# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-jung
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:33:22.200Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-jung"
name: "George Jung"
slug: "george-jung"
description: "George Jacob Jung, nicknamed Boston George and El Americano, was an American drug trafficker and smuggler. He was a major figure in the United States cocaine trade during the 1970s and early '80s. Jung and his partner Carlos Lehder smuggled cocaine into the United States for the Colombian Medellín Cartel. Jung was sentenced to 60 years in prison in 1994 on conspiracy charges, but was released in 2014. Jung was portrayed by Johnny Depp in the biopic Blow (2001)."
tagline: "Major player in the cocaine trade in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jung-02.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1942-08-06"
deathDate: "2021-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           59.23
  momentum:             7.154355510777406
  historical:           20.238776
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.georgejung.com"
sources:
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    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جورج جونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جورج جونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джордж Юнг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung"
    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung"
    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung"
    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung"
    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung"
    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung"
    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung"
    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%92'_%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%92_(%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%97%D7%A8_%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9D)"
    title: "ג'ורג' יאנג (סוחר סמים)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung"
    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0"
    title: "ジョージ・ユング"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung"
    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung"
    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung"
    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung"
    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1"
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    title: "George Jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung"
    title: "George Jung"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung"
    title: "George Jung"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q354047"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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