Virginia hill

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.

An image of female mobster Virginia Hill, for inspiration of a Juliet character

‘Bugsy” Siegel’s ex-girlfriend moved to edge of Spokane in early 1950s, before her troubles began

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This is perhaps the best photo I've ever seen taken of Virginia Hill.

Mink-bedecked Virginia Hill Hauser, one-time girl friend of slain mobster Bugsy Siegel, listens to a question from the Senate crime probers in New York, March 15, 1951 and provides an answer with an expressive wave of her hand.

Here’s an odd cinematic footnote: Seventeen years before he played a supporting role in Bugsy (1991), the whip-smart...

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