Editing Bugsy Siegel (section)

===Hollywood===
In [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], Siegel was welcomed in the highest circles and befriended movie stars.<ref name="Headstuff"/> He was known to associate with [[George Raft]], [[Clark Gable]], [[Gary Cooper]] and [[Cary Grant]],<ref name='Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel' /> as well as studio executives [[Louis B. Mayer]] and [[Jack L. Warner]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Bill|last=Martinez|title=Legendary mobster's safe reveals nothing but rust|url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2000/may/24/legendary-mobsters-safe-reveals-nothing-but-rust/?history|newspaper=[[Las Vegas Sun]]|date=May 24, 2000|access-date=June 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807073607/http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2000/may/24/legendary-mobsters-safe-reveals-nothing-but-rust/?history|archive-date=August 7, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Actress [[Jean Harlow]] was a friend of Siegel and [[Godparent|godmother]] to his daughter Millicent. Siegel bought real estate and threw lavish parties at his [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]] home.<ref name=PBSBugsy /> He gained admiration from young celebrities, including [[Tony Curtis]],<ref>{{cite web|first=George|last=Knapp|title=Who Killed Bugsy Siegel?|url=http://www.8newsnow.com/story/2083423/who-killed-bugsy-siegel|publisher=KLAS-TV 8 News NOW|date=July 23, 2010|access-date=September 26, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727032639/http://www.8newsnow.com/story/2083423/who-killed-bugsy-siegel|archive-date=July 27, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Phil Silvers]], and [[Frank Sinatra]].

Siegel had several relationships with prominent women, including socialite Countess Dorothy [[House of Dentice|di Frasso]]. The alliance with the countess took Siegel to Italy in 1938,<ref>{{cite book |first=Tim |last=Newark |title=Lucky Luciano: The Real and the Fake Gangster|location=London|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |year=2010|page=229}}</ref> where he met [[Benito Mussolini]], to whom Siegel tried to sell weapons. Siegel also met [[Nazism|Nazi]] leaders [[Hermann Göring]] and [[Joseph Goebbels]], to whom he took an instant dislike and later offered to kill.<ref name="Bugsy Siegel Bio">{{cite web|title=Bugsy Siegel Biography |work=Biography Channel |url=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/bugsy-siegel.html|access-date=November 28, 2012|url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121027235848/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/bugsy-siegel.html |archive-date=October 27, 2012}}</ref>{{sfnp|Sifakis|2005|pp=417–418}}<ref>{{cite book |first=Jay Robert|last=Nash|title=Bloodletters and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present |year=1995|publisher=M. Evans & Company |location=Lanham, Maryland |page=[https://archive.org/details/bloodlettersbadm00nash/page/566 566]|isbn=978-0871317773 |url=https://archive.org/details/bloodlettersbadm00nash/}}</ref> He only relented because of the countess's anxious pleas.<ref name='Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel'>{{cite web|title=Gangster/Las Vegas Visionary|work=The Internet Index of Tough Jews|publisher=J-Grit|access-date=June 1, 2012 |url=http://www.j-grit.com/criminals-benjamin-bugsy-siegel.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602131633/http://www.j-grit.com/criminals-benjamin-bugsy-siegel.php |archive-date=June 2, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

In Hollywood, Siegel worked with the syndicate to form illegal rackets.<ref name="Ben Heads West" /> He devised a plan of [[extortion|extorting]] movie studios; he would take over local [[trade union]]s (such as the Screen Extras Guild and the Los Angeles Teamsters) and stage [[Strike action|strikes]] to force studios to pay him off so that unions would start working again.<ref name=Tuohy/> Siegel borrowed money from celebrities and did not pay them back, knowing that they would never ask him for the money.{{sfnp|Turkus|Feder|2003|p=270}}{{sfnp|Jennings|1992|pp=43–46}} During his first year in Hollywood, he received more than $400,000 in loans from movie stars.