On this day in 1966 the world would mark the passing of Virginia Hill who not only became Ben Siegel‘s lover, but also had love interests in Joe Adonis. Hill appeared in the 1951 Kefauver hearings on organized crime which labelled here as the Queen of the Gangster Molls, and died under suspicious circumstances in Austria at the age of 49.
She died from an overdose of sleeping pills, but many conspiracy theories have pinned her death on the mob.
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