But of those five, Tropicana alone was owned and operated by its Cuban owner. Sans Souci was nominally run by an American named Norman Rothman; however all signs indicate that it was under the general control of Santo Trafficante Jr., whose family ran the numbers game in Tampa. Montmartre was soon under the control of Trafficante’s chief Havana rivals, Jake and Meyer Lansky. Tropicana, on the other hand, was wholly owned by Cubans: the property belonged to Guillermina Perez Chaumont; the cabaret concession was owned and operated by Victor de Correa; and the casino belonged to Martín Fox and
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