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Bugsy Siegel

Birth Name:

Benjamin Siegel

Birth Date:

February 28, 1906

Birth Place:

Brooklyn, New York

Death Date:

June 20, 1947

Place of Death:

810 North Linden Drive, Beverly Hills, California

Age:

Cause of Death:

Homicide - gunshot wounds

Cemetery Name:

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Claim to Fame:

Crime and their Victims

Bugsy Siegel began his career in crime including armed robbery, extortion, rape and murder during his teen years. He teamed up with Meyer Lansky to form the Bugs and Meyer Mob where he added car theft, gambling, bootlegging and hitman to his resume. By the late 1920s, Lansky and Siegel had ties to Luciano and Frank Costello (future bosses of the Genovese crime family) and later formed Murder, Incorporate. By 1946 his associations and illegal activities made it impossible for Siegel to stay on the East Coast and he moved to Hollywood where he threw lavish parties and enjoyed the company of actors George Raft, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant as well as studio executives Louis B. Mayer and Jack L. Warner. But what Bugsy Siegel is best known for is investing $6 million ($62 million in today's dollars) in loans from the Mob in a dried-up desert town and building the first destination casino in Las Vegas called the Flamingo Casino. Initially a huge flop, they added a hotel to the casino and reopened four months later to rave reviews and solid profits. But Siegel had worn out his welcome with the Mob back east and, suspected of skimming profits from the casino, had a contract put out on his life by Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Meyer Lansky.

Fun Fact

The E.N. Sperry House located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida along the riverside of New River is often called the residence of the infamous mobster known as Bugsy Seigel. Great story for the locals but there is no evidence that Bugsy Siegel ever lived in or visited Ft Lauderdale.

Bugsey Siegel was also a boyhood friend to Al Capone; when there was a warrant for Capone’s arrest on a murder charge, Siegel allowed him to hide out with an aunt.

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

6000 Santa Monica Blvd.

Los Angeles, California, 90038

USA

North America

Map:

Map of Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California

Grave Location:

Beth Olam Mausoleum, Corridor M2, Grave C-1087

Grave Location Description

As you enter the cemetery make an immediate right, drive to the end and then make a left. Drive straight ahead past the Judy Garland Pavilion until you come to the end of the road facing the entrance to Beth Olam Mausoleum. Enter through those door and take a right turn at the second hallway. Walk about half-way down (42 crypts … give or take) and look to the left, third row from the bottom, for the final resting place of the notorious Bugsy Siegel.