But the compound was also a stronghold with a secret walk-in vault and a sophisticated and elaborate security system. Paul "Red" Dorfman. Marshall Korshak died in Chicago on January 19, 1996. Allen and his mother set up Union Insurance Agency, and in 1950, would receive their first contract with the Teamsters. During his career he was closely tied to Teamsters Union President James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa and Jack Ruby. Arnold Grant, like Korshak, was not a purchaser of record but was named the new, $2,000-a-week chairman of RKO. He was a close associate of longtime IBT President Jimmy Hoffa and associated with organized crime via the Chicago Outfit. Paul "Red" Dorfman was affiliated with the Waste Materials Handlers Union in Chicago in the late 1930s and 1940s. Dorfman was acquitted, but Hoffa was found guilty of this crime in 1964 and, after a lengthy appeals process, went to prison in 1967. He was like a little baby. Wasserman moved to the new, West Coast office of MCA in 1939. He attended Marshall High School, where he enjoyed something of a reputation as a basketball player, and the University of Wisconsin, where, like Bill Roemer at Notre Dame, he was a collegiate boxing champion. Described as a gangland-style execution, the murder was presumably intended to keep him from cooperating with authorities to avoid a possible 55-year prison sentence. : The deal would be mediated, in the fall of 1973, by their mutual friend Sidney Korshak. He was a high ranking Teamster member, who was also good friends with Jimmy Hoffa. Harlows watchdog, Johnny Rosselli, sensing the coming storm, had enlisted in the wartime army. The few whom death has not silencedLew Wasserman in his tower of ivory, Gussie Alex in his cell, a gentleman in Florida whose peace I would not disturb by naminghave silenced themselves, and, besides, Im sure, know merely parts of a story that only Korshak himself could have told. The Harlow movie, Riffraff, was not notable. At night there are few whom the city cannot bring to awe. It was a role he did not long keep, for when the government and press began looking into their backgrounds, he and Koolish resigned. If wed lasted that long, we would have, Bioff answered wistfully. James Bacon figures that it was Jake Greasy Thumb Guzik who brought Korshak into the fold of the Mob. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at. Corinne grew up, studied journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, became a model with 29 national-magazine cover credits, was the first full-face Playboy cover girl, in May 1958, became an actress in film and television, and ended up as a Vegas showgirl. There he married Rebecca Lashkovitz, also an immigrant, from Odessa. Hoffa became president of Detroit Local 299, and in 1936 married a Polish girl. Within six months, the blackmailing was refined: the major studios would each contribute 50 grand a year to IATSE in return for labor peace. The author knocks on the doors bearing the darkest symbols, behind which lie guns, ammo, antisemitism, antiabortion dogmaand a belief in the coming civil war. Without Sidney I may not have lived through the losing of David. According to Richard Lindberg, the author of Chicago by Gaslight, Jake Guzik and his brother Harry were already working for Colosimo as pimps and brothel keepers by 1910, the year that the lavish Colosimos Caf opened on South Wabash. When I was a little girl, she told me, my sister and I had these little identical pleated red skirts and red Dutch hats. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can be viewed by all Ancestry subscribers. He was deified by himself and hated by others. Irv Kupcinet, the best-known newspaperman in Chicago, was a close friend and ally of Sidney Korshaks. Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps. Ruby's expulsion as head of the Waste Materials Handlers Union. I read everything you write. Well, I mean, it was nice. In 1939 Paul took reigns over the Waste Handlers Material Union, Local 20467 of the "AFL" American Federation of Labor. They wouldnt touch that with a 10-foot pole., Although Korshak moved secretly in the world of shadows, he moved openly in the world of dreams. Irv said, well his real name is Rubenstein and mentioned the Waste Handler's Union. Known as the Camel, more often as the Hump, this British-born hood, who died in 1965, was regarded as an elder statesman of the Chicago Mobs ruling elite. The suit was filed for her by Philip R. Davis, for whose law firm, at 188 West Randolph Street, Sidney Korshak then worked. Paul "Red" Dorfman was affiliated with the Waste Materials Handlers Union in Chicago in the late 1930s and 1940s. This echoes what Bill Roemer told me, that it was Guzik who developed Korshak. Guzik, Roemer said, was the original leader of the connection guys. When Korshak was mentioned in an Associated Press dispatch from Hollywood in the summer of 1952, it was as an innocent. Ruby's expulsion as head of the Waste Materials Handlers Union effectively paved the way for Dorfman's rise in the union. . Gus Greenbaum, the manager of the Riviera, was murdered in his bed, his throat cut from ear to ear, in 1958. In November of that year, back home in Phoenix, he turned the ignition key in his pickup truck and was blown asunder. Theyre not MAGA. I remember him [Humphreys] calling Korshaks office and asking for Mr. Lincoln. In February of 1997, reached for comment, Bee said simply that everything had been left in the family trust. Paul "Red" Dorfman was affiliated with the Waste Materials Handlers Union in Chicago in the late 1930s and 1940s. According to Dan Moldea, the author of Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob, it was Glaser who introduced Stein to Korshak. In 1953 a special investigatory committee established by the United States House of Representatives began inquiries into Hoffa's placement of Central States Health and Welfare Fund's moneys with Dorfman's agency. As for the call that straightened out both MGM and The Godfather: Korshaks friend Kirk Kerkorian, the former used-car salesman who had taken over MGM, has been involved in Vegas since the days of Bugsy Siegel. In August 1943, when Korshak was on leave, they had been married at the Ambassador Hotel in Manhattan by a city magistrate. Found among subpoenaed union records were canceled checks made out to Korshak. Theres always that wonderful feeling ofand here Dunne himself whisperedknowing someone in the underworld. I am a soon to be retired