Feature Articles

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PART 1

     If your visiting Los Angeles you'll find that there are tours for just about anything. From tours to the stars homes to where the stars are buried. There are tours around Los Angeles and Hollywood. There are movie studio tours and walking tours. But, most of these tours can get expensive as can the major tourist traps like Disneyland and Universal Studios and will leave your wallet as naked as a porn star.

     Now, what if none of the above interests you enough to slap down all your cash for one day of fun. And don't forget the cost for food and drinks, which you'll need after spending hours in the hot sun.

     If your interested in mob history like I am, when your dad asks you what you want to do today, you'll say "I wanna see where Bugsy Siegel lived at" or " Can we take a tour of mob sites"? After he gets over being shocked he might give in and say yes. But, as far as I know, there isn't a tour of mob location sites in Los Angeles. And if there was, it would cost money. So, I've put together a list of places where mobsters and their molls lived, played, murdered, died, and where they are planted. And its free and the this is the only place you'll find it. Pack a lunch, put some gas in the tank and head out to "Mob Country". Please remember that these homes are private residents, so, like the Godfather would say - "Show some respect and stay outta trouble". Happy Hunting.

BUGSY SIEGEL IN LOS ANGELES - 1933 - 1947

ARDEN DRIVE - BEVERLY HILLS
(Address unknown)
In 1933 Ben Siegel was living on this street.

326 MCCARTHY DRIVE - BEVERLY HILLS
LAWRENCE TIBBET
The opera singer / actor was living in his mansion in 1936 when Benny decided that he wanted to rent it. Tibbet found another place to live and Ben moved in.

REXFORD DRIVE - BEVERLY HILLS
EDDIE SUTHERLAND'S PRIVATE HEALTH CLUB
This is where Ben would go to for his rub downs and steam baths in the 1930s.

913 NORTH BEDFORD DRIVE - BEVERLY HILLS
COUNTESS DOROTHY DI FRASSO
During their affair, Ben spent many hours at her thirty room mansion.

250 DELFERN - BEVERLY HILLS
Siegel bought this empty lot and built his thirty - five room castle. The total cost, not counting the decorating and furnishing, was $150,000. He had two unlisted phone numbers:
BR2 - 1989 and CR1 - 0360
His neighbors were actresses Sonja Henie, Benita Granville, Anita Louise and director Norman Taurge.

6342 MULHOLLAND HIGHWAY
He called his nine - story castle "CASTILLO DE LAGO". Madonna lived here from 1993 to 1996.

VIRGINIA HILL
During her years in Los Angeles Virginia lived in one place after another. I don't have much history on these addresses, such as when she lived there.

4071 HAVENHURST STREET - HOLLYWOOD
She was living in this apartment building in 1938

2 BELLA DRIVE - BEVERLY HILLS
RUDOLPH VALENTINO'S "FALCON LAIR"
At the time she stayed here the joint was owned by Juan Romero, the owner of the North Linden Drive house.

8582 LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN ROAD - LAUREL CANYON

1055 SANBORN AVENUE - LOS ANGELES

8358 SUNSET BLVD - BEVERLY HILLS
THE SUNSET TOWERS APARTMENTS

1720 COLDWATER CANYON DRIVE - BEVERLY HILLS
She rented this mansion for $385 a month, plus utilities.

3400 WILSHIRE BLVD - WEST HOLLYWOOD
THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL
She had a suite here

BEN AND VIRGINIA
The two love birds had love nests all over town.

10814 WILSHIRE BLVD - WEST HOLLYWOOD
Had an apartment here in 1946. Her phone number was AR - 3007

1514 SUNSET PLAZA - WEST HOLLYWOOD
THE SUNSET PLAZA APARTMENTS
Had a penthouse

8221 SUNSET BLVD - WEST HOLLYWOOD
THE CHATEAU MARMONT APARTMENT 6-D ($25.00 a day)
They registered as Mr. and Mrs. Hill. This was their love nest in November 1946.

810 NORTH LINDEN DRIVE - BEVERLY HILLS
Virginia rented the house from Juan Romero for $500 a month. Romero at the time was the current of Valentino's "Falcon Lair", where she had once been a guest. Siegel stayed here when he was in town from Vegas. On the evening of June 20, 1947 he was sitting in the living room with a friend when a gun blast put his lights out for good.

HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY
BETH OLAM MAUSOLEUM
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel's last address.

AIGEN CEMETERY - SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
PLOT: GROUP 521
VIRGINIA HILL (HAUSER)
In 1966 she was living in Austria with her husband, Hans Hauser, when she died from an overdose of sleeping pills.

SIEGEL RELATED ADDRESSES

1218 COLDWATER CANYON DRIVE - BEVERLY HILLS
GEORGE RAFT

8570 HOLLYWOOD BLVD - HOLLYWOOD
JUAN ROMERO
Was living here at the time of Siegel's death.

721 NORTH DOHENY DRIVE - BEVERLY HILLS
BESSIE SOLOWAY - Ben's favorite sister
PHONE NUMBER: CR6 - 8338

1804 VISTA DEL MAR - HOLLYWOOD
HARRY "BIG GREENIE" GREENBERG
Siegel, Frankie Carbo and Allie Tannenbaum gunned Greenberg down outside of his apartment at this address.