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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. She was famous for being the girlfriend of mobster Bugsy Siegel.
Mar 21, 2016 · The woman was Virginia Hill, the onetime so-called “Queen of the Mob,” a courtesan and entrusted cash courier for household-name American gangsters from the mid-1930s through the 1940s.
Nov 15, 2021 · Today, the infamous mob queen's body is at rest alongside her family in a cemetery in Salzburg. Virginia Hill was born one of 10 children in a burned-out boomtown in rural Alabama but died in Austria as an infamous mobster.
Sep 12, 2022 · Clever, witty, glamorous, deadly: Virginia Hill was an infamous figure in America’s mid-century organised crime circles. She graced television screens across the country, was described by Time magazine as the “queen of the gangsters’ molls”, and has since been immortalised by Hollywood.
Jul 3, 2018 · Virginia Hill's lifeless body was found in the snow, alongside a tree-shaded brook, near Salzburg, Austria. It was 5,000 miles from where her life began on a horse farm in Lipscomb, Alabama,...
Mar 16, 2021 · Virginia Hill, whose short life took her from a Lipscomb, Alabama horse farm to Chicago, Las Vegas, and Beverly Hills, was called to testify before the U.S. Senate in March 1951 about the...
May 2, 2019 · Whenever the name “Virginia Hill” surfaces, it’s always quickly followed those of Bugsy Siegel and the Flamingo. It’s ironic that a woman who maintained her independence in the male-dominated...
Girl from Alabama. Virginia Hill was born on August 26, 1916 in Lipscomb, Alabama, a village with a few hundred souls that organized only six years before her birth. When a search is done for Lipscomb "notables," a solitary name typically pops up: Virginia Hill.
The only woman ever identified as a Mafia associate, Virginia Hill was born into poverty in Lipscomb, Alabama, the seventh of ten children, all of whom suffered abuse at the hands of their alcoholic father. Her seemingly ruthless nature was apparently acquired at a tender age.
May 25, 2024 · Clever, witty, glamorous, deadly: Virginia Hill was an infamous figure in America’s mid-century organised crime circles.
