Al Capone got an icy reception when he arrived in Miami Beach in 1928. Whether he was winter-weary like other Northern tourists was immaterial; Miami saw him as a blight on its reputation.

“Let’s go,” the girl said. “That’s a Capone.” Diane Capone Pette is the granddaughter of Al Capone, one of the most infamous mobsters in American history who was nicknamed “Scarface ...

After Capone was released from prison in 1939, he retired from mob life and spent his final years in the Miami mansion. Pette was 3 when her grandfather died, but some of her earliest memories are ...