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FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2021 record photo, Brian Witherell displays a Colt .45-caliber pistol that erstwhile belonged to mob brag Al Capone, astatine Witherell's Auction House successful Sacramento, Calif. The infamous Chicago gangster whitethorn person died astir 75 years ago, but it's wide involvement successful him is precise overmuch live aft immoderate of his prized possessions were auctioned disconnected implicit the play for astatine slightest $3 million. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

CHICAGO – Al Capone whitethorn person died astir 75 years agone but it’s wide involvement successful the infamous Chicago gangster is precise overmuch live aft immoderate of his prized possessions were auctioned disconnected implicit the play for astatine slightest $3 million.

The Chicago Tribune reports that Capone's household sold respective of his belongings, including what was billed arsenic his favourite gun, astatine auction successful California, wherever his 3 surviving granddaughters live.

The event, called "A Century of Notoriety: The Estate of Al Capone,” was held astatine a backstage nine successful Sacramento and attracted astir 1,000 registered bidders, including 150 who attended the astir four-hour-long lawsuit successful person.

Among the items up for auction was a bear-shaped humidor arsenic good arsenic diamond jewelry and immoderate household photographs. The astir fashionable point proved to beryllium Capone's favourite Colt .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol, which went for $860,000.

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Most of the buyers' identities were kept private. But 1 whose sanction has been made nationalist is Kevin Nagle, a Sacramento capitalist and concern owner. Among the items that erstwhile belonged to “Scarface” Capone that helium picked up was a decorative humidor for $120,000 and an 18-karat yellowish golden and platinum loop buckle for $22,500.

Capone’s communicative is simply a acquainted one, acknowledgment successful ample portion to a big of movies, tv shows and books astir the mobster. Called Public Enemy No. 1 aft the 1929 “Valentine’s Day Massacre” successful which 7 members of a rival bootlegger pack were gunned down successful a parking garage, Capone was convicted of income taxation evasion successful 1934. He spent 11 years locked up successful Alcatraz, a national situation successful the mediate of the San Francisco Bay, and died of a bosom onslaught successful 1947 successful the Florida location wherever helium and his associates were believed to person plotted the massacre years earlier.

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