Ben "Bugsy" Siegel with his Hollywood connections attracted the most glamorous celebrities of the day to his Flamingo Hotel. It was the beginning of a longstanding association between Las Vegas ...

A couple decades after the gangster Bugsy Siegel built the first casino hotel in Las Vegas, a far folksier fellow named Don Laughlin built his own casino around 100 miles south, on the Nevada side of ...

While Hollywood mobster movies mostly feature men as main characters, with their female companions often little more than ...

Jewish gangster Bugsy Siegel was reputed to have massive charm and a killers instinct but when he stopped playing by the Mafias rules while developing the Las Vegas ...

Young Maier Suchowlansky and Benjamin Siegelbaum, better known in later years as Meyer Lansky and Ben "Bugsy" Siegel ... From the 1940s through the 1970s, Las Vegas and its lavish resorts were ...