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Jun 13, 2022 · Director: Clint Choate Producers: Georgette Angelos, Chris Chesson Featuring: George Jung, Johnny Depp, Bruce Porter, Ronda Clay Spinello, Waino “Tuna” Tuominen, Tom Tinnerington, Mike...
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- Fandor
Jun 8, 2022 · June 8, 2022 8:40am. EXCLUSIVE: Long-in-the-works docuseries Boston George, about drug trafficker and smuggler George Jacob Jung, is set to premiere on streaming service Fandor on July 22....
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Boston George Famous Without the Fortune: With George Jung, Johnny Depp, Bruce Porter, Ronda Clay Spinello. Follows the infamous drug trafficker George Jung.
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- George Jung, Johnny Depp, Bruce Porter
Jul 21, 2022 · George Jung, the drug smuggler immortalized by Johnny Depp in “Blow,” left Weymouth for California in the late ’60s with pennies in his pocket, two cases of Budweiser in the backseat and...
- How ‘Boston George’ Jung Got in The Game
- A Life-Changing Meeting in Prison
- George Jung Partners with Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Empire
- The Operation Unravels
- What Happened to George Jung?
George Jung was born on August 6, 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts. The young Jung was known to be a talented football player, although, in his own words, he was a “screw up” when it came to academics. After spending some time at college and discovering marijuana — the drug that defined the 1960s counterculture — Jung moved to Manhattan Beach, Califo...
But it wouldn’t last. In 1974, George Jung got busted with 660 pounds of marijuana in Chicago after the man he was supposed to meet was arrested for heroin possession and ratted him out. “We’re sorry,” the feds told him. “We really don’t want to bust pot people but this is tied into a heroin operation…” But as it turned out, landing in prison would...
To the Colombians, George Jung was“El Americano” and he brought them something they never had before: an aircraft. Previously, cocaine could only be brought in suitcases or body packing, a far less efficient method with a higher likelihood of being caught. But Jung arranged for a pilot to fly to the Bahamas to pick up shipments of cocaine and trans...
By 1987, George Jung was sitting on $100 million and paying minimal taxes thanks to an offshore account in Panama. He lived in a lavish mansion in Massachusetts, attended celebrity shindigs, and “had the most beautiful women.” “Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star,” he recalled. “I was a coke star.” But the glamour wasn’t t...
After testifying, George Jung was released. However, he simply couldn’t stay away from the thrill of the drug business and took a smuggling job with an old friend. Unfortunately, that friend was working with the DEA. Jung was busted again in 1995 and went to prison in 1997. Soon enough, he was approached by a Hollywood director to produce a movie a...
Jung and his partner Carlos Lehder smuggled cocaine into the United States for the Colombian Medellín Cartel. Jung was sentenced to 60 years in prison in 1994 on conspiracy charges, but was released in 2014. Jung was portrayed by Johnny Depp in the biopic Blow (2001).
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May 6, 2021 · May 6, 2021. ... George Jung, the Massachusetts native who was a key figure in the U.S. cocaine trade throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and who was depicted by Johnny Depp in the 2001 film “...
