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Frank Lucas, the drug kingpin who inspired ‘American Gangster, is dead
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.
Frank lucus biography
He rose to the top of the New York drug world in the late 1960s. Lucas said he was mentored by Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, the legendary Harlem gambling boss.
In order to break the Mafia’s stranglehold on heroin sales in Harlem, Lucas developed a direct pipeline from the so-called Golden Triangle area of southeast Asia.
In this way, Lucas could acquire large amounts of heroin much more cheaply than buying it from Mafia sources.
In his heyday in the early 1970s, when he was earning $1 million per day from selling his “Blue Magic” heroin, Lucas spent his profits freely, investing in real estate around the coun