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Gary tells about Giancana’s Villa Venice.\xa0 In the Chicago suburb of Northbrook, Sam Giancana opened a fancy supper club called the Villa Venice. This club opened to great reviews at Christmas time, 1962. The club sold out for a week because Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra put on a floor show. The Villa Venice was a beautiful place with an illegal gambling casino nearby. Outfit mobsters took gamblers back and forth to the Villa Venice. During the show, Dean Martin made jokes about playing the joint for free. Later when Sammy Davis Jr. was interviewed by FBI agents, he stated, \u201cBaby, let me say this,\u201d explained Davis, who lost his left eye years earlier in a car accident. \u201cI got one eye, and that one eye sees a lot of things that my brain tells me I shouldn\u2019t talk about. Because my brain says that, if I do, my one eye might not be seeing anything after a while.\u201d
\nThe club was open until it burned to the ground in 1967.
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