Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. “I thought I would die when I saw him sitting there.”, //pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel: The Gangster, the Flamingo, and the Making of Modern Las Vegas, When the Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Money, Mayhem and Murder, Bugsy & His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill, Why I will never be a T-Mobile customer again: a photo essay. Who was I going to tell?”, Perhaps the best story from her time living at the hotel was when her father decided to put a moat in front of the property and import the hotel’s namesake – some flamingos. But, Siegel saw something: opportunity. Anyways, once again, this article is so preciously superb; it makes me really want to visit the Flamingo and the Mob Attraction (which I hope to do someday). 2) and i also recall he either had a son or grandson talking about the hotel in cuba, and i got an idea about that issue too, After his death, stories began to surface about his life in the mob. We own a hotel.” Her life at The Flamingo was not without its own, special stories. Millicent seems like a nice enough of a lady, very approachable and friendly, and it’s good that her notorious father was so doting to his two daughters and good to his parents and siblings. Not what I expect from D Travels Round, but an intriguing interview nonetheless. Siegel married his childhood sweetheart Esta Krakower in January 1929, and together they had two daughters: Millicent (who died in 2017) and Barbara. It must’ve been really exciting to be able to talk to Millicent about Ben, though. Her light blue eyes sparkle when her pugs, Priscilla and Porsche, come to the table where we are sitting and chatting. For more on Siegel and this history of Las Vegas, check these out: Before Siegel brought Palm Springs to Vegas, he and his family lived in Beverly Hills.
I was too young to question it,” she says. “What corporations did to Las Vegas was never his vision of this town.”. What an interesting life. You should!! “Then, we went to breakfast and came back. Today, the letter can be found on display inside the Tropicana Las Vegas at the Mob Attraction, along with a bounty of other mob-related artifacts, including video footage (only in existence) of Bugsy Siegel the way she remembers him – as a father, not a mobster. I’d love to visit the Mob Museum to learn more about this side of Las Vegas’ past. Siegel had a history with the mob in New York where his boyhood friends included Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano. It is hard to believe that he lead his mob life with non of the violence that is associated with it. Rather, she looks vibrant. “I truly cannot believe my father would kill anyone. It was really informative. That’s what happens when your father owns the hottest hotel in Las Vegas, The Flamingo. They were all extremely smart people.”. I would definitely recommend going to visit Mob Attraction to learn more and see all of the artifacts on display there.
He committed mainly thefts until he met Moe Sedway. I bet it was fun interviewing her. Going back in time and being able to talk to Ben would be better, but sadly it’s not possible. But, once they got to their uncle’s house, they were told of his death.
“I would say 80 or 90 percent of the movie is inaccurate,” she says. She was a brownie and took riding lessons with Elizabeth Taylor. This is really interesting! “He told me about not being able to make a living at 12 or 14, 15, 16 years old and not being able to make a living during prohibition,” she says. Bugsy & His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill. I’m sorry I can’t be of more help. He would joke a lot.”. I’ve always had a fascination with mob stories, so kudos for nabbing the interview! It was a whole new picture for me and I didn’t know how to put it. when he moved there from NY. Millicent disagrees. DEfinitely check out the Mob Attraction. They were no different than the Kennedys. “All of the rooms were decorated with all sorts of personal things you would have in your house. He had a shit fit. He said there would be a sidewalk going all the way down into town.”. “I mean, here is our hotel. “It was hard to hear what people said about the man who would sit at the dinner table and make us tell him the news, or educate us on the way to cut our meat,” she says. But no one is ever going to convince me or any other thinking non-gullible non-media brainwashed person that Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, a man with an arrest record that included such heinous acts as murder and rape, was really a man of good heart simply because his daughters (both young girls when he was assassinated) never saw the dark side of his personality or crooked business life. Hearing and reading accounts from their families is always great too.
