Virginia hill

Virginia Hill denied any knowledge of Organized Crime

This is perhaps the best photo I've ever seen taken of Virginia Hill.

Virginia Hill (1916-1966) was one of the most famous female mobsters. She was a courier for the national crime syndicate, moving thousands of dollars from one mobster to the next, even overseas. She purportedly slept with many gangsters, but was Bugsy Siegel's girlfriend. She fled to Austria after the Government went after her for tax evasion. She died on the ski slopes of Salzburg, Austria after ingesting a heavy dose of sleeping pills. She was 49 years old.

Mobster Bugsy Siegel’s gangster moll girlfriend, Virginia Hill, listening to rhumba records

Virginia Hill looking over music with bandleader Xavier Cuget. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images

Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, 41, was shot dead in his girlfriend Virginia Hill's Beverly Hills home, just south of Sunset Boulevard, on the night of June 20, 1947.

Jerri Mason (left) and Chick Hill (Virginia Hill's brother) at Bugsy Siegel's inquest June 25, 1947 From: We Only Kill Eachother by Dean Jennings

Virginia Hill. "The flamingo" for who Bugsy named the Flamingo Hotel & Casino in Vegas after.

On way to Miami, Virginia Hill, girl friend of the slain gambler Bugsy Siegel, walks from plane at Laguardia Field last night.