Word: mobsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CHERYL CRANE KILLS: In 1958, Lana Turner's 14-year-old daughter fatally stabbed her mother's mobster boyfriend SPAWNED: Theories suggesting Turner was the real killer; a renaissance in Turner's career...
SENTENCED. JOHN GOTTI JR., 35, son of mobster John Gotti; to 6 1/2 years in prison; in White Plains, N.Y. He had pleaded guilty in April to charges of bribery and extortion...
They weren't the kind of deposit one slips through the slot at the ATM. According to the New York Times, Russian mobsters are thought to have laundered billions of dollars through an old-line American financial institution, the Bank of New York. Investigators, tipped off by British authorities, spotted some $4.2 billion flowing through one account in more than 10,000 transactions from October to March of this year. The total could be as high as a staggering $10 billion ? double the size of Russia's latest IMF bailout check. The target of investigators is Semyon Yukovich Mogilevich...
...comes naturally. After Notting Hill comes Mickey Blue Eyes, out in August from Simian Films, the production company he and his girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley formed in 1995. In this light comedy, produced by Hurley, he plays an art auctioneer who happens to fall in love with a New York mobster's daughter (Jeanne Tripplehorn). The film allowed Grant and Hurley, in the name of research, to hang out with genuine Mob types in Brooklyn. "They really adored Elizabeth," says Grant. "They say, 'My name's Uncle Mikey, if there's anything I can do for you, anywhere in the world...
...reputed wiseguys, but that's where his celebrity comes from. Goodman played himself in the movie Casino, as the attorney for a Mob character portrayed by actor Joe Pesci. At a roast honoring Goodman, tributes poured in from prisons across the land, including a teasing video from an alleged mobster who said, "Without you, I wouldn't be where I am today...