{"id":248725,"date":"2022-12-19T16:15:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=248725"},"modified":"2022-12-20T08:12:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:12:59","slug":"bugsy-siegels-murder-mansion-lists-for-17-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/bugsy-siegels-murder-mansion-lists-for-17-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugsy Siegel\u2019s Murder Mansion Lists for $17M in Beverly Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mansion where infamous mobster Benjamin \u201cBugsy\u201d Siegel was shot and killed 75 years ago has come on the market in Beverly Hills, Calif. The asking price for the 7-bedroom Spanish Colonial-style home at 810 N. Linden Drive is $17 million. It’s not clear whether that includes a discount for what’s known in the real-estate business as being a “stigmatized property.”<\/p>\n

\"Bugsy
The sensationalized murder that occurred in this mansion on June 20, 1947, brought Las Vegas its first national headlines. (Image: thedirt.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the night of June 20, 1947, Siegel, 42, was sitting on a couch in this house’s living room next to an associate, Allen Smiley, when a hail of bullets from an M1 carbine flew through the window. Siegel was hit twice in the face and twice in the chest. He died instantly. Smiley suffered only a bullet hole through his suit jacket.<\/p>\n

Siegel’s murder was never solved and remains an open case.<\/p>\n

Who was Bugsy Siegel?<\/b><\/h2>\n
\"Bugsy
Crime-scene photo of Bugsy Siegel’s murder. (Image: themobmuseum.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Siegel was a charismatic but ruthless gangster whose nickname \u2013 which he hated, by the way \u2013 reflected the unpredictable fits of rage he was known to fly into. He operated the Flamingo for his mafia boss and childhood friend, Meyer Lansky. The mob took control of the casino hotel from Billy Wilkerson when the Hollywood Reporter<\/em> founder went bust before construction was completed.<\/p>\n

Under pressure to produce revenue, Siegel opened the Flamingo early \u2014 before even guest rooms were completed \u2014 the day after Christmas 1946. He ran into some bad luck, though. Heavy rains grounded the planes of some of his celebrity guests and the casino\u2019s early gamblers won a fortune against the house. He had to close the place until March 1947 so more of it could be completed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told his mob handlers to give it a chance, that the place would turn a profit \u2014 and it did for months in 1947,\u201d former Mob Museum content developer and current Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> reporter Jeff Burbank told Casino.org. <\/em>\u201cBut it did not matter. It appears his mobster handlers decided he must be killed and replaced. Siegel caused too many problems and was not to be trusted with their money anymore. There were rumors Siegel was skimming. Even while owing so much money to so many other people, he was fundamentally deceitful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Siegel never owned the Beverly Hills house he was killed in. He rented it for his girlfriend, Virginia Hill, who was out of town on the night of her lover\u2019s murder \u2013 fueling later speculation that she had been tipped off by the mob to the hit. The property has had many different owners before last changing hands in 2003.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really has such a big presence,” real-estate agent Myra Nourmand, whose Normand & Associates has the listing, told the Hollywood Reporter.<\/em> “It sits on a knoll and is on half an acre. You walk in the entry with the staircase and the balcony and all of that has been completely maintained just the way it was done in 1928. Even the bathrooms are the original.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mansion where infamous mobster Benjamin \u201cBugsy\u201d Siegel was shot and killed 75 years ago has come on the market in Beverly Hills, Calif. The asking price for the 7-bedroom Spanish Colonial-style home at 810 N. Linden Drive is $17 million. It’s not clear whether that includes a discount for what’s known in the real-estate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":248727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81886],"tags":[84173,84171,82721,83090,82002,84172],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBugsy Siegel\u2019s Murder Mansion Lists for $17M in Beverly Hills - Casino.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The mansion where infamous mobster Benjamin \u201cBugsy\u201d Siegel was shot and killed 75 years ago has come on the market in Beverly Hills, Calif. 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