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Virginia Hill (born Onie Virginia Hill; August 26, 1916 – March 24, 1966) was an American organized crime figure. An Alabama native, she became a Chicago Outfit courier during the mid-1930s. [ 4 ] She was famous for being the girlfriend of mobster Bugsy Siegel .
Siegel’s mob partners were convinced that an estimated US$1 million of the construction budget overrun had been skimmed by Siegel's girlfriend Virginia Hill or by both of them. On June 20, 1947, Siegel was shot dead at the age of 41 by a sniper through the window of Hill's Linden Drive mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
Virginia Hill (1966), American mobster, sedative overdose [568] Himilco (396 BC), Carthaginian general, starving himself [569] Heinrich Himmler (1945), German Nazi leader, cyanide [570] Ludwig Hirsch (2011), Austrian singer, songwriter and actor, jumped from the second floor of a hospital window [571]
When growing up there, Brickman chose as her role model Virginia Hill, girlfriend of gangster Bugsy Siegel. Brickman said of Hill, "here was a broad that really made it good." [2] As a teenager Brickman became involved with Italian mobsters, hanging out in Mafia nightclubs, seducing them in Cadillacs, and in later years running drugs. [2]
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His division did not participate in the Battle of Seven Pines (May 31 – June 1), the battle in which Joseph E. Johnston was wounded and replaced in command of the Army of Northern Virginia by Robert E. Lee. June 1 was the first day Hill began using a nickname for his division: the Light Division. This contradictory name for the largest ...
Roxane Gilmore, a teacher and professor who served as first lady of Virginia during her husband Jim Gilmore's term as governor from 1998 to 2002, died Wednesday. The former governor announced his ...
Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, located in the Triangle, is mentioned in passing a few times throughout the book, mostly as a source of conflict and distance between Kya and Tate, one of her love interests.