Duchamp’s trip to Las Vegas and the Stardust Hotel and Casino, then owned (on paper) by the wife of mob front man John “Jake the Barber” Factor, was facilitated b L.A. art collector, menswear entrepreneur, and nephew of “Jake the Barber”, M…The store was a full-service men’s haberdashery with a barbershop and bookie upstairs. Among his clients were many movie stars and gangsters, his family said, including the Marx brothers and Mickey Cohen. [^11]
The Factor’s support of L.A.…
Mickey Cohen
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Mickey Cohen appears here as a passing reference—a Los Angeles mobster and client of Monte Factor's men's haberdashery in the mid-twentieth century. His presence in the readings situates the entanglement of organized crime, celebrity culture, and the LA art world during the period when Duchamp visited Las Vegas, suggesting that the financial and social infrastructure supporting avant-garde art patronage was inseparable from criminal networks. The citation establishes that Factor's barbershop functioned as a nexus where movie stars and gangsters intersected, underscoring how art-world money flows weren't neatly separated from underworld capital.
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