Al Capone Net Worth
Al Capone Net Worth is
$100 Million
Al Capone Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (/æl kəˈpoʊn/; January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era. His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33 years old.Born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants, Capone was a Five Points Gang member who became a bouncer in organized crime premises such as brothels. In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago and became bodyguard and trusted factotum for Johnny Torrio, head of a criminal syndicate that illegally supplied alcohol and that was politically protected through the Unione Siciliana. A conflict with the North Side Gang was instrumental in Capone's rise and fall. Torrio went into retirement after North Side gunmen almost killed him, thereby bringing about Capone's succession. Capone expanded the bootlegging business through increasingly violent means, but his mutually profitable relationships with mayor William Hale Thompson and the city's police meant Capone seemed safe from law enforcement. Apparently reveling in the attention, such as the cheers when he appeared at ball games, Capone made donations to various charities and was viewed by many to be a "modern-day Robin Hood". However, the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre of gang rivals from the North Side Gang damaged Chicago's image, leading influential citizens to demand governmental action.The federal authorities became intent on jailing Capone and prosecuted him for tax evasion in 1931. The case was highly politicized and both prosecutors and judge later received preferment. During prior and ultimately abortive negotiations to pay the government any back taxes he owed, Capone had made admissions of his income; the judge deemed these statements usable as evidence at the trial, and also refused to let Capone plead guilty for a lighter sentence. The effect of such decisions by the judge was added to by the incompetence of Capone's defense attorneys. Capone was convicted and sentenced to a then-record-breaking 11 years in federal prison. Replacing his old defense team with experts in tax law, his grounds for appeal were strengthened by a Supreme Court ruling, but Capone again found that his status as a symbol of criminality meant that judges decided in his disfavor. Already showing signs of syphilitic dementia by early in his sentence, he became increasingly debilitated before being released after 8 years. On January 25, 1947, Capone died of cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke. Capone's conviction had negligible effect on the prevalence of organized crime in Chicago. Full Name | Al Capone |
Net Worth | $100 Million |
Date Of Birth | January 17, 1899, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States |
Died | January 25, 1947, Palm Island, Miami Beach, Florida, United States |
Place Of Birth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
Height | 5' 10½" (1.79 m) |
Profession | Miscellaneous Crew, Camera Department, Actor |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Mae Capone (m. 1918–1947) |
Children | Albert Francis Capone |
Parents | Teresina Capone, Gabriel Capone |
Siblings | Frank Capone, Ralph Capone, James Vincenzo Capone, Umberto Capone, Rose Capone, Matthew Capone, John Capone, |
Star Sign | Capricorn |
# | Quote |
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1 | A lawyer and his briefcase can steal more than ten men with guns. |
2 | I don't even know what street Canada is on. |
3 | It's bootleg when it's on the trucks, but whenever your host hands it to you on a silver tray, it's hospitality. |
4 | They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money. |
5 | You can get further with a kind word and a gun, than you can with just a kind word. |
6 | You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. |
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1 | His favored suite in Miami was used in the Only Fools and Horses.... (1981) episode Miami Twice where the episode was recorded. David Jason considered Capone a more violent Del Boy. |
2 | Subject of the song "Al Capone" by Wesley Willis. |
3 | The eldest of nine children. |
4 | Grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn. |
5 | Often passed off the scar on his face as a wartime wound. |
6 | His wife Mae Coughlin was Irish-American. |
7 | Eight of his accomplices' were charged (1943) with extortion of $2.5 million from the Cinema Technicians Union. |
8 | One of Capone's all-time favorite tunes was George Gershwin's classic "Rhapsody in Blue". |
9 | Brought to Chicago by Johnny Torrio to help his aunt's husband, crime boss Jim Colosimo, take out his opposition. It was rumored that Capone later assassinated Colosimo on Torrio's orders. |
10 | His lawyer, who testified against him in court, was named Edward O'Hare, or "Easy Eddie." Chicago's O'Hare International Airport is named for his son, Edward "Butch" O'Hare Jr. Butch O'Hare, of course, is the WWII Medal of Honor winner who saved his aircraft carrier by single-handedly shooting down seven to eight Japanese bombers. |
11 | Spent eight months, from August 1929 to March 1930, in the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia for possession of a concealed weapon. He stopped in Philadelphia while returning to Chicago from an outing in Atlantic City, NJ, and was stopped by police, who frisked him and found the weapon on him. |
12 | His estate tried to halt the production of the hit television series The Untouchables (1959). Their final tactic was to claim that the series was unfairly profiting from the Capone name. A story that made the rounds in Hollywood at the time was that some of Capone's surviving colleagues, after exhausting all legal means to have the show pulled, put out a contract on "The Untouchables" producer Desi Arnaz. Arnaz found out about it and paid a substantial sum of money to have the contract lifted. |
