Those Glamorous Gabors by Darwin Porter

Author:Darwin Porter [Porter, Darwin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 111-1-11-111111-1
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Published: 2014-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

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EVA

One night at Ciro’s, Eva showed up with actor Hugh Marlowe. Virginia Hill—Bugsy’s number one gun moll—decided to visit too. Gangster Joe Adonis, her other longtime “flame,” was her escort that night.

As Hill’s biographer, Ed Reid, maintained, “There have been many women in criminal history, but never before anything quite like Virginia Hill. Sharp, and smart, completely different. A liberated woman, long before the term was invented. She was relatively free to do her own thing and run as she pleased—but only on a leash of gold held by the Mob. She was a flesh-and-blood computer of silk, satin, and whore instincts.”

Eva was in the women’s room at Ciro’s checking her makeup when Hill entered. “It’s about time me and you had a little chat,” Hill said to Eva.

“I have nothing to say to you,” the astonished Eva said.

“Listen, bitch, I’m Virginia Hill, your worst enemy. You have a very pretty face, and I’d hate to see you lose it. Some boys I know carry around acid in a bottle. The liquid in one of those bottlescan change your complexion more than any face cream.”

“You wouldn’t dare!” Eva said, her alarm mounting.

“Try me!” Hill said, moving so close to Eva’s face that she peppered her with saliva. “If I ever catch you with Bugsy again, the boys will make you regret it to your dying day. I assure you, after they’re through with you, no man will ever look at you again, except in horror.” Then she stormed out of the women’s room.

Eva stood there petrified before she began to sob. Encountering Hill had been terrifying. After that, Eva continued to see Bugsy, but only rarely and then under very secret conditions.

In June of 1947, heinvited her to spend four or five days with him ina house that Hill had rented in her name. Bugsy was occupying the buildingwith Allen Smiley, his associate and a self-styled movie director. The gun moll had relinquished her lease on Rudolf Valentino’s Falcon Lair and in its place had rented thisMoorish-style castle at 810 North Linden Drive in Beverly Hills.Hill, whohad departed ona shopping expedition to Paris, wouldn’t be anywhere near the premises.

Eva accepted Bugsy’s invitation, but with the understanding that instead of arriving on June 21, in accordance with the original terms of the invitation, shewouldn’t be available until June 24 because of a scheduling conflict.

“When Eva picked up the morning paper on June 21, she screamed at the picture that appeared on the frontpage. That previous night, Bugsy had been assassinated within Hill’srented castle.

He had been sitting with Smiley reading a copy of The Los Angeles Times. French doors in the living room opened onto a terrace. Cigarette butts indicated that the assassin had waited there for hours to get a clear shot at Bugsy with his .30 caliber military M1 carbine. Manyshots were fired into Bugsy, including three directly into his head.

At a meeting of the mob’s “board of directors” in Havana over the Christmas holiday of 1946, Bugsy had been targeted for murder.

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