DEAD! BLOW Boston George Jung, Notorious Cocaine Smuggler, Johnny Depp

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

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