Though he was the most legendary lawyer in Hollywood, he never opened a law office in Los Angeles or bothered with a license to practice in the state of California. Bondsmen, to pay back favors, had parties once a month, and they had all the girls there, and the booze and what have you, and their favorite judges and lawyers and policemen would be at these things. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. Several months later, on June 4, 1960, Korshak acquired his Bel Air home, at 10624 Chalon Road. These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. Together, they were the triumvirate of absolute power in Hollywood. Any message he might deliver to you is a message from us.. : Without Korshak, The Godfather, the crowning glory of the Bluhdorn-Evans reign at Paramount, would not have been what it was. He has also declined to speak with Dennis McDougal, his biographer. Later, after eight months digging, I would wish it had never occurred to them either. The financing and building of the Grand involved a complicated real-estate and film-leasing deal between Kerkorian of MGM, Bluhdorn of Gulf & Western, and Lew Wasserman, by now the head of MCA. Paul "Red" Dorfman was affiliated with the Waste Materials Handlers Union in Chicago in the late 1930s and 1940s. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. , X-Ray One thing you can be sure of, I said, is that he was brilliant. Thank you again. A U.S. Marine hero in World War II, he received a Silver Star for bravery at the battle of Iwo Jima. In the spring of 1979, during a statewide racetrack strike, Korshak was asked to step down as a labor negotiator, only because of the press of his other business. That summer, the Justice Department began an investigation of the Riviera, reportedly focusing on Korshak. Ruby's expulsion as head of the Waste Materials Handlers Union effectively paved the way for Dorfman's rise in the union. Allen Melnick Dorfman [2] (January 6, 1923 - January 20, 1983) was an American insurance agency owner and a consultant to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Central States Pension Fund. In November, when the verdict was delivered, after less than two hours of deliberation, Browne and Bioff were both found guilty of all charges and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. But he remembered that ole buttermilk sky. Though he has stated publicly that the indictment will not concern the conference, there is a certain ominous gravity in the air. : He was from Chicago, a racketeers mobster, involved with the Waste Handler's Union. Bioff was blown up in 1955. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Yeah. To learn more about how we use and protect your data, please see our privacy policy. And that her liver was badly damaged. Because my mother reads your paper, he bellowed. She asked me why I was writing about Sidney Korshak. In the land of dreams, Sidney Korshak was a shadow among shadows, a wisp of smoke curling around the brighter lights. So the coroner says, she must have taken a lot of acetaminophen. Chagalls and Renoirs adorned their walls. By the time of Capones reign, Guzik lived comfortably in a respectable suburb. He graduated in 1930 from the law school of DePaul University in Chicago and followed in the footsteps of his Uncle Max, who had served as assistant corporation counsel for Chicago from 1911 to 1915. The earliest documentation of Korshaks private practice appeared soon after his arrest: in two handwritten court reports, from September and October 1931, S. R. Korshak is listed as the defense counsel at the bench trial of a pair of young hoods charged in the matter of a stolen Chrysler. She had a black eye and was bruised all over her body. George Scalise, a former pimp whom the Chicago outfit, in cahoots with New York, had placed as a shill union president, was under grand-jury investigation for looting the 70,000-member Building Service Employees International through fraudulent accounts set up by his order. His son was Allen Dorfman, whose picture I have. His regiment was destined for Normandy, but the grand jury got to Rosselli first. Very, very, very close. They said she died from Listeria. In Duke Zellers book, OBrien reiterates his long-standing denial. The bigger places loom ahead. Louis Armstrong, who in 1935 aligned himself with Glaser (who would be the performers manager for the rest of his life), played there in 1927. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? He and his wife, Lynn, had four children, James, Michael, David and Kim.[7]. After being apprehended, he had pleaded guilty but refused to talk, and was sentenced in 1942 to eight years. Like Leverkhn in Manns Doctor Faustus, he seemed merely to fade away to stillness. 