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Al Capone
1899–1947
Who Was Al Capone?
Al Capone was one of the most famous American gangsters who rose to infamy as the leader of the Chicago Outfit during the Prohibition era. Before being sent to Alcatraz Prison in 1934 for a tax evasion conviction, he had amassed a personal fortune estimated at $100 million as the head of the infamous crime syndicate.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Alphonse Gabriel Capone
BORN: January 17, 1899
DIED: January 25, 1947
BIRTHPLACE: New York, New York
SPOUSE: Mae Capone (1918–1947)
CHILDREN: Sonny
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Capricorn
Early Life and Education
Alphonse Gabriel Capone, better known as Al Capone, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 17, 1899. Many New York gangsters in the early 20th century came from impoverished backgrounds, but this was not the case for the Capone. Capone was from a respectable, professional family. His father, Gabriele, was one of the thousands of Italians who arrived in New York in 1894. He was 30 years old, educated and from Naples, where he had earned a living as a barber. His wife Teresa was p
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Bergreen, Laurence
New York et al.: Simon and Schuster, 1994
701 p.
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A journalistic biography of Al Capone, based on previously published biographies, media reports, government documents and interviews conducted with acquaintances of Capone and their descendants.
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Al Capone was born in Brooklyn in 1899 to petit-bourgeois immigrants from Naples, Italy. He dropped out of school at age 14 to become an errand boy for local numbers racketeer John Torrio. At 18 Capone went to work for Frank Yale, another prominent racketeer, as bouncer and bartender in a Coney Island bar and dance hall. It was there that in a brawl with a knife-toting customer he received the famous scars on his left cheek which would later earn him the nickname "Scarface".
After marrying his life-long wife Mae in December of 1918 following the birth of their only child Sonny, Capone worked briefly as a bookkeeper in a legitimate construction firm in Baltimore.
In 1921 Al Capone entered the service of John Torrio who had seized control of
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Al Capone
Born: January 17, 1899, Brooklyn, New York
Died: January 25, 1947, Palm Island, Florida
Nicknames: Scarface, Snorky, the Big Guy, Big Al
Associations: Johnny Torrio, Jim Colosimo, Lucky Luciano, the Outfit, Bugs Moran
Alphonse Capone may be the most celebrated, or infamous, mobster in American history. His story has been told in dozens of fictionalized and true-to-life movies, television shows, books and other media. It’s an impressive collection for a man whose success and indeed whose life were relatively brief.
Growing up in New York City, Capone was active in the Five Points gang, a criminal enterprise of mostly younger Italian-Americans in Manhattan that also graduated such well-known mobsters as Charlie “Lucky” Luciano and Johnny Torrio. It was in New York that Capone suffered a facial wound in a fight at a brothel, earning him the nickname “Scarface.”
Torrio moved to Chicago in 1909 to work for syndicate boss “Big Jim” Colosimo, and in 1920 Torrio called upon Capone to join their growing enterprise in the Windy City. Colosimo operated hundreds of
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