I had dinner one night with Ruby's attorney Melvin Belli when Ruby was still alive. Belli said Ruby had some sort of a rapidly progressing brain disorder ( maybe the cancer he later died from had metasticized into his brain ) and he said that Ruby was a mess mentally. I wasn't sure whether Belli was believeable since his defense of Ruby was based on him being whacko. When I met Belli he had a writer traveling with him who was doing a story for Playboy on Belli. The writer was Alex Haley who was in the process of completing " Roots". Haley had a great story about how he had talked his way into the head of the American Nazi partys headquarters to interview George Lincoln Rockwell because he didn't tell him in advance that he was Black. Haley was an interesting guy ...Belli not so much although he did have a blonde bimbo with him that he introduced as his secretary and who later became his fifth wife in a Shinto ceremony in San Francicsco.