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When Millicent Siegel was years-old she rode a train from New York to California to spend the summer with her father. On that trip, she didn't read the newspaper -- and of course, there were no cell phones or Internet that could get the news out instantly. When Siegel came to Las Vegas in the s, he built one of the first casinos on what is now the Strip -- the Flamingo.

Millicent Siegel says her dad had a vision for Las Vegas, and when he came here, it was on legitimate terms. Benjamin Siegel was killed in The story goes that leaders of the mob were tired of the time it took the Flamingo to become profitable under Siegel's control. We revisit a interview with her about her father's life and legacy in Las Vegas.

Some of the stories are blown out of proportion. His idea of coming to Vegas to make a legitimate place to open a hotel was his goal. The rest of it -- I just know my family life, which was just a very normal life. Like any other child, I went to school. I had friends. I lived in a house like everybody else. My father was away sometimes on business.

Then my parents divorced and we moved back to New York. He was out here building the hotel, but before that it was just a normal life in California.