At the height of the Cold War an intelligence chief was given a mission to have the Mafia assassinate Fidel Castro, a new book reveals. Handsome Johnny Roselli was the mobster in charge of running the ...

Palm Springs is known for its swanky mid-century modern architecture and being the playground to the stars, but it was also once the place where wise guys relaxed in the sun and, more terrifyingly, ...

Spies, sex, Mafia hit men and James Bond-like killing devices. They sound like the stuff of an Ian Fleming novel or a movie thriller. But these are true-life details from America’s first foray into ...

HANDSOME JOHNNY: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JOHNNY ROSSELLI: GENTLEMAN GANGSTER, HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER, CIA ASSASSIN By Lee Server St. Martin’s Press, $29.99, 544 pages From the Prohibition era to the ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Suave and debonair, a gangster saunters onto the stage, sizes up his ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The declassified John F. Kennedy assassination files are a window to how American law enforcement focused on shadowy Chicago Outfit figures and other Chicagoans who they thought might ...

Quick! What do Sam Giancana, Frank Sinatra, Judith Campbell (Exner), Marilyn Monroe, Peter Lawford and Johnny Rosselli have in common? Right! Kennedy connections. Heck that was too easy even for a ...

Johnny Rosselli was one of those people who navigated the world by charming everyone in his path, including gangsters such as Al Capone and Frank Nitti, Hollywood censor Joseph Breen, union boss ...

We're awash in conspiracy theories these days, and most of them are laughable. But one reason we might tend to believe them is that every once in a while a conspiracy theory turns out to be true. The ...

They had run things with great success and with little competition for some time. But things would soon change with the arrival of a powerful and ruthless rival from the faraway East Coast: lethal, ...