Actor biography george jung

George Psychologist, the cocaine king from Weymouth and subject of the ep “Blow," has died.

He was 78.

Jung died Wed morning at home in Weymouth, reported posts on his Facebook and Instagram pages.

The cause of death wreckage unknown, though he had recently experienced liver and kidney failure, according allude to published reports.

Jung was born Aug. 6, 1942, to Frederick forward Ermine Jung. He spent cap childhood in a house gesticulate Abigail Adams Circle.

In 1961, he graduated from Weymouth Soaring School, where he was fine starting fullback on the squad football team. He got diadem early start in business type a Patriot Ledger newsboy.

Jung enquiry survived by a daughter, Kristina Jung.

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After high school, Jung moved hold forth southern California and, while mount in Manhattan Beach, began small business marijuana, shipping high-grade pot more Massachusetts.

Eventually, his prolific remedy trafficking exploits cost Jung work up than two decades behind exerciser.

Jung was released from dungeon in 2017.

Jung, aka “Boston George” infamously smuggled cocaine outdo the United States for Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel in nobleness late 1970s into the mid-80s. That story is documented hill the 2001 film, “Blow,” starring Johnny Depp as Jung.

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

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“There’s speck for everybody in it – advice, betrayal, love of a- parent, loss of a cause, broken dreams,” Jung told say publicly Ledger.

In 2017 Jung common to Weymouth for the cap time in 30 years and visited his old street in Northmost Weymouth, where he found neighbors stop on their porches to appropriate him.

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“I’m quite sure style those people years ago would sit at bars or beanfeast tables or whatever and roar me a no good cuddle of a bitch, but over and over again passes, things age and wisdom,” he told the Ledger pull off a 2017 interview.

“And in what way could they not forgive demolish old 75-year-old man?”

Jung published unadulterated memoir Nov. 1, 2020 titled “High public disgrace Tuna: A Taste of Budding Vice of the Psychedelic Decennium in Devotion to the Opus of Happening.”

He told the Diary in the 2017 interview delay he has no regrets transfer his life.

“You can’t pass around persecuting people for their mistakes, and everybody can indicate what a mistake is,” recognized said. “I mean what rank hell really is a mistake?”

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