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Benjamin Siegel [1] [10] was born on February 28, 1906, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, New York, the second of five children of a poor Ashkenazi Jewish family that had emigrated to the U.S. from the Galicia region of what was then Austria-Hungary.
Apr 22, 2021 · Wife and Daughters. Siegel married his childhood sweetheart Esta Krakower in January 1929, and together they had two daughters: Millicent (who died in 2017) and Barbara.
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Aug 21, 2024 · Three years after Bugsy Siegel’s murder, Virginia Hill married Austrian skier Hans Hauser, with whom she would have a son, Peter. In 1951, Hill was asked to testify at the Kefauver hearings, a U.S. Senate investigation into national organized crime.
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Virginia Hill (born Onie Virginia Hill; August 26, 1916 – March 24, 1966) was an American organized crime figure. An Alabama native, she became a Chicago Outfit courier during the mid-1930s. [4] She was famous for being the girlfriend of mobster Bugsy Siegel. [5]
Mar 21, 2016 · Hill told the Kefauver Committee in 1951 that she met Siegel in 1942 or 1943, but she likely first saw the handsome, blue-eyed Siegel in 1937 while in the company of Adonis and almost immediately started a sexual relationship with Adonis’ underling.
Nov 28, 2017 · Her father was reputed mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. Siegel had a history with the mob in New York where his boyhood friends included Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano.
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Nov 9, 2009 · The son of Jewish immigrants, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel (1906-1947) began his life of crime on the streets of Brooklyn. He formed the Bugs-Meyer gang with Meyer Lansky as an adolescent, then rose...
