The nickname “Lucky” attached to Charles “Lucky” Luciano is often credited to his survival of a violent 1929 kidnapping. While the attack was real, Luciano was already known as “Lucky” years earlier—less for one miraculous escape and more for repeatedly surviving arrests, gang wars, and internal power struggles during Prohibition. Like many underworld legends, the story didn’t begin as a lie—it just improved with retelling.
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