# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/freeway-rick-ross
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:41:56.117Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/freeway-rick-ross"
name: "\"Freeway\" Rick Ross"
slug: "freeway-rick-ross"
description: "Ricky Donnell \"Freeway Ricky\" Ross is an American author and former drug lord best known for the drug empire he established in Los Angeles, California, in the early to mid 1980s. He was sentenced to life in prison, though the sentence was shortened on appeal and Ross was released in 2009."
tagline: "American former drug trafficker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Freeway_Ricky_2025.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1960-01-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.15
  momentum:             6.897975764721545
  historical:           6.130146666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/FreewayRicky"
    handle:    "FreewayRicky"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2660743/"
    handle:    "nm2660743"
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Donnell_Ross"
    title: "Ricky Donnell Ross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeway_Ricky_Ross"
    title: "Freeway Ricky Ross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Donnell_Ross"
    title: "Ricky Donnell Ross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/51bb6562-18b9-45bb-969f-8cdfd63f34d7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Ross"
    title: "Ricky Ross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeway_Ricky_Ross"
    title: "Freeway Ricky Ross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q606032"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump