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The Pierre Hotel Affair: How Eight Gentleman Thieves Orchestrated the Largest Jewel Heist in History

Hardback | English

By (author): Daniel Simone Nick Sacco

New York City, 1972.

Bobby Comfort and Sammy the Arab Nalo were highly skilled jewel thieves who specialized in robbing luxury Manhattan hotels. (They once robbed Sophia Loren''s suite, relieving the Italian actress of over $1 million in gems.) With the blessing of the Lucchese crime family, their next plot targeted the posh Pierre Hotel-host to kings and queens, presidents and aldermen, and the wealthiest of the wealthy.

Attired in tuxedoes and driven in a limousine, this band of thieves arrived at the Pierre and with perfect timing, they seized the security guards and, in systematically choreographed moves, they swiftly took the night staff-and several unfortunate guests who happened to be roaming around the lobby-as hostages.

The deposit boxes inside the vault chamber are plundered and, after the intruders have held the Pierre under siege for almost two hours, the gentlemanly thieves depart in their limousine with a haul of $28 million. But then matters begin to deteriorate. Comfort, Nalo, and their partners begin to double and triple cross one another-two absconding to Europe with the bulk of the booty while three are murdered by their former associates.

The authorities immediately suspect Comfort and Nalo of masterminding the Pierre ambush and arrest them, but these veteran criminals keep their mouths shut. To ensure that they are not prosecuted, the Lucchese Family funnels a $500,000 bribe to the presiding judge to quash the charges-and to this day The Pierre Hotel caper remains unsolved.

A suspenseful narrative of Mafia intrigue, police corruption, and personal betrayal-which concludes with a poignant love affair-this is the true story of the most famous hotel robbery in American history. See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 570g
  • Dimensions: 163 x 236mm
  • Publication Date: 09 May 2017
  • Publisher: Pegasus Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781681774022

About Daniel SimoneNick Sacco

Before becoming a writer Daniel Simone was an aerospace engineer who worked on the Apollo lunar modules. Besides having ghostwritten the biographies of two prominent actresses he is the author of The Lufthansa Heist. Daniel lives in Amagansett New York. As a young operator in Lucchese crime family Nick ''the Cat'' Sacco specialized in jewel thefts. But he had a distinctive quality; he never harmed any of his victims. Sacco is the sole surviving bandit of the famed Pierre Hotel siege and robbery. When he entered the Witness Protection Program in 1974 Sacco was one of wealthiest and most wanted jewel thieves in America.

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