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Al is the son of the Italian immigrants Gabriele and Teresina Capone. They came to America in search of a better life. They lived in a tenement in New York. Tereseina became a seamstress and Gabriele became a barber. There were no ways of knowing that Capone was going to become a gangster.
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Al was a good student in the Brooklyn elementary school but then he started skipping. In the 6th grade, his teacher hit him for insolence. Al fought back and was then sent to the principle to be beaten again. Al then refused to ever go to school again.
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Al's family goes from their tenement to a neighborhood on the outskirts of Brooklyn. Where he finds Johnny Torrio and his future wife, Mary Coughlin.
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Johnny Torrio took Al under his wing and becames his mob mentor. Torrio was already running a few illegal operations such as numbers and gambling. Torrio let Al run some small errands for him every now and then, but Al liked to stay with legitimate employment.
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Torrio introduced Al to a gangster named Frankie Yale, who gave Capone a chance to work as a bouncer and bartender at the Harvard Inn. One night at the bar, Al talked bad about a girl and her brother slashed Capones face. Al then got the name "Scarface".
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At age 19, Al married his neighborhood friend, Mary Coughlin shortly after she gave birth to their child named Albert Francis. Al wanted to do good for his family so he got a legal job as a book keeper for a construction company.
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After the death of Al's father, Torrio invited Al to come to Chicago to get in on the business of gambling, prostitution, and the new business of bootlegging.
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After Al moves to Chicago, he started to become reckless with his illegal drinking. He was driving drunk and hit a parked taxi cab. Al was arrested, but Torrio used his connections to get Al out.
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A new mayor was being elected that wanted to cleanse the city of corruption, so Torrio and Al moved past the city limits into Cicero. Just one year later, the election in Cicero threatened their plans as well. On March 31, 1924, Torrio and Al performed an intimidation effort to get their mayor elected.
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After Torrio's life was threatened, he decided to quit his business and go back to Italy. Torrio left his operations to Al. Al then moved the headquarters to a plush suite in Chicago where he lived an open and public life, spending on whatever he liked.
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When some of Al's foes come into Cicero, Al gives orders to kill them, but William McSwiggin tried to prosecute him for murder. Without the evidence of murder, Al's businesses were raided to get evidence of income-tax evasion. Al called for a "Peace Conference" with the city's criminals to stop the violence.
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Al owned the illegal liquor trading business in Chicago, but others wanted in on the profits. Al ordered the death of Moran, a long rival of his. 7 of Moran's men were killed, but Moran escaped. Al was blamed for the incident.
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President Herbert Hoover ordered the federal government to get Capone for income-tax evasion. The court ruled that illegal activities were taxable. Capone was then found of 22 counts of income-tax evasion. Al was sent to 11 years of prison.
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Al was caught bribing guards in the Atlanta prison where he was later sent to Alcatraz. He was now locked out from the world and had no more power.
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Al got syphilis as a child and began suffering from neurosyphilis, which caused dementia. After 6 1/2 more years, Al was then sent to a mental hospital in Baltimore where he stayed for 3 years.
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Capone lived out his last days in Miami with his wife, where he died of cardiac arrest.
