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Video Vixen vs. Mob Queen

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I was surfing one of my favorite sites - Wikipedia via http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Virginia+Hill and discovered that there was a video vixen before there were video's. Virginia Hill, the steady girlfriend of Hollywood gangster Bugsy Siegel. Siegel's nickname for Hill was "the Flamingo," for her skill at fellatio. Hill entertained Hollywood celebrities in her Beverly Hills mansion and reputedly blackmailed them to keep their private vices secret. Because Hill maintained a lavish lifestyle and believed to have mafia connections, In 1951 she was summoned to testfy in a hearing on organized crime. She told investigators that her income came from gifts her boyfriends gave her due to her prowess in oral sex. The author of "Bugsy’s Baby: The Secret Life of Mob Queen Virginia Hill," author Andy Edmonds recreates the story of Virginia Hill using mostly old journal entries and interviews with people who ran with her. Famous in organized crime circles f