Mickey Cohen

At Home with Mickey Cohen Ben Cosgrove, LIFE. Jewish gangster Mickey Cohen was a celebrity as well as a thug.  When he posed for the cameras, though, he was just a family guy. (Photographs by Ed Clark)

Gangs of Detroit Naomi Sandweiss, Tablet. What gangster Mickey Cohen was to Los Angeles, the Purple Gang was to Detroit—"a Jewish gang feared by even Al Capone’s Chicago mob."