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an old black and white photo of a woman standing in front of a door with her hands on her hips

Download this stock image: 1968 - Virginia Hill, in Beaulieu, France. © Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Alamy Live News - FD64P5 from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

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Virginia Hill (1916-1966) was one of the most famous female mobsters. She was a courier for the national crime syndicate, moving thousands of dollars from one mobster to the next, even overseas. She purportedly slept with many gangsters, but was Bugsy Siegel's girlfriend. She fled to Austria after the Government went after her for tax evasion. She died on the ski slopes of Salzburg, Austria after ingesting a heavy dose of sleeping pills. She was 49 years old.

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Virginia Hill – a seriously bad good-time girl

5 November 1941. The Hollywood set adored Virginia Hill’s super-extravagance and everyone wanted to know where her money came from. A contemporary mimeographed sheet attached to the photo reads: WATCH YOUR CREDIT SLUG (VIRGINIA HILL) INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTO LA BUREAU (X) ABC 27 669 HOLLYWOOD’S CHAMPION FREE-STYLE CURRENCY DISPENSER EXPLAINS ALL HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.: (ABOVE) Virginia […]

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Download this stock image: Virginia Hill, girlfriend of gangster Bugsy Siegel, ca.1947. Courtesy CSU Archives/Everett Collection. - BTJWFM from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

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Known as the Flamingo as well as "Queen of the Gangster Molls," Hill became notorious as the girlfriend of Brooklyn mobster Bugsy Siegel. She came from a poor background, telling people she didn't own a pair of shoes until age 17. Born in Alabama and raised in Georgia, she moved to Chicago to seek fame and fortune. She found a bit of both working as an accountant for Al Capone.

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