Virginia Hill

Criminal

Birthday August 26, 1916

Birth Sign Virgo

Birthplace Alabama

DEATH DATE Mar 24, 1966 (49)

About

American organized crime figure who became a Chicago outfit courier during the mid-1930s. She was also famous for being the girlfriend of mobster Bugsy Siegel.

Before Fame

In 1933 she left Georgia for Chicago with her teenage husband George Randell, hoping to enter the pornography business. Once in Chicago, she divorced Randell. She found a job as a waitress at the mob-run San Carlo Italian Village exhibit during the 1933 Century of Progress Chicago's World Fair, and supplemented her income as a prostitute. 

Trivia

In 1991, she was played by Annette Bening in the movie Bugsy, with Warren Beatty starring as Bugsy Siegel. She also inspired the Joan Crawford character in the 1950 film noir The Damned Don't Cry.

Family Life

She was born Onie Virginia Hill in 1916 in Lipscomb, Alabama. By the time she was eight, she had moved to Marietta, Georgia with her mother and siblings after her parents separated. She dropped out of school after finishing eighth grade. In 1951, Time magazine referred to her as the "queen of the gangsters' molls."

Associated With

She met up with a bodyguard of Al Capone early on in her career.