If you betray your individual to the devil , you might as well have something nice and shiny to show for it , correct ? If these ill-gotten dealer did n’t know how to live unspoilt , they sure as shooting knew how to survive well .

1. Leona Helmsley (1920"“2007)

The famous New York real the three estates mogul and class A witch lived the American Dream . Well , except for the whole prison thing . Leona was a divorced stitching factory worker with mouths to feed before she met and married genuine estate business leader Harry Helmsley ( the fact that he was already married weigh short ) . In 1980 , Harry name Leona Chief Executive of his deluxe Helmsley Palace Hotel , which she rein like a tyrant . Her tendency to explode at employees for the smallest misdemeanour ( like a stooped lampshade ) earned her the form of address " Queen of Mean . “ But the tyranny did n’t on the nose last .

In 1988 , Leona and Harry were indicted for a mixed bag of crimes , include taxation pretender , chain armor fraud , and extortion . And after numerous appeal , Leona service 18 months in prison house and was force to yield the government $ 7 million in back taxes . A tidy VD of irony for the woman who once tell , " Only the little people pay taxis . “ Of course , that does n’t mean thing turn out that mischievously for poor Leona . At the time of her end , her demesne was deserving over $ 4 billion " “ $ 12 million of which she left to her white Maltese , Trouble .

2. Mother Mandelbaum (1818”“1894)

3. Pablo Escobar (1949”“1993)

Of course , immurement did n’t block up him from living the lush life . Escobar used some of his clams to convert his prison into a personal fortress , even reforge all the john and strengthening the walls . Once he left , he was a fugitive again , but he was n’t unvoiced to trail down . An obsessional misophobe , Escobar left a blazing lead of dilapidated hideout with shiny , expensive new bath . In the end , the cocaine top banana was killed when the mysterious law tracked his cellular telephone phone to an flat , storm the construction , and shot him . Many , many times .

4. L. Dennis Kozlowski (1946"“ )

5. Al Capone (1899"“1947)

That Geraldo clip never gets erstwhile :

This tilt was taken fromForbidden Knowledge .

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