Virginia Hill (born Onie Virginia Hill; 1916 – 1966). American organized crime figure. An Alabama native, Hill became a Chicago outfit courier during the mid-1930s. Hill was famous for being the girlfriend of mobster Bugsy Siegel.
- "Siegel’s girlfriend, Virginia Hill, who had red hair and long legs that earned her the nickname “flamingo” form the usually fuming crime lord." https://voicesfromthegrave.wordpress.com/tag/virginia-hill/
- "The Flamingo was named after Hill, whom Bugsy nicknamed Flamingo for her flaming red hair." https://books.google.it/books…
- "She was a timid, ginger-haired child who’d scrounge pennies to buy other children candy." https://knpr.org/desert-…/…/history-woman-who-asked-too-much
- “Flamingo” was, indeed, her nickname—some say for her red hair and long legs, other say for the reddish tint her complexion took on when she was drinking." https://theculturetrip.com/…/5-misconceptions-about-bugsy-…/
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