Duke Medical Center library researcher, who enjoys writing. He and Bernice would move into the Seneca, at 200 East Chestnut Street, a 16-story luxury property owned by the Mob financier Alex Louis Greenberg, who would be slain in 1956, two years after a confidential source advised the F.B.I. In 1980, when columnists wrote about Korshaks attendance at Frank Sinatras birthday party, it was later reported that Korshaks name was not supposed to have appeared on the version of the guest list supplied to the media by Sinatras public-relations retainers. Coincidence? We do not question thisand that is that. Ruby's expulsion as head of the Waste Materials Handlers Union effectively paved the way for Dorfman's rise in the union. . When Kerkorian sold his Vegas interests, it would be to the Hilton organization, whose executive vice president of the casino-hotel division had ties to Lansky, Dalitz, and Red Dorfmans stepson, Allen. Dani is a charming woman, and we continued to talk awhile. The Capone Gang Muscles into Big-Time Politics, by Lester Velie, was point-blank: Legal advisor to some of the mob is Sidney Korshak. In addition to his underworld connections, Velie exposed Korshaks ties to political leaders such as Jacob Arvey, the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party. In fact, he bought me my first good suit from Puccis.. The smile of that first made-for-TV president hung over this promised land, where the New Frontier was no vapid metaphor but an already decaying carpet joint. In China itself, the nuclear dream is hitting construction problems and delays, while wind and solar blossom at ever falling cost. I mean, who knows? To learn more about how we use and protect your data, please see our privacy policy. Tony Martin assured me that speaking to Sidneys son Stuart would be no problem. Stuart, Martin told me, went to Yale, you know, and studied law. It was an era, if you can imagine, when, in Vegas, we dressed up. , X-Ray Allen Dorfman rose to prominence following World War II and by the late 1950s was a close cohort of IBT President Jimmy Hoffa. He is beyond cool, distinguished, self-assured, butlike his name, an ethnic bluressentially nondescript. The reborn Flamingo, the Sands, the Desert Inn, come magically alive with lightning winks, serpentine undulations of pastel light. At Paul Dorfman's request the Union Casualty and Life Insurance Company had set up a Chicago branch, owned by Paul Dorfman's wife, Allen's mother Rosemary "Rose", and his stepson Allen. Imagine a shimmering web of complexities dissolving ultimately into darkness. It was fuckin nice, and I wanted to hug him.. Does this item contain quality or formatting issues? With Korshak, Hoffa well knew, the flesh played second to the fable, fantasy, and formidable fact of the man. Neither Francis Coppola, the films director, nor its star, Marlon Brando, could envision the picture without Al Pacino as Michael Corleone. The father of Teamsters Union insurer, Allen Dorfman, Red was also close to Chicago hoodlum Antonio "Tony Accardo. Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? In America, Unterwelt and Mafia were one, and it was in organized crime that the myth of the great American melting pot became reality. The relative anonymity and subdued respectability that Korshak had cultivated since 1950 was jeopardized in the summer of 1976 when a four-part front-page series by Seymour Hersh and Jeff Gerth appeared in The New York Times. Dorfman was fiercely protective of Hoffa. 2023 Cond Nast. Please try again. And thus the Times of Los Angeles: SIDNEY KORSHAK, ALLEGED MAFIA LIAISON TO HOLLYWOOD, DIES AT 88. Thus the headline of his New York Times obituary. After Hoffa went to prison in 1967, Dorfman took effective control of the Central States Pension Fund. Tall and lean, he had deep hazel-brown eyes and black hair, groomed straight back in a lone full wave. But he had grown up, according to Richard Lindberg, in a Jewish neighborhood right along Roosevelt Road, just a little bit west of Maxwell Street. I was a singer, he was a lawyer, thats the way it was. Martin, at the time, was traveling with Tom Geruns orchestra. Dorfman had been much written about in the press but with little praise. Please try again. [5][6] He enlisted in the US Marines and earned a Silver Star at the Battle of Iwo Jima. Wherebetween the little baby who always tried to help people and the man who was the most important contact that the Mob had to legitimate business, labor, Hollywood, and Las Vegasdoes the real Sidney Korshak lurk? Find out more Then again, it may be true, as has been asserted, that the real purpose of Korshaks meeting was blackmail. Search for yourself and well build your family tree together, Do not sell or share my personal information. Merrill, the husband of Bette Davis, had disrupted a speech by Danny Thomas with drunken heckling. My father took us to see the Kefauver committee hearings. a sidekick of Al Capone, now linked to the current Chicago boss, Sam Giancana. Hes a nice boy, a real fine boy. Unfortunately, a message left for him at Korshak, Kracoff, Kong & Sugano, his law firm, remained unanswered, as did a letter I sent to Korshaks widow, Bernice. The story that followed mentioned what was likely Korshaks first trip to Los Angeles: Korshak was on his way home yesterday with Miss Applebys promise after visiting her in Hollywood. Beneath a photo of Korshak, dapper and somewhat louche, was the italicized phrase Wins Clients Hand. Thanks for the photo of Paul Red Dorfman. During the first eight years of fiduciary management by Union Casualty the Dorfmans made more than $3 million in commissions and service fees. Three years after their 1932 divorce, she met Spiegel, who she said won her heart in a whirlwind Hollywood courtship. [13][14][15], By 1977, Dorfman had lost control of the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund due to the implementation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and subsequent increases in outside control of the Fund.[16]. : Waving a .32-caliber pistol as he staggered along the Illinois Central Railroad tracks, he raised the gun to the side of his brown fedora and blew himself to hell. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Paul "Red" Dorfman: Teamsters Union Thug Jimmy Hoffa Associate at Amazon.com. Korshak agreed to intercede on behalf of Paramount. Sidney, said the friend, was just a bastard who asked his mistresses to family parties. 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