The Mayfair Mafia: The Lives and Crimes of the Messina Brothers

This true crime history reveals the shocking career of the London mafia family that ran a thriving prostitution empire for decades.

From the mid-1930s into the 1950s, one immigrant Italian family ran London's thriving vice trade. The five Messina brothers imported prostitutes from the Continent on an industrial scale, acquiring British citizenship for the women by phony marriages. Taking 80% of these women's earnings, the Messina family became fabulously wealthy, purchasing expensive prop...