Frankie Lucas

Quick Facts

Full Name	Frankie Lucas
Occupation	Boxer
Date Of Birth	Sep 9, 1930(1930-09-09)
Age	94
Date Of Death	May 30, 2019, Cedar Grove, NJ
Birthplace	La Grange
Country	United States
Birth City	Tennessee
Horoscope	Virgo

Frankie Lucas Biography

Frankie Lucas is one of the most popular and richest Boxer who was born on September 9, 1930 in La Grange, Tennessee, United States.

Frank Lucas (September 9, 1930 – May 30, 2019) was an American drug trafficker who operated in Harlem 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. Lucas boasted that he smuggled heroin using the coffins of dead American servicemen, but this claim is denied by his Southeast Asian associate, Leslie “Ike” Atkinson. Rather than hide the drugs in the coffins, they were hidden in the pallets underneath, as depicted in the feature film American Gangster (2007) in which he was played by Denzel Washington, although the film fictionalized elements of Lucas’ life for dramatic effect. In 1976, Lucas was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 70 years in prison; however, after becoming an informant, his sentence was reduced to five years. He was convicted of the same offense in 1984, and sentenced to seven years in prison. He died in 2019.

Many of Lucas’ other claims, as presented in the film, have also been called into question, such as his being the right-hand man of Bumpy Johnson, rising above the power of the Mafia and Nicky Barnes, and being the mastermind behind the Golden Triangle heroin connection of the 1970s. Ron Chepesiuk, a Lucas biographer, said there was no evidence to confirm Lucas’ claim that he once (in 2008, and not frequently, as some sources had suggested) used coffins to ship heroin. Associated Press entertainment writer Frank Coyle noted, “[T]his mess happened partially because journalists have been relying on secondary sources removed from the actual events.”

Frankie Lucas Net Worth

Frankie Lucas is one of the richest Boxer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Frankie Lucas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lucas was born in La Grange, North Carolina, and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was the son of Mahalee (née Jones; 1909-2003) and Fred Lucas. He said that the incident that sparked his motivation to embark on a life of crime was having witnessed his 12-year-old cousin’s murder at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, for apparently “reckless eyeballing” (looking at) a Caucasian woman, in Greensboro. He drifted through a life of petty crime until one particular occasion when, after a fight with a former employer, he fled to New York City on the advice of his mother. In Harlem, he indulged in petty crime and pool hustling before he was taken under the wing of gangster Bumpy Johnson. Lucas’ connection to Johnson has since come under some doubt; he claimed to have been Johnson’s driver for 15 years, although Johnson spent just five years out of prison before his death in 1968. According to Johnson’s widow, much of the narrative that Lucas claimed as his actually belonged to another young hustler named Zach Walker, who lived with Johnson and his family and later betrayed him.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Frankie Lucas Dating?

According to our records, Frankie Lucas married to Julianna Farrait. As of December 1, 2023, Frankie Lucas’s is not dating anyone.

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Farrait was also jailed for her role in her husband’s criminal enterprise, and spent five years in prison. After she was released, the couple lived separately for some years, and Farrait moved back to Puerto Rico. However, they reconciled in 2006 and were married for more than 40 years.

Facts & Trivia

Garry Ranked on the list of most popular Boxer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Frankie Lucas celebrates birthday on September 9 of every year.

Farrait was arrested again in May 2010, and sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to sell two kilograms of cocaine to a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant at a hotel in Puerto Rico.

Is Frank Lucas still alive?

May 30, 2019

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Where is Frank Lucas wife now?

Sadly, neither Frank nor Julie Lucas had much time left. Frank Lucas died in 2019. And though much not is known about Julie Lucas’s death, the New York Times reported in his obituary that she died before him.

Are Frank Lucas and Richie Roberts friends?

Make no mistake about it, Richard Roberts knows his dear friend Frank Lucas , one of America’s most notorious drug lords, did things that ruined families and ravaged communities.

How much is Frank Lucas worth today?

Lucas has been quoted as saying that his worth was “something like $52 million “, most of it in Cayman Islands banks.