Who is Reggie Kray?
Reggie Kray promised the boxer would grow up, but instead he chose a life of crime. He and his twin brother Ronnie Kray eventually formed their own gang, known as "The Firm", to engage in a variety of illegal enterprises, from extortion to murder. In 1968, Reggie was arrested on murder charges. His life of crime ended the following year when he was convicted. Reggie spent almost the rest of his days as a prisoner. He died in 2000.
Personal life
Gray was prompted to talk about the psychology of relationships between men and women by problems in his marriage with the writer and psychologist Barbara de Angelis. The union brought the writer experience that formed the basis for discussions about the difference between the perception of the same things by representatives of different sexes. In 1984, Gray divorced his wife. He has a daughter from his first marriage.
John Gray and his wife Bonnie
In 1986, John Gray married again. His chosen one was a woman named Bonnie. The writer's second wife had two children from a previous marriage. Gray accepted them as his own. 30 years after their marriage, the couple is still together, which means John managed to find happiness in his personal life.
Wife
Reggie's marriage to Frances Shea was brief and restless. The couple married in 1965, but Shia reportedly left him within weeks. Along with Reggie's possessiveness and fear of retaliation, Shea remained married to him for two years until she escaped their relationship the only way she knew how. by committing suicide. Described as bright and innocent, Shea overdosed on pills at the age of 23.
Reggie married his second wife Roberta Jones in 1997 and remained with her until his death in 2000.
Sasha Gray: biography
Marina Ann Hentzis, better known by her stage name Sasha Grey, was born on March 14, 1988 in Sacramento, California. Her father was Greek by birth and worked as a mechanic in a car repair shop, and her mother took care of the house and children. When the girl was five years old, her parents filed for divorce. Sasha stayed with her mother and was very worried about the separation from her father. The girl studied at a comprehensive school and was fond of dancing. At the age of twelve, Marina first thought about a career in cinema after seeing the film “Fahrenheit 451”. Khentsis immediately began to make her dream come true and enrolled in the school theater club. There they were given a list of films that needed to be watched, but from the entire list Gray was only able to get the comedy “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, since there were simply no other films at the video rental office. In 2000, Sasha’s mother met another man who proposed marriage to her. After the wedding, their family moved to the southern United States. The girl's relationship with her stepfather did not work out. After four years together, Gray told her mother that she was leaving home because she could no longer tolerate her stepfather. But the mother did something different: she packed her things and children and returned to Sacramento. The girl graduated from school only in 2005, after which she entered college. At the same time, she worked part-time as a waitress in a cafe, collecting money to move to another city. In 2006, upon reaching adulthood, Gray moved to Los Angeles. In 2007, the girl began her modeling career. Her first work in this field was a photo shoot for the cover of The Smashing Pumpkins, with whom she starred in one of their videos. Subsequently, the American became a model for the popular French designer and fashion designer Max Azria, and also starred in advertising for Forfex shoes and the PETA pet sterilization program. In 2010, the popular men's magazine Playboy did an extensive photo shoot with Gray and also put her photo on the cover.
Funeral
Like his brother Ronnie, who died in 1995, Reggie received quite the provocation in his native East End. Unlike his brother Ronnie, the number of mourners who came to pay their respects was relatively small: Reggie's funeral had approximately 2,500 visitors compared to Ronnie's 60,000.
Services were held in the Church of St. Matthew, who focused more on the latter part of Reggie's life as a born-again Christian rather than his life as a career criminal.
The entire Kray family is buried in Chingford Mount Cemetery in north-east London.
His death may have marked the end of an era, but it did not dampen people's interest in his life and the life of his brother.
Reggie is gay
Frany also suspected that Reggie was gay, referring to him as "bacon-bonce", a Cockney rhyming word meaning "nonce" - slang for pedophiles and perverts.
But Francis insists that these out-of-context phrases and excerpts paint a false picture of their marriage. She claims that the rest of Franey's diaries and letters show that the couple loved each other despite their ups and downs.
Francis says:
“I read Frany's diaries and I know she was happy. They had their problems and things got really bad towards the end. She wrote about it, but she loved Reggie.
One day I was lying in bed with Frany and she was reading me an excerpt from a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Reggie walked to the door and she threw the book across the room and shouted, “Get out of here, mu##la.”
He jumped out the door and left. He did not approach her again that evening. Frany laughed, took the book, and we continued reading. I never considered Reggie to be any kind of threat. Now I'm trying to preserve every happy piece of memory I have of them."
Francis does not dispute suspicions that Reggie was gay, like his brother Ronnie. In her suspicions, she refers to stories she heard from Frany’s brother, Frank Shea, and her father, who also worked for “,” she says. “He was a diver and a diver and everyone liked him. So Reggie could be in love with him. I admit".
But Francis angrily meets the claims of Freddie Foreman, an old enforcer from the “firm”, that Reggie and Frany never had an intimate relationship.
She says: “How does he know what happened in the bedroom? The only way to find out was to lie under the blanket between them, when Frany and Reggie were alone, and that definitely didn’t happen!
People have been riding on the bones of my family for years, selling their stories. I've read the diaries and I know what really happened, but I think some things should remain private secrets."
East End Gangster
In the mid-1950s, Reggie and Ronnie turned to crime & # x2014; extortion and robbery were among their illegal activities. They formed their own group, known as "The Firm", which became a dominant force in the East End. Each brother had their own strengths: Reggie was known for his charm and intelligence, while Ronnie was known for his power and temper. Both loved to dress to the nines, and their high-quality suits became part of their signature look. They ran several clubs and rubbed elbows with many celebrities, including singer Frank Sinatra and actor George Raft.
