may 5, 2021 - GEORGE JUNG R. I.P.
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George Jung, the drug trafficker known as El Americano who inspired Johnny Depp's film Blow and helped Pablo Escobar smuggle planeloads of cocaine into the United States, has died aged 78.The notorious cocaine smuggler died at his home in Boston on Wednesday morning where he was receiving hospice care.
His cause of death was not immediately known but he had recently been battling liver and kidney failure, sources told TMZ.
Jung, who was often referred to as El Americano and 'Boston George' because of where he was from, died with his girlfriend Ronda and friend Roger by his side.
He was a notorious drug smuggler who worked with Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel to traffic cocaine into the United States.
Jung, who ended up spending more than 20 years of his life in prison, was responsible for more than 85 percent of the cocaine smuggled into America in the 1970s and 1980s.
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