George Jung

George Jung is one of those figures where the story is so wild it almost doesn't need Hollywood — yet Johnny Depp still played him in Blow (2001), which tells you something. Born in working-class Boston, Jung managed to bootstrap himself from small-time marijuana smuggling in the late 1960s all the way up to being a cornerstone of the Medellín Cartel's cocaine pipeline into the United States during the 1970s. At his peak he was reportedly moving something like 85% of the coke entering the country. The tragedy is how completely it all fell apart — prison, lost relationships, decades wasted — and I think what makes him genuinely compelling rather than just another cautionary tale is that he seemed to understand exactly where he went wrong and said so openly. He passed away in May 2021, and honestly, the old Boston George had more self-awareness in his later years than most people twice as legitimate.

Name (English)

George Jung

Name (Japanese)

ジョージ・ユング

Reading

じょーじ・ゆんぐ

Born

August 6, 1942 – May 5, 2021

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Horse

Origin

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

drug trafficker

High school

Weymouth High School

University

University of Southern Mississippi

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.georgejung.com
• Wikipedia (Japanese)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

Tags

• Massachusetts
• drug trafficker

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.