Iconic mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel built the Flamingo casino in Las Vegas, igniting an era of glamour, gambling and gangsters in the desert. 标志性的黑帮分子本杰明 · 西格尔在拉斯维加斯建造了火烈鸟赌场，点燃了一个充满魅力、赌博和沙漠黑帮的时代

Who Was Bugsy Siegel?

谁是 Bugsy Siegel？

Born in Brooklyn on February 28, 1906, Bugsy Siegel built a criminal empire through bootlegging, gambling and ruthless assassinations before setting up shop in Las Vegas. He opened the famous Flamingo Hotel and Casino, the start of his notorious gambling operation in the middle of the Las Vegas desert. In 1947 he was gunned down at his girlfriend Virginia Hill's home at the age of 41.

西格尔1906年2月28日出生于布鲁克林，在拉斯维加斯开店之前，他通过走私、赌博和残忍的暗杀建立了一个犯罪帝国。他开设了著名的火烈鸟酒店和赌场，开始他臭名昭著的赌博业务在拉斯维加斯沙漠中心。 1947年，41岁的他在女友弗吉尼亚 · 希尔家中被枪杀。

Bugsy Siegel Photo — Bugsy Siegel

巴格西 · 西格尔

Wife and Daughters

妻子和女儿

Siegel married his childhood sweetheart Esta Krakower in January 1929, and together they had two daughters: Millicent (who died in 2017) and Barbara.

1929年1月，西格尔与青梅竹马的爱丝塔 · 克拉科维尔结婚，并育有两个女儿: 米莉森特(2017年去世)和芭芭拉。

However, Siegel's philandering caused the couple to divorce in 1946, and Esta subsequently moved herself and their daughters out of Beverly Hills and returned to New York.

然而，西格尔的风流韵事导致这对夫妇于1946年离婚，埃斯塔随后带着自己和女儿搬离了贝弗利山庄，回到了纽约。

Bugsy Siegel Movie

巴格西 · 西格尔电影

Among the movies that depicted the life and times of Siegel, the 1991 mafia flick Bugsy, starring Warren Beatty in the titular role, is perhaps the most famous. Another film that was released the same year as Bugsy was the crime drama Mobsters, which starred Richard Grieco as the mobster.

在描绘西格尔生活和时代的电影中，1991年的黑手党电影《巴格西》，由沃伦 · 比蒂主演，也许是最著名的。另一部与布格西同年上映的电影是犯罪片《匪徒》，由理查德 · 格里科饰演匪徒。

Criminal Activity

犯罪活动

During the 1920s, Mafia kingpin Charles "Lucky" Luciano and a number of other Italian gangsters organized themselves into a national syndicate. Nicknamed Bugsy for his volatile nature, Siegel became a prominent player in this newly established group of criminals. With a goal of killing off many of New York's veteran gangsters, Siegel was one of four hit men hired to execute Sicilian mobster Joe "the Boss" Masseria in 1931.

在1920年代，黑手党头目查尔斯“幸运”卢西亚诺和其他一些意大利黑帮成立了一个国家辛迪加。绰号 Bugsy 为他的反复无常的性质，西格尔成为一个突出的球员在这个新建立的犯罪集团。西格尔的目标是杀死许多纽约的老黑帮成员，他是1931年受雇处决西西里黑帮老大乔 · “老大”马塞里亚的四名杀手之一。

In 1937 Siegel relocated his bootlegging and gambling rackets to the West Coast. Settling in California, he set up gambling dens and offshore gambling ships, while also consolidating the already existing prostitution, narcotics and bookmaking rackets. Moving his wife and children out with him, Siegel maintained an extravagant lifestyle in Beverly Hills, where he bought a palatial estate, frequented parties and rubbed elbows with Hollywood moguls and starlets.

1937年，西格尔把他的走私和赌博生意搬到了西海岸。在加利福尼亚定居后，他建立了赌场和离岸赌船，同时还整合了现有的卖淫、毒品和赌博活动。西格尔带着妻子和孩子搬出去，在贝弗利山庄过着奢侈的生活，在那里他买了一处富丽堂皇的房产，经常参加聚会，与好莱坞大亨和小明星们擦肩而过。

Las Vegas & the Flamingo Hotel

拉斯维加斯和火烈鸟酒店

In the late 1930s, Siegel began dating actress Virginia Hill. They were a striking couple known as much for their violent natures as for their glamorous looks. In 1945, the two moved to Las Vegas, where Siegel began working toward his dream of building a gambling mecca in the Nevada desert. With funding from the Eastern crime syndicate, construction of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino began under Siegel's supervision.

20世纪30年代末，西格尔开始与女演员弗吉尼亚 · 希尔约会。他们是一对引人注目的夫妻，不仅因为他们迷人的外表，也因为他们的暴力天性。 1945年，他们俩搬到了拉斯维加斯，在那里，西格尔开始朝着在内华达沙漠中建立一个赌博圣地的梦想努力。在东方犯罪集团的资助下，弗拉明戈酒店和赌场的建设在西格尔的监督下开始。

Originally budgeted at $1.5 million, the building project soon proved to be a problem as construction costs soared to more than $6 million. When it was discovered that many of the overruns were attributable to Siegel's theft and mismanagement, Lansky (now a prominent member of the Eastern syndicate) became enraged by his betrayal.

最初的预算是150万美元，但随着建筑成本飙升至600多万美元，这个建筑项目很快就成了一个问题。当人们发现，许多超支都是由于西格尔的盗窃和管理不善造成的时候，兰斯基(现在是东方财团的重要成员)被他的背叛激怒了。

Murder

谋杀

On the evening of June 20, 1947, Siegel was brutally killed, when a fusillade of bullets crashed through Virginia Hill's living room window in Beverly Hills where he was visiting. Simultaneously, three of Lansky's cohorts entered the Flamingo Hotel and declared a takeover. Although Lansky denied involvement in the hit, there is little doubt that Siegel was murdered on syndicate orders.

1947年6月20日的晚上，西格尔被残忍地杀害了，当时他正在比佛利山庄拜访弗吉尼亚 · 希尔，一连串的子弹击穿了他的起居室窗户。同时，兰斯基的三个同伙进入弗拉明戈酒店，宣布接管。尽管兰斯基否认与此次暗杀有关，但毫无疑问的是，西格尔是在辛迪加的命令下被谋杀的。

Early Life

早期生活

Bugsy Siegel was born Benjamin Siegel, on February 28, 1906, in Brooklyn, New York. The son of Jewish immigrants, Siegel was raised in the crime-ridden section of Williamsburg, where Irish and Italian gangs were prevalent. As a teenager, he extorted money from pushcart peddlers on New York City’s Lower East Side. In 1918, Siegel befriended fellow hooligan Meyer Lansky, with whom he established the Bugs-Meyer Gang — a band of ruthless Jewish mobsters that ran a group of contract killers under the name Murder, Inc.

1906年2月28日，本杰明 · 西格尔出生于纽约布鲁克林。作为犹太移民的儿子，西格尔在犯罪猖獗的威廉斯堡长大，那里是爱尔兰和意大利帮派盛行的地方。十几岁的时候，他在纽约下东区向手推车小贩勒索钱财。 1918年，西格尔结识了同为流氓的迈耶 · 兰斯基(Meyer Lansky) ，并与他一起建立了“疯狂迈耶帮”(bugs-Meyer Gang)——一群残忍的犹太黑帮分子，经营着一个名为“谋杀公司”(Murder，inc.)的职业杀手团体。