4: Los Angeles Gangster Mickey Cohen w/ Tere Tereba - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Mickey Cohen went from selling newspapers on the streets of L.A. to heading one of the largest crime rackets in the United States. He worked under Bugsy Siegel, rubbed shoulders with Frank Sinatra, Lana Turner and Billy Graham, and cut down enemies with a ruthless passion. Joining host Erik Rivenes is Tere Tereba. A former fashion designer, friend of Jim Morrison and Andy Warhol, she wrote the definitive book of the Los Angeles underworld, called "Mickey Cohen: The Life and Crimes of L.A.'s Most Notorious Mobster".

The author's website: https://teretereba.com/

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0:30.0	Welcome to Most Notorious.
0:51.5	Rarely do you find the murderer in American history able to live out a criminal career
0:56.3	spanning decades in full view of the press in the public? Such was the life of Los Angeles's
1:02.9	most cunning and ruthless crime boss of all time, and no one I'm not talking about Benjamin Segal.
1:09.9	Mickey Cohen managed to live long past Old Bugsy, forging an empire that shook the very foundations
1:17.4	of LA and far beyond the city as well. My guest, Terry Terriba, has lived in Los Angeles for most of
1:25.3	her life. She saw early success as one of the nation's premier fashion designers and counted as
1:31.4	her friends the doors Jim Morrison and Andy Warhol. She researched and wrote a spectacular piece
1:38.3	of nonfiction called Mickey Cohen, the life and crimes of LA's most notorious mobster. It covers
1:45.6	not only the life of Mickey Cohen, but six decades of Los Angeles gangland history. Thank you so
1:52.7	much, Terry, for joining me today. Now your book documents the epic mass corruption of gangster
1:58.7	era Los Angeles in glorious detail. It's absolutely stunning how widespread the crime really was,
2:05.3	and how deeply it sunk into the pores of the city. Eastern organized crime bosses, rival gangland
2:12.1	leaders, two-bit hoodlums, vice squads, Hollywood stars and moguls, city, county and state politicians,
2:20.4	even Robert Kennedy and Richard Nixon on the national level. Nightclub owners,
2:25.6	call girls, the county sheriff's department, and of course the LAPD, all intertwined
2:32.8	incessuously in your book. How surprised were you over how complicated and deep all of these
2:39.5	relationships were? Well, you know, I haven't planned on writing this book, but I was compelled to
2:49.6	do it because it was such an incredible outrageous brazen story and it had never been done. And the
2:56.5	history of Los Angeles needed to be revealed. It needed to have this story told. It had been
3:04.8	covered up because Mickey Cohen often was in business with politicians and law enforcement,
3:13.2	and they all came up with one story. And this story held until the publication of my book in 2012.
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