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Bugsy Siegel — Part 23
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; Bugsy was -
no gangster,
says Virginia |
i France, July 17.-00%-Sul-
try ginta Hill, sloe-eyed, fast-
talking girl friend of gangland‘a
lately departed Benjafnin (Bugsy)
Biegel, said today that she acci-
dentally took an overdose of sleep-
fng pills inst week because she
‘waa “worried and nervous.”
. Virginia, chatting gally and
Sipping cognac at the edge of a
swimming pool et plush Hotel La
Reserve at nearby Beaulieu, anil
however, that ber worries weren
@bout the Los Angeles
_ Said to be on her trail.
| “['m hiding from sorrow, not
iiiers,” she said. “There are no
i @angetera ot my track, Ben
5 wasn't a gangster, elther,”
{ Virginia didn't appear aad. She
| Jaughed gaily, tossing her long
auburn hair in the soft Riviera
' breeze throughout an hour-jong
interview,
Virginia said she was angry at
Riviera police and officials at
| Villa Albert I clinic for saying
|
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ashe tried to commit suicide by
taking a full vial of sleeping tab-
lets. ALG treaes, TTON a
- “I was just worrled and nervous, BERET N 1 © je
that’s all," she said. “I took the
tablets so I could sleep. I took too
many, I guése,”
Virginia said Bugsy had hoped
to come to Europe with her, but
that “he was too busy.” if ber
sorrow was caused by Siegel's
{ erasuré in Los Angeles, she didn't
+. show it, She was sun-tanned and
' apparently in good health. "Two
enormous gold bracelets and a
* heavy atring of pearis set off a
$°) white sult _with a avy “blu a sige Sapte ar
* | blouse, - E ¢ yl %)
# “Ail Lwant 1s to he left alo ‘ ee Fel
. ith my ~Sorrows. What I se ifeaehi Ruben to) 4 :
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