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Stephanie St. Clair (December 24, 1897 in Martinique, French Caribbean [1] – December 1969) was a racketeer who ran numerous enterprises in Harlem, New York in the early 20th century. [2] St. Clair resisted the Mafia 's interests for several years after Prohibition ended; she became a local legend for her public denunciations of corrupt ...
Johnson became an associate and enforcer for numbers queen Madame Stephanie St. Clair. [4] In the 1930s, he quickly climbed the ranks to become her most trusted soldier. St. Clair incited a war with her rival, Jewish mob boss Dutch Schultz, for control of Harlem's rackets. The war resulted in more than 40 murders and several kidnappings and ...
Dutch Schultz (1901–1935), had a gang war with Stephanie St. Clair and Bumpy Johnson over the numbers racket in the 1930s; Nicholas (Iggy) Vaccaro, Mafia associate of the Patriarca crime family Boston faction and operator of numbers policy game in Boston under family underboss Gennaro Angiulo in the 1970s [30]
Taraji P. Henson’s new overall deal at BET Studios is already paying dividends, with Henson in talks to produce and star in “Queenie,” a new series about Stephanie St. Clair, otherwise known ...
Hoodlum is a 1997 American crime drama film that gives a fictionalized account of the gang war between the Italian/Jewish mafia alliance and the black gangsters of Harlem that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Stephanie St. Clair – criminal leader; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue [47] Willie "The Lion" Smith – pianist; Wallace Thurman – writer [33] Jean Toomer – writer [37] James Van Der Zee – photographer [39] Madam C.J. Walker – philanthropist and tycoon; A'Lelia Walker – socialite and businesswoman; Fats Waller – pianist, born at 107 ...
Stephanie Seymour, 49, absolutely dropped jaws as she stripped down for LOVE magazine's "18" edition. The former supermodel wore zero clothing while flashing her ample breasts in a saucy ...