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Virginia Hill, Alabama-born mob queen, testified before US Senate 70 years ago
Updated Mar 16, 2021;
Posted Mar 16, 2021
Virginia Hill Hauser, one time girl friend of slain mobster Benjamin ëBugsyí Siegel, sits at witness table before the Senate Crime Investigating Committee in New York, March 15, 1951. She told the crime probers that she didnít know ìWho could have had it inî for Siegel, mowed down in her Beverly Hills California home in June 1947. She also said she doubted that she would aid the Senators in their investigation of the Underworld. (AP Photo)AP
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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 organized crime figures she met along through the years.