Anastasia, murdered while getting a shave at New York’s Park Sheraton Hotel, was and remains one of the most callous and murderous criminals in American history. An illegal immigrant who jumped ship in 1919, he also jumped into New York’s underworld. Born into poverty in Parghelia, Italy in 1920 he would die in 1957, rich beyond his wildest dreams and probably the most feared Mafioso of his time. That he died as he’d lived (violently and criminally) was no surprise. That he survived for so long having made so many enemies certainly is.
It didn’t take
Anastasia long to have a close brush with death, both somebody else’s and very
nearly his own. Illiterate, but tough and strong, Anastasia’s first job was as
a dock-worker. Low in pay and status (though not in the risk of injury on the
job) it was also short on perks other than the rampant…
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