Key_Presentation_447 t1_je3r94h wrote on March 29, 2023 at 4:57 AM Reply to TIL about the Forty Elephants or Forty Thieves, an all women crime syndicate in London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that specialized in shoplifting and pretending to be maids and robbing the wealthy families who hired them. by Professor_Hillbilly That had to have been the inspiration for Cameron Diaz's character in Gangs of New York. Permalink 6
Key_Presentation_447 t1_je3r94h wrote
Reply to TIL about the Forty Elephants or Forty Thieves, an all women crime syndicate in London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that specialized in shoplifting and pretending to be maids and robbing the wealthy families who hired them. by Professor_Hillbilly
That had to have been the inspiration for Cameron Diaz's character in Gangs of New York.