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Order Number	00106506
Title	Virginia Hill's palatial mansion
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 8733
Date	1967
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Notes	Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Historical Data	Virginia Hill was born on August 26, 1916 in Lipscomb, Alabama. She was famous for being the girlfriend of mobster Bugsy Siegel. Hill ran away from her hometown at the age of seventeen and went to Chicago where she found work waitressing and dancing. She met a wealth gangster and became involved in the Chicago crime scene. She was used to pass messages and packages between gangsters, and eventually worked in the accounting office of Al Capone, funelling funds in Swiss bank accounts for various gangsters, including Bugsy Siegel. She moved to Los Angeles and became involved with him. He named the hotel he was building in Las Vegas 'The Flamingo,' a nickname he had given Hill. They had a tumultuous relationship with arguments often turning into physical fights. Siegel was in trouble with the mob and was gunned down on June 20, 1947 in Hill's Beverly Hills home. Hill became a witness in Senate hearings involving organized crime. Hounded by the IRS for unpaid taxes, and fearing reprisal from the mob, she moved to Europe where she died on March 24, 1966 in Austria, an apparent suicide.
Description	Photograph dated December 7, 1967 reads "Bugsy Siegel was murdered here in Beverly Hills." The front of the home is set behind a large lawn, with trees and bushes partially obscuring two balconies. A statue of a lion can be seen on the lawn. The home is located at 810 N. Linden Drive.
Subject	Hill, Virginia,--1916-1966--Homes and haunts. Siegel, Bugsy,--1906-1947--Homes and haunts. Dwellings--California--Beverly Hills. Lawns--California--Beverly Hills. Trees--California--Beverly Hills. Statues--California--Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills (Calif.). Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection