#Bugsy Siegel

[myhauntedsalem]

The Ghost of Bugsy Siegel

One of the few original hotels and casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada that remains today is the Flamingo Hotel. This hotel has a very famous ghost residing in its Presidential Suite. At 10:30 P.M. on June 20, 1947 Benjamin Bugsy Siegel a well-known gangster was shot and killed at his girlfriend’s home in Beverly Hills, California.

Siegel rose from the poverty-ridden slums of Brooklyn, New York to become a famous racketeer. Ben as he liked to be called, was tall, charming, athletic and handsome. He had the gift of gab, was a sharp dresser and it was said his piercing blue eyes were fearless. From his early teens Siegel was a successful criminal.

Siegel was also the classic textbook sociopath. He took what he wanted without a thought for his victims. He was a master manipulator of people. He had a long history of robbery, rape and murder. His fellow criminals dubbed him Bugsy because he was known to take jobs others wouldn’t take. He became the mob’s most feared hit man. Bugsy is a fitting nickname because Siegel often would go bugs with anger if others crossed him.

Yet Siegel is not remembered for his crimes but for his flamboyant lifestyle, which included many mob connections and Hollywood friends. He is also remembered because he was one of the first to see the opportunity that Las Vegas, Nevada presented. Because of this his name is synonymous with gambling in Las Vegas. But it would be his association with this town that caused his death.

Siegel seeing Vegas’ potential convinced his mob and Hollywood friends to invest in a project that he assured them would result in quick profits. He started to build a hotel/casino called the Flamingo. The project turned into a money pit costing over 6 million dollars. This drained his mob friends treasury dry. To add insult to injury his mob friends back east, including Meyer Lansky, learned that Siegel was skimming money from the building budget and putting it in numbered Swiss bank accounts.

The mob decided to put a hit out on Siegel. Lansky, who was a close friend of Siegel because Bugsy had saved his neck on several occasions in the past convinced the Syndicate to hold off. He convinced them that the Flamingo was going to be a moneymaker therefore they could get their money back. At its first opening the Flamingo flopped but months later when Siegel reopened the hotel it was a success. But this did not save his life. To this day it is not known if the Syndicate fulfilled the hit contract they had out on Siegel or if other enemies had him killed. His murder was done mob style. The Syndicate did take over the Flamingo after Siegel’s death.

Las Vegas is no longer owned by the mob. The Hilton Corporation owns the Flamingo Hotel and Casino today. In 1997 the Flamingo celebrated its 50th anniversary. It is the fourth largest hotel in the world with more than 3,500 guest rooms. Siegel was not mentioned during the anniversary celebration. As one writer put it:

“…the lesson that the life of Benjamin Bugsy Siegel imparts on us: a killer with a good idea is, after all, just another bum.”

But the sightings of Siegel’s ghost indicate that he is pleased that his predictions for Las Vegas came true. Since his death, many witnesses have seen Siegel’s ghost at the Flamingo Hotel. For four years before his death in Beverly Hills, Bugsy lived in the Presidential Suite at the Flamingo. Guests that have stayed in this room have reported many strange encounters.

Moving cold spots are reported and objects vanish or are moved around the suite. Witnesses have seen his apparition in the bathroom and near the suite’s pool table. It is reported that he appears to be happy and content to still be present. Some witnesses state he looks to be pleased about something. Maybe he is happy that Las Vegas turned out how he envisioned it.

#The Ghost of Bugsy Siegel #Bugsy Siegel #paranormal #ghost and hauntings #ghost and spirits #ghosts #spirits #hauntings #haunted salem #myhauntedsalem

[whatsyourghoststory]

Meet Jean Pesce, LA Crime Buff & Ghost Tour Guide

We are excited to welcome a new storyteller to the American Ghost Walks-California team: Jean Pesce. I know American Ghost Walks founder, Mike Huberty & I both love finding the perfect guide & Jean has researched these stories on her own for years.

We are so excited to welcome a new storyteller to the American Ghost Walks-California team in the person of Jean Pesce. I know American Ghost Walks founder, Mike Huberty, and I both love finding the perfect guide. Many people can memorize a script and recite it to a group, but it’s especially fun when you have a storyteller who legitimately loves the material and, in Jean’s case, she researched…

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#American Horror Story #Black Dahlia #Bugsy Siegel #cecil hotel #elisa lam #ghost tour #haunted #hollywood #Hollywood ghost tour #Johnny Stompanato #LA Ghost Tour #Linda Vista Hospital #Los Angeles #Los Feliz Murder Mansion #Manson Murders #Murder #night stalker #Sowden House #thelma todd #video

[artbyalgernon]

I did some mobsters as animal puns

#digital art #mobster #animals #animal art #carlo gambino #bugsy siegel #al capone #animal puns #artbyalgernon #panda #seagull #snail #snake #owl

[wulfesheud]

bugsy siegel's jackets at 810 n. linden drive (1947)

#bugsy siegel #40s

[thehistorybuffgangsters]

Bugsy Siegel and Dutch Schultz

#Bugsy Siegel #Dutch Schultz

[astratv]

Bugsy Siegel: Στο σφυρί η έπαυλη όπου δολοφονήθηκε ο διαβόητος μαφιόζος

Έναντι 17 εκατομμυρίων δολαρίων βγαίνει στο σφυρί η έπαυλη του διαβόητου μαφιόζου Bugsy Siegel. Ήταν εκεί όπου δολοφονήθηκε ο γνωστός Αμερικανός γκάνγκστερ, ο οποίος έπαιξε καθοριστικό ρόλο στην ανάπτυξη του τζόγου στο Λας Βέγκας. Ο Benjamin «Bugsy» Siegel, σύμφωνα με το Hollywood Reporter, είχε νοικιάσει την έπαυλη με τα επτά υπνοδωμάτια και τα έξι μπάνια για την ερωμένη του, ηθοποιό Virginia…

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#BUGSY SIEGEL #μαφιόζος

[thenewdemocratus]

Bill Kurtis: Vegas & The Mob (1996)

Bill Kurtis: Vegas & The Mob (1996)

Source:Gamble TV– former FBI agent Ed Becker. “Gambling has always been a very important business in the Mafia. From card games to betting on horses and other sports, the Mafia has earned cash from all of them. They operated many illegal and luxurious gambling operations throughout the United States. Police officers and law enforcement agencies were in the payroll of the Mafia Bosses and ignored…

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#1996 #A&E #America #Benjamin Siegel #Bill Kurtis #Bill Kurtis Productions #BIO #Bugsy Siegel #Ed Becker #FBI #Federal Bureau of Investigation #Italian Mafia #Jewish Mafia #Las Vegas #Las Vegas Mafia #Nevada #The 1940s #The 1970s #The 1980s #The 1990s #U.S. Department of Justice #United States #Vegas and the Mob

[dumbnotstupidfuck]

obv we know abt angels mafia shit when he was alive but husks? he’s from las vegas and was born in the early 1900s, and if we go with him being a casino owner/worker during that time, he was most certainly connected to or directly in the mob

#him and bugsy siegel were probably real close #him and angel were literally made for each other idk #hazbin hotel #huskerdust #husk #husker #angel dust #hellaverse #vivzieverse #casinohearts #hanthony

[dykedvonte]

I know it’s a cut line but Victor comparing Benny’s name to “Bunny” is so condescending and makes so much more sense than calling him fancy pants like he does in game proper.

Victor is a creation of House and his personal spy bot for the Courier and inadvertently Benny. Knowing how patronizing House can be I can imagine it’s a hated in joke between House and Benny that whenever Benny asks too many questions or is being combative House would tell him to hop along and purposely mispronounce his name as “Bunny”. Him adding it to the more personalitied Securitrons is a petty thing he would do.

Bonus irritation on Benny’s part if you imagine he adopting the name Benny at House’s behest and now it’s being used to mock him.

#bonus points because Benny is named after Bugsy Siegel so it’s like bugs bunny if you like word association #but nah like I can’t imagine talking to house as an underling is a pleasant experience he exudes a condescending attitude #he’d do some shit like make fun of you for following a rule he enforces cause I know some of his rules are just about control #please ask me about fallout new Vegas characters I think and have so much words for them #fallout #fallout new vegas #robert edwin house #mr house fnv #benny gecko #benny fnv

[gremlin-city]

my hottest fallout new vegas take is that Benny is not short for benjamin. its short for Benicio

#yes im aware he's based on bugsy siegel who was actually named 'benjamin' #however i dont care i think its funny #your captain speaking #fnv #benny gecko #fallout new vegas #benny new vegas

[myhauntedsalem]

The Ghost of Bugsy Siegel

One of the few original hotels and casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada that remains today is the Flamingo Hotel. This hotel has a very famous ghost residing in its Presidential Suite. At 10:30 P.M. on June 20, 1947 Benjamin Bugsy Siegel a well-known gangster was shot and killed at his girlfriend’s home in Beverly Hills, California.

Siegel rose from the poverty-ridden slums of Brooklyn, New York to become a famous racketeer. Ben as he liked to be called, was tall, charming, athletic and handsome. He had the gift of gab, was a sharp dresser and it was said his piercing blue eyes were fearless. From his early teens Siegel was a successful criminal.

Siegel was also the classic textbook sociopath. He took what he wanted without a thought for his victims. He was a master manipulator of people. He had a long history of robbery, rape and murder. His fellow criminals dubbed him Bugsy because he was known to take jobs others wouldn’t take. He became the mob’s most feared hit man. Bugsy is a fitting nickname because Siegel often would go bugs with anger if others crossed him.

Yet Siegel is not remembered for his crimes but for his flamboyant lifestyle, which included many mob connections and Hollywood friends. He is also remembered because he was one of the first to see the opportunity that Las Vegas, Nevada presented. Because of this his name is synonymous with gambling in Las Vegas. But it would be his association with this town that caused his death.

Siegel seeing Vegas’ potential convinced his mob and Hollywood friends to invest in a project that he assured them would result in quick profits. He started to build a hotel/casino called the Flamingo. The project turned into a money pit costing over 6 million dollars. This drained his mob friends treasury dry. To add insult to injury his mob friends back east, including Meyer Lansky, learned that Siegel was skimming money from the building budget and putting it in numbered Swiss bank accounts.

The mob decided to put a hit out on Siegel. Lansky, who was a close friend of Siegel because Bugsy had saved his neck on several occasions in the past convinced the Syndicate to hold off. He convinced them that the Flamingo was going to be a moneymaker therefore they could get their money back. At its first opening the Flamingo flopped but months later when Siegel reopened the hotel it was a success. But this did not save his life. To this day it is not known if the Syndicate fulfilled the hit contract they had out on Siegel or if other enemies had him killed. His murder was done mob style. The Syndicate did take over the Flamingo after Siegel’s death.

Las Vegas is no longer owned by the mob. The Hilton Corporation owns the Flamingo Hotel and Casino today. In 1997 the Flamingo celebrated its 50th anniversary. It is the fourth largest hotel in the world with more than 3,500 guest rooms. Siegel was not mentioned during the anniversary celebration. As one writer put it:

“…the lesson that the life of Benjamin Bugsy Siegel imparts on us: a killer with a good idea is, after all, just another bum.”

But the sightings of Siegel’s ghost indicate that he is pleased that his predictions for Las Vegas came true. Since his death, many witnesses have seen Siegel’s ghost at the Flamingo Hotel. For four years before his death in Beverly Hills, Bugsy lived in the Presidential Suite at the Flamingo. Guests that have stayed in this room have reported many strange encounters.

Moving cold spots are reported and objects vanish or are moved around the suite. Witnesses have seen his apparition in the bathroom and near the suite’s pool table. It is reported that he appears to be happy and content to still be present. Some witnesses state he looks to be pleased about something. Maybe he is happy that Las Vegas turned out how he envisioned it.

#The Ghost of Bugsy Siegel #bugsy siegel #ghost and hauntings #paranormal #ghost and spirits #haunted locations #haunted salem #myhauntedsalem #paranormal phenomena #supernatural #ghosts #spirits #hauntings

[whatsyourghoststory]

Haunted Filming Location: Formosa Cafe & LA Confidential (Plus updates on new hauntings & the Bugsy safe)

The Formosa Cafe is one of my favorite places in LA. Doesn't matter if it's haunted, where a favorite film was shot, if it has historical ties to classic Hollywood or the Mafia. But lucky for me, it has all of that... plus delicious food!

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#Bugsy Siegel #Cheryl Crane #Formost Cafe #haunted #hollywood #Johnny Stompanato #LA Confidential #Lana Turner #Los Angeles #Mafia #West Hollywood

[glamfellens]

idk who on the fnv development team decided to give benny a checked suit but i think i hate them

#i know u were going for bugsy siegel but. drawing it is the bane of my existence

[wulfesheud]

ben bugsy siegel (1940)

#bugsy siegel #40s

[mail-me-a-snail]

mob city was great (bugsy seigel exact look alike, meyer lewensky patrick fischler win, mickey cohen jeremy luke win) and so fucking bad (everything else)

#they made jeremy luke shove a banana up someones orifice for me tho #like they did that for me #also....listen........ #the guy who played bugsy siegel......LISTEN #ALSO SID ROTHMAN.....HELLOOO DOLLY #my post

[citylighten]

And now that I have the story up I can show some shots that didn’t make the cut for my pinned post 😂

#the checker dress is for bugsy siegel :/