Margaret "Margo" Mansergh was born on September 3, 1927 in Blackpool, England. Marsergh began her career as a model in London before moving into dancing, modeling, and eventually as a showgirl in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mansergh was part of a touring company of the Lido de Paris and in the 1960s she began work as a dancer in Frederic Apcar's Vive Le Girls lounge show at the Dunes Hotel.

At the time of this oral history, Meyer Lansky II had found a sentimental attachment to his namesake, Meyer Lansky, his grandfather. Though it was considered against Eastern European Jewish tradition, Meyer II’s parents had named him after the grandfather.

In pop culture, Emmanuel Ortega is recognized as Babelito from Latinos Who Lunch, a podcast that he co-hosts with Justin Favela AKA FavyFav. Academically, he is known as Dr. Ortega, PhD, Marilynn Thomas Scholar in Art of the Spanish Americas at University of Illinois Chicago.