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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.
Dec 5, 2021 · Though the 2007 movie is supposedly “based on a true story” — starring Denzel Washington as Frank Lucas — many in Lucas’s orbit have said that the film is largely fabricated. But piecing together the truth of his life and his many misdeeds is a daunting task.
May 31, 2019 · Frank Lucas Dies at 88; Drug Kingpin Depicted in ‘American Gangster’. Frank Lucas, who became one of America’s most notorious gangsters in the 1960s and ’70s when he began selling a potent ...
Jun 3, 2019 · Revisiting New York’s August 2000 profile of Frank Lucas, once the city’s biggest heroin kingpin, who died on May 30th, 2019.
Jul 29, 2023 · American Gangster Frank Lucas 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...
Jun 1, 2019 · NEW YORK (AP) — Frank Lucas, the former Harlem drug kingpin whose life and lore inspired the 2007 movie “American Gangster,” has died, a relative said Friday. Lucas, who was 88, died Thursday in New Jersey, nephew Aldwan Lassiter said.
Jun 1, 2019 · 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...
May 31, 2019 · Frank Lucas, the Harlem drug kingpin immortalized in Ridley Scott’s 2007 crime film American Gangster, died Thursday at the age of 88.
Jun 1, 2019 · Frank Lucas, the former Harlem drug kingpin whose life and lore inspired the 2007 movie "American Gangster," has died, a relative said Friday. Lucas, who was 88, died Thursday in New Jersey ...
Jun 1, 2019 · Frank Lucas, the infamous drug kingpin whose life of crime inspired the movie “American Gangster,” died Thursday at the age of 88, according to his nephew, Aldwan Lassiter.
