Author Susan Berman (1945-2000) was murdered execution style with a nine-millimeter hand gun on Christmas Eve 2000 in Benedict Canyon, California.
Berman's father was mob figure Davie Berman, who had replaced Bugsy Siegel in Las Vegas at the Flamingo Hotel after Siegel's murder by the mob. Berman always maintained that her father died mysteriously on an operating table when she was 12. Berman also believed her mother Gladys' overdose suicide a ye...
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Author Susan Berman (1945-2000) was murdered execution style with a nine-millimeter hand gun on Christmas Eve 2000 in Benedict Canyon, California.
Berman's father was mob figure Davie Berman, who had replaced Bugsy Siegel in Las Vegas at the Flamingo Hotel after Siegel's murder by the mob. Berman always maintained that her father died mysteriously on an operating table when she was 12. Berman also believed her mother Gladys' overdose suicide a year later was also under mysterious circumstances.
Susan Berman was known affectionately as a "Jewish Mafia Princess." In 1981, Berman published the memoir Easy Street about her father. Susan Berman was represented in the 1970s by the William Morris Agency, who talked with several Hollywood producers interested in adapting Berman's book into a screenplay. The movie rights were purchased from Berman, but the film project never got off the ground. Many industry experts believed it became overshadowed by the best-selling novel and box office...
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