Al Capone

Alphonse Caponi was born in Brooklyn in 1899. He went to school with Salvatore Lucania - better known as Lucky Luciano. When Capone (he changed his name to sound more American) was 10, he started following up and coming gangster Johnny Torrio around. At fourteen, he quit school and joined the Five Pointers gang with Lucky Luciano.

One night, Capone made a comment about the sister of Frank Galluciano. The fellow gangster took offence and slashed Capone's face with a pocketknife. The attack left three large scars on the left side of his face. For much of his career, newspapers would call Capone Scarface," a nickname which he hated.

Al Capone followed Torrio to Chicago in 1918. When Torrio retired in 1925, he turned over leadership of his gang to Capone. Thereafter, "Scarface" became the leader of the most powerful gang in Chicago. He is most notorious for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.

In the 1930s, Al Capone spent seven years in prison, including Alcatraz. Al Capone died on Jan. 25, 1947 in Florida.

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