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. Korshak was retainedor, perhaps more precisely, retained himselfas RKOs labor-relations consultant. Like Tony Martin, she had only the fondest memories of Korshak. The way it would work was, if Lew didnt get it done, Sidney would get called in. Korshak would always have lawyers with him. Everything was for sale. Ted, previously scheduled to appear in felony court two days later on a charge of larceny, was released without bond. 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. So was Korshak. Dorfman's step-father Paul "Red" Dorfman was a long time Teamster's official with ties to the Chicago Outfit. My daughter was murdered, and I started this new career writing, and a whole new life opened up to me, and I became known and successful. When Korshak entered the Riviera that day, it was not just as one of the forces who ruled it. His language was perfect. Under his rightful name and various aliasesFred Korshak, Phillip Korshak, Phil Cohen, the list goes onhis rap sheet, mostly for narcotics violations, stretched over the next 30 years. Additional gift options are available when buying one eBook at a time. Bugsy Siegel was there. Harry Karl, the shoe king, would divorce Marie McDonald. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. I dont give no interviews, Guzik said. One of them, Nick Circella, alias Nick Dean, had fled when he had originally been indicted with Bioff and Browne. During his career he was closely tied to Teamsters Union President James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa and Jack Ruby. The "Test Fleet" prosecution resulted in a hung jury in December 1962. Korshak himself was subpoenaed by the Kefauver committee on September 1, 1950. The editor asked why Guzik was angry with the Forward when the Chicago Tribune printed far worse about him far more often. You leave my wife out of this, Korshak said. Then, in Chicago, the headlines hit: CHICAGO LAWYER OUR MAN, SAYS BIOFF AT MOVIE TRIAL, declared the Sun; BIOFF NAMES SID KORSHAK AS MOB AID, declared the Herald-American. The investigation that ensued was a charade: halfhearted, short-lived, and inconclusive. The last mention of him, in a Chicago Crime Commission memorandum of September 1955, states that Ted Korshak was believed to be living, off and on, at the Park Shore Hotel, 1765 East 55th Street. Jeff Gerth told me that, in the researching of the story, there appeared to be a leak from the accounting department of the Times back to Chicago, where his movements seemed to be closely monitored through the paper trail of his expense reports. Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. Roemer, who did not smoke, died of lung cancer last June, never revealing to friends that the end was near. He was a gentleman, an absolute gentleman. Read "Paul "Red" Dorfman Teamsters Union Thug Jimmy Hoffa Associate" by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr available from Rakuten Kobo. Oh, no, no, my goodness, no. In 1939 Paul took reigns over the Waste Handlers Material Union, Local 20467 of the "AFL" American Federation of Labor. Paul "Red" Dorfman Teamsters Union Thug Jimmy Hoffa Associate. Dani Janssen, the widow of David Janssen, said, Sidney was my late husbands surrogate father practically. For example, they let us know which features and sections are most popular. MCA found its first big act, Guy Lombardo, in 1928, and by the mid-30s had Harry James, Tommy Dorsey, and Artie Shaw. Search for yourself and well build your family tree together, Do not sell or share my personal information. . His family owned several Chicago nightclubs, including the Sunset Caf, which he managed. Paul "Red" Dorfman was affiliated with the Waste Materials Handlers Union in Chicago in the late 1930s and 1940s. Until his death last year, he remained an impeccably dressed enigma whose power reached deep into the lives of Jimmy Hoffa, Frank Sinatra, Lew Wasserman, and Ronald Reagan, SAG Awards 2023 Red Carpet Fashion: See All the Looks, Rupert Murdoch Colluded With Jared Kushner to Try to Throw the 2020 Election to Trump Because Of Course He Did, Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets. , Sticky notes He said that when he wrote The Godfather,I had never heard of Sidney Korshak. Like so much else in the novel and the movie, it was a fanciful and romantic figment that the imagination of America accepted as fact. Sidney Korshak sounds no high notes. You never heard any profanity out of Sidney. Could it be a reference to Hy "Red" Larner a mobster who reported to Chicago mobster Sam Giancana and first came to the attention of law enforcement in the 1950s when he was identified at Senate racketeering hearings as a mob higher-up. It was that simple. Bluhdorn and Evans hit it big in 1970 with a piece of schmaltz called Love Story. When nothing happened, Roemer telephoned Korshak: Well, Mr. Roemer, the lawyer began, I guess you will have to talk to Bernice then. Dorfman was an operative for Al Capone and later became a friend and associate of Jimmy Hoffa. Visiting Korshak at his plush offices on North LaSalle, Velie had noted frequent telephone calls from intriguing characters, including Jake Arveys connection man, Artie Elrod; Joe Grabiner, identified as Chicagos biggest layoff bookie; and Tom Courtneys cohort police captain Tubbo Gilbert, described as the richest policeman in the world.. Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. 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. A wealthy man who rose to influence through his stepfather, Paul (Red) Dorfman, a reputed labor racketeer who launched his career during the days of Al Capone and continued under the late. Why not get prescription pain pills? Joe Glaser was a fight promoter and fight fixer for the Capone Mob. Sidney Roy Korshak was born on June 6, 1907. The story goes that when his estate went into probate, Korshak connived the marriage of Cohns widow as a scheme through which the true investors in Columbia could regain title to their holdings without disclosure in public records. He was a robust, tall good dresser. He is a tall man in his early 50s. Actually, she said, Sidney was an enigma., Enigma. Weiner was not injured in the incident. Korshak knew them all. Hollywood was largely the invention of Eastern European Jewish immigrants and their sons. 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. Twentieth-century organized crime in America was a primarily Jewish-Italian coalition that shared the sensibilities but lacked the ethnic purity of the true Sicilian Mafia. There wasnt a woman sitting there without a 10-carat diamond or a suite. Producer Robert Evans was a regular at Korshaks parties. She was gagged and tied to a chair; gasoline was poured over her, an ice pick was plunged into her vagina, a match was lit, and she was left to die aflame. These were the men who controlled Chicago for the next 20 years, and Sidney Korshak knew and worked with them all. The Chicago Tribune was given pause. Soon, Korshak appeared no longer to exist, except by implication and in rumor. According to one report, he added that Mexico would be a good place for a wedding ceremony.. We use this information to create a better experience for all users. He acted as "muscle" for mobsters Fifi Buccieri and Ralph Pierce and rubbed elbows with bosses Frank Nitti and Paul Ricca. Marshall Korshak died in Chicago on January 19, 1996. Three years after their 1932 divorce, she met Spiegel, who she said won her heart in a whirlwind Hollywood courtship. 'UK government cannot achieve the air quality improvements advised by medical experts, so has set its targets lower for the next 10 years, the environment secretary has admitted as she unveiled a new environmental plan.'. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can be viewed by all Ancestry subscribers.These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. He made a living as a "confidence man," a jewel thief, and a heroin dealer. . The screenwriter Edward Anhalt remembers a night in Daves Blue Room in 1946. Bioff and Browne were released from prison early, too, freed by an appreciative government late in 1944, soon after Rosselli and the others had begun serving their time. Beads, real jewelry. Evans has described Korshak as my consigliere, as my godfather.. At a luncheon interview with another source, Velie mentioned these callers. During his career he was closely tied to Teamsters Union President James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa and Jack Ruby. Nothing about the man is obvious. Sidney was a suit, as they say. It was at Hillside Memorial Park. In 1985 the same commission rejected the Hilton corporations application primarily because Hilton had kept Korshak on the payroll for 13 years. I remember him [Humphreys] calling Korshaks office and asking for Mr. Lincoln. He and Lucky Luciano, a habitual moviegoer, were born in Sicily in the same year, 1897. The Hilton was one of the many corporations from which Korshak drew consultancy retainers. The giant misbegotten fiberglass sultan astride the Dunes glows with arms akimbo. When The Wall Street Journal reported the takeover the following month, it described Korshak as a sort of catalytic agent who is excluded from the group which purchased Hughes stock., This group included Ralph Stolkin, the Chicago businessman who built an empire upon the foundation of a yokel gambling devicethe punchboard. Stolkins father-in-law, Abe Koolish, who had been indicted in 1948 for running a mail-order-insurance racket, and Ray Ryan, an oilman who had been a business associate of Frank Costellos, were also included. Working for new Chicago boss Sam Giancana, he became the gambling mecca's behind-the-scenes boss, running the town from his suites and poolside tables at the Tropicana and Desert Inn, enjoying the Rat Pack nightlife . But in the inner sanctums of the underworld, Hollywood, and the law, among those whose celebrated eyes and ears the masses know and revere, the name meant much. