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Susan Berman (1945 - 2000), author, was murdered execution-style with a 9-millimeter hand gun, on Christmas Eve 2000 in Benedict Canyon. Her father was mob figure Davie Berman who replaced Bugsy Siegel in Las Vegas at the Flamingo Hotel after Siegel's execution. According to Berman, she always maintained her father died mysteriously on an operating table when Berman was 12. Berman also believed her mother Gladys Berman's suicide a year later was also under mysterious circumstances.Susan Berman, was known affectionately as a "Jewish Mafia Princess". In 1981 Ms. Berman published the memoir Easy Street about her father, Davie Berman. Susan Berman was represented in the 1970s by the William Morris Agency who had talked with several Hollywood producers who had a tremendous interest in adapting Ms. Berman's book into a screenplay. The film project never got off the ground. Many industry experts believed it became overshadowed by the best selling novel, and box office blockbuster The Godfather.
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