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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. Lucas ruled the heroin trade in Harlem in the early 1970s by working around the Mafia. Tap the link in our bio to learn more.

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