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. To learn more about cookies, please see our cookie policy. Through mobster Santo Perrone, Jimmy Hoffa had met Paul Dorfman, who had done business with Perrone through the Chicago Scrap Handlers' Union. Or no excuse mehe told Korshaks secretary that it was Mr. Lincoln who was calling., There was an F.B.I. But despite his later puritanical leanings, Hoffa had a mistress named Sylvia Pagano. The father of Teamsters Union insurer, Allen Dorfman, Red was also close to Chicago hoodlum Antonio "Tony Accardo. , Print length So I went back, and I was at a party at Chasens in a private room. The Committee also suspected that large cash withdrawals from the business were actually kickbacks to Jimmy Hoffa. He was from Chicago, a racketeers mobster, involved with the Waste Handler's Union. I walked up to him and took a couple of pictures. And he was over in the corner, and he was in a wheelchair, like thishead down, off to the side, strickenand I said, Sidney, Im just so thrilled you remembered me, and I took his hand, and he said to me, Ill never forget, he said, I just wanted to tell ya Im really proud of what youve done with your life. Greg Bautzer of the firm was also a Korshak associate. Only $9.99/month after trial. The Riviera was clandestinely controlled by a consortium. It was reported that Miss Appleby, playing in Jean Harlows new picture, confirmed the engagement.. He was a close associate of longtime IBT President Jimmy Hoffa and associated with organized crime via the Chicago Outfit. ", Dorfman was eventually indicted, along with several other Teamsters leaders, for embezzlement from the union pension fund, in 1970. Guziks deadly protg, Gussie Alex, would later assume his mentors role as the Mobs connection man. Paul "Red" Dorfman was affiliated with the Waste Materials Handlers Union in Chicago in the late 1930s and 1940s. During our mutual musing one evening, Joe Kraus of the Chicago Jewish Historical Society wondered aloud if the mystery could ever be solved. God. 92-789. In the process, someone told me to call Korshak, who had represented Ben Siegel. There was also a summer home in Paris and a villa at the Ocotillo Lodge in Palm Springs. Neither Francis Coppola, the films director, nor its star, Marlon Brando, could envision the picture without Al Pacino as Michael Corleone. Thanks for the photo of Paul Red Dorfman. Capone was 21 when he arrived in Chicago from Brooklyn in early 1921, brought to town by his boyhood idol, Johnny Torrio, a former Brooklyn gang leader who had been imported in 1909 by Big Jim Colosimo, the profligate vice lord of the South Side badlands. The producer Cubby Broccoli, later known as a close friend of Korshaks, was there. If wed lasted that long, we would have, Bioff answered wistfully. Paul "Red" Dorfman was the head of the Chicago Waste Handler's Union and a kingpin in the Chicago Outfit,[7] who in 1959 was described by Congressional investigators "as the link between the Teamsters Union and the Chicago underworld. He was very close to Jimmy Hoffa, and Hoffa respected him. After the Mob moved in on the Teamsters, Kupcinet says, Sidney was very important in getting loans through Jimmy Hoffa., When Hoffa disappeared, there was speculation, Kupcinet told me, that Sidney had lost his main man. It was an era, if you can imagine, when, in Vegas, we dressed up. Was there ever an air of danger about him? A lot of people who knew Hoffa couldnt imagine why he did that. Kupcinet said that it was hinted that it was his adopted son, Chuckie OBrien, who set him up, a charge also made by the late Teamster president Jackie Presser in the book Mobbed Up, written by James Neff. Dani is a charming woman, and we continued to talk awhile. That was my impression. Korshaks wife, she said, wanted to be Cyd Charisse. When I was a little girl, she told me, my sister and I had these little identical pleated red skirts and red Dutch hats. Brought to the stand, the executives of the major studios explained elaborate methods of padded expense accounts and bogus vouchers used to conceal payoffs. 