DS, two pages, 5.75 x 8.5, June [no year]. Hotel receipt from the Beverly Hills Comstock for a multi-night stay between June 15-21, amounting to a total sum $570.33. Signed on the first page in blue ballpoint by Lansky. Upper left corner bears Lansky's typed address: "5255 Collins Ave., Miami Beach Fla. 33140." In fine condition. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Meyer Lansky’s step-granddaughter Cynthia Duncan. Provenance: The Thelma Lansky Trust. Lansky's trip to California was important as he traveled to Los Angeles to visit his friend Al Smiley, who had hadn't seen in thirty years. Smiley was a noted gangster and close associate of Bugsy Siegel. The 1981 Lansky-Smiley dinner meeting is written about in Cradle of Crime: A Daughter's Tribute, by Luellen Smiley.
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