November 1, 2026 · 4:07pm ET | 1:07pm PT
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Individually, they don’t amount to much.
Business cards. Some photos. A taxi receipt. The mundane things that work their way into wallets and pockets.
But collectively, the items found on Benjamin Siegel the night of his death help humanize the mobster and Flamingo executive better known as Bugsy.
Those personal effects, which had been held as evidence by the Beverly Hills Police Department since his murder June 20, 1947, make up the Mob Museum’s next exhibit, “What Bugsy Left Behind.”
“He was going about his business as the owner of a casino in Las Vegas,” says Geoff Schumacher, vice president of research, collections and programs at the facility formally known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement.
