Ray's Society Pages
The society pages printed the wedding. They didn't print what came after.
Ray's Society Pages is a documentary channel about the private marriages of public families — First Ladies and political dynasties, British royalty, and the old-money houses that could afford to keep things quiet.
Every episode takes one woman, one marriage, and the distance between the official account and what the letters, court filings, staff testimony and contemporaneous reporting actually say. Where the record is contested, we say so. Where it's thin, we say that too.
New episode every other day.
Ray's Society Pages
April 21, 1986. Thirty million people watched live as a crew opened a sealed chamber under the Lexington Hotel in Chicago, Al Capone's old headquarters. IRS agents stood by, ready to seize whatever was inside.
Were you watching?
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What did they find?
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One of you once waited tables with a Capone. Another remembers Reagan's Secret Service men guarding the back door of a Beverly Hills barbershop.
Did you or your family ever cross paths with one of these families? A Capone, a Gotti, a Lansky, a Reagan.
The smallest story counts. I read every one.
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Al Capone had an older brother most people have never heard of.
Vincenzo was the oldest Capone child. At 16 he walked out of the family's Brooklyn home and disappeared. He dropped the name and became Richard Hart. By the 1920s he was a Prohibition agent in Nebraska, smashing the same liquor that was making his little brother rich. The papers called him "Two Gun Hart."
In 1920 their father died. The family needed its oldest son, and he was gone. So Al, just 21, took the empty chair.
Which brother let the family down?
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Nancy Reagan held no office and won no election. For eight years, she was the most feared person in her husband's White House.
She got a chief of staff fired and let him find out from the television. She ran the president's public schedule off a calendar drawn up by an astrologer in San Francisco, paid in secret.
Her staff hated her. But was she wrong?
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