Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas, played by Denzel Washington in “American Gangster,” dead at age 88

Legendary Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas, whose reign atop one of the country’s most lucrative heroin empires became fodder for the hit 2007 film “American Gangster,” died of natural causes in New Jersey.

The 88-year-old Lucas passed away Thursday, according to a relative’s Instagram post. Lucas,...

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