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At the age of 18, Princess Louise was introduced to Alexander Duff, the 6th Earl Fife, at the wedding of Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice. Four years later, in 1889, she asked her grandmother for permission to marry him, insisting that if she could not have Duff, she was sure she would die alone. … Read more

Sammy Gravano, the former Gambino crime family underboss known as Sammy the Bull, has publicly challenged Michael Franzese’s carefully maintained reputation as a mobster who left the life without compromising his morals. In a recent interview, Gravano suggested that Franzese’s clean image hides a transactional reality, claiming cooperation with the government was the real reason … Read more

The mob’s grip on the Stardust casino in Las Vegas turned it into the greatest crime scene in American gambling history, an operation so vast that it took an FBI investigation, several murders, and finally a Hollywood film by Martin Scorsese to expose what really happened behind the neon. The story begins with Antonio Cornero … Read more

In 1995, a man from Mali walked into the Dubai Islamic Bank and demanded to see the manager. His name was Fanga Babani Soko, and over the next three years, he managed to walk away with $242 million of the bank’s money through a bizarre combination of fraud, alleged black magic, and an inexplicable hold … Read more

Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, the mobster widely credited as a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip, was killed on the night of Friday, June 20, 1947. As Siegel sat reading the Los Angeles Times with his associate Allen Smiley at his Beverly Hills home, an unknown assailant fired a . 30-caliber military … Read more

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino finally shared a scene together in Michael Mann’s 1995 crime epic *Heat*. Sitting across from each other in a dimly lit Beverly Hills restaurant, two of the greatest actors of their generation traded philosophical lines over coffee, acknowledging that circumstances might one day force one to kill the other. … Read more