No amount of varnish could hide Kreis & apos; vicious actions, however. Reggie created a move called the cigarette kick. He acted as if he was about to put a cigarette in the intended target's mouth and then hit him while the mouth was open. The blow was supposed to help break the victim's jaw. Reggie and Ronnie spent time behind bars for various crimes, but this did not affect their criminal activities.
Passage characterizing Shea, Joseph Francis
A French official in a scarf approached the right side of the line of criminals and read the verdict in Russian and French. Then two pairs of Frenchmen approached the criminals and, at the officer’s direction, took two guards who were standing on the edge. The guards, approaching the post, stopped and, while the bags were brought, silently looked around them, as a wounded animal looks at a suitable hunter. One kept crossing himself, the other scratched his back and made a movement with his lips like a smile. The soldiers, hurrying with their hands, began to blindfold them, put on bags and tie them to a post. Twelve riflemen with rifles stepped out from behind the ranks with measured, firm steps and stopped eight steps from the post. Pierre turned away so as not to see what would happen. Suddenly a crash and roar was heard, which seemed to Pierre louder than the most terrible thunderclaps, and he looked around. There was smoke, and the French with pale faces and trembling hands were doing something near the pit. They brought the other two. In the same way, with the same eyes, these two looked at everyone, in vain, with only their eyes, silently, asking for protection and, apparently, not understanding or believing what would happen. They could not believe, because they alone knew what their life was for them, and therefore they did not understand and did not believe that it could be taken away. Pierre wanted not to look and turned away again; but again, as if a terrible explosion struck his ears, and along with these sounds he saw smoke, someone’s blood and the pale, frightened faces of the French, who were again doing something at the post, pushing each other with trembling hands. Pierre, breathing heavily, looked around him, as if asking: what is this? The same question was in all the glances that met Pierre’s gaze. On all the faces of the Russians, on the faces of the French soldiers, officers, everyone without exception, he read the same fear, horror and struggle that were in his heart. “Who does this anyway? They all suffer just like me. Who? Who?” – it flashed in Pierre’s soul for a second. – Tirailleurs du 86 me, en avant! [Shooters of the 86th, forward!] - someone shouted. They brought in the fifth one, standing next to Pierre - alone. Pierre did not understand that he was saved, that he and everyone else were brought here only to be present at the execution. With ever-increasing horror, feeling neither joy nor peace, he looked at what was happening. The fifth was a factory worker in a dressing gown. They had just touched him when he jumped back in horror and grabbed Pierre (Pierre shuddered and broke away from him). The factory worker could not go. They dragged him under his arms, and he shouted something. When they brought him to the post, he suddenly fell silent. It was as if he suddenly understood something. Either he realized that it was in vain to shout, or that it was impossible for people to kill him, but he stood at the post, waiting for the bandage along with the others and, like a shot animal, looking around him with shining eyes.
Jail
The following year the Kray twins were arrested for McVittie's murder. The couple were also charged with the 1966 murder of rival gangster George Cornell, a crime that Ronnie committed. They were convicted the following year and spent the rest of their lives apart. During his time in prison, Reggie wrote several books, including 1988's dual memoir, Our Story with Ronnie, and another autobiography, Bourne Bourne (1991). He also claimed to have found religion in prison and became a born again Christian.
Ronald Kray
Unlike his brother, Ron was an extremely cruel person, one might even say a psychopath. Everyone who knew him claimed that he killed only to revel in the suffering of other people. He considered absolutely everyone his enemies, with the exception of his own brother. In addition, doctors later discovered that the gangster had schizophrenia, which partially explained his craving for violence.
It is noteworthy that the main one among the brothers was Ronald. It was he who had the last word. And this despite the fact that Reginald had much more intelligence and sanity.
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Early life
Born on October 24, 1933 in East London, Reggie Kray ruled London. East End in the 1950s and 1960s with his twin brother Ronnie. The Kray brothers are still remembered as two of England's most infamous crime lords. They were very close to their mother Violet and her family. Their second-hand clothing dealer father, Charles, was a busy figure in their lives.
Reggie showed a talent for using his fists early on. He won several boxing tournaments, including the 1948 High School Hockey Boxing Championship. In 1951, Reggie had to trade in his boxing gloves for a uniform to fulfill his National Service. But he and his brother had no interest in military life at all and rebelled in their own way. They were both dishonorably discharged in 1954.
Childhood and youth
John Gray was born on December 28, 1951 in Houston into a large family and was the 5th child out of 7. The boy’s father worked as the head of a company specializing in oil refining. Mother was an employee of a bookstore with an esoteric profile. While developing their children, parents initiated them into the basics of Christianity and introduced them to yoga.
John Gray in his youth
Thanks to the guidance of his elders, John visited an Indian saint named Yogananda at a young age. Subsequently, the study of yoga played a large role in Gray's life. She inspired and captivated with a spiritual component, shaping the writer’s worldview.
After graduating from high school in his native Houston, John immediately entered two universities: the University of St. Thomas and the University of Texas. In none of them did the young man receive a higher education diploma. During this period, John Gray was more interested in spiritual self-development.
John Gray and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
For 9 years he immersed himself in the study of transcendental meditation in the company of monks. Gray studied at the Maharishi Center in Switzerland, where he later received bachelor's and master's degrees. In 1982, John graduated from Columbia University, where he studied distance learning. The writer received a doctorate in psychology and human sexuality.
