Tony Spilotro, who worked side by side with Rosenthal for years as associates of the Chicago Outfit, has long been suspected of orchestrating the car bombing but evidence linking him to it is lacking. Spilotro also was having an affair with Lefty’s wife, Geri. The most prominent is that it was the work of mobster Anthony “Tough Tony” Spilotro, who, like Frank Rosenthal, was an underworld transplant from Chicago. Several theories have surfaced regarding who tried to kill Rosenthal. That era, punctuated by the car bombing, resulted in several Midwestern mobsters being imprisoned a few years later in casino skimming trials. properties - the Fremont, Hacienda and Marina - were owned by San Diego businessman Allen Glick, but Mob bosses who helped Glick secure Teamsters Union loans installed Rosenthal to run things. Rosenthal, a Chicago Mob associate, ran the now-demolished Stardust hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip for Midwestern crime families that received untaxed gambling revenue skimmed from there and other resorts.
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Robert De Niro stars in the movie as Ace Rothstein, the character based on Rosenthal. For the movie, the characters were given fictional names to avoid legal difficulties, though their real names are used in the book. Rosenthal’s description of what happened that October night is detailed in the book and depicted in the movie, which Pileggi co-wrote with director Martin Scorsese. This year, the Rosenthal incident is back in the public eye with the 25th anniversary of the movie Casino, based on Pileggi’s 1995 nonfiction book, Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas. The car bombing came up during a panel discussion at The Mob Museum in 2017. Investigators speculated his life was saved because the 1981 model of that car had a steel stabilizing plate beneath the driver’s seat, which deflected the blast.Īlong with uncertainty over who killed Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel in 1947 and the 1975 disappearance of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, the Rosenthal car bombing remains one of the top unsolved organized crime mysteries in the country. Today, authorities still do not know who planted the bomb that blew up Rosenthal’s car on October 4, 1982.
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Courtesy of Las Vegas Review-Journal Archive “That’s when I knew somebody put a bomb in my car.” Lefty Rosenthal survived the car bomb attack, but he left Las Vegas soon afterward.
“That’s when I realized for the first time it hadn’t been an accident,” he told Pileggi.
Two men assisted him as the car’s gas tank ignited, causing an explosion “like an atom bomb.” Rosenthal saw the 4,000-pound Cadillac Eldorado jump a few feet, flames shooting through the roof two stories high.
Outside the car, with his clothes on fire, he rolled on the ground to snuff out the flames. Rosenthal asked himself, “Why is my car on fire?”Īs Rosenthal struggled with the door to get out, the car filled with sheets of flame, and a strong jolt might have thrown him against the steering wheel, hurting his ribs, but he couldn’t remember any of that. The flames were reflected on the interior windshield. That was the first thing Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal saw, according to what he told author Nicholas Pileggi. Courtesy ofLas Vegas Review-Journal Archiveįlames two or three inches high emerged from the defroster vent as he sat in his car with takeout food in the parking lot of Tony Roma’s restaurant on East Sahara Avenue in Las Vegas. Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal’s Cadillac Eldorado blew up October 4, 1982, in the parking lot of the Tony Roma’s restaurant on East Sahara Avenue in Las Vegas.
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