“Robbed of his childhood even before fame (he told Ebony that he had been a pimp at age 10), Lymon got trapped in his childlike image… ‘I had been smoking marijuana when I was in grade school,’ Lymon told Ebony in 1967. ‘But I didn't start using [heroin] until I got into show business.’ A year after that interview, Lymon died at age 25 of a heroin overdose in the same apartment in which he'd grown up. He was broke and all but forgotten” (People, 9/14/1998).
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers “I’m Not a Juvenile Delinquent”
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