Godmother: 25 rare photos of women in the gangster world

Famous gangsters was always surrounded by women: windy beauty-lover, homely faithful wife, famous at that time, actress and criminal podelnitsy, who "stood guard" and fired with two hands with pistols.

We see in the movie girlfriends of criminals, because a keen interest in the culture of the mafia is not quenched for many decades. But what looked like in reality women gangster world? The fate of these exceptional young ladies who were the wives or mistresses of bandits and frequently committed crimes?

Smitty white under arrest after her boyfriend Ralph PRISCO was gunned down by police during a failed robbery, 1942. Women who decided to connect his life with gangsters, called mob moll or gun moll. This term came into use in the early 20th century, the "Mall" — derived from "Molly", so in England the 17th century called ladies of easy virtue.

Mae Capone, wife of the famous gangster al Capone, wrapped in furs, trying to hide from the cameras of journalists during her visit to the prison Alcatraz, 1929. Mei, a girl from a respectable Irish family, was married in 1918 and then her husband gave birth to their only son Sonny. The husband had infected her and the baby with syphilis, but no matter what she until his death remained a faithful and caring wife. Mae lived a long life, after he left this world in 1986, at the age of 89 years.

Love and blood: actress Alice Granville was shot by her husband, Pete Donahue, the gangster of the group of Dutch Schultz, 1931.

The beautiful brawler Virginia hill is one of the most famous women in the gangster world. She was a courier for the transport of "black money" and the famous mistress of Bugsy Siegel. In the photo, 1951 Virginia at the end of his criminal career in the courtroom, where he appeared before the Kefauver Committee on charges of tax evasion. In the same 1951, she fled from us justice in Europe, and 15 years later committed suicide in Austria, where she lived in poverty and oblivion.

Janice Drake occupies a special place in the list of women associated with organized crime. Beauty Queen, former Miss new Jersey, she has spent countless amount of time in clubs and restaurants in the company of the most eminent mafia, despite the fact that I was married to comedian Alan Drake, with whom she had a son.

Twice Drake had dinner with the men the next day, after a fateful meeting with a beautiful woman was found dead. This photograph, taken in 1952, Drake photographed in the police, where she was summoned for questioning, after he was killed by the famous playboy NAT Nelson. The girl was seen with him a few hours before death.

The end of Janice Drake was sad: in 1959 she was shot along with mobster Little Augie Pisano. The bloodied body of the former beauty Queens found in the front seat of the Cadillac mafia. The girl and the gangster was shot in the head.

19-year-old Virginia Inmark and 24-year-old Fred Schmidt are charged with murder seller of bras, 1944.

15-year-old Carmen Martinez is lead into the courtroom. For the sake of her boyfriend-mobster she had committed the murder of 17-year-old Raul Banuchi, 1959.

Margo Donahue was detained while trying to transfer the gun to his accomplice, William Matea, 1961.

Heartbroken Lottie Coll, wife of the Irish gangster Vincent Wild Dog Call in the courtroom, 1933.

Vaudeville dancer Marion Kiki Roberts has also been associated with the mafia, as was the mistress of the gangster days of the late prohibition of Legs Jack of Diamonds. Jack was shot is unknown, but the girl in the photo with the one of her lover — actor Jack La Rue, 1937

But it looked like a gangster Jack Legs diamonds, whose girlfriend you saw in the photo above. Here he poses for the photographer with his long-suffering wife Alice. Alice was a deeply religious woman, devoted to her husband despite his numerous crimes and treason. Two years after Jack's death his widow, had already long forgotten by the public and the press, found shot to death in her modest apartment in Brooklyn. Alice the killer never found.

Rita Rio — mistress of mobster Louis Amberg, the right hand a famous Dutch Schultz. The very beautiful claimed that had no idea about the kind of activities and source of income for your beloved. Mafia, as usual, came to a bad end: he was found burned alive in the car.

Arrested lovers Margaret Kelly and Frank Palumbo. This couple was arrested for robbery and murder danshall in 1932.

The palm vital, the mistress of mobster Salvatore Dambrosio, shows miracles of self-control. Her face completely unemotional, while she's on trial for perjury in 1961.

17-year-old Nancy Carvill arrested for having "stood guard" during a RAID of the gangster gang in new York's Queens district, 1936.

Florence Gerrity was detained by police in 1948, along with five accomplices. On questioning, the girl told about the leader of the gang George Foley: "Before I met him life was boring."

"I thought it was lighter", 23 — year-old Lillian Stang "includes a fool" during interrogation in 1947. She was arrested for illegal possession of weapons.

Although the gangsters tried not to Shine "work", which had a military girlfriend, many women justice all the same overtook. 1933, Mary Baker, known by the nickname the Girl with two pistols, crying in a police station in the Bronx after his arrest.

This girl looks so innocent, but in reality it is not: Jean Hanover, the mistress of John Zeller arrested after another robbery of Brooklyn, 1935.

Lottie Cole, the widow of Vincent stake, along with two accomplices-Mafioso accused of killing a passer-by during a robbery, 1933.

She does not repent! Margaret Kane smiles, while her removed from the courthouse, where the girlfriend of a gangster found guilty, 1932.

You may think that it's a man, but it is related with mafia girl, Mary Duke. She was photographed in a police station with a bandaged hand after she was injured on gangster duel, 1943.

Starlet Louise Rolfe and her husband, a notorious gangster Jack McGurn, shortly after their wedding in 1931. For many years Louise was a friend of the mafia members, two of whom were married. About this woman in the 1980s made a documentary. Unlike many other fighting friends, she lived a long life and died in 1995 at the ripe age of 89.