The daughter of a Hollywood mob boss has shared a chilling revelation from her father that offers new insight into one of America’s most notorious unsolved murders.
Luellen Smiley is the daughter of mobster Allen Smiley – a member of a loose alliance between the Italian and Jewish mafias known as National Crime Syndicate, which dominated organized crime in the US in the early to mid-20th century.
Smiley was also the associate, confidant and best friend of Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, the mogul who built the Flamingo, Las Vegas‘s first luxury casino, and whose unsolved 1947 murder has baffled historians and law enforcement for
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