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The preeminent 20th-century mafiosa, Virginia Hill worked with gangsters from New York to Chicago to LA, making—and spending—money every step of the way. Maintaining her power as a woman in a man’s world wasn’t easy. Still, she wasn’t about to let anything stop her from achieving her goals.

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