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Mickey Cohen

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The Resume

    (September 4, 1913-July 29, 1976)
    Born in Brooklyn, New York
    Birth name was Meyer Harris Cohen
    Former pro boxer
    Enforcer for Al Capone's Chicago Outfit
    West Coast/Las Vegas associate of Bugsy Siegel
    Testified before the Kefauver Commission (1950)

Why he might be annoying:

    He was first arrested at age nine, for delivering bootleg liquor to his brother's speakeasy.
    He was an obsessive handwasher.
    After his bodyguard, Johnny Stompanato, was fatally stabbed by Lana Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, he sold Turner's love letters to Stompanato to the press.
    He spent two stints in federal prison for income tax evasion.
    Asked by interviewer Mike Wallace about his Mafia hits, he replied 'I killed nobody that didn't deserve killing.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He survived multiple attempts by rival gangster Jack Dragna to have him rubbed out.
    His OCD saved his life, since he was bent over the sink washing up when a hitman sprayed his office with bullets.
    When a senator at the Kefauver hearings asked, 'Is it not a fact that you live extravagantly, surrounded by violence,' he replied, 'Whaddya mean, 'surrounded by violence'? People are shooting at me!'
    While in the federal prison at Atlanta, another prisoner attacked him with a lead pipe, leaving him in a wheelchair.
    He was portrayed by Harvey Keitel in 'Bugsy' and Paul Guilfoyle in 'L.A. Confidential.'

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 100 Votes: 52.00% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 16 Votes: 81.25% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 16 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 224 Votes: 50.45% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 14 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 23 Votes: 60.87% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 39 Votes: 56.41% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 145 Votes: 57.93% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 109 Votes: 63.30% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 183 Votes: 77.05% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 42 Votes: 80.95% Annoying