joseph p.kennedy bought it in the 30s I think he paid 9 million dollars for it, as it is a city block long, the family recently sold it for over 6oo million, it provided the kennedys 12 million a year in revenues. I strongly suspect he had to pay the outfit protection money, it was too big a money-maker to go unnoticed by the outfit, toodoped could put it all together for you, antsamuel.