Some 174 items were featured, including firearms and personal photographs as well as jewellery and furniture. The event, called A Century of Notoriety: The Estate of Al Capone, was held at a ...

A portrait of American gangster, Al Capone in Chicago, Illinois on January 1, 1930. Photo: Underwood Archives/Getty Images ...

Al Capone got an icy reception when he arrived in Miami Beach in 1928. Whether he was winter-weary like other Northern tourists was immaterial; Miami saw him as a blight on its reputation.

Part of a memorandum dated February 5, 1938, that appears to describe Al Capone having a seizure in Alcatraz prison after a period of confusion. Family photographs taken in 1945. Reprinted with ...