Women like Mae Capone and Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti stood behind their gangster husbands for better or for worse.

An eccentric nomad of American legend, Johnny Appleseed was said to plant apple trees throughout the frontier in the 19th century, but how does the history differ from the lore? Some may have learned ...

At first, Aaron Hernandez captivated America because of his astounding feats on the football field. Then, it was the accusation that he’d murdered his acquaintance Odin Lloyd. And finally, it was ...

For years, historians have assumed that cocaine wasn’t widely used in Europe until the 19th century, after the German chemist Albert Niemann figured out how to isolate the drug from coca leaves in ...

Pupetta Maresca wasn’t an American mob wife, but she did make a name for herself when she married Pasquale Simonetti, a member of the Italian crime organization known as the Camorra. Assunta Maresca, ...

Wiseguy, the 1985 book about Henry Hill’s life in the mob, eventually went on to serve as the inspiration for the hit film Goodfellas, and while the movie gets the story mostly right, it isn’t a ...

Geri McGee was much more involved in the mob business than Mae Capone. Whereas the latter was certainly aware of what her husband did, McGee was an active participant in many of the hustles of her ...

For centuries, the Lion of Venice has loomed over the Italian city as one of its most famous landmarks. It was long thought that the iconic sculpture originated in Anatolia, but a recent study ...

John Gotti is one of New York’s most infamous mobsters. He frequently made headlines — and right beside him was his wife, Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti. Despite her husband’s notoriety, Victoria Gotti has ...

Being a mobster is dangerous, but evidently, so is being a mob wife. Alice Granville was mostly known as an actress, though there is shockingly little information on her available. In fact, most ...

Virginia Hill was born in a small town in Alabama, but she eventually rose to prominence in Chicago and later Los Angeles. Although she was never technically a mob wife, she was the affair partner of ...