13 | More than a decade after his death, his infamy was re-established due to the Allied Artists biopic Al Capone (1959) with Rod Steiger in the title role. More importantly, however, later that same year he became a central figure in the hit television series The Untouchables (1959), where he was portrayed, on a recurring basis, by Neville Brand. |
14 | He was the first to open free "soup kitchens" in Chicago at the beginning of the Great Depression. He also arranged to buy clothing for the needy. |
15 | His son was nicknamed "Sonny." Mario Puzo used this as the nickname for the son of Vito Corleone in his book "The Godfather." |
16 | During his confinement in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, it was discovered that he was still able to run his empire from his cell, which had been converted into an apartment. He was then transferred to the new federal prison at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, where his means of communications were virtually cut off. |
17 | He, and some of his future associates, were members of New York's notorious Five Points Gang. |
18 | He rose from the position of saloon bouncer to the leading crime boss of Chicago in a period of only six years. |
19 | Well into the 1960s, The Guinness Book of World Records listed him holding the record for the highest personal income. He listed his trade as "second hand furniture dealer." |
20 | Older brother Vince Capone, a.k.a Richard 'Two-Gun' Hart, was a policeman in Nebraska. He was involved with stopping illegal bootlegging during Prohibition, while brother Al profited from it in Chicago. |
21 | Was released in 1939 after serving five years at Alcatraz. He attempted to regain control of organized crime in Chicago, but could not. He then retired to Florida. |
22 | Was incarcerated at Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco. |
23 | Was sentenced to 11 years in prison for income tax evasion. |
24 | The distinguishing scars on Capone's face that gave him his famous nickname came from an incident in 1918 while he was working in a saloon. One night he approached a woman named Lena Galluchio and made a crude sexual advance. Her brother Frank, a well-known thief nicknamed "The Galluch", insisted that Capone apologize. Capone refused and without a word Galluchio slashed his face twice with a razor. One story--given credibility by many who knew Capone, who was famous for never forgiving a slight--had it that after Capone recovered from the slashing, he tracked down Galluchio, found him sitting at a table in a saloon, walked up to him and without a word shot him in the head and killed him. |
25 | One child: Albert Francis (4 December 1918 - 8 July 2004). Albert did not follow in his notorious father's footsteps, instead, he supported his wife and their four daughters with a variety of jobs, and, aside from a shoplifting conviction in 1965, was a law-abiding citizen. In 1966, he changed his name to Albert Brown; "Brown" was one of his father's many aliases. His godfather was Al's mentor, real-life godfather Johnny Torrio. |
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Corrupt and the Dead | 2016 | Documentary post-production | Himself |
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All | 2015 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Ellis Island, une histoire du rêve américain | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
Codes and Conspiracies | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
America's Book of Secrets | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
The Diary of a Slumlord | 2013 | Short | Himself |
Occupy Unmasked | 2012 | Documentary | Himself - Mob Leader |
Prohibition | 2011 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Templeton Rye: Iowa's Good Stuff | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Capone's Whiskey: The Story of Templeton Rye | 2011 | Documentary | |
Mobsters | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
Eliot Ness contre Al Capone | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero | 2005 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Bullets Over Hollywood | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame... | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
Biography | 1995-2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Bîto Takeshi no akuyaku no susume!! | 2004 | ||
Rumrunners, Moonshiners, & Bootleggers | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
The Legacy of Al Capone | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
American Justice Set | 2000 | Video documentary | Himself |
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
The Big House | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Escape from Alcatraz: The True Stories! | 1997 | Video documentary | Himself |
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
The Century of Warfare | 1994 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob | 1994 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Unsolved Mysteries | 1994 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The Underworld | 1994 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
American Justice: Target - Mafia | 1993 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Murderers, Mobsters & Madmen Vol. 4: Gangsters | 1992 | Video documentary | Himself |
The Magic of David Copperfield IX: The Escape from Alcatraz | 1987 | TV Special | Himself (uncredited) |
The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults | 1986 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
Zelig | 1983 | Himself (uncredited) | |
Moi, Tintin | 1976 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
I due Kennedy | 1970 | Documentary | Himself |
The DuPont Show of the Week | 1962 | TV Series | Himself |
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond | 1960 | Himself (uncredited) | |
Project XX | 1956 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Crime Boss |
Chicago Syndicate | 1955 | Al Capone (uncredited) | |
The Golden Twenties | 1950 | Documentary | Himself |
Call Northside 777 | 1948 | Capone (uncredited) |