Question: What famous mobster died on Jan. 25, 1947, in Palm Island?
Answer: Al Capone
One of America’s most notorious and feared gangsters, Al Capone, died of heart failure at 48 in his walled Palm Island estate four days after suffering a stroke. Capone bought the Miami Beach villa through an undercover agent in 1928 and moved in on Easter Sunday, 1930, despite a legal fight by Florida authorities to prevent the gangster from settling in the state.
He was indicted the next year on charges of income tax evasion and served more than seven years in prison. He moved back into the Palm Island house after his 1939 release but spent his final years suffering mental and physical deterioration from late-stage neurosyphilis.
