an author known to many in recent years for stories about cartel violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, has…

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‘Godfather’ castmates remember James Caan

James Caan, the versatile actor who achieved lasting fame as hot-headed Sonny Corleone in the 1972 Mafia movie The Godfather,…

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Seventy-five years later, debate over Bugsy Siegel murder still rages

As Americans opened their newspapers on June 21, 1947, they saw large headlines about the murder of Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel,…

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HBO Max series ‘Tokyo Vice’ explores Japan’s criminal underworld

A new television drama series, available in its entirety on HBO Max, focuses on organized crime in Japan, featuring a…

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Three charged in Hells Angels shooting of rival Vagos riders during Memorial Day weekend

It was supposed to be a peaceful motorcycle ride near Hoover Dam in honor of America’s war dead, followed by…

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