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Mickey Cohen. Meyer “Mickey” Harris Cohen was born to a poor family on September 4, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, but he grew up with his five older siblings in Los Angeles, California. His older brothers ran a drug store during the prohibition era where Mickey learned to make bootleg alcohol. While working with his older brothers, Cohen also ...
29 de nov. de 2023 · Early Years. Meyer Harris “Mickey” Cohen was born on September 4, 1913, in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of five children to Max and Fanny Cohen, two Orthodox Jews who had immigrated from Kyiv. His father, who was a fishmonger, died from tuberculosis a year after Mickey’s birth, putting pressure on his mother to provide for the family.
Mickey Cohen was at the epicenter of criminal Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, and there was something charismatic and charming about the tiny (five-foot-five) Russian Jew who hailed from a Jewish ghetto in Brooklyn, got his swagger in Cleveland fight clubs, and inherited Siegel’s L.A. when Bugsy was murdered.
But Mickey Cohen was one of those rare gangsters—Crazy Joe Gallo, another Brooklyn boy with his connections to show biz, also comes to mind—who were more than just mindless mob enforcers. Street-smart, disarmingly blunt and true to their own insular, twisted ethical code, criminals like Cohen and Gallo exuded a kind of rough, lethal charm.
A tough-guy in Hollywood befriends super-rich William Randolph Hearst when daughter Patty is kidnapped by the African American terrorist group, the Symbiones...
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13 de feb. de 2024 · Mickey Cohen walked under the drooping fronds of a large palm tree toward the Clover Club at 8477 Sunset Boulevard with a shotgun tucked under his coat. The place was owned by restaurateur Eddie Nealis, and its management catered to film studio executives and Hollywood’s top stars.
Mickey Cohen. Cohen in an Alcatraz mugshot, July 1961. Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen (September 4, 1913 – July 29, 1976) was an American gangster who worked in Los Angeles. He was part of the Jewish Mafia, and also had strong ties to the American Mafia from the 1930s through 1960s.
