Growing up as the daughter of Jewish mob boss Meyer Lansky seemed to be glitz and glamour for Sandra Lansky.

Sandra was a wild child of the late 50s and 60s who was raised with a privileged life in upper class Jewish splendor in New York City. She was silent on many of her father's secrets until now.

Sandra, who resides in Plantation, has broken her 50-year-silence with a tell-all memoir, "Daughter of the King: Growing Up in Gangland," where she recounts her life as a Mafia princess and of organized crime's purported influence at the highest reaches of government and world affairs. She co-wrote this book with author William Stadiem and they will both share its highlights on March 30 at 2 p.m. at the Jewish Museum of Florida-Florida International University, 301 Washington Ave. in Miami Beach, during a free event organized by FIU's Jewish Studies Initiatives.

"Originally my husband and I wanted to write a book about my dad but nobody was interested and Nick Pileggi, [who wrote the book's foreward] thought it would be better if I wrote a book about myself," Sandra said.

Through writing a book about herself, Sandra was able to also write about her father, whom she adores and misses. Book highlights include her drug addiction and its impact on her family, her troubled relationships with famous men, including Dean Martin who she dated at age 16, Meyer's role in creating Las Vegas as we know it today through his gambling empire, and his plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Meyer moved to Miami Beach in the late 1940's and died there in 1983. Stadiem said that Sandra wanted to share a very unique perspective.

"She wanted to set the record straight about all the good things that her father did for not only her and the family but for Israel, for America, for his patriotism — things that you would never think of somebody who was considered a gangster," Stadiem said.

Sandra considered her father a "Zionist" as Meyer once enlisted the help of the Kansas City underworld to use their connections to the White House to persuade President Harry Truman to support the creation of the State of Israel. Sandra also said that her father was summoned by Rabbi Stephen Wise for a meeting to break up the Nazi Bund meetings and that he loved America. Stadiem added that Meyer saved America in World War II because the Nazis were not only having Bund meetings in various parts of the country, but also beating up people.

"He organized the people to stop these Nazi rallies and stuff," Stadiem added. "It was a terrible thing and the police weren't strong enough to do it and Meyer Lansky was and because he had a deep love of who he was a Jew."

Stadiem added, "He also loved Israel and he provided the arms that led to Israel's ability to gain its independence."

Meyer Lansky II, Sandra's nephew who resides in Miami Beach, said some of the book's highlights were unexpected.

"I didn't expect the things in her early life in New York and some of the people she dated, including Dean Martin, were a surprise and to me," he said. "As her nephew, this book was interesting," he said.

For more information on the upcoming book event, contact the Jewish Museum at 786-972-3175 or info@jewishmuseum.com.