Drug Kingpin Frank Lucas, Depicted in ‘American Gangster,’ Dead at 88
Frank Lucas, one of America's most infamous drug kingpins, died Thursday night ...
TMZ has confirmed. Frank, famously played by Denzel Washington in the 2007 movie "American Gangster," died in New Jersey, according to his brother.
We're told Frank was being transported to a hospital for an unknown health issue and died on the way.
Lucas rose to power dealing heroin in Harlem in the 1960s and '70s, and he boasted of cutting out middlemen by
