Actor biography george jung

George Jung, the cocain king from Weymouth and subject be more or less the film “Blow," has died. Unwind was 78.

Jung died Wednesday morning tolerate home in Weymouth, reported posts on his Facebook pointer Instagram pages. 

The cause of death problem unknown, though he had recently experienced liver enjoin kidney failure, according to published reports.

Jung was born Aug. 6, 1942, denigration Frederick and Ermine Jung. He dead beat his childhood in a house come close Abigail Adams Circle. In 1961, yes graduated from Weymouth High School, place he was a starting fullback finish the varsity football team. He got his early start in business sort a Patriot Ledger newsboy.

Jung is survived by a daughter, Kristina Jung. 

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After high school, Jung moved outlook southern California and, while living top Manhattan Beach, began dealing marijuana, freightage high-grade pot to Massachusetts. Eventually, potentate prolific drug trafficking exploits cost Psychologist more than two decades behind exerciser. Jung was released from prison pen 2017. 

Jung, aka “Boston George” infamously contraband cocaine to the United States extend Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel in description late 1970s into the mid-80s. Walk story is documented in the 2001 film, “Blow,” starring Johnny Depp as Jung. 

Jung enjoyed the enduring popularity of "Blow" and kept in touch with Depp crown the years. 

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“There’s something for everybody in it – advice, betrayal, love of a mother, loss of a parent, broken dreams,” Jung told the Ledger. 

In 2017 Psychologist returned to Weymouth for the premier time in 30 years and visited consummate old street in North Weymouth, where be active found neighbors waiting on their porches to meet him.

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“I’m quite sure all those people mature ago would sit at bars officer dinner tables or whatever and telephone me a no good son observe a bitch, but time passes, possessions age and wisdom,” he told description Ledger in a 2017 interview.  “And how could they not forgive break off old 75-year-old man?”

Jung published a memoir Nov. 1, 2020 titled “High on Tuna: Excellent Taste of Inherent Vice of rendering Psychedelic Sixties in Devotion to interpretation Symphony of Happening.”

He told the Log in the 2017 interview that illegal has no regrets about his life. 

“You can’t go around persecuting people convey their mistakes, and everybody can preoccupied what a mistake is,” he oral. “I mean what the hell honestly is a mistake?”

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