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Mob Queens

Chapter 10: Off With His Head

Mob Queens

Jessica Bendinger & Michael Seligman

Business, News, Psychology, 047524, Society & Culture

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Anna's husband makes it to the top of the American Mafia, but only just in time for it all to come crashing down. As Vito's kingdom burns, Anna's words from 1953 continue to stoke the flames. Now the question remains: how much of it did Anna intend to destroy?

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0:00.0

It's May 1957, spring evening in New York City.

0:10.0

Anna is at home, powdering her face.

0:14.0

She's getting ready for a night of work at the Club 82,

0:17.0

where she works with the drag queens and drag kings,

0:20.0

including her lover, Duke, aka Jackie.

0:25.0

She piles her hair on her head,

0:28.0

spits into her mascara powder, and cakes it onto her eyelashes. Then she heads from her apartment over to the club.

0:37.0

Uptown, the Prime Minister of the Underworld, and Anna's Confident in marital issues Frank Costello

0:46.1

is coming home from an evening meal to his swanky Central Park West

0:50.5

apartment. It's been a few short years since Anna went to Frank for help with Vido

0:56.2

right before she ratted Vido out in open court.

0:58.7

And Frank has been playing it cool ever since.

1:01.6

He might be one of the nation's top bosses and caught in a bit of a power

1:06.3

tug of war with veto, but the dignified mobster keeps his distance from any street-level

1:11.2

antics and doesn't even carry a gun.

1:14.7

Anna's also playing it cool, keeping a low profile since her failed maintenance

1:20.6

suit. In addition to running the 82, she's now also caring for a

1:25.5

grandson by her daughter Marie. She helps tuck him in before her evening's work

1:30.6

begins. Up on 72nd Street, Frank Costello enters the majestic apartments

1:36.4

this spring evening, still wearing his jacket and hat.

1:40.1

He steps into the lobby and a voice comes from behind.

1:44.1

This is for you, Frank.

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