Millicent, 81, hasn’t been weathered by the dry Las Vegas sun. Wouldn’t this story make a great “cold case” investigation episode? She was born in 1931, the year gambling was legalized in Nevada. Any information on Virginia Hill? As a young girl, Harlow would come to the house, put on an apron, and give her a bath. “I had a crush on him and I didn’t know what his job was at the hotel. There is another sister that Ben had, what became of her? Very interesting and personal article; my husband and I are making our annual visit ( atctually 4th time this year..lol) to LV 12/14/2012. How tall was he and what did he weigh? ( Log Out /
They grew up in prohibition. They was my last in-depth conversation with my father.”. Ben was in very good shape compared to the mobsters at that time. I am so glad you enjoyed the piece! Our best to you and Ms. Millicent. I could never find the answers.”. Despite all the negative media portrayals and things written in the newspapers, I’ve always taken it with a grain of salt as the media’s well know for blowing things out of proportion. “We knew him as a father. Despite Hollywood’s portrayal, his daughter remains steadfast in his role in the mob. “He envisioned Las Vegas to be a Palm Springs type in the desert,” says Millicent. Millicent has never gotten used to what people have said about her father, or his associates. Beat them up, maybe. En route to Las Vegas via train to spend the summer with their father, Millicent and sister did not know what happened until they arrived to town. She even met her childhood crush, Cary Grant, face-to-face. “I asked him about Murder Inc and he said, ‘You’ve met all of those people. Rumor has it that Meyer, another mobster and friend of Siegel’s, was the man behind his death. Millicent’s childhood in the Hollywood town was nothing short of charmed. 3) and for a smoker to live past 80, its amazing, proves that genes r the ssense of long life. The letter, which was dated November 28, 1946, was written a mere seven months before her father was killed. Hi Sal, thanks for taking the time to comment. The pools at the hotels now cater to the 20- something scantily clad partiers willing to throw down hundreds of dollars for the opportunity to sit in a cabana and sip on cocktails from bottles of liquor that have been marked up hundreds of percent. We will definately visit the Mob Experience and pay special attention to the Siegel display. As a boy, Siegel left school and joined a gang on Lafayette Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I had pages and pages of notes. I am glad you enjoyed it.
“He wanted us to be princesses and the stories we heard didn’t jive with who we saw. I’d love to be able to visit the Flamingo and the museum someday.
On the desk was a crystal ink well. However, Siegel's philandering … Siegel opened the hotel December 26, 1946 moving his family in during construction. Thanks to his vision, within a few years, there was. I absolutely love this article! This is SO GOOD. I had a chance to view the museum last Nov. and was greatly impressed. [Whoever killed him] was paid to do it. According to Millicent, there were between six and eight of these birds and, as the days went by, they were “dropping like fleas.”, Millicent recalls: “It was too hot for them. That’s so cool that you got to talk to her and learn so much about her life and her father. Because, the hotel never closed. I don’t know. As the founder of Las Vegas, Siegel took it upon himself to stay abreast of what was going on in town. They were selling the same stuff. I never believed any of the things anyone has written about [Siegel]. My dad came out and saw me doing this and he had a fit.”, There was one night when Millicent was taken into the counting room of the casino with Chick, the brother of Virginia Hill (Siegel’s girlfriend). When the Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Money, Mayhem and Murder “We didn’t see these people as notorious, or different from anybody else. I hope you are able to make it out to Vegas and visit the Flamingo and the Mob Attraction. Neither of which were portrayed accurately. She quickly recounts two such instances in the film – the first depicting their move to LA, the second a birthday party she had. Something always told me Ben was probably a good father to his daughters. “He would go into Las Vegas and people would just come up and talk to him, have lunch with him.”. However, they are now inside in a climate-controlled garden. Thank you!! Jean Harlow was her godmother. Refressing to hear that Mr. Siegel was a dedicated family man, as well. “Was it somebody that wanted something in Vegas that he had? That’s really nothing new. “A lot of stuff they say or still say about my dad wasn’t true or never happened,” she explains.
“The hotels then were more personal, smaller, more comfortable.
“It wasn’t a random guy standing in a house, two houses down, that shot him. He was also great fun to be around. And, unlike most other’s experiences even during the 40s. The article was interesting, but you can tell it is from the child’s point of view. Yes, I did [commit crimes], but now I am building a hotel and am 100 percent legitimate.
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