A granddaughter of Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel — whose late sister sued a businessman, alleging memorabilia belonging to the onetime Las Vegas mobster was wrongfully sold to a bidder without her permission, despite a warning letter from her attorney warning that the sale was unauthorized — is asking a judge to enforce the terms of a $15,000 settlement agreement reached in 2025.
Wendy Rosen’s attorney filed court papers with Los Angeles Superior Court Teresa A. Beaudet on June 22 in advance of a Feb. 9, 2027, hearing asking the judge to hold businessman Jay Bloom to his alleged promise to pay the money to the plaintiff. Bloom has two companies, Murder Inc. LLC and The Mafia Collection LLC. Rosen said her late sister, Cindy Rosen, loaned the photos, clothing, home decor, home movies and handwritten letters and other collectibles to Bloom for his Las Vegas show, “The Mob Experience,” before it went bankrupt in 2011.
Wendy Rosen stepped in as the plaintiff in the case after her sibling died in November 2023. No cause of death was given in the later former plaintiff’s court papers.
According to Wendy Rosen’s attorney’s court papers, his client and Bloom settled the case in March 2025. However, Bloom has not honored the deal and judgment should now be entered in favor of Wendy Rosen of just over $40,500, which will include attorneys’ fees, her lawyer argues in his pleadings.
The suit filed in February 2023 alleges the defendants’ actions caused Cindy Rosen to lose a large sum of money that she hoped to use to pay her medical bills at the time.
According to the suit, Rosen repeatedly asked Bloom to return her property after the bankruptcy, but the parties instead agreed in August 2020 to a $60,000 sale of the items.
The consummation of the sale was delayed by Bloom’s alleged poor communications and Rosen, who had significant health issues, obtained an agreement from Bloom in December 2021 to pay her the larger sum of $125,000, the suit stated. Cindy Rosen advised Bloom that she wanted the memorabilia back if he could not pay and she later asked for $130,000 so as to include interest, the suit stated.
In April 2022, Bloom told Rosen that the items had been sold, but advised the plaintiff that she would still be paid, according to the suit, which further stated that the plaintiff learned that Julien’s Auction House had obtained the memorabilia and planned to auction it on Bloom’s behalf.
Despite receiving a letter from Rosen’s lawyer warning Julien’s not to sell the items, the auction house did so anyway in August 2022, according to the suit.
“Bloom’s representation of himself as the rightful owner of the memorabilia, and Julien’s auctioning of the memorabilia, despite being on notice that it would be unlawful to do so, were deceitful and this conduct was undertaken with the intention of deceiving the public as to the true ownership of the memorabilia,” the suit stated.
Siegel was shot to death at age 41 in a Beverly Hills home in June 1947 and his killing remains unsolved.