A woman's mafia story: 'Mob Queens' hosts Jessica Bendinger and Michael Seligman dig into the life of Anna Genovese — mob wife and drag queen club boss.
In every long friendship, there’s a tipping point, the moment where passing acquaintance blossoms into something like platonic love. Jessica Bendinger and Michael Seligman’s tipping point arrived in 2004 when Bendinger asked Seligman for advice about fixing up her house.
“…And I was like, ‘Oh, girl, I love you,” Seligman says, jumping into the story. “Let’s give you some of that sissy magic.’” These days, the pair’s sentence-finishing interplay is used to full effect in “Mob Queens,” a 12-episode podcast in which they explore the little-known story of Anna Genovese, a mob wife who was a pivotal figure in lower Manhattan’s drag bar scene —and who broke the biggest rule of the Cosa Nostra when she showed up at a public hearing in 1953 and spilled the dirty dealings of her soon-to-be ex-husband, mafia kingpin Vito Genovese.
By forging a career running drag bars in Lower Manhattan, Genovese defied the expectation that “mob molls,” as one “Mob Queens” source puts it, “were just there to be housewives, be pretty.” Bendinger and Seligman envisioned the story as a limited TV series but couldn’t get past the pitch stage with Hollywood executives. “They’d just be like, ‘Wow, wow, wow. Your research. Your knowledge. Pass,’” says Seligman.
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