her signature halters, shorts and bare
feet, ride her horse up Church Street,
through the Square, down Cherokee
Street and back, causing many of the
men in town to get to work on the
Square much earlier than usual. She
would also roller skate those streets
often, adding only leather knee covers
to protect her legs.
After Bugsy Siegel was murdered,
she was subpoenaed and showed up
for questioning in a $5,000 mink cape,
broad-brimmed hat and silk gloves.
Some described her as the “star
witness.” She evaded questions from
the committee about her organized
crime associations. She gave vague
answers and artfully lied about the
origins of the tens of thousands in
cash she had Epstein hold for her in a
safe deposit box. The money was from
her winnings betting on the horses,
she explained. Hill also claimed the
“fellas” she knew, including Siegel,
simply sent her gifts and money along
the way.
Kinney said out-of-town editors
were ringing the MDJ at all hours
after Siegel’s death, to see if she had
arrived in Marietta yet.
There were also rumors – perhaps
started by Kinney himself – that he
could be claimed as one of her many
paramours. In one of his columns, he
coined her “America’s highest paid
playgirl,” to which she told Kinney
that he should have added “And also
the best.”
When she fled to Austria with her
new husband, Hans Hauser, a German
newspaper had reported that the
“Gangster Moll” had arrived and
wrote negatively of her. When the
reporter went to her house to interview
the head with a tennis racket. She
eventually committed suicide via pills,
writing that she was just tired of living
anymore in an apparent suicide note,
though some believe she was force-fed
pills by the mob to keep her quiet
once and for all. Who knows how
many stories were buried with
Virginia Hill - and Bill Kinney, too.
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