Capone's three granddaughters will also auction a letter he wrote to their father and his only child, Albert “Sonny” Capone, from Alcatraz, where the mobster served an 11-year sentence following his 1934 tax evasion conviction. In the letter written in pencil, Al Capone refers to Sonny as “son of my heart.”
The auction event will be held on October 8 in Sacramento and will be hosted live. The total inventory value of the 174 items that would be auctioned is stated to be up to $715,000.