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On June 20, 1947, Benjamin Siegel was shot nine times through this living room window — the mob killing was never solved.
810 N Linden Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Research updated June 2026
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All Ages
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Free
Public street; drive-by or sidewalk observation only. The property is a private residence.
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Wheelchair OK
Flat residential street in Beverly Hills.
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Bugsy Siegel Assassination 1947 · Unsolved Organized Crime Murder · Las Vegas Flamingo Hotel Connection · Beverly Hills Mob History
Benjamin Siegel arrived in Los Angeles in the late 1930s as an emissary of the New York mob, tasked with expanding organized crime's reach on the West Coast. By the mid-1940s he was the driving force behind the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, a project that became catastrophically expensive — estimates put the final cost at over $6 million against an original budget of roughly $1.5 million. Siegel's mob partners in New York and Chicago had financed the project and were not satisfied with the returns or the explanations.
On the evening of June 20, 1947, Siegel was seated in the living room of 810 N Linden Drive, the Beverly Hills home leased by his girlfriend Virginia Hill, who was in Paris at the time. A gunman positioned outside the house fired multiple rounds through the living room window. Siegel was struck nine times. He died at the scene.
The LAPD investigation produced no arrest. Siegel's associates Jack Dragna, Mickey Cohen, and figures in the New York and Las Vegas organized crime networks were all considered as potential masterminds, but no one was charged. The FBI files on the case were later partially released under FOIA and have been analyzed by mob historians, none of whom have reached definitive conclusions.
The house itself is a Spanish Colonial Revival structure on a quiet Beverly Hills residential block. It passed through subsequent owners without major renovation; the living room window through which the shots were fired remained in the building's original position. By 2022, when the property listed at approximately $17 million, real estate journalists routinely noted the murder history as part of the listing's character. The property's endurance — both as a residence and as a documented crime scene — makes it one of the most recognizable addresses in American mob history.
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The Bugsy Siegel murder house does not carry the kind of specific, staff-reported paranormal account that characterizes hotels or institutional buildings with decades of witness testimony. It is a private residence; no one has spent sustained time investigating it for paranormal phenomena.
What it carries is the weight of an unresolved historical event at a specific, surviving address. Siegel was shot through the window that is still part of the building's south-facing wall. The living room where he bled out still exists behind the same exterior. The physical continuity of the murder scene — unlike sites that have been demolished, repurposed, or rebuilt — gives the address a quality that true-crime visitors find affecting.
Siegel's ghost has been reported at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas with much more documentation — staff there report seeing a figure in a brown suit near the hotel's original pool area, which Siegel himself frequented. No equivalent account attaches to the Linden Drive property.
The house appears on LA true-crime driving tours for its historical rather than paranormal significance. The fact that no one was ever charged with the murder — that the gunman, whoever ordered the hit, and the full organizational logic of the killing remained officially unknown — gives the location a different quality than solved cases. The unfinished accounting, as much as the violence, is what draws visitors.
The Spanish Colonial Revival home at 810 N Linden Dr is where Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel was shot and killed on June 20, 1947. The house is a private residence visible from the public sidewalk. The property most recently listed for $17 million in 2022, making it one of the most tracked murder houses in real estate history.
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