Lansky decided he'd best stay ahead of the revolutionaries and fled to the Bahamas on January 7, 1959. Shortly after, Castro ...

A Medal of Freedom awarded to a notorious mobster by then-President Harry S. Truman is set to go to auction in California. The honor -- a forerunner to the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom -- ...

Movies, books, plays, dramatic recreations, podcasts, and novels tell the tales of some of the most infamous figures of the 20th century, people like Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone, and Charles "Lucky" ...

Meyer Lansky (born Meier Suchowlanski, July 4, 1902-Jan. 15, 1983) was organized crime’s “Accountant” and was associated with gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano. Meyer, along with Luciano, was ...

Hollywood Gangster, Mickey Cohen, knew, and worked with, all the major underworld players, from Bugsy Siegel to Lucky Luciano to Meyer Lansky. He also crossed paths with Jack Ruby and was involved ...

“People see the same thing from different perspectives. And that fascinates me,” Harvey Keitel notes in an early scene while playing the title role in “Lansky,” writer-director Eytan Rockaway’s ...

Mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel’s murder remains an unsolved case 77 years after he was riddled with bullets in Southern California. In the Northern California city of Vallejo, there’s a related ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...