So I thought I’d take to time post a little somethin’ for little Benny. Capisce? Ya’ know Las Vegas wouldn’t be what it is today is it wasn’t for Benny Siegel, Meyer Lansky and of course my lovely great-great-grandpa’ Charlie Luciano.^^ I’m sure that you’ve all heard of The Flamingo, right? The Casino that got Benny murdered? What was only supposed to be a little of 1 million dollars to put up, Benny and his obsessiveness, borrowed more than 6 million to complete. What all with these little extras he wanted to have put on.
Not to mention that the company that was building The Flamingo was unknowingly stealing off them… Plus this lovely and just as psychotic Virginia Hill somehow managed to talk poor ol’ Benny into skimming money off his friends…
For those of you that have heard the rumors that Ben haunts the flamingo, it’s true. I’ve stayed at The Flamingo many of times, and on several occasions I have seen Ben’s spirit. Same goofy tie with the big dice, same plaid like suit jacket, same blue eyes.
Nobody but Benny Siegel could pull off that look. One in a million.
Even though it was grandpa’ Lucky and the Little Man Meyer Lansky’s votes that got him killed, I still go a soft spot for Benjamin, the murderous schlemiel. And I partially blame Virginia Hill, the crazy broad.
Benjamin could’ve made a big difference. He wanted to kill Mussolini at some sort of banquet at one of his mistresses, Dorothy DiFrasso’s house in Italy. Unfortunately he never did. Although, my personal opinion might not mean much, I do think that it would’ve helped a lot with the whole Hitler-Mussolini thing. Benny loved his people to say the least…
Then again, next to Sicilians and Italians, I got a huge soft spot for Jews. They’re very clean people. And most of my friends are Jewish…
But all of that aside, it’s Benjamin Siegel’s 103rd birthday. February 28th, 1906 - June 20th, 1947
……..A Freilekhn Gebortstog, Bairush HaLevi ben Reb Mordechai Dov HaLevi!
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