“It was, in many ways, an ideal, middle-class Italian-American household where family came first,” says Bair, who’s written acclaimed biographies of Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Carl Jung. There were no fish in the pool, but Capone enjoyed walking around his property with his granddaughters, looking for butterflies. Though widely reported at the time, the story is false. One example: Capone had his huge swimming pool stocked with fish and spent his afternoons in his pajamas catching them. The gangster’s last years are detailed in Deirdre Bair’s new biography, “ Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend.” Bair drew on interviews with Capone’s grandchildren and other relatives, most of whom preferred to remain anonymous, to dispel many of the myths that have long swirled around Al “Scarface” Capone. The man who once ruled the Chicago Outfit, a multimillion-dollar bootlegging and racketeering empire that spanned North America, was just happy to be taken to the drugstore to buy a pack of Dentyne gum. His brain ravaged by a syphilis infection that had gone untreated, he had the mental capacity of a 12-year-old. He fished from his boat, doted on his grandchildren, dined on his wife Mae’s spaghetti - and had imaginary conversations with long-dead mobsters, some of whom he’d had killed. 1 and the most powerful gangster of the Prohibition era, spent the last years of his life in seclusion at his house in Florida. If you can't wait for the prequel, visit these real spots from 'The Sopranos'Īl Capone, Public Enemy No. Ray Liotta reveals why he passed on role in 'The Sopranos' 'The Sopranos' was inspired by this real-life Newark mob family

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