Frank Lucas, seen here in a photo taken in 2007, was a Harlem drug kingpin whose life became the basis for the 2007 movie American Gangster starring Denzel Washington. It destroyed lives, and it turned a gangster named Frank Lucas into one of America’s most notorious drug kingpins. Even so, the story of Frank Lucas, who died on Thursday night in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, at 88, is a larger-than-life tale of ambition, organisation and ruthless brutality. Bam!” he told Mark Jacobson for a 2000 New York magazine profile that was a basis for American Gangster. Ron Chepesiuk, the author of the book Superfly: The True Untold Story of Frank Lucas, the American Gangster (2007), contended in a 2008 article in the online journal New Criminologist that Atkinson, not Lucas, had made the connection.

Source: Bangkok Post June 01, 2019 03:43 UTC