More than 150 items from the estate of notorious mob boss Sam Giancana will go up for auction Saturday. Auction items include a rare photo of Frank Sinatra, furniture from the home Giancana was murdered and more.
BY LARRY MCSHANE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, No
Ba-da-bing, bad-da-bid.
More than 150 items from the estate of long-dead Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana will hit the auction block Saturday, including a rare shot of Frank Sinatra with the Mafioso known as “Momo.”
The black-and-white photo was taken inside the Park Sheraton Hotel — where New York mob boss Albert Anastasia was murdered while sitting in a barber’s chair in 1957. Sinatra surfaces again in a shot taken at the Fontainbleu Hotel in Miami with Giancana’s daughter Antoinette.
Giancana was among the most notorious mob bosses of the 1960s, when he reportedly shared a mistress with President Kennedy and plotted with the CIA to murder Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Plenty of other photos, along with furniture from the suburban Chicago home where Giancana was murdered in 1975, highlight the sale run by Munari Auctions in Las Vegas. The pictures include a July 1960 shot of Giancana with girlfriend Phyllis McGuire, one-third of the singing McGuire Sisters. There are also candid shots of Giancana with fellow Chicago gangsters like Leonard (Fat) Caifano and pictures from his boyhood.
For the more romantic, there are Christmas and Valentine’s Day cards to his wife, Angeline. “Faithfully yours always, Sugar Daddy, Mooney” reads the inscription on one — with Giancana signing off using another of his nicknames. A medical report done on his bullet-riddled body is also up for sale, as is a photo taken inside the family mausoleum where he lies in Hillside, Ill. Giancana was gunned down while cooking in the basement of his suburban Oak Park, Ill., home in 1975.