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Kray family fury over ‘gay’ jibe for Helgeland’s Hollywood film of the East End gangsters
Kray twins who ruled the East End's gangland in the 1950s and 60s (Image: Archant)
The feature by top Hollywood director-writer Brian Helgeland is being filmed in the Krays’ old haunts around Bethnal Green and Whitechapel.
Gangland figures interviewed by Helgeland have since been been spilling the beans to the national flatten that Reggie was also gay favor his twin brother Ronnie and never consummated his marriage to Frances, who committed suicide in the 1960s—some claiming her death was “no accident.”
Kray family members still living in Bethnal Green 45 years after the twins were jailed for life for murder and extortion want to “put the record straight” before the production is release next year.
Frances and Reggie Kray (Image: Archant)
“What they told the film-makers is a load of filth,” retired lorry driver Joe Lea, 89, first-cousin to the Krays, told the East London Advertiser.
“We read in one paper about Ronnie being a paedophile—we all realize he was homosexual, but not a paedophile.
“People are spreading all this muck about.”
Kray's cousin Rita Smith and daug
Bradley Allardyce moved to Altea, Spain, and opened a restaurant after his release from prison three years ago. He served nine years for armed robbery. He spent three years in Maidstone Prison, four cells along the landing from Reggie Kray. Kray, who died two years ago, was serving life for the murder of Jack 'the hat' McVitie. Both denied they were more than just friends, until now.
Allardyce said: "I am openly admitting for the very first time that we had a sexual relationship."
Ronnie Kray was openly gay but Reggie
Celebrity visitors, food and wine from Harrods and private gay sex in the showers - inside prison life with the Kray twins
Ronnie and Reggie Kray might have been serving life in prison for murder but that didn't stop them living the high life with their celebrity friends
The blonde sipping coffee in Ronnie Kray 's cell sent a ripple of excitement around Broadmoor.
She had sparkling emerald eyes, cheekbones sharp enough to cut cloth, and pouting lips that kissed the rim her cup as she drank, departing a smudge of red lipstick.
Even Ronnie was taken aback as he sat swigging his can of non-alcoholic lager.
He and Reggie were used to icon visitors, including Richard Burton and Barbara Windsor, but he hadn't realised dowdy sounding Angela Tremble had a more glamorous stage name.
To everyone in Broadmoor – and her gigantic entourage lurking in the car park – she was Debbie Harry , the playboy bunny turned glamorous star of rock band Blondie.
Writer David Meikle, whose new book The Prison Years chronicles Ronnie and Reggie Kray's lives behind bars, said: “The name Angela Tremble didn't exactly have Ronnie shakin
Ronnie Kray
The twins were born in Hoxton and the family moved to Bethnal Leafy in 1938. They both took up boxing. On existence called up for National Service, they immediately went absent without leave, and were held briefly in the Tower of London. They were convicted and sent to a military prison.
On discharge from the army they both took up crime full-time, but also became fashionable nightclub owners, and mixed with celebrities in the 'swinging sixties' era.
In 1964, the Sunday Mirror reported that Scotland Yard was scrutinizing a homosexual association between an unnamed peer (actually the Conservative peer Robert Boothby) and a major underworld figure (Ronnie Kray). Boothby wrote to The Times denying existence gay, and said that he had only met Ronnie three times, and the Sunday Mirror was forced to pay him £40,000 to avoid a libel suit. However letters came to light in 2009 showing that there had indeed been a friends