Wife of legendary gangsters

What is it - be wife number one culprit? In our material - stories of wives of Al Capone, Pablo Escobar and other legendary bandits.

Mae Capone

Al Capone married at 19 - 18-year-old Irish Mae Josephine Coughlin, who gave birth before the wedding of the son of a gangster. Capone bride infected with syphilis, which suffered until his death. Their child was born with the disease and mastoid infection. The kid had surgery on the brain, life remained partially deaf. Despite this, Mae Josephine loved him and remained faithful to the mafia until his death in 1947 - from a stroke and pneumonia, rather than enemy bullets.

Mei lived a long life and died in 1986 at 89 years old. Al Capone, as an adult, has changed his name to Brown, lived almost a law-abiding life (rewind two years for petty theft), was the father of four daughters, and died in 2004.

Alice Diamond

The religious and modest Alice Diamond did not approve of her husband, Jack gangster Legs Diamond, but was devoted to him and forgive betrayal. Alice prayed for the wife, and the sins of Jack's conscience was a lot. He was one of the most famous bootleggers of New York City and Philadelphia during Prohibition. Jack is not only engaged in the smuggling of alcohol, but the kidnap and torture people and disposes of the competitors. At the very Diamond attempted more than once. Once in the gangster got five bullets, but he did not just survived, but was able to leave the hotel room and call for help. For such vitality bandit called not killed, but the nickname he has not justified. In 1931, Diamond was shot by two unidentified men in a hotel room in New York. In ordering the murder suspect and the mafia and the police, and even politicians. Two years after the death of Jack his widow, who lived quietly and did not support the connection to the mafia, was shot dead in her apartment in Brooklyn. Alice's killers never found.

Maria Escobar

In 1976, the aspiring Colombian drug lord, a 27-year-old Pablo Escobar married 15-year-old Maria Victoria Henao Vallejo, who was waiting for him the first-born. Wife always supported Escobar despite his numerous betrayals (eg, in the last years of his life, Pablo was a serious affair with a journalist and model of Virginia Vallejo). Maria Escobar was in the know of her husband, and after Escobar's death in a shootout with police in 1993, a widow with children hiding under false names. Escobar's family is still caught, and Mary and a half years spent in prison, but the authorities have found no evidence of its illegal activities. Freed, Mary changed her name and went into the shadows. Also entered and her daughter. 41-year-old son of Pablo Escobar Juan - architect, he lives in Buenos Aires with his wife and daughter. Of his father, he recalls warmly, calling him a caring family man and sentimental. For example, once, hiding with the children from the government, Escobar threw a fire in the mountains of bills and burned about two million dollars to warm babies. Actually, the attachment to the family and destroyed cocaine king. At the moment of Escobar's death almost a year was on the run and did not see the family, but in honor of his birthday, he decided to call home and talk with my son for 5 minutes. This call authorities calculated locate Escobar and eliminate it in a few hours.

Danubia Rangel

The wife of the Brazilian drug lord Antonio Bonfima Lopez represented the interests of her husband's freedom after his arrest in 2011, until she was behind bars. Danubia was arrested in 2017. By this time she had to unleash one of the most feared criminal wars in Rosina, the biggest favela of Rio de Janeiro. Now Danubio waiting 28 years in prison - for drug trafficking and human trafficking.

Emma Coronel Aispuro

Emma married a Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán in 2007, when she was 18 years old. It was the fourth wife, 50-year-old El Chapo (Shorty) - the most dangerous criminal of the world (until his capture in 2016). In 2012, Emma gave birth to twin girls Shorty. At that time, led by Joaquin Guzman Mexico's largest drug cartel "Sinaloa" and included in the lists of the most powerful and the richest people in the world according to Forbes. Drug lord killed the vanity. Hiding from the authorities, El Chapo communicated with Hollywood actors and producers, wishing to have shot a film about him. Thus, the meeting with Sean Penn helped authorities track down the offender, although he achieved his: the series "El Chapo" was released in 2017.

Emma Coronel to pay dearly for the love of El Chapo. In the summer of 2016 in Mexico were shot dead two of her nephews, who were 19 and 13 years.

Faina Commissioner

Vyacheslav Ivankov, nicknamed Jap in the early 90's went to the USA, where he led the Russian mafia. There's a thief in the law met with an immigrant from Kiev Faina Commissioner. She waited Ivankov, when he was sitting in an American prison, and her husband returned to Russia when Jap deported, and was there until his death. Ivankov fired on July 29, 2009 in Moscow, he died two months later in hospital without regaining consciousness. After the death of the bandit Faina Commissioner did not talk to the press, and the title of widow Jap started to pretend psychic Nicole Kuznetsova.