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Mar 13, 2024 · White Boy Rick is a movie based on the unbelievable true story of Richard Wershe Jr. who, at age 14, became the youngest FBI informant ever. His story, from helping his father run illegal gun rings to becoming one of the biggest dealers in Detroit, is one almost too outrageous,and too unfair to be believed.
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Yes, the true story confirms that they separated when Wershe was around six. His mom, Darlene, left Detroit's East Side and moved to the suburbs. She eventually remarried. Wershe and his sister Dawn remained with their father, Richard Wershe Sr. (Matthew McConaughey in the movie) in the small brick house on Hampshire Street at Dickerson Avenue, sev...
Yes. Portrayed by Bruce Dern and Piper Laurie in the White Boy Rick movie, Roman and Verna Wershe did live across the street. They were relics of a time when Detroit was booming. Both had worked for Chrysler for four decades. It was one reason why Wershe Sr. didn't want to leave the crack-ridden neighborhood. -The Atavist Magazine
Yes. Like Matthew McConaughey's character in the movie, Richard Wershe Sr. was a tall, wiry man who came up with different ways to make money, including selling surplus electronics, sporting goods, satellite-TV equipment, and devices to pirate cable TV. This is in addition to trying to get his numerous inventions off the ground. He also bought and ...
This happened when Wershe was 14, well before he could drive legally. Wershe had driven his grandmother's car to a gas station, and his sister Dawn drove another car. He left his keys in the ignition and went in to buy a soda. A carjacker with a gun in his hand jumped into Wershe's car. Dawn blared her horn to alert Wershe, who came out of the stor...
Yes. Fact-checking the White Boy Rick movie confirmed that he had dropped out of high school by the spring of 1985, prior to his sixteenth birthday. -The Atavist Magazine
When he was no more than 14, Richard Wershe Jr. was becoming familiar with the major players in the Detroit drug world, especially in his neighborhood. As described above, this included "the cocaine king" Johnny 'Lil Man' Curry (portrayed by Jonathan Majors in the movie). In the spring of 1984, FBI agents knocked on the Wershes' door, intending to ...
Yes. A member of Johnny Curry's crew shot Wershe in the stomach with a .357 when Wershe was 15. The guy who pulled the trigger was an acquaintance and swore that it was an accident, but Wershe wasn't completely convinced, especially since Curry had likely caught wind that he was an informant. The bullet tore through his large intestine. The guy's g...
No, at least not according to Rick's real-life sister, Dawn. "[The film] said that my dad couldn't handle us kids and that he had Rick sell drugs because he couldn't cut the mustard to pay the bills, and that's the farthest thing, farthest thing from the truth." Dawn says that when her dad discovered Rick had $50,000 in drug money, he wanted Rick o...
With local drug lord Johnny Curry behind bars, it is believed that Wershe, then 17, was bringing in about $30,000 a month. He moved tens of kilos. It was a significant amount, but it wasn't the hundreds of kilos that Detroit's drug kingpins were moving at the time. Wershe's days as a major drug dealer lasted only about a year before he was arrested...
No. The real White Boy Rick did conspire with major players in the local Detroit drug trade. Most were black and at least a decade older than him. "I became addicted to the lifestyle," says the real Richard Wershe Jr. "I became addicted to the money. I became addicted to the women. I became addicted to that life." However, he wasn't a drug kingpin ...
Jul 13, 2024 · To put a 14-year-old boy’s life at risk wasn’t exactly FBI protocol but “White Boy Rick” – as Wershe then began to call himself – was too useful to let go. According to FBI Agent John Anthony , at that time, White Boy Rick was the single most productive informant the FBI had in Detroit.
Jun 1, 2018 · Seth Ferranti was serving his own prison sentence when he started speaking with Richard Wershe, the notorious babyfaced drug dealer known as White Boy Rick, through an interprison mailing...
Richard Wershe Jr. (born July 18, 1969), [2] known as "White Boy Rick", is an American former drug trafficker and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant. The youngest known informant in the history of the FBI, Wershe became a confidential informant when he was 14 to 16 years old.
Jul 29, 2022 · Netflix. As was shown in the movie, "White Boy Rick," numerous attempts were made on his life. In November 1984, when he was only 15-years-old, Wershe Jr. was called to a house for a drug...
Matthew McConaughey’s film “White Boy Rick” was based on the true story of Richard Wershe Jr., who, at 14 years of age, became the youngest FBI informant ever.
