Frank Lucas, the black drug lord who ruled Harlem in the 1970s, was so discreet that the police didn’t know who he was in 1971 when he decided to wear a $100,000 full-length chinchilla coat — to a Muhammad Ali boxing match

Frank Lucas, the black drug lord who ruled Harlem in the 1970s, was so discreet that the police didn’t know who he was in 1971 when he decided to wear a $100,000 full-length chinchilla coat — to a Muhammad Ali boxing match. 

He later wrote that this was a “massive mistake. Apparently, Lucas’s coat caught the eye of law enforcement — who were surprised that he had better seats than Diana Ross and Frank Sinatra. 

As Lucas put it: “I left that fight a marked man.”