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MAFIA PRINCESS by Antoinette Giancana and Thomas C. Renner Morrow; 304 pages...
When Chicago Mobster Sam Giancana was executed gangland-style in his Oak Park, Ill., home in 1975, FBI agents were gleeful. At last they had a chance to search the house that Giancana used as his command post for Mafia operations. But when they swung open the front door, the investigators were astonished. Instead of the expected depot of pistols and machine guns, they found a cache ofobjets d'art and religious mementos, including a photograph of Giancana having a private audience with Pope Pius XII. Later, when this trove was sold at auction, Giancana's daughter Antoinette...
Still, as Antoinette has recounted to Co-Author Thomas Renner, growing up as a Mafia princess was scarcely an elevating experience. Her first taste of the savagery that pervaded Giancana's world came when she knocked over his pet objet, a kitschy female figurine clutching her wind-blown skirt. Giancana's response was to beat his young daughter with his belt...
...path, though, he got into trouble. The FBI taped the young naval officer's wartime dalliance with a European beauty-contest winner who had Nazi connections. In the White House, another affair put him in worse jeopardy. His partner, Judith Campbell (later Exner), was also seeing Mobster Sam Giancana, whom the CIA was trying to enlist in a plot to kill Castro...
...last week after asking the Nevada Gaming Control Board for a gaming license so that he can become a consultant to Caesar's Palace. He once had an operator's license but lost it in 1963 because of his reputed association with Chicago Mafia Don Sam ("Momo") Giancana...