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According to the American Gangster true story, it was Frank's wife, Julie Lucas, who bought him the fur coat, which he at first thought was her new coat (BET, American Gangster). Bumpy had never been out of prison for fifteen years. Quinones, points out in her book Harlem Godfather that Bumpy was released from prison in 1963 and died in 1968, leaving only a possible window of five years that Frank Lucas could have been Bumpy's driver. Former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Karen E. In an interview, Bumpy's widow, Mayme Johnson, said, 'Bumpy never had nobody drive him for 15 years.' She admitted that Frank may have driven her husband a few times, but she said that her husband never saw Frank as anything more than someone he might have allowed to carry his coat.

#AMERICAN GANGSTER GAMES MOVIE#

In the movie American Gangster, Denzel Washington's Frank Lucas states that he had been Bumpy Johnson's driver for 15 years. Was Frank really Bumpy Johnson's driver for 15 years? All of his talk is lies.' -Philadelphia Daily News

'I don't want to see it because it's not true,' she said in a 2007 interview. Mayme Johnson does not plan to see the movie American Gangster. She said that Bumpy passed away in the arms of his childhood friend, Junie Byrd. Bumpy's widow, Mayme Johnson, also stated that Bumpy's heart attack occurred while he was dining at Wells Restaurant, but she said that he was not with Frank Lucas.

The real Frank Lucas said that he and Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson were at Wells Restaurant when 'Bumpy just started shaking and fell over' ( New York Magazine).

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