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Dec 5, 2021 · Published December 5, 2021. Updated March 12, 2024. The Harlem kingpin who inspired "American Gangster," Frank Lucas began importing and distributing "Blue Magic" heroin in the late 1960s — and made a fortune. It’s no wonder why Ridley Scott made American Gangster, a movie based on the life of Harlem heroin kingpin Frank “Superfly” Lucas.
- Kellen Perry
Frank Lucas (September 9, 1930 – May 30, 2019) was an American drug lord who operated in Harlem, New York City, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia. Lucas boasted that he smuggled heroin using the ...
Apr 3, 2014 · Frank Lucas learned well from Johnson, but took his teachings to a whole new level, developing one of the most lucrative crime organizations of the 20th century. Johnson died in 1968, leaving the ...
Jun 18, 2013 · Frank denies ever putting a hit out on Richie (HOT 97 FM). The hit is eluded to near the end of the movie when Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) tells Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe), "I got no problem with you showin' up in court tomorrow with your head blown in half."
Jun 1, 2019 · Frank Lucas, the brash New York drug kingpin whose life was depicted in the popular movie American Gangster, died Thursday, May 30, in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. He was 88. Born and raised in rural North Carolina, Lucas moved to New York as a teenager, and became involved in an array of street crime. He rose to the top of the New York drug world ...
Mar 17, 2024 · An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film. Release Date. November 2, 2007. Director. Ridley ...
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Frank Lucas, the notorious Harlem drug lord whose life inspired the 2007 film American Gangster, has died. Born in North Carolina in 1930, he moved to New York where he became a prolific heroin ...
