Bombs, guns and lead pipes - the severe have tried many things on the gangster Mickey Cohen, but do not kill.Crime boss to work hard to survive Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel, before dying of natural causes.
At the height of his power in Hollywood projectile fired Cadillac and Frank Sinatra, and the screen goddess Lana Turner.
Cohen played Harvey Keitel in Bugsy film in 1991 as companion Warren Beatty in the title role.
Double Oscar winner Sean Penn plays a gangster gangster in the least known of the new blockbuster.
Cohen was only 5ft 5ins however, was strong enough to be illegal boxer and rose through the ranks of the mafia, organized crime has swept the United States.
His real name Meyer Cohen was born in a poor neighborhood in New York in 1913. His mother was Jewish Kiev, Ukraine.
The stocky boy was arrested for selling alcohol ban at the age of nine years. In his adolescence, young people who took part in the fight, and then moved to California to train like a professional boxer.
While the United States is in the midst of the Great Depression led the railroad that crosses the country of vagabonds and where I could earn my living.
When he arrived in Chicago's criminal career began in earnest, and helped the game lasts Matty Al Capone, his younger brother.
He bought his first gun, a thief, and he recalled. "I felt like king of the world when I pulled over 38 made me a man as big as one meter and 10."
Cohen conducted armed mafia boss flights from the Midwest to California. He went to the arrest of more than 100 for the first time at the ripe age of 18 July 1933, in Los Angeles.
His mug shot, tail number 30732 and Lippy suggests calling a 19 year old man, looking ca
a long crescent-shaped scar two inches below the left eye.
A little over a year later, Cohen was held for the murder of a man who tried to rob a casino, or they wererdered guard.
However, the Irish lawyer salary Capone released pending trial date has been set.
In the following years, he worked as an Enforcer to the crowd before his reputation was rewarded with a move to Los Angeles, where he will team up with Bugsy Siegel, another New Yorker.
Cohen came into his own as a leader in gangster playboy big.
In 1949, the FBI's case, said: "Cohen's debut as a pimp in California, however, had a great desire to become a tyrant and an informant informed in 1938 that ran the challenges Westwood ..
"In 1938, Cohen was also a big fish bait for weapons and transport arriving for a visit or a compulsory residence.
"Cohen's reputation in the field of crime was quickly put in place, even when I was in Cleveland, Ohio. Perform all work to make the muscles and did not hesitate or remorse not to kill. "
Years later, Cohen recalls, "I turned Siegel 10,000, $ 25,000 ... the largest was 40,000 pounds are not registered or explanations Anything that says .. "Here, this is for you."
"Ben Siegel me that it was to be a gangster stolen during the night, but do not have the credibility, ability and personality to do things in a more respectable and should start paying taxes, so I have had no problem with income. "
Cohen spent the night in a room surrounded by girls, who arrived in Los Angeles, trying to get to the cinema.
Stella depended on him for favors. Sinatra obtained using Mickey Mouse to keep "passionate love affair with a beautiful new star Ava Gardner, and hidden from the public allegations of sexual abuse in Las Vegas kept secret," according to the biography of gangster Tere Tereba.
He wrote: "Whenever Judy Garland had a problem with her husband went on Mickey Cohen."
When Siegel was shot in June 1947 for skimming public funds, Mickey was in the wings ready to take advantage. Siegel was the development of the activity of a casino in Las Vegas, but secretly diverting funds in a Swiss bank.
E 'was shot in the living room of the hills in the palace of his friend Beverly.
Tereba wrote: "Mickey Cohen was involved in the conspiracy, no doubt."
Cohen was in a crowd of enemies and survived several assassination attempts, including an explosion in a house in Los Angeles, where he lived with his wife Lavonne.
She became a Hollywood celebrity. People asked for autographs and took with friends, Barbara Darnell and Liz Reznay.
In 1950, she posed for a photo surrounded by newspaper clippings of his crime business.
Cohen, the director of an elite police unit called the Gangster Squad, was sentenced to four years for tax evasion in the early 50s. His armored Cadillac captured.
In 1961, he was put in jail for the same thing. In Alcatraz tried to kill him with a lead pipe.
He was released in 1972 and was soon diagnosed with stomach cancer. Mickey Cohen was 62 when he died in his sleep in 1976.
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