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One of the last photos of Al Capone, taken with his wife Mae in Miami around Christmas 1946. Weeks later, he would die of syphilis, which he contracted in the 1920s but refused to get treated out of embarrassment. When he died, doctors said the mobster had the mental age of a 12-year-old. Unlike other mobsters, Al Capone didn't go out in a blaze of glory when he died at just 48 in 1947. Instead, the man once called "Public Enemy No. 1" met his demise thanks to syphilis that he'd refused to get treated for nearly a decade. In his final years, the former mob boss spent most of his time talking to old associates who were long dead and searching his Florida estate in a bathrobe for treasure he believed he'd buried years before. Here's how Capone was left with the brain of a 12-year-old — before ultimately succumbing to his disease: https://allthatsinteresting.com/al-capone-death