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. Of course, I dont know his business. , File size I am a soon to be retired Duke Medical Center library researcher, who enjoys writing. Ruby's expulsion as head of the Waste Materials Handlers Union effectively paved the way for Dorfman's rise in the union. In 1979, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched "Operation Pendorf" (for penetration of Allen Dorfman). Ruby's expulsion as head of the Waste Materials Handlers Union effectively paved the way for Dorfman's rise in the union. He loved to get his clothes at Puccis in Chicago. I have been looking high and low for a photo of Paul Red Dorfman, who had ties to Hoffa and Ruby. Sidney Korshak, who moved among these men, who knew the secrets that they knewnot only the secrets of the forbidden anatomies of Vegas and Hollywood, of politics and the Mob, but also the vaster secrets, of the fates of the Kennedys and such, that Giancana knew and Hoffa knew and Rosselli knewand more, the secrets of the fates of those men themselves. Redemption links and eBooks cannot be resold. It was in Detroit that he came to know a young German-Irish kid named Jimmy Hoffa, who had moved there from Indiana with his widowed mother in 1925. Among those interrogated was the paroled Cherry Nose Gioe, who was Korshaks neighbor at the exclusive Seneca. The deal would be mediated, in the fall of 1973, by their mutual friend Sidney Korshak. Under Hoffa, who is now the president of the Teamsters, the Fund has become the Mobs chest of gold in Vegas, with assets reckoned at a billion. He admitted openly that he had personally collected more than a million dollars from movie officials, but he denied that it was extortion money. The friend interpreted this as proof that Korshak was not owned by the Mob. A perceptive and informed observation, but one that also brings up the possibility that Korshak, as many suspected, was not among the owned, but the ownersa man above the rules of decorum. During. It was obvious, he said, that he was the lawyer for the guys in Chicago.. SIDNEY KORSHAK, 88, DIES; FABLED FIXER FOR THE CHICAGO MOB. Following New Yorks precedent, breach-of-promise suits involving broken betrothals were outlawed in Illinois in June of 1935. The hidden owners were Moe Dalitz and his partners, the Silent Syndicate who founded the Desert Inn and went on to become the hidden owners of the Riviera and then ultimately La Costa. Wassermans rise at MCA in Chicago was meteoric. The former was rising as a Teamsters Union boss when Red became acquainted with him. ), When Alex applied to rent an apartment on exclusive Lake Shore Drive, in 1957, he submitted a letter from Korshak, who recommended Alex as a man of excellent financial responsibility who he was sure would be an excellent tenant., A confidential report found in the files of the Chicago Crime Commission states that documents relating to Marshall Korshak [the third Korshak brother] and Gus Alex were first discovered by John McShane of the Senate Rackets Committee and that Bob Kennedy was fully briefed on the contents. However, it had been Kennedys policy throughout the hearings to shy away from matters concerning possible political corruption., Jerry Gladden, the chief investigator for the Chicago Crime Commission, had been a sergeant in the intelligence unit of the Chicago police department. He said, You know all that bullshit about Ben being killed because he spent too much money? It had the look of a terrific marriage. A friend of Bees saw a union that was not so terrific. Ruby is best known as the killer of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2020. 2023 Cond Nast. Though the press made no note of it, the states attorney questioning Korshak was Tom Courtney, the West Side power broker who had sponsored him in his political candidacy the year before. We called them the corruption squad. Alex Greenberg was hit in 1956. I found him to be a gentleman all the time. Within a year he went from just another shipping clerk, said McDougal, to what he later described as the national director of publicity., MCA, according to McDougal, was involved with the Chicago Mob up to their eyeballs, working closely not only with Chez Paree, the outfits premier club, but also with Ralph Capones places on the South Side. A week later, she attempted suicide in the lake in Central Park. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! After Hoffa went to prison in 1967, Dorfman took effective control of the Central States Pension Fund. We used to go to all the ball games at night.. The Korshaks lived in luxury fabulous even by Bel Air standards. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at. I am going to spend Christmas at Palm Springs, Cal., and New Years Day in Mexico with Miss Appleby, said the lawyer. I don't know how built up Palm Springs was then. Glaser worked briefly as an MCA agent in the early 30s, and when he later incorporated his own agency, the Associated Booking Corporation, in 1940, it was with a loan from Jules Stein. Anyway, Jewish people are subject to high blood pressure and diabetes., By way of self-explanation, he reflected, I was just an uncouth person, a low-type sort of man. 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