Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was an American mobster who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip. Along with his childhood friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lansky, Siegel was infl
Siegel in 1944
Siegel's mugshot, April 1928
The Flamingo Hotel as seen in 2017
The Flamingo as seen a decade after its opening and retaining the original structure that was built prior to its opening.
Virginia Hill was an American organized crime figure. An Alabama native, she became a Chicago Outfit courier during the mid-1930s. She was famous for being the girlfriend of mobster Bugsy Siegel.
Bugsy Siegel
…1947. Siegel’s mob partners were convinced that an estimated US$1 million of the construction budget overrun had been skimmed by Siegel, his girlfriend Virginia Hill or by both of them. On June 20, 1947, Siegel was murdered at the age of 41 by a sniper through the window of Hill's Linden Drive mansion in Beverly…
Hill at the Kefauver Committee, 1951
Hill's boyfriend, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel NYC police mugshot on April 12, 1928.