Mob Girl - A Woman's Life in the Underworld

Author(s): Teresa Carpenter

Biographies & Memoirs

Arlyne Weiss grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the daughter of a Jewish mobster who ran an auto sales business as a front.


From a young age, she idolized Virginia Hill, the girlfriend of gangster Bugsy Siegel, and aspired to what she saw as a glamorous and exciting life. After a brief marriage to a furrier named Norman Brickman, she achieved her goal and then some, inserting herself into the lives of dozens of wise guys - Italian mobsters were her preference - and becoming addicted to the rush of danger and lawlessness. But after years of violence, a brutal gang rape, and finally, threats against her daughter, she turned the tables on those who betrayed her and became a government informant, wearing a wire and ultimately becoming a major witness in the government's successful case against the Colombo crime family, bringing down the notorious Anthony Scarpeti.

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General Fields

  • : 9780008398699
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
  • : August 2020
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  • : books

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  • : Teresa Carpenter
  • : Paperback
  • : 2008
  • : 320