Tampa Strip Clubs: Orgies, coke and guns: The true story of a drugs kingpin
September 23, 2009… I replaced religion with anger,” he said. “I cut myself off from my fake past and my real one didn’t want any part of me.”
He changed his name to Kevin Lucas Pappas, opened a jewellery store and was soon flogging bling to the rich and famous.
At night he danced with the Chippendales, pumped up on steroids, and used the gig to pull women and start dealing cocaine.
He hung out with sports stars and R’n'B singers and his girlfriend was a Penthouse centrefold.
Before long he was dealing in kilos of coke at $100,000 a time, and laundering money for a contact who controlled the cocaine trade in Atlanta.
“Business was doing well but I was living beyond my means,” he said. His customers were politicians, cops, strippers, businessmen, lawyers and car dealers.