In the last article we were introduced to Max Gerlach, the ‘gentleman bootlegger’ who had provided the partial inspiration for Jay Gatsby. Then there’d been that bombshell discovery that Max had been running a speakeasy for Arnold Rothstein, the notorious mobster who had ‘fixed’ the 1919 World Series. The speakeasy, adjacent to the Coronet Apartments … Continue reading Meyer Wolfsheim — Arnold Rothstein, Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby