50 Photos of Real-Life Gangster Homes and Hideouts

Albert Anastasia’s New Jersey base

The menacing Mafia Don controlled his organization’s criminal activities from the mansion and is alleged to have tortured and killed people in the house. The Fort Lee home, which is located across the Hudson River from New York’s Manhattan, has a total of 25 sprawling rooms and sits on 1.3 acres.

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Albert Anastasia’s New Jersey base

The house is surrounded by high walls that were once covered in barbed wire and guarded by two vicious Dobermanns. Along with several reception rooms, the mansion has a number of capacious bedrooms, a retro kitchen and a glass-covered conservatory offering views of the New York skyline.

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Albert Anastasia’s New Jersey base

Looking at this picture of the property’s wood-paneled office, it’s not hard to imagine the scary Mafia boss sitting behind the desk with a cigar in his hand, planning his next kill or directing his minions to execute it on his behalf. But the office is by no means the eeriest room in the house, not by a long shot. That would be the Jacuzzi room…

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Albert Anastasia’s New Jersey base

Known in Anastasia’s time as “the slaughter room”, it contained nothing apart from a drain, into which the blood of his unfortunate victims would flow. Anastasia’s reign of terror continued until 1957 when he was gunned down while having a shave in the barber shop at Manhattan’s Park Sheraton Hotel. His mansion was offloaded and passed though various owners, before selling in 2017 for $6.9 million.

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Pete Corrado’s Michigan manor

Pete Corrado, who was dubbed “Machine Gun Pete”, was one of the first members of the Detroit Outfit or Detroit Partnership, the Midwestern city’s most active Mafia organization. He headed the Corrado clan offshoot from 1931 until his death from a heart attack in 1957. The Mafioso lived in a 7,481-square-foot mansion at 701 Middlesex Road in Grosse Pointe Park, just outside Detroit.

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