Exclusive Interview with Sandra Lansky
By: Victor A. Padilla
I had the pleasure of meeting Sandra Lansky last year through a
couple of mutual friends over a year ago. We have become friends
and what I have learned about Sandra is that she is a very sweet and
wonderfully well-spoken lady. In this exclusive interview Sandra Lansky shares her true life experiences about her life and her father Meyer
Lansky. Many have portrayed Meyer Lansky as a notorious Mafia
Crime syndicate boss but in this exclusive interview we will see him through
a different light. -
Victor: Tell us about yourself
and
your
family?
Sandra: I was born in Boston
the youngest of three children
spoiled rotten and we moved to
New York when I was three years
old. My Father Meyer Lansky
was born in Grodno, Russia, my
mom was born in New York but
her father and mother were from
Romania, my mom used to say
no one would have kidnapped
me they would give me right
back because I was so spoiled.
Victor: What was it like
growing up being the only
Daughter of Meyer Lansky?
Sandra: It was wonderful, being
the baby in the house with two older brothers He would spoil me. We
went to the theaters and movies a
lot, he would take me everywhere
with him and I met everybody
and everybody was an uncle.
Victor- Tell us about your fondest memories with your father?
Sandra: Just being with him, we
didn’t have to talk, we could be
together for hours and not say
too many words. It was the looks
that he would give, you could tell
his frame of mind by the way he
looked, his eyes would give him
away. It was a true daughter and
father love relationship. The only
problem he had with me is that
I wore my heart on my sleeve
and I wasn’t stoic and I spoke
my mind, he thought I would outgrow it but I never did. After I got
Divorced from my first Marriage,
I went through my wild years,
through it all we were very close.
Victor: Tell us
Husband
Vince
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about your
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Sandra: My father absolutely loved
Vinny, we had a love affair. Vinny
was with the Carlo Gambino Family, you normally don’t just walk away
but, my Father told Vinny to marry
my daughter you have to get out. So
my father got him out even though
Vinny still had family that were still
in. I met and knew everyone from
the other side not only my dad’s side,
I knew the really good fellas, Jimmy Burps, Sony Francoise, Frank
Costello who I gave his wife Bobby
one of my poodle puppies and we
became good friends, we had our
ups and downs with jobs because
people would tell Vinny, “Your Meyer
Lansky’s son-in-law you don’t need a
job?” Vinny and I were truly in love.
Victor: Your father knew some of
the celebrities in show business
tell us about those experiences?
Sandra: We had a lot of dinners at
Dinty Moore’s and all the show people were there, Frank Costello was
there, Willie Moretti who was killed
the night after I had dinner with him.
Frank Sinatra came over to our table
to say hi and he tripped on the champagne bucket and spilled the ice all
over me, I was freezing and he was
so afraid of what my Father would do.
I had an affair with Dean M