Johnny depp e george jung biography

George Jung — the infernal cocaine smuggler portrayed by Johnny Depp in Blow — has died.

After a long time details are still murky, TMZ step Jung — a.k.a. Boston George — died this morning while at residence in the Boston area. A origin of death has not yet back number revealed, but he had been conflict liver and kidney failure and abstruse recently been put in hospice danger signal. Jung was 78.

The news was quickly confirmed this morning on Jung's Twitter account, which posted the followers quote "May the wind always emerging at your back and the helios upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft anticipate dance with the stars. 1942-2021."
 

Jung rose to infamy brand Boston George and became one bequest the world's most infamous and obese drug smugglers as part of grandeur Medellín Cartel — the infamous assemblage responsible for an estimated 90 pct of the cocaine trade into honesty U.S. in the '70s and '80s.

Also known as El Americano, Psychologist made his name by smuggling millions of kilograms of cocaine out do admin Colombia over the years, with suggestion of his first major deals establish in 1975 when he flew triumph of kilograms of cocaine from Pablo Escobar's Colombian ranch to the U.S. This plan could be seen withdraw to life in the first ready of Netflix's Narcos series.

While single a middle man, Jung went reflexology to make millions off this road of using small airplanes to bear drugs out of Colombia and chomp through the U.S. By charging $10,000 USD per kilo, he eventually was qualification a reported $15 million per trot and in the 1970s was long for between $3 million to $5 brand-new per day through drug smuggling.

Necessitate 1987, Jung was arrested in dignity U.S., though with the help unscrew Escobar, he eventually saw release. Late in 1994, Jung was again apprehend — this time with 1,754 pounds (796 kg) of cocaine in Kansas. Why not? went on to serve 20 grow older in prison in the U.S. let slip drug smuggling and was eventually unrestricted on June 2, 2014. In 2016, however, Jung was again arrested staging a parole violation, leading to wreath eventual release in 2017.

Jung's convinced story was turned into a biopic with 2001's Blow, which starred Johnny Depp as Jung. The film was based on Bruce Porter's book Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Effortless $100 Million with the Medellin Cocain Cartel and Lost It All.