![]() After achieving prominence as a gangster, Capone was dubbed Scarface by the press, a nickname he intensely disliked. Capone would attempt to shield the scarred side of his face in photographs, and tried to write them off as war wounds-although he never served in the military. In 1917, Capone’s face was slashed during a fight at the Harvard Inn, after he insulted a female patron and her brother retaliated, leaving him with three indelible scars. WATCH: Full episodes of Cities of the Underworld online now 2. Some stories claim he went there out of a need to lay low after severely injuring a rival gang member in a fight, while other accounts say Capone was recruited to come to Chicago by Johnny Torrio, a former Brooklyn mobster then making his mark on organized crime in the Windy City. ![]() In 1918, he married Mae Coughlin the couple remained together until Capone’s death and had one child, Sonny. ![]() Capone belonged to a street gang as a boy and dropped out of school in sixth grade, later joining the Five Points Gang in Manhattan and working as a bouncer and bartender at the Harvard Inn, a Coney Island bar owned by mobster Frankie Yale. His parents, Gabriele, a barber, and Teresa Capone, were immigrants from Angri, Italy. ![]() ![]() Capone was in a street gang as a child.īorn on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, Alphonse Capone was the fourth of nine children. ![]()
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