| Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist Anthony Destefano to discuss his book, Broadway Butterfly: Vivian Gordon: The Lady Gangster of Jazz Age New York. Indiana-born Vivian Gordon fluttered to New York in 1920 looking for fame and fortune. Before long, the flame-haired chorus girl parlayed her youth, beauty, and ambition into more profitable means as a tough and glamorous symbol of Prohibition-era excess. She was a speakeasy owner, blackmailer, high-end escort, extortionist, racketeer, and con woman. But given her dangerously intimate associations, Vivian was also a woman who knew too much and who rightfully feared for her life. On February 26, 1931, Vivian’s bludgeoned and garroted body was found dumped in Van Cortland Park in the Bronx. We will discuss with Anthony DeStefano Vivian Gordon’s tumultuous life and the headline-making murder that became an obsession for many. 667 |
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