Separating fact from fiction on the Flamingo Hotel’s 75th anniversary

Much of what Americans know about Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel comes from watching the 1991 film Bugsy. That certainly applies to…


Top 5 women of organized crime

Men have dominated the history of organized crime as bosses, capos, soldiers and associates. They traditionally relegated women to servile…


Seventy years ago today, Bugsy Siegel’s storied Mob life came to an abrupt end

It is important to our Museum and to me as the resident historian that criminals and their criminal acts are…


The Havana conference

Mob meetings are tricky events to organize. Travel logistics aside, the conflicting personalities, territorial beefs, and ever-present threat of law…


Virginia Hill: ‘Queen of the Mob’ was no one’s pushover

Third in a series of profiles for Women’s History Month. On March 24, 1966, passersby walking on a footpath beside…


Arrest in Beverly Hills murder has ties to Las Vegas Mob history

Arrest in Beverly Hills murder has ties to Las Vegas Mob history Fifteen years ago, a writer named Susan Berman…