BioAl Capone was born in Brooklyn on January 17, 1899, fourth of seven sons and two daughters. His parents, Gabriel and Theresa, had immigrated to the United States six years before from Castellammare di Stabia, sixteen miles from Naples, Italy. He died of cardiac arrest at his estate on Palm Island—in Biscayne Bay, between Miami and Miami Beach, Florida—just eight days after his 48th birthday.
He was entirely obscure when he fled to Chicago in 1919 at age 20, fugitive from a psychopathic killer, the chief lieutenant of an Irish gang whose subordinate Capone had pounded into a hospital case during a bar brawl. No one in the saloon knew the name of the hefty Italian kid, but William Lovett had a useful description: not too long before, Capone's left cheek, jaw and neck had received three scars. To find more information click the button below. |