The Sopranos never strayed from blurring the lines between fiction and real-life crime lore. But, in a brief scene that many fans may or may not have overlooked, the show brought a real-life gangster ...

Marlon Brando's performance in The Godfatheris one reason why the gangster movie is heralded as a classic, and his unmistakable voice was based on a real-life mob boss. The cast of The Godfatheris ...

MARTIN Scorsese's new gangster epic may be the talk of Hollywood, but it's based on one of the bloodiest real-life mobsters around. The Irishman follows Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran, who murdered ...

In 2007, actor Denzel Washington starred in "American Gangster," a fictionalized film based on the career of real-life convicted Harlem drug dealer Frank Lucas. But Ike Atkinson, another convicted ...

The man whose career as a drug kingpin formed the basis for the movie "American Gangster" has been sentenced for stealing a government check. Frank Lucas had pleaded guilty in May to taking a $ ...