George Jung’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

  • Source of Wealth: Drug Trafficking
  • Age: 77
  • Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • Height: 5’11 3/4”(1.82 m)
  • Marital Status: Married (Mirtha Jung)
  • Full Name: George Jacob Jung
  • Nationality: American
  • Date of Birth: 6 August 1942
  • Occupation: Drug Trafficker, Smuggler
  • Education: Weymouth High School, The University of Southern Mississippi
  • Children: 1 (Kristina Sunshine)

People know George Jacob Jung as George Jung or Boston George. He currently has a net worth of $10 thousand. He earned this money through cocaine trade all over the United States between the 1970s and the 1980s. He became part of the Medellin Cartel that smuggled the maximum cocaine into the US. The Medellin Cartel became responsible for 89% of smuggled cocaine. Jung got his cocaine skills from his days in Colombia.

George graduated from the Weymouth High School in 1961 and went to the University of Southern Mississippi afterward. He started studying advertising there, but he never got through because he began selling and using marijuana. In 1967, George and his friend Philip Eugene Sadler started profiting by smuggling cannabis that they got from California and selling it in New England. He used his stewardess girlfriend to transport drugs using her suitcase. George started to fly in drugs from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico through stolen airplanes from Cape Cod’s private airports. He and his associates once made almost $250,000 a month.

In 197,4 he got arrested for smuggling 660 pounds of marijuana to Chicago. He was at the Playboy Club during his arrest. The judge reduced his sentence after an argument, and they sent him to Danbury, Connecticut’s federal prison. In 2001, filmmakers created a biopic on him called “Blow” that features Johnny Depp.

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