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Johnson was under a federal indictment for drug conspiracy when he died of a heart attack on July 7, 1968, at the age of 62. He was at Wells Restaurant in Harlem shortly before 2 a.m., and the waitress had just served him coffee, a chicken leg, and hominy grits, when he fell over clutching his chest. [1]
In 1934, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson is released from Sing Sing and returns to Harlem, where mobster Dutch Schultz asserts his control of the lucrative numbers game. Schultz begrudgingly reports to Mafia boss Charles "Lucky" Luciano , who pays bribes to special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey to protect his business.
Mayme Cox, née Harding (fl. 1890s–1910s), first wife of politician James M. Cox; Mayme Gehrue (c. 1880–c. 1929), American actress and dancer; Mayme Gerhard (1876–1955), photographer; Mayme Hatcher Johnson (died 2009), wife of gangster Bumpy Johnson; Mayme Kelso (1867–1946), American actress of the silent era
Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer; August 6, 1901 – October 24, 1935) was an American mobster based in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. He made his fortune in organized crime -related activities, including bootlegging and the numbers racket .
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A musician named Dixie Dwyer begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with Vera Cicero, the girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz.. Sandman Williams, a dancer from Dixie's neighborhood, and his brother Clay are hired by The Cotton Club, a jazz club where most of the performers are black and the customers are white.
Godfather of Harlem is an American crime drama television series that premiered on September 29, 2019, on Epix. [1] The series is written by Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein, and stars Forest Whitaker as 1960s New York City gangster Bumpy Johnson.
Bronx-based mob boss Dutch Schultz was the first to move in, beating and killing numbers operators who would not pay him protection. St. Clair and her chief enforcer Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson refused to pay protection to Schultz despite the violence and intimidation by police they faced. St.