Then living in a suite at the Regency Hotel with 100 custom-made, multi-hued suits in the closet, Lucas owned several cars. Photo: Wil Blanche/Sports Illustrated/Getty Imagesĭuring the early seventies, when for a sable-coat-wearing, Superfly-strutting instant of urban time he was perhaps the biggest heroin dealer in Harlem, Frank Lucas would sit at the corner of 116th Street and Eighth Avenue in a beat-up Chevrolet he called Nellybelle.
Frank Lucas outside Madison Square Garden before the Muhammad Ali vs.