Sherman Billingsley
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John Sherman Billingsley was an American nightclub owner and former bootlegger who was the founder and owner of New York's Stork Club.
Billingsley in 1951
Billingsley (center table right) among the celebrities in the Stork Club's Cub Room (November 1944)
Frank Costello
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Frank Costello was an Italian-American crime boss of the Luciano crime family.
Sherman Billingsley
…cliental. In 1941, he dubbed Betty Cordon, a debutante from North Carolina, as New York's "Number One Glamour Girl" Billingsley was a friend of mafia boss Frank Costello, who patronized the Stork. On one occasion Costello gave Billingsley $100,000 to hold for him while he was out of the country for a time. Instead…
Frank Costello testifying before the Kefauver Committee.
Charles "Lucky" Luciano's mugshot
Vito Genovese's mugshot
Costello, 1964