Introducing Gangster: The Story of Curtis Warren

Gangster

BBC

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The story of Curtis Warren - one of Britain's biggest and wealthiest drug barons.

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0:00.0	Ever wondered what the world's wealthiest people did to get so ridiculously rich?
0:05.4	Our podcast Good Bad Billionaire takes one billionaire at a time and explains exactly how they made their money.
0:11.9	And then we decide if they are actually good, bad or just plain wealthy.
0:15.5	So if you want to know if Rihanna is as much of a bad guy as she claims,
0:19.2	or what Jeff Bezos really did to become the first person in history to pocket a hundred billion dollars,
0:24.6	listen to Good Bad Billionaire with me, Simon Jack, and me, Zingsing.
0:28.5	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:32.4	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:38.9	Big fancy cars and big fash helicopters and planes.
0:43.9	I've never seen so many Rolexes.
0:45.4	It was just total glamour.
0:47.7	This is the incredible story of one of the wealthiest, most successful criminals in British history.
0:55.8	The Curtis Wallens' drug empire was global.
1:00.2	He made the Sunday Times rich list.
1:02.8	He's known as a criminal mastermind.
1:05.7	Sex, cocaine, girls, animals.
1:08.7	I don't think there was a tiger there.
1:13.9	They began a spiral of shootings the like of which Liverpool has never seen before.
1:18.9	A tale of gangland feuds and bloody reprisals.
1:23.4	By the time he got to us, he was in a very, very bad way.
1:26.6	The next thing that was sort of on the main door, I've turned out that these were the members of the gang
1:32.2	trying to break down the door to get in, and that they screened and roar,
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